Brent Couchman has nothing to say of himself except for an impressive click-through of colorful sometimes retro-inspired design and illustration work that is highly considered and consistently good. Enough said.
Melbourne-based digital illustrator and designer Justin Maller has updated his unusual portfolio once again. Justin is also the Creative Director of the Depthcore Collective and is represented by the Jacky Winter Group.
Oslo-based designer Fredrik Melby has some curious and beautiful images in his Behance-folio. If you can’t get enough there you an also view his work via his studio website at Anti-ink. Why the name ‘Anti-ink’? I don’t honestly know but I suspect it may be that Melby is proud to be a digital designer.
‘Pingzoo‘ is the work of Ping Zhu, a Los Angeles-based illustrator who paints in gouache on BFK Rives printmaking paper.
There is something pinup retro about Rui Ricardo’s slick and sexy illustrations but they could only exist in a post modern digital pop art world.
I am sure for the die-hard creative blog circuit tourists Andy Gilmore needs no introduction but I stumbled across his Flickrfolio today and noticed he had several new things in his book for 2010. As always, all of the latest examples are a study in color and geometry resulting in pure modern art eye candy. If I could share a little secret with you, and in absolutely no way, shape or form am I belittling Andy’s work (especially because I am a big fan and frequently check back at his website to see what is new) but his images make for the coolest wallpaper tiles and iPhone wallpapers. They have been adorning my scree for well over a year now and I never tire of looking at them.
Rock of the Eye is an attempt by two reps with a nearly identical aesthetic to bring the work of what they describe as design-celeb’ and ‘illo-stars’ to the attention of young creatives in Australia for the purpose of inspiration.
IAMMAGO has been updated with a slick and highly stylize new interface that boldly presents the work in the biggest way possible. Magomed is Russia, Grozny (Chechnya) and established himself within the last 2 years as a hot digital illustration talent with a flair for gooey vector imagery. He has been working for some big names in the industry lately and ironically our paths have crossed on some client projects a few times without him or I even realizing it. I am a fan of his work and have been for some time.
He is presently searching for a 2011 internship in Germany but I think he should be aiming a little higher for something like say an Art Director position at least. You can do it Magomed, you have plenty of talent.
Thanks for the comment tip about his new website from our reader ‘Peter’.
“Aitor Throup was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980. He has also lived in Spain and moved to Burnley in England in 1992. It was in Burnley that Throup developed a passion for labels such as Stone Island and C.P. Company. It was a mixture of Aitor’s interest in these products and his own passion for drawing that led him to begin a BA in Fashion Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, from where he graduated with first class honours in 2004. In 2006, he completed an MA Postgraduate Degree in Fashion Menswear at the Royal College of Art in London.
Aitor is fascinated with anatomy and his main interest is drawing. His hand drawn characters become the primary tool in the exploration of his ‘justified design philosophy’, which highlights the necessity of a reason or function behind all design features. Aitor’s design process is centered around innovative methods of design and construction, in particular a construction process which utilises his own sculptures of the human body as a system for blocking garments.”
Aitor has an amazing body of work and his process of moving from abstract sketch to reality makes him all the more intriguing.
Wesley Allsbrook’s illustrations spin and swirl with evocative emotion all while utilizing a deliberate color palette. Upon graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, she has been working as a freelance illustrator. She originally hails from the verdant piedmont region of North Carolina. Gorgeous work.
I stumbled across the Flickrfolio of designer, illustrator and motionographer Gabriel Pulecio this morning and felt as though there was a better array of work there than what I had previously seen at his website. He is not afraid of bright color and likes to experiment and there are some great moments happening in his body of experimental work at his Flickrstream.
Zachary Zezima is from Long Island but has lived in New York, Italy and Japan (how nice). He attended Parsons School of Design where he earned a BFA in Illustration. He has some excellent pen and ink work in his portfolio that is highly emotional and occasionally a touch psychedelic.
Artist and illustrator Tom French was born in 1982, and raised in the North East of England. He attended the Newcastle school of Art & Design and went on to receive First Class Honors in Graphic Design from the Sheffield Institute of Art and Design. Since then he has continued his discipline by painting and experimenting with spray paint, stencil and collage work.
Tyson McAdoo attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Arts and graduated in 1999. He then went on to work for Marvel, DC, Wildstorm and Dark Horse comics but has since become more a freelance illustrator. His subject matter is women and furniture, two things I would have to admit to having an appreciation for.
Pete McDonald has been toiling away for some time at Buck, a studio that I have always respected especially considering some of the fantastic work they produced for us while I was at Cactus for the Own Your C campaign. The talent at Buck runs from floor to ceiling and even seeps all the way into the walls. Apparently Pete has recently decided to have a go at a freelance designer, illustrator and motionographer and as would be expected with someone who has worked for Buck, he has some nice work in his portfolio. Be sure to click through some of great drawings in McDonald’s sketchbook as well.
Russian illustrator Yana Moskaluk doesn’t really have much of anything to say about herself so she lets her work do the talking for her. She has a style that settles somewhere between art nouveau and manga and I would hazard a guess that if she sold a print or two, they would look very nice hung on a wall.
The remarkable talent that is James Jean has updated with a new website and filled his online store with some beautiful works of art. I am impressed by how much he has gone straight towards being a fine artist and deviated from just being an illustrator. Prepare to be inspired after sifting through his work. He is one of the best. This one is being filed under ‘art’.
Grant Coghill is originally from the cold northern Scottish town of Tongue. He now lives in nice, toasty and warm Innsbruck, Austria (sarcasm, although I hear it’s very nice in Austria). There is something very retro about his illustration work but the bold swaths of vivid color are very digital now. While browsing be sure to check out some of his absolutely stellar apparel designs for Creme. Good stuff.
