Stuff 4 Designers

Timelapse Painting Two from Pat Perry on Vimeo. Pat Perry’s style is very diverse, his paintings and illustrations are quite different, but the underlying feeling of surreality and something slightly twisted and not quite right is present in both. It’s this slightly macabre edge i’m such a fan of, also of his incredibly technical ability. [...]

Mr. Alan Clarke is an Irish illustrator operating with a very distinct style, reflecting 1800′s figures and narratives involving dark and mysterious characters and theatrics. I first became aware of Alan Clarke after a talk he gave in CIT. His process of illustration is very much an iterative one involving traditional, hand drawn / painted [...]

Emily Forgot is a London based illustrator with a really unique style. Her work is playful and surreal, it has overtones of vintage design (check out the legs!) and children’s book illustrations from a bygone era (The General). She is an accomplished printmaker and her work often features colourful and imaginative screenprints. Emily also uses [...]

Chrissie Abbott is possibly best known by the high profile artwork she developed for the Little Boots album. Besides this beautiful and evocative work, her portfolio is prolific and always captivating.  She’s the queen of psychedelic, well composed collages and has also had some gorgeous forays into hand-drawn type.  Abbott creates fantastical, ethereal landscapes with [...]

Sol LeWitt!! His work is exciting and innovative and still so fresh! He’s one of my all-time favourite artists, someone I often go to for inspiration. His work explores geometry, colour modularity, repetition and organic shapes, it is deceptively simple looking but it takes a genius to produce work that is so immediately iconic! I [...]