Stuff 4 Designers

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 [...]

I first came across Meg Paradise when she was working for Modern Dog, a GREAT poster design company (among other things, the posters are my favourite though!). Meg now co-runs her own design studio with two partners, Parliament of Owls, well done Meg! That’s class. Meg is particularly talented with illustration and typography, she is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Camellie is a bristol based illustrator, l love her style! Very “Beano”, but with more of an edge, great humour and some really strange little dudes in there! I want to know all their stories!

Chris Dent has been on my radar ever since I was doing a bit of research for an architecture based illustration. His pen drawings are amaaaazing, mind-boggling etc. Attention to detail that borders on disorder-like means his city-scapes are incredibly intricate and immersive. Most of the work is black and white, but minimal colour is [...]