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Anagrama
Beautiful brand work from Mexico’s finest, Anagrama.
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Fivethousand Fingers
Lexane Rousseau & Eli Horn have Fivethousand Fingers.
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Brent Couchman
is serving updates.
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Journey To The End
An amazing illustration series from Florian Schommer capturing adventures of recent travels. A must see.
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Jean-Charles Desevre
French artist/designer, Jean-Charles Desevre.
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Koyuki Inagaki
designer/illustrator/student Koyuki Inagaki, promising career ahead of her/him.
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YCN refresh
YCN serves site updates. Quite refreshing. Amongst all the awesome illustrators represented by YCN, some of my favs are Borja Bonaque, Gierdre Domzaite and Mike Lythgoe
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Excites
Hot patterns, geometric and typographic posters from Simon C Page. Major eye candies.
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Kyle White
Solid work from Kyle White. Love a lot of the type treatment and illustrations! Makes me want to update my own book.
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Roberto Ortiz
Awesome illustrations from Roberto Ortiz, a designer based in Ecuador.
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Live To Make
Keith Davis Young is Live To Make.
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More Tong
I don’t come by really well done Chinese typography so often. This is a must see. More Tong is an illustrator/designer based in Shanghai, China. Absolutely love the vintage modern fresh take on this ancient form of calligraphy.
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Seek&Speak
Freelance designer/illustrator Brandon Schaefer.
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Helliumworks
Intricate patterns/emblems and typography work from Helliumworks, Arthur Sinai. Devil is in the details…
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Soleil Noir 2012
Super fun interactive new years greetings from Soleil Noir. Wish I could have posted it earlier, but the year’s still young, keep believing!
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Keetra Dean Dixon
A selection of whimsical patterns, print and type work from Keetra Dean Dixon. Cute.
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Work Diary
Personal works of Michael Schmid.
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Carolina Nino
Interesting illustrations from designer/illustrator Carolina Nino.
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Needle
Needle Design & Illustration is the Freelance Studio of Matt Needle, based in Cardiff, UK
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Luhse Tea, Get Luhse(Loose)!
Very stylized tea site: Luhse (Loose) Tea, Russian propaganda style. With the mother/daughter team’s military background, the style of illustration is appropriate, effective and humorous.
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Goni Montes
Gorgeous illustrations from Goni Montes. Very good at story telling and mood setting, Goni Montes portrays sceneries with impact. Very into the desaturated color palette, very French, yet Japanese too.
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Frederic Tacer
French creative Frederic Tacer has gorgeous patterns type and poster work. Dig the nice blend of traditional print style with the European design sensibility.
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Rezo Zero
Some interesting work from French creative studio Rezo Zero. A good collection of organic illustrated works, clean and corporate interactive work.
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Captain Dash
Well executed site for Captain Dash, clean interface and retro/modern illustrations.
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Life in My Shoes
Life in my shoes is a multi-platform campaign to educate about the fear and misunderstanding that surrounds HIV. Design aesthetic is clean, playful and approachable. Nice attention to detail and very functional.
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Santtu Mustonen
Gorgeous illustrations / paintings / patterns from Santtu Mustonen. Love the different textures he creates with different paint techniques and a good mix of typography work.
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Designing Monsters
Designing monsters is a small creative shop based in Michigan. Digging the series of hipster animals.
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Slavery Footprint
Simply brilliant, take the survey, educate yourself, expose your dirty secret :O Go now.
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Vicente Garcia Morillo
Illustrator/Art Director Vicente Garcia Morillo is based in Madrid Spain. Strong illustrator with a great sense of typography.
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Updates from Mydeadpony
Series of new illustrations from Raphael Vicenzi, aka Mydeadpony. Always loved the organic, light and airy feeling these drawings bring. Gives me the urge to draw something right now…
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Igor Duibanov
Awesome pattern making by Russian designer/art director Igor Duibanov. Especially dig these patterns for Russian Vodka.
