Raid71 is Chris Thornley’s online portfolio. He is an illustrator and designer from Darwen, United Kingdom. Angels from Hell is a series of illustrations, (a study of classic motorbikes and their riders) available as a set of prints on artvcancer.com.
Mike McQuade is a multidisciplinary art director, graphic designer & illustrator from Chicago. He describes his style as raw and always transforming. Mike McQuade works for a range of clients like Nike, The New York Times, Bon Appetit, The Atlantic, BBDO, Herb Lester, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, WIRED Magazine, Siemens, Groupon, One Design…
Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer and photographer, he died 18 April 2013. His name is not very well known but his work for rock bands since the late sixties will remain among the most popular. He was commissionned by bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Genesis, Europe, Peter Gabriel, Yes, the Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Bad Company, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Cranberries, Yourcodenameis:milo, The Mars Volta, Muse or Biffy Clyro… A graphic work that was very important at a time people still bought records.
As a photographer and inspired by surrealist painter René Magritte, he said that some of his works beg the question of is it real or not? He was a teenage friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and in 1968 along with Aubrey Powell he founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis, and between them they designed many famous single and album covers like the famous “Dark side of the moon”. Storm Thorgerson is considered the best album designer of all time.
Mark Tucker is an American photographer who is doing an indredible work through a series called “mothers” and where he is using wet plate collodion. This early photographic process was introduced in the 1850s and it requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.
The South Korean illustration agency Magnet Creatives has just joined our illustration directory which is a list of agents or representatives listed by countries and that you can easily browse through images. A useful tool for creative people looking for illustrators.
Lauren Hom is a graphic designer and illustrator living in New York City and who was born and raised in Southern California. She moved to New York City to pursue a degree in advertising and graphic design from the School of Visual Arts. The magic of her art comes from a delicate hand made style, great colors and sweet vintage compositions.
BMD is a free-lance graphic designer from Bordeaux, France, who developped a personnal vintage style of hand lettering, logos, brochures, posters or T-shirt design. His work for Fuel Bespoke Motorcycles is now a very popular pin on Pinterest.
Gilles Vranckx is a comic artist an illustrator based in Brussells. He studied graphic design, animation and comic art. His influences range from Ashley wood, Kent Williams, Mike Allred, Mike Mignola, Osamu Tezuka, Edward Hopper to Rene Gruau and obviously japanese comics and delicious vintage advertising and animations. He currently works on a 6 issue mini-series with writer Scott Closter called “The Z-list” and his own personal graphic novel “Girl: now that you’ve gone”. He also works in the ad-business. He exhibited several times in Brussels and Antwerp. Gilles is also a filmprogrammer for the Brussels Offscreen filmfestival and does some DJ-ing in the weekends.
Zara Picken is an illustrator based in the North East of England. Working internationally creating illustrations for editorial, publishing, advertising and even more. ??Influenced by mid-century modern design, she has an interest in old paper-based ephemera. Her work combines digital and handmade elements. Among her clients are: AARP, Appelberg Publishing, August Media, Bayard Jeunesse, Bulletin Magazine, Charter Media, Delicious Magazine, Futurelab, ForbesLife Magazine, The Guardian, Haymarket, Harvard Medicine, London 2012 Olympics, Lonely Planet, Macmillan Publishing, The National Trust, The Observer, Pearson, WIRED and many more.
Laurindo Feliciano was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and now he lives and works in Paris since almost 10 years. He always had a spontaneous way to experiment different techniques and until 2009, when he dedicated himself mostly to art and collage illustration. Laurindo Feliciano finds inspiration in different fields such as natural history, philosophy, animal behavior, organic shapes of nature, fine arts, semiotics, antique books, movies and specially in music.
