La Boca is an independent design studio specialising in illustration and image-making.
Malika Favre is a French artist based in London.
Her bold, minimal style – often described as Pop Art meets OpArt – is a striking lesson in the use of positive/negative space and colour.
Her unmistakable style has established her as one of the UK’s most sought after graphic artists. Malika’s clients include The New Yorker, Vogue, BAFTA, Sephora and Penguin Books, amongst many others.
British born Michael Crampton studied illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California, before settling in Connecticut where he is now commissioned from around the world. Michael’s illustrations are full of vibrant colour and strong shapes. Whether he is hinting at romanticism from days gone by or creating contemporary imagery his artworks are always full of life and have been used across a wide range of advertising and design projects.
IED Barcelona student Franc Navarro partnered with fellow classmate Alberto Martinez on a delicious collaboration they call Delicios Typography Experimentation. The project called for them to create a typographic design using the least amount of post production possible, while also seeking inspiration from liquids. The pair finally settled on honey due to its viscosity and warm tonalities and honey dippers with their structured layers of wood.
The extra dimension You could be forgiven for thinking this gorgeous, tactile alphabet was computer generated but in fact these letters have been carefully crafted from mountboard and hand painted to produce this wonderful finish.
Tim Fishlock’s original large-scale print Shapeset Alphabet [bottom image], was designed by overlapping colours to form the letterforms. These shapes were then embossed over the final print. Now, after some gentle pressure from a mutual friend, Tim has been persuaded to create this 3D version.
Although it’s recommended we eat five to seven servings of fruits and vegetables daily, many are unaware of the origins, mythology, and symbolism many of our favorite healthy foods hold. Several of the most common vegetables took thousands of years to cultivate, the watermelon was originally known for being bland and buried with pharaohs as a water source in the afterlife, and Buddha considered the pomegranate one of the three most blessed fruits.
Photographer Maciek Jasik is fascinated by the tales behind fruits and vegetables and seeks to reintroduce these mystical qualities back into their being through his eerie depictions of squash, pineapples, horned melons, and others. “The Secret Lives of Fruits and Vegetables” aims to bring back the characteristics “that have been lost amidst the clamor of nutritional statistics,” says Jasik. “Each offers its own indelible powers beyond our narrow habits of thought.”
Jasik achieves this by his use of color and deeply-hued smoke bombs, poking small holes within his subjects to make the smoke subtly waft or flood from the inside. Not sticking to a particular color scheme, the images all convey vastly different moods, an eggplant appearing to be involved in a dark alchemical experiment as the pineapple looks like it is straight from an upbeat advertising shoot.
We all have been drawing with a blue ballpoint pen at some point in our life. It may be at school or on the phone, but blue ballpoint pens have been an escape for bored people to let their mind wander for decades already.
French illustrator Kevin Lucbert is either very bored or very talented. I’d go for the latter. With detailed shapes, geometric constructions, and amazing blue shadows, the Berlin-based artist creates unusual art with a simple item.
Jim Bachor is a Chicago-based artist whose work took an unusual path. He creates street art pieces that also serve a public purpose, he fixes potholes with mosaics. At first, his mosaics were filled with flowers, but now he add ice-creams in it.
This project of his looks like peaceful protesting, but it’s much more than that. The artist actively contributes to society in two ways, he fixes public expenditure and he adds some beauty to this world. Bachor also creates other types of art, but it’s safe to say that he specializes in mosaics, with some cool contemporary pieces.
The world of music always had an interest for art in general, and finding good visual ways to illustrate what the musicians did music-wise. There are still plenty of great designs created for music bands in creative video, websites, or even CD covers, but there is still something special about the design of vinyl covers. Maybe it’s the format and the larger space available to the designer. Anyway, here are some gorgeous vinyl covers for your inspiration.
Based in Milan, Italy, street artist Caiffa Cosimo creates playful street art that is sure to amuse bypassers. Most of his pieces cleverly integrate with the surroundings in what looks like amusing scenes of life.
We previously featured this artist’s animations on the lives of popular cartoons after their fame, and possible causes of death.
London-based illustrator and animator Steve Cutts has come up with a collection of illustrations that criticize the modern life.
According to him, the insanity of humanity is an endless pool of inspiration. His work shows the negative effects of consumerism, social media and the soul-crushing rat race.
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