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Carne Griffiths
A nice set of portraits in Ink and Tea.
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Amanda Mocci
Amanda Mocci has a great style of illustration and design. Love the airy and organic feeling her simple lines invoke, which carries into her designs as well.
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Mattson Creative
Digging these Dexter posters from Mattson Creative based in Irvine, California. Very James Bond, retro, espionage poster feel.
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Showchicken
Showchicken is the illustration portfolio of Nick Sheehy. Enjoy the quirky and fun drawings!
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Nod Young
Nod Young, creative director at Khaki Creative based in China, has an incredible sense of Easter and Western typography. His work is usually a perfect mix of Chinese cultural influence and modern design sensibility. Very unique. I’m a big fan.
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MadMen Posters Made by Radio
Well made Mad Men posters from Radio, an agency based in Cape Town, South Africa. It offers some very interesting illustrations, typographical treatments and patterns.
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Lord Dunsby
Enjoy these tasteful illustrations and artwork from Lord Dunsby, alias of illustrator Steven Millington. The desaturated color palette and ornate typography remind me of vintage French posters, yet the funky characters give them a nice contemporary twist.
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Blind Salida
likes to create explosions, lines or movements within colorful, surrealist and psychedelic designs. more here.
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Kendrick Kidd
Great typographic and illustrative work from Kendrick Kidd. Enjoy.
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The Other Me from Krzysztof Domaradzki
The Other Me is the more experimental, illustration works from Krzysztof Domaradzki based in Poznań. Experimental and fun. Check out his commercial work at StudioKxx
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J Fletcher Design
J Fletcher is a designer, illustrator and art director based in Charleston, South Carolina. Great sense of typography, illustrations and texture in his portfolio. Enjoy.
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Nedjelco-michel Karlovich
Amsterdam based Designer/Director Nedjelco-michel Karlovich.
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Orkacollective
Orkacollective is Abo and OOli’s creative space online. They draw their inspirations from nature, animals, magic and people. Especially dig this series of Indian inspired drawings.
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JJAAKK Design
JJAAKK is a fairly new independent design studio founded by Jesse Kirsch, specializing in packaging / identity design. Check out the fun works they have!
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Destill
London based Designer/Illustrator Mike Harrison. More here.
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Fernando Bittar
Fernando Bittar is a senior art director at CUBOCC, in São Paulo, Brazil. Check out his portfolio with a range of illustrations, print, digital and motion designs. Absolutely love the character designs.
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Takeshi – Stillontherun
Saint Etienne, France based Designer/Illustrator Emeric Trahand, aka Takeshi. “renowned for its surreal feel, the quality of its photomontages as well as the light treatments and colourful compositions.” See more here
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My Name is Wendy
Amazing typographic and illustrative posters from My Name is Wendy, based in France.
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Diftype
New work up at Diftype, aka Niklas Lundberg.
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Zoran Lucić – Sucker for Soccer
Bosnia/Herzegovina based designer/illustrator Zoran Lucic. The Sucker for Soccer series is a must see.
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Bunch – Condiments & Entrails
Embraced by the likes of Will Self, Nick Cave, Stephen Fry and Benjamin Zephaniah, John Durak’s latest book consists of 176 pages with illustrations by OmegaTheKid!Phoenix and printed by Cerovski Print Boutique.
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The Phraseology Project
The phraseology project is started by Drew Melton in Jan 2011, for users to submit phrases and they will be designed into a mix of typographic and illustrative pieces. Great idea and exercise
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Two Fish
Designer/Illustrator Jacob Souva
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Rejane Dal Bello
Brazilian born, Netherlands based, designer/illustrator Rajane Dal Bello.
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Jordan Metcalf and X Games 2011
Jordan Metcalf, designer and artist based in Cape Town, South Africa, was commissioned to create a series of youth sports illustrations and logo treatments for the X Games 2011. Enjoy his portfolio filled with strong typographic and illustrative pieces.
