Stuff 4 Designers

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 [...]

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 [...]

Qiu Yang is originally from Beijing and is now based in Amsterdam. He has an impressive portfolio of commissioned work and intriguing self-initiated work. I came across his photography recently on It’s Nice That (great resource!). His photographs draw you in instantly, incredible use of colour with a strong vintage / retro feel about them [...]

Vintage is en vogue! Our collective taste for all things retro is showing up everywhere these days. With Boardwalk Empire to Mad Men on TV and with the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s inspiring fashion trends, it’s no surprise that the Retro & Vintage trend is still going strong in web design in 2011.