Alex Purdy AKA Graphdrome is an illustrator, artist, graphic designer, type enthusiast and a zine maker. His work consists primarily of hand-drawn madness in hyperactive color. I was really attracted to some of his type arrangements. He also has some really nice zines you may want to pick up.
Spanish designer Mar Hernandez, who sometimes goes by Malota, is a bit of a renaissance man. He has numerous projects on his website ranging from motion, graphic design, illustration and art. He’s a talented young man and no doubt lucky to be in the beautiful city of Valencia.
I need to get a little more local Colorado love out there on the blog lately but I have had trouble lately keeping up on my emails, my fulltime gig as an Art Director and the 8 million things I have going outside of work. With that said, Table 2 Press has been emailing me for a while now to write something up about them. They are a Boulder, Colorado-based screen printing house with some real skill. The Roots poster above is tantamount to that fact.
Here is a direct copy of their ‘about’ write-up from their website:
“Table2Press was formed in 2004 by four friends / designers who wanted to screenprint and design posters. We love providing a visual extension to the live music experience and are available to work on a variety of projects. If you ask nicely, chances are we can help you out, however, none of us wear black all the time or are familiar with 18th century epiphanal novels. We try as hard as we can to not include the following in our posters: birds, trees*, robots, skulls*, token naked ladies, or elephants.”
You get a sense of their personality right away from their sense of humor and their earnest attempt to avoid the cliché screenprinted rock poster subject matter. If you have a music gig in Boulder, Denver or anywhere else for that matter, you could do a lot worse for a screen printer.
Hit up their website and have a look at some of the rest of their work.
Hypnoteis is the work of 26 year old Teis Albers who works as a freelance graphic and multimedia designer. He works from his home in the Netherlands where he lives with his girlfriend. He loves to make illustrations with bright colors, elements taken from nature, symmetry and flowing lines. He likes things that look fresh and shiny.
His work is a trendy but it is also interesting and I know from personal experience how difficult it can be to execute such complicated collages. He also has a natural eye for color combination.
Illustrator Andy Smith has some really great hand-illustrated typography at his website. Here is his bio pulled directly from his site:
“Since graduation from London’s Royal College of Art, Andy Smith has worked for many worldwide clients in advertising, print, publishing and animation. His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism. Despite often being created digitally his graphics have the tactile feel of the hand made and hand printed. His time is split between commercial work and self initiated projects such as silkscreen printed books and posters that are available from his website and have been exhibited in the UK, France, USA and Australia. Andy has won D&AD, AOI and Creative Circle awards for his work on advertising campaigns, book jackets and his animation and direction of ‘Run London’ a commercial for Nike. His work is also stocked in outlets such as such as Playlounge, Magma (London) and Colette (Paris). Andy lives and works in Hastings, East Sussex.”
He is currently represented by Tiphaine Illustration.
Really amazing images abound in the portfolio of French Illustrator/Artist Antoine Helbert. His superhero series is awesome.
Illustrator Dave Franzese has just put up a new website full of his cleanly hand-drawn illustrations at Dave Is Drawing.
Hipster drawing done right at Enyo Creative by designer/artist/illustrator Josh Kenyon. If you are going to draw koi fish, clouds and such, you should definitely do it on a kick-ass guitar.
Young aspiring UK-based illustrator Craig Shields established Surpy in 2007 to house his work and ideas. The work is trendy but charged with color and energy. The above piece shows some real attention to detail with typography as well.
Artist and Illustrator Jesse Ledoux has updated Ledouxville with several new works. Jesse is a hard working artist and also a very nice guy. His work is always a fun browse, especially on a rainy day like today.
Awesome illustration work from James Gulliver Hancock. Here is a portion of his bio:
“Currently based in Los Angeles, James is an artist that crosses as many mediums as he does borders. Living out his middle namesake ‘Gulliver’ James is constantly on the move, having been involved in artist projects and residencies in Indonesia, Austria, France, the U.K. and America.”
Raphaël is a self-taught illustrator based in Brussels, Belgium. His work has been featured in Illusive2, IDEA design, Rockpile, Computer arts, Advanced photoshop and many other places on the web. Working under the name ‘My Dead Pony‘ he is currently represented by Alabama.pl.
You can also buy his prints here He also has more goodies available at the String Republic and T-shirts at Graniph.
Finnish illustrator Antti Uotila sent me an email letting me know they had updated with new work. It’s all very interesting and stylistic recalling 60’s hand drawn album art.
Daniel Egnéus is a Swedish born illustrator who creates dreamy images touched with watercolor. Having spent time in Prague, London, Bologna, Stockholm and Rome he is now based in Milano where he works for clients such as Nike, The Times UK, Penguin Books, Time Magazine, Young and Rubicam, Swarowski, Leo Burnett UK, Ericsson and many others. He has created some really beautiful contemporary imagery that pushes beyond illustration into fine art. This ability no doubt stems from what sounds like a very rich life experience. Something I have been missing lately and am reaching for in the future.
Lovely illustration work, arguably more fine art than illustration, from Olaf Hajek. That fine line may be the reason that he has created work for clients like Apple, United Airlines, Macy´s, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Playboy, Forbes, Wallstreet Journal, Architectural Digest, GQ, Shape, Bolero, Flaunt, Travel & Leisure, Cicero, Bacardi, Nike, Daimler Chrysler. Spend some time picking through his work. There are some real gems to be unearthed.
Interesting illustration work by Geraldine Georges with little else on her website about her other than her work. Let it speak for itself I guess.
German Illustrator/Artist Mario Wagner is responsible for generating a lot of hotness. That hotness has been bottled by clients like Adidas, Sony, Vanity Fair, Vice Magazine, Nylon Magazine, Wallpaper, The New York Times, Esquire and Playboy. He has also exhibited his unique collages the world over including a recent show at Fifty 24 SF.