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Simon Prades
Some amazing sketches and illustrations from Simon Prades. Enjoy.
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Luckyrice Festival 2011
Tasty illustrations done for Luckyrice Festival 2011 by the folks at Parliament of Owls. This year’s culinary celebration is set in the melting pot of New York city.
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Anthony Neil Dart
Nice series for ShowUsYourType by Anthony Neil Dart, designer/illustrator out of South Africa. Visit him here.
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FOMA
FOMA is a Brazilian based Art Collective and Design Studio located in the heart of São Paulo, created by the craziest power-trio in town: Davison Carvalho (Creative Director), Cristiane Higa (Art Director) and Gustavo Enzo (Art Director).
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Adam Hill
designer/illustrator Adam Hill at the Velcro Suit, must see posters and typographical murals.
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Atelier Design
Atelier Design is a design studio from Belgium, specializing in print, web, photography and illustration. Check out the interesting works!
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Alexandros Vasmoulakis
Amazing in style and scale, check out the work of Athens based visual communicator Alexandros Vasmoulakis.
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ROME
An interactive film by Chris Milk. Add to the dream here.
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David Despau
Madrid based illustrator, David Despau.
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Ventilate Japan
Ventilate Japan is a charity poster series donating 100% of all profits to the Red Cross, benefiting those who suffer from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Curated by Michael Brown.
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Vellut
Extensive amount of great print work from Vellut, a small design studio by Pau Lamua and Lara Lozano. Especially dig the 2 or 3 color print pieces that cleverly use transparency, halftone dots to create texture and color blocks. Each folded piece is thoughtful in the order materials are revealed upon opening.
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Ankhbayar / Sept
French graphic artist / Sept “I cannot completely define graphic art ( i don’t really like to call it “graphic design” ). But to me, it’s a hunt of perfection & efficiency, an infinite synthesis of shapes & colors to fathom through imagination, creativity & sensibility.” Check em’ out here.
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Godspeed w/Bicycle Parts
Godspeed Poster with Bicycle Parts, via Beast Pieces
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Parallax Design
Parallax is serving updates.
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Birdy Juice
I don’t know if it’s because I have a kid now, but I think this is absolutely brilliant. Concept work out of Norway from Mats Ottdal.
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Andreas Shabelnikov
The hardest working man in the South of France, Andreas updates again.
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Marius Roosendaal
Marius Roosendaal, graphic designer from the Netherlands. Really nice retro style, great patterns, slick type. Check em’ out.
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Ruiz + Company updates
Ruiz + company has updates of new projects, elegant identity work and exquisite info graphics as usual.
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Andy GIlmore
Andy Gilmore has some amazing patterns. Check it out here.
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Klaas Co. Design & Illustration
Klaas Co. Design is the studio of designer Skyler Van Der Molen. He keeps the studio intentionally small with the business plan of “doing more for less” in mind. He does gorgeous illustrations and identity work for non-profits or other companies that value design more than a tool to turn a profit.
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David Mascha
Really enjoyed browsing through this entire book, all top quality type treatments, illustrations.. a must see. Vienna, Austria based designer/illustrator David Mascha.
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Hydro74
Joshua Smith from ( Hydro74 ) has designed a shirt to help raise funding and awareness for those affected by the disaster in Japan. The Japanese Kanji on the shirt translates to “Save World Army” 100% of the proceeds of the sales of this shirt will go toward The Salvation Army’s relief efforts in Japan. ...
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Atipus Design
Atipus design based in Barcelona has some good corporate identity and packaging projects. Style ranges from modern to vintage to illustrative. Good stuff.
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Anna’s Visual Bakery
Some nice package design and illustrations from Anna, a designer/illustrator born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1982. After various adventures she ended up in Vienna, Austria, where she graduated at the University of Applied Arts in 2009. She works as a freelance graphic designer / illustrator in Vienna.
