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.

Gabriel is an Argentinean illustrator who started out as a web designer. Web and graphic design, as well as probably any other creative discipline, can teach us skills that can be transferred usefully into illustration. These web design skills are evident in Gabriel’s work and that’s probably why his designs for online games in particular stand out. It is a clean and clinical finish, but charged with emotion and you just want to reach into the screen and grab the work, hug it and squeeze it!

Visit Gabriel’s website for more.

Yoga is an Indonesian digital artist. I found these illustrations on Dribbble and had to share. These origami style illustrations are lush! Visit Yoga’s Tumblr page here, or alternatively the Dribbble page here.

So how cute are Jerrod’s character designs? This guy can make SPAM look cute, that says it all. Jerrod studied at San Jose State University, where he received degree in Illustration. He has worked as Art Director for several companies but now it seems he is concentrating on a full-time freelance illustration career.

His client list includes Disney, Mattel and Macmillan UK. You can see more adorable illustrations on his Dribbble page, or alternatively visit his excellent website here.

Today we have some incredible vector illustrations by Erol Osman. If you like what you see on his Facebook page, he has some prints available here. Tremendous vector skills; thanks for getting in touch, Erol.

Neil Duerden creates super-punchy advertising illustrations and designs for clients such as Nike, Virgin, Sony Ericsson, Costa Coffee and loads of other big brands. He combines photography and vector graphics with digital effects to create collages that jump out at you. It’s all about grabbing your attention and keeping it for long enough so that you register the product. This style is absolutely brash, but with reason; I’m sure it is very effective advertising.