JUSTIN MEZZELL
Justin Mezzell is an illustrator and designer currently based in Orlando, Florida. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, he specializes in illustration, digital art, and UI/UX design.
JUSTIN MEZZELL
Justin Mezzell is an illustrator and designer currently based in Orlando, Florida. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, he specializes in illustration, digital art, and UI/UX design.
ALEX VARANESE
A San Francisco-based artist characterized by an unhealthy fixation on red and a style that mixes 2D, 3D and typography in ways that I’d like to think are highly original but probably aren’t in the grand scheme of things.
MAYUMI HARYOTO
“I was born 28 years ago. Mother is Japanese and father is Indonesian—just to explain my name. I’m a self-taught illustrator.
I graduated highschool early and I only took one year graphic design course at Digital College Studio (now International Design School) in Jakarta. I started working at the age of 18. I changed jobs a lot from a 2D artist in a game developer studio, art director in ad agencies, record labels, assistant producer/director, storyboard artist in film production houses, and few more others until I finally discovered that the world of illustration apparently is more than just comics and video games. I fell in love and it’s almost six years since I decided to dive into it.
I use both traditional and digital techniques with no real preference of medium. I’m greatly inspired by juxtapositions and sublime narratives but more specifically ukiyo-e (Japanese wood block prints), edo period art, and also Indonesia in 1950s, Jakarta/Batavia during Dutch colonial period, music, and colorful Asia.”
KAREENA ZEREFOS
Kareena is a Sydney born, London based artist, designer and flâneuse, who collects fine bone china tea sets, but prefers to drink coffee.
She has an unhealthy obsession with dangerously sharp 2B pencils, which may or may not be associated with her perfectionist Virgo tendencies… and her pencils, along with a yearning to escape to a world of make believe, lead her to create whimsical illustrative work with a sense of isolation and bittersweet nostalgia.
Having studied design at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW), Kareena’s work often combines traditional drawing with contemporary graphic techniques, with which she has the pleasure of working across a range of commercial projects for the music, fashion and advertising industries.
She loves the word ‘elephant’ (isn’t it just the best word ever?), her Italian greyhound called Pelle and visiting the Natural History Museum.
GABI PISERCHIA
Argentinian Fashion Designer and artist. Her works transmitted a special sensibility, the final result is a peaceful, feminine and a little nostalgic work, using desaturated colors, patterns combinations and natural elements. Actually, she is doing collaborations for different editorial magazines as an illustrator, and also working for a Fashion Company in Argentina as a Fashion Designer.
Gabi Piserchia has also coauthored with Lea Lobosco of Redimei, a project that converts from technological trashes to create new design objects.
KATRIN FILLINGER
Ok, these are the first steps in illustration and calligraphy. After I quitted my job in the advertising agency I’m trying some new things. Maybe you like it.
ABRAHAM CRUZ
If you are born in the 80s and had your manga phase, then you should know about Sailor Moon – The Japanese cartoon of the pretty “Sailor Soldiers” were very popular back then. In this series of Fashion Sailor Moon, Mexican illustrator Abraham Cruz decided to update their outfits in more modern and trendy way.These revamped heroines have up-to-date outfits that make them look more cool and fashion-forward. With names like Super Sailor Moon, Sailor Star Fighter, Sailor Star Maker and Sailor Star Healer, these women sport unique footwear, dazzling blazers and puffy skirts. They also have cutting-edge haircuts and accessories like tattoos, which makes them attractive and daring. The colors of the paintings are also different from the original ones, as these pieces bright pastels and metallics.
The Sailor Moon series by Abraham Cruz is edgy and sparkling; a futuristic and embellished illustration of Japanese manga.
LOTTA NIEMINEN
Lotta Nieminen is a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. She has studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Rhode Island School of Design, and has worked as a freelancer in both fields since 2006. After working for fashion magazine Trendi in Finland and Pentagram Design in New York, Lotta is now based in NYC, working for design studio RoAndCo.
In 2010, Lotta received the Art Directors Club Young Guns 8 award and was selected by Print magazine for its annual New Visual Artists review, highlighting 20 international rising designers under the age of 30. Her work has also won honorable mentions at Vuoden Huiput (Best of Finnish advertising and graphic design) as well as in various logo competitions. She has illustrated for the likes of clients such as United Airlines, International Herald Tribune Magazine, Monocle and Bloomberg Businessweek.
RONALD KURNIAWAN
Ronald Kurniawan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes, he slowly but surely continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge happily together. With the belief that the sublime and nuclear age could coexist, he paints romantic environments and breaks the quiet scene with juxtaposed imagery taking the shape of icons and letterforms. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he paints meticulously and happily accompanied by his pug Ruffles, an avid artist himself.
RAYMOND LEMSTRA
“In childhood, one encounters and experiences many things for the first time. Through curiosity and imagination, these moments are lifted to almost magical heights. As you get older, new impressions become more scarce and it’s a rare experience to be surprised by anything. I try to bring back the sense of wonder we remember from being a child, bridging the young and mature, by creating a contained fantasy world populated by my characters.
With my work I like to refer to the illustrative nature of primitive drawings and sculptures. What I find interesting about these is the distortion as a result of selective emphasis; parts of interest are emphasized, unimportant parts reduced or left out. For characters this means they come out big headed, where focus is on the face and the body is trimmed to its essential properties. I deliberately apply this primitive logic as a method. But I don’t apply it equally to all aspects of my work. Instead, I choose to use a very mature, highly laboursome technique for the execution of my work. This contrast, between the naive and sophisticated, gives the work a somewhat awkward taste. A clash of intent, simultaneously assuming simplicity and complexity, randomness and reason, flaws and perfection. The purpose of which is to inspire a sense of joy and discovery.”
NACHO GALLEGO, MADRID
He is now currently working as Graphic Designer, Illustrator, and as well as an Art Director in sunny Spain.
DAN MATUTINA
Dan Matutina is a designer and illustrator based in the Philippines. His illustration style is a mix of handmade & digital, clean & dirty, old & modern aesthetics. He loves mixing colors with different textures & shapes to tell a story.
He is also the Co-founder of Ideals — a social enterprise design & communications agency. Just recently, he started Plus63 Design Co. a new-ish graphic design studio.
ALBERTO CERRITENO, Illustrator and Animator
Alberto Cerriteño is a Mexican illustrator & designer who has lived in America; Portland for nearly four years now. Strongly inspired by urban vinyl toys, alternative cartoons, and the pop surrealism movement, Alberto Cerriteño has developed his own very personal technique and style, having always present a delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns. These contrast strikingly with the blending of desaturated colors and ink, sometimes featuring a vintage coffee finish. Alberto Cerriteño illustrations have been recognized by progressive art institutions such as Juxtapoz, Create, Drawn!, The Little Chimp Society, Computer Arts, Communication Arts and IDN among others. He has also been invited to participate in collaborative art projects all around the world and diverse solo and groupal gallery shows.
With more than ten years of experience as Art Director in several agencies doing advertising, print, interactive, installations and educational work. Now is working as independent artist to collaborate with talented people with quirky and creative ideas focusing in anything where he can apply his illustrative creations.
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