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Youlookfor.Design
Weisbaden, Germany based crossmedia Design studio, YLF Design. Their book displays a wide-range of outstanding projects all bucketed in a very sweet wordpress based (i believe) website. Go spend some time digging through the goodies in their portfolio, a must see.
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Stranger & Stranger
Stranger & Stranger is a packaging design and branding company specialising in alcoholic drinks. Since 1994 they have named, researched and registered wines and spirits brands worldwide. Go see what they’re up to.
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Atipo
Agency Atipo from Spain with some fresh typography and illustration work. Enjoy.
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Damien Terwagne
Check out Damien Terwagne’s portfolio designed with CSS. Site is very functional and clean. Dig the graphics.
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Foundry Collective
Foundry Collective is a creative agency based in Oklahoma City and the collaborative effort of Paul Wilkes and Scott Hill.
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Brand New School
Brand New Site.
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Deanne Cheuk
Is there anything this woman does not design well? I knew she was a rock star in illustration and custom typography, but Deanne Cheuk is just an all-around renaissance woman who’s even had her own product line at Target. Envious.
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SIT paintings
Artist SIT has been part of the Amsterdam creative scene for many years. Doing action painting, graphic design, advertising and more until he got fed up. He went back to square one to find his true essence. Back to head and handcraft.
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Hennessy V.S Presents Blending of Art
Hennessy V.S presents Blending of Art, an exclusive collaboration with ten of the world’s most mercurial music and graphic artists.
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Retro Posters Show Off Superheroes’ Home Cities
The homes of Batman, Superman and the rest all get the retro-pop treatment in Van Genderen’s five new images, which were inspired by minimalist propaganda posters and old Art Deco travel prints.
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Jonas Erickson
Jonas Eriksson from Sweden has some sweet projects.
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Sebastian Onufszak
is serving updates, a must see.
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Oh Yeah Studio
Sick illustrations from Oh Yeah Studio based in Norway.
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Bunch Design New Work
Check out new site and work from Bunch Design, the London based creative studio with talented staff. Brilliant branding work!
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30 Covers 30 Days
Last November during National Novel Writing Month, The Office of Letters and Light chose 30 authors to receive covers designed by an all-star team, including some of my favorites, Henry Sene Yee, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Paul Buckley, Gabrielle Wilson and David Drummond. This year’s project was lead by John Gall, book cover extraordinaire and Art Director ...
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Ruhrgestalten Mag
out of Germany
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C.S. Neal
Gorgeous illustrations by C.S. Neal. Chris Silas Neal is an illustrator and designer, born in Texas and raised in Florida and Colorado. His work has been published by a variety of magazines and book publishers and, has been recognized by Communicatin Arts, American Illustration, AIGA, Society of Illustrators, Society of Publication Designers, Type Directors Club, ...
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Momkai
Very cool work coming out of The Netherlands. Go now Momkai
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The Heads of State
is serving updates, gogo
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We Buy Your Kids
Really awesome branding / packaging and poster designs for musicians and artists by Australian based duo Sonny Day & Biddy Maroney. Great job!
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DMIG 5
Design Made In Germany magazine #5. Pretty clever way of layering type on illustrations. I dig.
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Fitzgerald Collection from Penguin Classics
Coralie Bickford Smith is a super talented senior book cover designer at Penguin Books. Some incredibly beautiful designs from her portfolio. The Fitzgerald collection was recently published under Penguin Classics label. Definitely one of the wonderful things I NEED for Christmas…
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Real Magic in Theory and Practise
Incredible poster from Peter Crnokrak: REAL MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTISE. It is hand drawn in illustrator to the accuracy of 1/10,000 of a millimeter. It is a visual representation of the 4_21 polytope, believed to be the most geometrically complex and aesthetically beautiful structure in mathematics. It’s a Silk screen print matte black ink ...
