Rami Niemi is an illustrator from Finland. His colorful and minimalist vector work is an illustration of “less is more”. And color is good — very good. Very detailed and narrative work inspired by interactive stuff and music. He has worked for clients like Nike, Stüssy or Wired. World representation by Agent Pekka (pekkafinland.fi).

Raphaël Dautigny is a French photographer who just has updated his online portfolio. He has very interesting portrait galeries but his portfolio is also composed with great series. “The surf” is an original work about surf sessions, giving a particular importance to landscape with a distant point of view.

Paul Alexander Thornton is an artist living in London. He mainly uses pencils, watercolors, permanent markers to do great skull drawings, flower drawings and sketchbooks. Paul Alexander Thornton also is a musician.

Dripping Red Skull. Paul Alexander Thornton’s drawing is made using watercolour paints and a red ballpoint pen. The music is a composition called ‘Rawdha’ written, performed, recorded and produced by Paul Alexander Thornton

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Carmen Ortiz is a self-taught illustrator from Bilbao, Spain. She mainly does realistic portraits drawn by hand, using graphite pencils. A very detailed black and white work inspired by music, fashion and movie stars portraiture.

Mogollon is a multidisciplinary art direction studio founded in 2004 by Francisco Lopez and Monica Brand with the objective of joining talents to produce alluring imagery across virtually every platform. Mogollon’s expertise spans in the fields of fashion, music, editorial, magazines, design, films and videos among others.

Adèle Beauvineau is a young French artist and graphic designer who likes to experiment in different ways (photography, motion design, typography…). Some of her work is deeply connected with music (and silence). A very promising portfolio.

Sarah Larnach is a visual artist, painter and illustrator best known for her watercolour and ink drawings. She also do some art direction and is a DJ too ! Sarah Larnach’work feature on the covers of Ladyhawke’s records and in her music videos. Represented (illustration) by www.internationalrescue.com

Thomas Edwards is an Australian art director and film director who has realised different interesting still images and films. He is experimenting mirror effects or movement effects for the fashion and music industry.

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Reel 2011 by Thomas Edwards

Vincent Tavano is a very versatile artist who started with illustration mixing hip-hop with typography and jazz, then developped a personal style with analog photography and also studied interface design and web development… Today he runs 70 folk, a graphic design studio based in Paris. Vincent Tavano also known as Jazzy Vince, or Oneblock is a great artist with influences in various fields like poetry, music or visual arts.

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Stéphane Manel is a French illustrator who created some famous sleeve arts a few years ago for different record companies. His trendy simple line with few colors (you’ve already seen in fashion or music magazines) has evolved in a black and white stylish sketch-like drawing.

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Chromeo – Momma’s Boy, created and directed by Stéphane Manel for Vice Records .