Mark Brooks is a graphic designer and art director who has divided his career between New York and Barcelona (where he was born in 1974). He’s able to draw from many different styles and aesthetics to produce a body of work that’s pretty innovative and varied. Sign of a great designer in my mind – the best style is no style. He...

Tad Carpenter is an extremely prolific  illustrator and designer living in Kansas City, Missouri. His style is very playful and there’s something very wholesomely midwest about it. It’s cozy, warm and welcoming. Tad has illustrated and designed several children’s books, spot illustrations and national campaigns and he’s been featured in many, many publications. Carpenter  along with my good friend Dan Padavic joined...

André Beato is a Portuguese Graphic designer & illustrator, born in Lisbon and currently based in London. He works mostly in vector based graphics and has some really strong typographic and illustrative work.

Jordan Gray is a graphic designer and illustrator who has also dabbled in independent film. Before getting into design he used to be the editor for a local arts and entertainment paper. He’s currently working as a Designer and Art Director for Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Kansas City and and is making a children’s book about beards in his spare time.

Sebastien Cuypers is a french graphic designer and illustrator. Born in 1980 and got used to drawing from early childhood on, in his works typography adds to the motif to make it complete but at the same time acts as an autonomous and stand-alone feature of the layout. He handles letters like characters, allowing for their own and strong expression.

I came across the Design Department via there wonderful work for Las Vegas restaurant Dragon Noodle. Their about sections is all Lorem Ipsum right now so I’m not sure what their background is but I do know they’re from El Segundo California and they have a pretty strong portfolio.

Jorsh Pena is an amazing illustrator with a very distinctive style from Mexico. I especially like his remake movie posters. Texture and 60′s styling are making a come back in illustration these days. Great work.

Maddison Graphic is a small design studio formed by brothers Edward and Alfie Maddison based in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Combining typography, photography and illustration, they work on projects of all shapes and sizes, including; posters, books, websites, signage, identities, and exhibitions.

So much fun work up at ILoveDoodle.com the portfolio site of Lim Heng Swee. Lim is an illustrator and visual artist living and working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia since 2003. She loves doodling and “hopes to be able to doodle a smile on people’s face.” Success!

Killstudio is a small design studio based in the very heart of Somerset, specialising in brand identity and development, illustration, creative graphics and art direction. Their aim is simple: Create original, aesthetic and visually pleasing artwork whilst maintaining the highest levels of execution and communication. Some nice clean and colorful work.