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Ventilate | Poster Series 05
Contributers: Derek Stenning – http://borninconcrete.blogspot.com/ Alberto Russo – http://sting-one.com/ Jimmy Turrell – http://www.jimmyturrell.com/ Onur Senturk – http://onursenturk.tv/ Diego Lopez – http://www.lopezgrafico.com/ Each poster is ready for print at 300dpi and is available as a free download via YouSendIt
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Grand People
Grand People from Scandinavia update site with some fresh new projects. Treat your eyes to some really nice typography and illustration work.
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Malikafavre
Iconic illustrations from Malikafavre, and my favorites, the alphabet bunnies and ladies.
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Paris vs New York
Paris vs New York blog… chic, iconic et très brillant!
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Valentin Fischer
Incredible work from Valentin Fischer. Awesome illustrations paired with nice type layout. Love his new interpretation of some traditional characters. Enjoy.
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Ensemble: The Style of Music
Yet another excellent set of illustrated posters, this time on 20 iconic male musicians.
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They Draw & Cook
What’s a better way to express your love for illustrations and food than starting a blog that updates a new recipe drawing every day? Siblings Salli and Nate did just that. The user submitted artwork collection is very diverse in style and interesting to scroll through. Fun idea!
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Never mind the bullets
For all the comic book fanatics, this is an awesome interactive comic book experience. Very well executed. Enjoy!
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Dress the part
10 movie posters inspired by men’s style. Simple yet iconic.
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Adam & Co
Adam & Co is a creative studio based in Boston, specializing in creating strong branding images. Great illustration talents in the team!
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Sam Green Illustrations
Sam Green‘s illustrations are a combination of detailed pencil work and digital embellishment, which really gives him an edge over works that are only digital.
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Perttu Murto Design and Illustration
Perttu Murto is a 24 year old Finnish designer/illustrator. Still in design school, but already working at an advertising agency in Finland named Tyomaa. Some interesting collage and illustration graphics.
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Matt Hamm Design & Illustration
Matt Hamm is a designer & illlustrator, with a nicely laid out portfolio site. The textures are a nice touch too.
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Hugo & Marie refresh
Hugo & Marie updates their site with new and old talents. Site is nicely designed and the 6 talents represented all have awesome work, including Jules Julien, Kustaa Saksi and Deanne Cheuk…
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DifType Site Refresh
Niklas Lundberg aka Diftype launches new portfolio. Nice fresh graphics.
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Show Posters
A set of show posters nicely done.
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Siggi Eggertsson
Siggi Eggertsson has some really interesting typographic work. His style reminds me of pixel art, but made with modern modular shapes.
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Onrepeat
Designer/Illustrator João Oliveira
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IAM Gwon Soongyu
Gwon Soongyu, a designer/illustrator based in Seoul, Korea, has some fresh and exciting works up. Great visuals. Enjoy.
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Ah&Oh Studio
Ah&Oh Studio is a team of 2 talented designer/illustrators based in Poland. They do everything from branding, identity, package design to other campaigns. Style of their site is very elegant and has an established, vintage feel to it. Enjoy!
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Muscle Beaver
Muscle Beaver has some nice stylized animations and illustrations. They are based in Munich.
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ketchup n mustard
Jaime Van Wart is too talented to be working for IBM’s Lotus software group.
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Kult House
Kult House is selected works of 25 year old art director / designer Josh Rhode. Quite a few pieces are collaborations with Diego Zambrano, a very strong illustrator/designer. The first project was designed by Diego and animated by Josh, and each little world of sports heaven is beautifully crated and dynamic. Enjoy.
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Mark Weaver
Mark Weaver is serving updates, go now. You can also see his new EP covers for Reznor’s latest project, How To Destroy Angels here.
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Post-Mammal
The name Postmammal is based on the notion that humans are always evolving, and are always looking for what’s next — essentially what’s beyond human. It also serves as the personal portfolio of Robert Murdock, CCO at Method, San Francisco. A must see.
