"Easy on the fingers, heavy on the eyes" characterizes the fine art work of illustrator and designer Zach Johnsen. Dealing with concepts of life, death and beauty, and sometimes just random inspirations, Zach's natural talent and love of the unusual breathes life into an eclectic genre of illustration. We love the blending of watercolors and inks to form his tattoo-and-urban-inspired subjects; skulls, thieves, women, knives and snakes. He also art directs a very beautiful t-shirt line called Tank Theory, which has been featured in magazines like Vice – among other purveyors of cool.... More
Work for Food is the very rich graphic portfolio of Art Director Diego Zambrano—a talented illustrator who is focused on designing experiences and creating emotional relationships with products. It's an interesting little something he calls "advertainment"... meant to sell dreams, not products. Well, looking at this full range of illustrative design work, we can only dream of being this gifted. Amazing stuff.... More
Welcome to the deep and varied single page portfolio of Dustin Amery Hostetler, a.k.a. UPSO. His work features very clean and colorful portrait and editorial illustrations and a very lengthy resume of gallery shows and magazine designs. He is the publisher of Faesthetic Mag, and also runs a design shop, a design diary, print t-shirts... and so much more. Dip your toes in and explore.... More
You know you're a talented graphic designer when you create a 3-page website, plaster in a bunch of huge jpeg samples of your work, and don't even bother to put in a back button. It's like... who needs a website with navigation when the work speaks for itself... and your browser has a 'back' button embedded in it anyway? Well, this is one of those special occasions where it truly doesn't matter, because in the personal portfolio of Philippe Richardson, the illustration work and stills of broadcast commercials (some with Quicktime movies) will blow you away, and you won't even notice you're sitting at your desk anymore, much less which direction you want to navigate (besides simply scrolling up and down... over and over and over again).... More
Illustrators live in a fantasy world. And THANK GOD, because without a little fantasy (mixed in with a heaping of tragedy), this world would have no humor... So. Is there a lesson to be learned? Well, don't take yourself too seriously, and express yourself fully and as often as possible. Or just follow the lead of amazing illustrator and designer Mauro Gatti.... More
Telegramme is a pretty cool little design and illustration partnership specialising in silk screen printing of posters and patterns. Initially a collaboration working via the postal service, Telegramme snowballed in to a fully fuctional studio thanks to a mutual love of music, art and the receiving of post. We really liked their gritty mixed up illustration style that balances old vintage images with new computer design techniques - which coalesces nicely in their afore-mentioned poster and pattern designs. Cool stuff.... More
Construction paper cutouts and ‘primitive’ pen marks run rampant at the studio aka site. Some nice illustrations, but after perusing the sample pages, we have to say, um, "been there, done that." Sure, they've won awards, but if the London based production company doesn’t inject a little variety (and reach out from the UK), their days may be numbered. That being said, they can probably use the ‘singular style’ style for identity recognition, aka "branding."... More
Stephen is an Irish illustrator currently living and working in London. His portfolio site, contains editorial illustrations work for clients such as The Reader's Digest, The Independent on Sunday Review, Runner's World & Mongrel Magazine along with personal and promotional projects. We liked the angular, semi-hard features of his drawings of people and animals – quite a nice style.... More
Personally, illustration doesn't get sexier than some of Stella's instantly arousing lush ink and oil paintings on tea-stained paper -- and it won't matter if you are male or female. Her pouty lipped little ladies in leggings almost breath with a sort of sultry passion and curiosity that simply leave us wanting more. And there are certainly several to see in the same style... but who could want for less of something so lovely? Not us... definitely not us!... More
Behold the posters of John Solimine, a man who takes his illustration not-so seriously. It's true! His rock and gig concert posters are full of fun characters, animals and hand-drawn fonts. We really liked how each poster has a specific focus on illustration, a variety of interesting backgrounds, and an unique graphic identity—a mix of old-time typography and quirky characters blending to create a vintage sensibility.... More
If you like dripping, swirling, wet, flourished typographic illustration, there is only one person to see – and that person is Si Scott, typographic illustrator extraordinaire. Sure, he's a one trick typographer with a single swirly style, but oh how nice it is! Wet, wilting, ornamental touches adorn his typographical designs with a signature style that takes ordinary graffiti drips to the next level of loveliness.... More
This portfolio site is a simple one page scroller... a style common among designers and illustrators who let their work do the talking. And these projects speak loudly! Products of team work with AD Fred Siqueira, under the CD of Ricardo Figueira, this Brazilian illustrator and art director has pumped out some fantasticly bold and richly detailed work for big name clients – but mainly focused on work for Coca-Cola. Great eye-candy illustration and design.... More
