All Weather Artist, Alto, also known as digital designer, Richard Ashdown (formerly Rik Cheetham); Has over 20 years commercial Adobe experience, bolted on to almost a quarter of a century as a graffiti writer.

The commercial disciplines flow seamlessly from the artistic way of life, through typography, logo design and illustration; Using alternative digital tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects with traditional cultural knowledge and principles of graffiti writing, making the work both visually authentic and technically progressive.

Previously producing work for the likes of Nike, EA Games, New Balance and producing illustration work featured at Liverpool City of Culture and owned by the late Muhammed Ali; Rik currently is a creative digital designer at Global Media.