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Johnny Cash Project
The Johnny Cash Project is a global collective art project. You are invited to share your vision of Johnny Cash, as he lives on in your mind’s eye. A single image of Johnny Cash is provided as a guide, so no need to be a master illustrator to participate. Your work will be combined with ...
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Ginger Monkey
Tom Lane, aka Ginger Monkey Illustrator / Designer / Typenut
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PaperMonster
If you’re in the Philadelphia, PA area in the month of July, be sure to check out the upcoming PaperMonster solo show titled “PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy” Opening Friday, July 2 at Vincent Michael Gallery. More PaperMonster on Vimeo
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The Vader Project
This summer, The Vader Project launches the final chapter of its four-year art odyssey. The iconic collection features 100 Darth Vader Helmets re-imagined by today’s most notable artists. Opening Night Party Friday, June 11 6pm – 10pm With DJs The Crystal Pharaoh and The Sucklord from BAND of the LOST Saturday, June 12 2pm Catalog signing with ...
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Ronald Kurniawan
Very cool feature on Ronald Kurniawan over at CPluv
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ximeraLabs v10
Tom is back with new ximeraLabs action, gogo
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Do you like my tight sweater?
Awesome fashion blog Karolyn runs. Great fashion images transformed into illustrations. Light and airy sketches with a splash of color. Love this fur one with Heidi Mount. Check it out here.
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Born In Concrete
Vancouver based artist/illustrator Derek Stennning.
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EightHourDay Design & Illustration
A husband and wife team as a design studio in Minnesota, EightHourDay has a range of nice branding work. Having a strong illustrator on the team always makes the works stand out. Great patterns too! Enjoy
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The World Champions Collection by UMBRO
Umbro has created a range of special shirts that celebrates each of the seven nations that have earned the right to wear a star on their shirt to mark their victories on the global stage. “We haven’t just slapped their name on the shirt though. Just as we got the best English tailors and designers ...
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Bunch Design and Basterdised Book
Bunchdesign is a multi-disciplinary design agency with talented designers, illustrators, typographers, 3d artists from London, Zagreb and Singapore, with an extensive amount of nice branding projects. Bastardised is a corporate identity book made by Bunch with submissions from respected creatives around the world. Very creative and unique way of showing corporate identity while advertising the ...
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Max Spencer
UK based Designer/Illustrator, Max Spencer
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Tyler Stout
Washington based designer/illustrator Tyler Stout is serving up an amazing book of posters, illustrations, and toys for your viewing pleasure.
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Wojciech Zalot
New work online from Designer/Illustrator Wojciech Zalot, a must see.
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I Love Dust
I love dust updates site, great work across the board on illustration, design, type, product design and animation. Really strong illustrators in this team.
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Deepsu Sasi Kumar
Deepsu Sasi Kumar updates portfolio. Nice work!
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Stillontherun
Emeric Trahand, also known as Takeshi, is a French artist and art director living and working in New York City. View site >>
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Make something cool everyday
Illustrator/designer Brock Davis creates an artwork every day for a year. Humorous and creative in concepts And visual. Enjoy!
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A + Paris collaboration with Annalisa Pagetti
Check out the beautiful drawings of Annalisa Pagetti on stylish collection from A Plus of Paris. The form of the garment in this collection is clean and simple enough to serve as a perfect canvas for the subtly sensual and provocative women portrayed by Annalisa. This particular garment above reminds me of a piece designer ...
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Jessica Hische typography and illustrations
essica Hische has an amazing sense of type and color. Her handmade letters organically swirl along the ornaments and illustrations, truly a treat to the eyes. The soft color palette is vintage yet refreshingly new. I’m in love with her work. Also check out the Daily Drop Cap Blog where each day a new hand-crafted ...
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Emilio Fos Digital Portfolio
Sick portfolio from Emilio Fos out of Valencia, Spain.
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Manuel Rebollo
Illustration & Design out of Salamanca, Spain