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.
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.
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.
Normal Natural comprises the work, autobiographical recollections and premonitions of Lance Sells’s conscious and subconscious life. His work has been online for a long time now and has received many accolades over the years. Out of highschool, Sells worked a stint as a comic book illustrator for Image Comics. Since then he has worked in the creation of CGI, storyboards and graphic design for clients such as MTV, Sony and American Express. He also co-founded Motherland in New York city where he now splits his time as Creative Director with his personal work at Normal Natural. He just updated his site and there is now a pretty large archive of his work on display for your creative inspiration.
I posted the work of Stephen Kelleher AKA Frankenstyles a long time ago on my last blog (which is now gone). Since then he has recently updated with some really great new work. Kelleher is an Irish born designer based in Brooklyn. His work has been published in Candy, Complex, Computer Arts, Creative Review, FHM, Pictoplasma, Stash and The Royal Magazine.
He is currently working freelance in Brooklyn where he is actively seeking commissions.
Here is the description of Beundy directly from their website:
“Beaundy is Buenos Aires based creative direction and design studio established in 2007 formed by a team of young people from different fields covering different styles and techniques, directed by Agustin Ascacibar,Rodrigo Schneider and Daniel Delgado.
Beaundy works for clients from advertising/fashion/young culture/art and music industries.Also is known for his
collaboration with non-profit projects.”
Their work is very young and shows that kind of off-the-hinges wild experimentation that is all that I love about the combination of latin culture and contemporary graphic design. It’s a little more illustration based than strict graphic design but there are a couple of nice experiments with typography.
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.
