This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday Series showcasing the most inspiring designs out there. Each week a new artist or design style will be presented in order to get your creative juices flowing for the upcoming week. I hope you enjoy the series. Mark Weaver is a freelance graphic designer & illustrator based in Atlanta, Georgia. His artwork is often composed of retro inspired collages combined with bold typography. I’m particularly fond of his screenprints, there’s something beautiful about the tactile feel of a screenprinted poster. With his signature style Mark managed to land the bid clients such as The New York Times, GOOD magazine & WIRED magazine. For more inspiration make sure to visit mrkwvr.com. + Continue Reading
This post is part of the free calendar wallpaper series. Each month I create a new wallpaper featuring the current calendar. Looking at the same image over and over again is not very stimulating. Hence having a new desktop background each month should help getting your creative juices flowing. The August 2011 Calendar Wallpaper is entitled “Centric”. The idea behind the design is of temporal and seasonal nature. August is the “summer month” and as such centric to the seasons. Using the chosen colour scheme I tried to convey the feeling of the different seasons leading up to and lying ahead of the hottest month in the year. The rectangles don’t have a meaning though. I simply like geometric shapes as some of you might already know. Anyways, I hope that you like this month’s free calendar wallpaper. If you do then please help spread the work. Thanks! + Continue Reading
This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday Series showcasing the most inspiring designs out there. Each week a new artist or design style will be presented in order to get your creative juices flowing for the upcoming week. I hope you enjoy the series. Two Arms Inc. is Michael Tabie and Karen Goheen, an illustration and design team, based in Brooklyn, New York. They’re best known for their gritty silkscreened rock posters. It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of music-related artworks and when I first came across Two Arm’s diverse portfolio I knew I had to share their work with you. For more inspiration make sure to visit twoarmsinc.com. + Continue Reading
This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday Series showcasing the most inspiring designs out there. Each week a new artist or design style will be presented in order to get your creative juices flowing for the upcoming week. I hope you enjoy the series.
Bram Vanhaeren is a 20-year old digital artist and illustrator based in Antwerp, Belgium. I came across Bram’s work a while back and only just now managed to feature him. His work is vibrant, powerful and makes use of the full spectrum of colours. Whether it is typography, portrait illustrations or photo manipulations Bram’s done it and it always looks amazing. No wonder his designs have been featured in many of the best design magazines. For more inspiration, case studies and tutorials make sure to visit www.bramvanhaeren.com. + Continue Reading
I’m pleased to release these new freebies: 12 free bicycle silhouette vectors. With the Tour de France in full speed and hitting the first serious mountain stage today there’s no better time to get your hands on these beautiful bike vectors. I’m a huge fan of the TdF and it’s great to see two riders from Luxembourg in the top 5. As you can imagine there aren’t many sport discipline where I can root for someone from my home country, let alone 2.
The set contains vectors of racing bikes, BMX, tandems as well as some bicycle pictograms. While I don’t ride a bike myself, like many designers I’m in love with the shape and geometry of bicycles. There’s something intrinsically beautiful about their clean, minimal lines. + Continue Reading
This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday Series showcasing the most inspiring designs out there. Each week a new artist or design style will be presented in order to get your creative juices flowing for the upcoming week. I hope you enjoy the series.
Mattias Adolfsson is a freelance illustrator living in Sigtuna just outside of Stockholm, Sweden. All Mattias uses for his artwork are pen, ink and watercolours. It’s really refreshing to find someone creating such amazing traditional art. All of Mattias works have a very quirky element to them. The most impressive thing though is the sheer volume of pieces that he’s produced. For more inspiration make sure to visit his Behance portfolio.
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This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday Series showcasing the most inspiring designs out there. Each week a new artist or design style will be presented in order to get your creative juices flowing for the upcoming week. I hope you enjoy the series.
Vigan Tafili is a graphic designer from Peja, Kosovo. Vigan’s work is vibrant, colourful and full of cosmic elements. The most impressive thing though is that he’s only 16 years old. I don’t know about you, but I don’t often come across a designer that young with a body of work that extensive at that level. There’s no doubt in my mind that Vigan has a bright future ahead of him. See for yourself below. For more inspiration make sure to visit his Behance portfolio.
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This post is part of the free calendar wallpaper series. Each month I create a new wallpaper featuring the current calendar. Looking at the same image over and over again is not very stimulating. Hence having a new desktop background each month should help getting your creative juices flowing. The July 2011 Calendar Wallpaper is entitled “Frequency”. This desktop background uses a lot of vibrant colours and textures to really make it pop. Many of the details have been hand drawn in Photoshop, while the main elements have all been assembled in Illustrator using a mix of gradients and blending modes. It is very reminiscent of the ever popular retro futuristic design style. By the by, if you’re interested in the different stages of creating the design you can see a few shots on Dribbble. As always I hope that you like it. Please consider sharing it on any social networks. Thanks! + Continue Reading
