Graphic Designers/ Artists

[Bobbi Champagne Jr]

With all the talent on this forum I thought it would be interesting to see which graphic designers/ artists are influencing you lot and whose work you admire.

Right now I'm really into:

www.hydro74.com

www.audrey-kawasaki.com

www.siscottstudio.com

What do you think?

[Orchid]

Nous Vous - Leeds based collective. Bunch of graduated viscom and graphic design students. Came in and gave us a talk about their work etc. http://www.nousvous.eu/

[larrydavidsanger]

Marcel Dzama

Luc Tuymans

[larrydavidsanger]

Martin Kippenberger

Raymond Pettibon

[FargalEX]

Kevin Dart, responsible for the backgrounds in last year's Monkey Olympics animation and has recently been working on a super groovy Bond spy era throwback "Yuki 7". Amazing colours.

http://vimeo.com/4489687

[lordcookie]

I love Kevin Dart's fictional film posters but what's this Yuki 7 about? Is it a full blown film/short or just another collection of posters and the like?

[FargalEX]

As far as I can tell it's just a book. I posted a link to an animated trailer for one of the "films", there's some more stuff on his site - http://www.kevindart.com/.

[minkee]

i love this guy.

[Bobbi Champagne Jr]

That Kevin Dart stuff is fantastic!

Here's some example of the people I mentioned earlier.

Audrey Kawaski:

Si Scott:

And Hydro 74:

[divine visitor]

Bill Sienkiewicz.

I don't know squat about comics, never really been a fan of em, but just got done reading a friend's old copy of Elektra: Assassin and was totally blown away by this dude's illustrations. Man, he sure knows how to compose an image. Also, I especially love the way it personifies the time period it was created in (the 80s) so well, and the inventive use of different visual styles represent the seemingly erratic storytelling. Read it and you'll see what I mean.

[Number 28]

Dayum...wish I had two widescreen monitors!

[c-cat114]

Depends on the day, depends on the mood... I do love following the illustration thread for some classic art but, especially when I'm teaching and showing kids examples of best practice I like these guys:

Dave McKean: despite his twitter feed being a little Dawkins evangelism heavy (the irony) he often posts making of pictures and they're fab.

Sarah Fanelli: the thinking mans Lauren Child.

Lane Smith: almost ditto but with knobs on...

Dave Sim and Gerhard: Yes I know, no I don't care. Forget the world view and love the artistry.

Bill Sienkiewicz gets the nod oh yes. Lovely art. Kent Williams in the same vein:

Also massively into Gustav Dore at the moment while researching a project. Lovely stuff as ever as always:

[c-cat114]

Also loving: Shaun Tan, Eric Tan, Marc Craste (Varmints), Kandinski, some David Carson, most Rick Veitch and almost all Will Eisner.

And on the computer games side I could (and often do) look at the artwork of Samorost and Little Big Planet all day. Lovely stuff.

[Fusty Gusset]

Russ Mills

[larrydavidsanger]

Arik Roper

[lordcookie]

Rebecca Dart's work is appearing in a number of places at the moment (Drawn, Cartoon Brew etc) and I really love her style.

This is the piece that is garnering the attention.

But it is her buxom barbarians and battle kittens that I love (hopefully she'll turn these into a story rather than just spost-it note doodles.

Her blog.

[c-cat114]

Ace stuff Lord Cookie

Dart's pictures remind me of Doug Tennapel's comics and they're well worth a shout (with a little bit of Dr Seuss thrown in. Nice mash up of influences anyhow).

Also (@ Divine Visitor mainly) if anyone's into Siekiewicz you can do a lot worse than picking up his illustrated life of Jimi Hendrix (Voodoo Child) which often pops up cheap on ebay minus the CD that came with it.

[FargalEX]

Ahah, that last battle kitten picture, wonderful.

For some reason I've been looking at this video a lot recently, just a little music video animation someone did for a silly Vocaloid song about chopsticks - but there's something about the drawing style I really like.

[lordcookie]

Dart's pictures remind me of Doug Tennapel's comics and they're well worth a shout (with a little bit of Dr Seuss thrown in. Nice mash up of influences anyhow).

Which comics do you recommend?

Dart has a new Battle Kittens pic on her blog

[Loik V credern]

Always really liked Semiotext on deviantart. Actually looking through again he's a mad genius and I love it.

Other artists from deviantart.

trance orange

seanmetcalf

[Loik V credern]

drivingyou

oakyoh

My new favourite artist, bKokoska

[son_of_helvetica]

Mr. Chris Ware.

[minkee]

rebecca dart is just super

[aitchanden]

Matthew M. Laskowski

Beautiful illustration

[lordcookie]

Andrew Hem - http://www.idrewhim.blogspot.com/

[minkee]

they are great.

[lordcookie]

I've finally found a limited edition print of one of Andrew Hem's pieces so I've treated myself. I've also been enjoying the following artists recently...

Nate Frizzell

He reminds me a bit of a more modern Kit Williams.

Edwin Ushiro

Brendan Monroe

Dan McPharlin

Amose

[c-cat114]

On the iPod ATM but found some beautiful stuff here to look at. Well worth a look.

http://monicaindelicato.blogspot.com/

[son_of_helvetica]

I'm going to harvest all the links on this here page for next year, determined to be more inspired and get more arty-type work done!

[lordcookie]

ssoja

Maya Mihindou

Julie Morstad

Derbyblue

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