Introducing the off-beat characters of illustrator/designer Adam Garcia. His vector portfolio mainly consists of monsters an robots. All very cute though, and usually coloured in pastel tones further accentuating their cuddliness. See more of his portfolio, and keep up to date with Mr. Garcia on his twitter page.

Presenting the beautiful work of Italian illustrator Gloria Pizzilli. She combines elegant, organic line work with solid flat colours to produces whimsical yet dramatic pieces. You can find more of her work on her website, and follow her progress on her blog.

New Zealander Glenn Jones designs some clever, quirky t-shirts with really well executed illustrations. I love his Humpty Dumpty piece! He started selling t-shirts on Threadless and now has his own company which sells to over 80 countries around the world. It’s always reassuring to know originality can pay off, even for illustrators in a saturated market such as t-shirts.

Born in Burma, Nila grew up in England and graduated from London’s Central St. Martins College of Art. Since then she’s been working as a freelance illustrator, with clients including Marks & Spencers, McDonald’s, Royal Mail and Paperchase. I love her sexy, minimal, colourful and fun illustrations, of which you can find plenty more on her website.

Self-taught New Zealand illustrator Jordan Debney concentrates his efforts on creating creatures of the more absurd nature. Not your run-of-the-mill pin-up woman or action man, no, Mr. Debney’s characters are more grotesque and zany, and often vomiting. But when combined with crisp line-work and vibrant colours, his work actually becomes rather attractive! See more of his abnormally compelling work on his website.

It’s Fashion Friday once again here on The Lounge! This week’s excellent addition to the series is Caroline Johansson. She demonstrates how brilliant the clean lines resulting from using vector art can be when trying to show detail such as hair, fabric and pattern. The beautifully chosen flat colours accompanied with black lines also have tremendous impact.

See Caroline’s portfolio.

Tadaomi Shibuya is a Japanese illustrator with an incredible geometric style. What I find amazing about this style is that it can be deployed to portraits just as well as more abstract subjects. Shibuya says he is influenced heavily by hip hop and artificial factory products.

Clients include Nike, Givenchy, Diesel and New Scientist.

Visit Shibuya’s MySpace page.