Lotta Nieminen is an illustrator and graphic designer from Finland. She has previously worked for fashion magazine Trendi, Pentagram and RoAndCo Studio, but now enjoys working as a freelancer. Her illustration clients include Hermès, New York Times, Volkswagen, United Airlines and Marks & Spencer. I like the way she plays with perspective in her work. She cleverly uses simple shapes that form intricate, striking visuals.

See more on her website.

Award winning Irish illustrator Steve Simpson creates visuals that are so rich with type and colour it hurts.

“Steve takes an organic approach to his projects, blending the disciplines of design and illustration. He spends a great deal of time on construction, shape and problem solving at the pencil stage. Continuously re-drawing until a balance of aesthetics, key brief considerations and client satisfaction have been realized.”

Every piece of work in his portfolio leaves me stunned with amazement, so head on over to see more…

Mike lives and works in Chicago, USA. He has graphic design skills as well as illustration, enabling him to take on all sorts of interesting work. On his website, you’ll find packaging, logo design, illustrated patterns, album covers, illustrated skateboards and more.

French graphic designer Maxime Morin has some really edgy illustrations on his website. I love his collection of Yukamis, although admittedly I don’t really know what on Earth a Yukami is. I think it’s related to the Mexican Day of the Dead from the looks of things. Nonetheless, very charming characters indeed. Maxime also created a set of playing cards, all with incredible clean line-work. For those of you who like a bit of clever photo-cut-up style illustration, you’ll be in for a treat if you visit his website. Enjoy!

Dima Je is a designer/illustrator based in Moscow, Russia. His illustrations feature in much of his designs, including packaging, invitations, posters and more. He uses letterpress, vector art and I believe also screen printing. Everything on his Behance portfolio looks amazing, but you can also see plenty more on his Dribbble page.

Pablo Rueda is a nice modern illustrator who is originally from Seville, Spain but currently located in Gijón, Asturias.

He has a great style and we just love his characterisations and quirky outlook. He has just finished work on a Safe sex campaign in Spain along with designing a poster and the promotional packaging. The thing that I like most about Pablo’s work is his fantastic ability to transpose his illustrations onto various packaging designs. Check out his website for more of this projects: pintachan.com

Richard is a designer and illustrator based in York. He works for a studio called scarlettabbott, where he has toiled for companies such as Vodafone and McCain. Richard also posts personal illustration projects under the pseudonym dogeatcog. Check out more of his work on his blog and his website (website coming very very soon).