Jing Zhang is an illustrator, typographer and designer from southern China and currently living in trendy London. Her infographics are exceptional, and her experiments with 3D illustrated type are very powerful. I cannot express enough how inspiring her portfolio of work is, so visit her website or Behance to drool over the rest of her portfolio.

Illustrator and designer Jovo Ve was born in Macedonia, although moved Göteborg, Sweden when he was very young. Studying both Art and Visual History at Göteborgs University and then Visual Communication at Linnaeus University. Working as a freelance illustrator and Art Director his clients include Moleskine and Adidas. Mr. Ve’s style is brash, very often using flat colour and bold lines, depicting hip and sexy females. See more of his work by popping over to his art blog, Painted Numbers.

Today we have vector artist James Oconnell aka ‘Anonymous Mag’ to share with you. James is based in Manchester, UK where he creates his stylish graphic illustrations. James has a good understanding of typography and applying that to his designs. Thanks to Alison Watmough for the suggestion. See more on his website, Anonymous Mag.

Penelope Dullaghan resides in North Carolina, USA. She started working as a freelance illustrator in 2004, previously having worked as an art director for an advertising agency. She is probably quite well known in the illustration community for running the excellent website Illustration Friday (recently featured on The Lounge). Her illustration style is beautiful and she has a brilliant talent for hand-drawn typography. She has created some excellent logos for various companies, showing a good understanding of graphic design. A lot of illustrators attempt to ‘over-complicate’ logos when they are given the chance, but Penny keeps them simple which makes them easily applicable and resizable. I’ll also add that whenever we’ve had the privilege of corresponding with Penny she has been friendly and professional; always a pleasure.

Her clients include The New York Times, Starbucks, Oprah and Harper Collins.

Visit Penny’s portfolio website for more.

Spanish born, Sergio Jiménez aka Subcoolture, contacted The Lounge via our suggestions box. I was delightfully surprised to find that his online portfolio was packed full of hand drawn typography and illustrated lettering. Sergio strikes a nice balance between simplicity, edginess and complexity to give us some really exciting work. To date he has work with some great brands and publications including Rolling Stone, Xbox 360, Computer Arts, Vodafone and Connect.

“I am always searching for new ways of composition and I have a special interest in hand-drawn letters, skateboarding, comics, old B-movies and capricciosa pizza.”

Matej Balaz studied graphic design at Art Institute of Vancouver. As an illustrator and designer his work has appeared in a variety of mediums such as book covers, editorial pieces and clothing. He enjoys using mixed media; drawing, watercolor and photography. At The Lounge we do enjoy a bit of hand-drawn typography and Matej has some great stuff. Check out his website for more of his works.

Nod Young is an illustrator based in Beijing, China. He has just completed a design for the Fiat 500 following the theme of “life”. Nod uses his his contemporary take on Chinese traditional style to create his works, a nice mix of the old and the new. The design features a dragon “Spirit by Dragon” on one side and a tiger “Power by Tiger” on the other.

As the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Khaki Creative & Design, Nod leads a team of multicultural artists and designers that uses clean and strong visuals to fulfil diverse marketing strategies.