Ëlodie is a fashion illustrator living in Paris. Just like the city she lives in, her work is a combination of poetry and realism. Her illustrations are all about beauty, in pastel colors and intricate textures, as she combines the digital with the traditional. Her collaborations include brands like Nina Ricci, Rochas, Givenchy, L’Oreal and […]
Wall of Wally is a tribute-project dedicated to Wally Olins and it challenges illustrators and graphic designers from everywhere to create his portrait, in their own style. Wally Olins, who The Financial Times describes as being “the world’s leading practitioner of branding and identity” and The Guardian calls “Britain’s most articulate and effective proselytiser for the […]
The Pattern Library is a cool collection of patterns created by designers, for designers. It’s a fun experience going through them all and you can find all kinds of patterns there, from food to cats, furniture or geometric/abstract designs. For each pattern you download you will get a small, tileable portion of it, very easy to multiply infinitely. […]
When you see Nathan St John’s gorgeous Paris illustrations you can almost imagine yourself there. He manages to surprise so well that urban vibe, that familiar atmosphere you find in many of Europe’s big cities, that you can almost be sure that he is not from there. Because those who are are usually so used […]
As an artist, it’s likely to get your work stolen, especially if you are very active online. The more exposure you have, the more likely it is that someone might take your work without permission and use it for just about anything – from editing it into banners and e-cards, to creating actual products for […]
Chris Payne is a British graphic designer, art director and advertising creative living in San Francisco. He works as a Senior Designer at Silicon Valley tech company MuleSoft, sometimes does freelance projects on the side and, 3 months ago, he launched his own project, Desinion (read the interview I did earlier this week with Chris, about […]
Desinion is a new tool that designers can use to A/B test their work and get quick and detailed feedback on their designs. It’s just been launched about 3 months ago and I think it’s pretty cool, so I did a review of it and an interview with its creator, below. First of all, how […]
“Icon a day” is a project started by graphic designer Marko Stupic, from Zagreb, in his attempt to improve his skills. The challenge, just like the name says, is all about creating one icon every day, and today the designer has reached his 202 icon, without a day of rest. Aside from the complexity of […]
I’m happy to say it’s the first time I’ve had a wallpaper published by Smashing Magazine in their special “Desktop wallpaper calendar” section It’s an awesome feeling, because I’ve been following their section for years now and I’m a big fan of what’s going on there. What happens is basically designers send their desktop wallpaper […]
I couldn’t get more excited when I find artists who doodle AND sell objects with their art printed, or hand-drawn on them. So here’s today’s interview, with one of those special artists! Samnuts, or Samantha Fois (her real name), is a 27 year-old freelance graphic designer living in Montpellier, France. She has two degrees in […]
For the non-Romanian readers of this blog, it’s the day before the elections for president here. So I’ve taken the time to tell you about a very cool project, that happens to be part of the presidential campaign of one of the candidates. No, I haven’t started doing politics – nor will I, but since […]
Sally Mao, or Anna Rastorgueva (which is her real name), is a 28-year old freelance graphic artist from Moscow, Russia. Her sketches are a daily journal of everything she finds interesting in her life, “simple things”, as she calls them, from recipes to birds, places, buildings and objects. She uses multilines and markers and draws […]
I started doing Daily Doodles earlier this year, about seven months ago (thank God that my Instagram account keeps track). At the time I posted my first one, I don’t really remember researching the idea and seeing how so many other people implemented it. I just wanted to draw. And I knew this would help […]
Peter Slattery is an animation director and illustrator based in Dublin, Ireland. Trained in classical animation, he has worked on some of the biggest television cartoon shows of the last decade, including Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends and most recently, Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja for Disney XD. “Drawing is something of an obsession for […]
Sylvain Tegroeg is a French illustrator and product designer, currently living in Amsterdam. Born Sylvain Georget, he likes using his name in reverse, Tegroeg, also because it sounds more of a Dutch name. At 25, Sylvain has just graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, he has a bachelor in Applied Arts from Lycée Choiseul, Tours and a professional degree […]
Although I’m always interested in discovering new ideas and endeavours when it comes to contemporary art, I hadn’t yet been to a festival dedicated to the creative industries, whatever those might be. That is, until yesterday. Because this weekend, the Botanical Garden of Bucharest hosted Creative Est, a festival that celebrates design, contemporary art, music, […]
Trois Tone is a cool brand of unique hand-painted T-shirts created by Romanian artist Adrian Simion. The motto says it all: “The T-shirt that wears you”. On his fabrics, he creates from well known pop-art pieces (famous movies, characters or personalities), to custom paintings – anything the client wants. His work is even more impressive […]
James Gulliver Hancock is a multi-talented illustrator from Sydney, Australia. His work varies from book cover illustrations to animation, sculpture and packaging design, and his style, while playful and whimsical, does a great job in documenting the small details in the artist’s colorful world. (One proof of that is actually having started a project where he […]
Cristiano Siqueira (or CrisVector, as he calls himself in social media) is a Brasilian illustrator and graphic designer, specialising in vector art. He recently created the awesome illustrated posters of World Cup 2014 for ESPN (if you haven’t seen them yet, take a look!), but this is far from being his greatest achievement. This might have […]
Here’s an updated illustration of Germany’s victory With the 2014 World Cup only two days away, there couldn’t be a better project to check out, than the ESPN series of exciting illustrations created for each participating team. If you haven’t seen them yet, you should take a look. And if you have, […]