Stuff 4 Designers

Zhou Fan is a painter exhibiting globally as one of the exciting new contemporary Chinese artists. His images are unmistakably Asian, from their subject matter to their colour palettes, his world is both surreal and fairytale like. I love the detail, the very Asian fish motifs and bizarreness of his scenes. The characters seem to [...]

I first came across Sarah Illenburger through the cover she did for the amazing / inspiring / slightly scary Papercraft book. Illenberger studied in London (Chelsea and Central St Martins, impressive!) & currently resides in her native Germany. She creates great concept art relying on her skills in photography, composition and colour awareness and her [...]

Susie Wright is an inspired illustrator and printer based in Edinburgh & London, i’d also call her a sculptor, based on her incredible origami deer (see photo above, beautiful!). She also has some fab textile designs that perfectly marry her own unique style to the medium. I love her screenprinting / illustrative style, it’s quite [...]

Bison Art are a design studio based in New Zealand. They have a very strong, painterly illustrative style, I particularly love the “Lost Woman” illustration first here. A lot of the illustrations have an ethnic / African feel, all beautifully textured and layered. Their design work contrasts somewhat with this as quite modernist and minimalist, [...]

Today is the second anniversary of Heinz Edelmann’s death.  The man most famous for his landmark work on the Beetles Yellow Submarine film and merchandise.  Apart from this iconic legacy, Edelmann also produced a lot of celebrated work as an illustrator, including posters, book covers and magazine illustrations, all of which seems to be (perhaps [...]

Gary Baseman is an incredibly prolific artist with a world-wide cult following. His outputs include his very distinctive paintings, animations, vinyl toys and clothes, plus an ongoing photo documentary of the travels of his creation, Toby. He both exhibits and lectures frequently and there is a huge number of interviews with him online. They are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]