Christina Jung lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. She works in various styles, primarily using acrylics and screen-printing with a nice touch of hand-lettering thrown into the mix. Christina says:

“It has always made sense for illustration and graphic design to go hand in hand. A good illustration will be well-crafted and conceptually sound. A really great illustration will do all that and consider the placement of type.”

Good advice. See more of Christina’s work on her lovely website.

Justin Helton is a graphic designer/illustrator specialising in design for the music industry. He is probably best known for his excellent gig posters, which usually comprise of quite detailed illustrations, beautiful typesetting and are all printed by hand. Justin works from Knoxville, Tennessee, creating work for bands such as Phish, The Avett Brothers, The Black Keys and festivals such as Bonnaroo and Outside Lands. Visit his stylish website to see more.

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.

Eric’s visual style mixes bright colours, simple shapes, gritty textures and bold typography. His screen-printed gig posters are absolutely stunning, well worth the simple click over to his ‘Doe Eyed’ website, where you’ll also find some nice branding, illustrations, t-shirts and more.

“Doe Eyed is a design studio that knows a thing or two about simple shapes, fuzzy textures, bright colors, patterns that make your eyes vibrate, bad jokes, and the occasional dirty drawing.”

Head on over!

“Mashville is a collaborative art project initiated by Mister Adam and drJay. Likeminded artists are invited to exchange or create images and ideas in order to create a surprising screenprint. One of the parties creates an image and then passes it on to the collaborating artist. The image goes back and forth, until both parties are satisfied with the obtained result. Finally that result will be screenprinted. A process we started to call “image pingpong”, the Mashville way.”

See more of their collaborative work on the Mashville site
Mashville prints are available to buy from http://sergeantpaper.com/

Shaun Doyle is a freelance illustrator who grew up by the sea side in Brighton (UK) and now works from his studio in London. His images are created by combining hand drawings with computer graphics and colour.

To date, he has worked for Sainsbury’s, Jamie Oliver magazine, The Radio Times, The Guardian, Readers Digest, American Express and many many other equally high profile clients. This is an amazing feat as Shaun is a relatively young illustrator who only graduated in 2007. By looking at his work I can defiantly see why he has gone from strength to strength. Want more of Shaun? Take a look at his lovely little website.

21 year old Sam Dunn has some vibrant posters on her website and seems to be getting involved in some very cool projects, including the new Granimator Ipad application.

Granimator enables you to create backgrounds and crazy images using illustrations as movable elements. Other notable illustrator’s involved in Granimator are Kate Moross, Jon Burgerman, Mcbess, Non-Format and Airside to name a few.