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Count Bogdan de Chum (aka Greg Lysien)
Born/lives: Poland/Sydney
DOB: He created Himself
Favourite car: Niki FSM 650
Favourite bike: Every one
Favourite Rd: ANY road in a Niki
Graphic designer since: He could pick up a crayon
Unbeknownst to many, Count Bogdan de Chum is the man behind all the greatest things on Earth, and, in fact the Universe. It was him who leaned on the leaning tower of Pisa; it was also him who hanged the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The great pyramids of Giza would have been but tiny tombstones had it not been for the Count's grandiose vision. Among his lesser known accomplishments is the wheel, electricity, superconductor, penicillin, internet, and of course the internal combustion engine, which, without the Count's ingenious insight would have been a much inferior external combustion engine.
In his free time Count Bogdan designs magazines, a pastime he enjoys because, as he puts it "it gives me time to relax and unwind from the monumental tasks of my everyday life".
After embracing his non de plume Greg Lysien, the great Count worked on The Bulletin, Which Car magazine before becoming Art Director of Fast Fours magazine where amongst other notable ludicrocities, he created the comic strip characters Dipstick and Furknuckle, a pair of very un-PC car enthusiasts who developed a cult following before being brutally slaughtered by a maniacal editor hell-bent on world domination. Or something like that.
Also spreading his talent on other magazines such as Off the Street, Car Audio, Two Wheels, Performance Streetbike, Live to Ride and Performance Build Ups before being promoted to Creative Director at FPC Magazines. Spent the past four years as Promotions Manager at Turbosmart and combines a hobby for drawing with a left-field sense of humour.
Greg's Mitsubishi Magna has recorded a 15-second quarter-mile, his voice speaks a thousand languages (some we even understand!) but it's his concept, design and execution skills that bring outstanding visual quantity and quality to Tarmac magazine and without him it'd be full of many white pages with the single line "this page has been left blank intentionally". Which probably wouldn't sell anywhere near as well. Probably.
DOB: He created Himself
Favourite car: Niki FSM 650
Favourite bike: Every one
Favourite Rd: ANY road in a Niki
Graphic designer since: He could pick up a crayon
Unbeknownst to many, Count Bogdan de Chum is the man behind all the greatest things on Earth, and, in fact the Universe. It was him who leaned on the leaning tower of Pisa; it was also him who hanged the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The great pyramids of Giza would have been but tiny tombstones had it not been for the Count's grandiose vision. Among his lesser known accomplishments is the wheel, electricity, superconductor, penicillin, internet, and of course the internal combustion engine, which, without the Count's ingenious insight would have been a much inferior external combustion engine.
In his free time Count Bogdan designs magazines, a pastime he enjoys because, as he puts it "it gives me time to relax and unwind from the monumental tasks of my everyday life".
After embracing his non de plume Greg Lysien, the great Count worked on The Bulletin, Which Car magazine before becoming Art Director of Fast Fours magazine where amongst other notable ludicrocities, he created the comic strip characters Dipstick and Furknuckle, a pair of very un-PC car enthusiasts who developed a cult following before being brutally slaughtered by a maniacal editor hell-bent on world domination. Or something like that.
Also spreading his talent on other magazines such as Off the Street, Car Audio, Two Wheels, Performance Streetbike, Live to Ride and Performance Build Ups before being promoted to Creative Director at FPC Magazines. Spent the past four years as Promotions Manager at Turbosmart and combines a hobby for drawing with a left-field sense of humour.
Greg's Mitsubishi Magna has recorded a 15-second quarter-mile, his voice speaks a thousand languages (some we even understand!) but it's his concept, design and execution skills that bring outstanding visual quantity and quality to Tarmac magazine and without him it'd be full of many white pages with the single line "this page has been left blank intentionally". Which probably wouldn't sell anywhere near as well. Probably.
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