illustration fascination

Minjae Lee is a Korean painter, only 19years old! His ethereal life like beauty's hide a dark and dangerous mood, quite the juxtapose to their beauty. I love his use of colour, where it is quite abstract in some examples, but more constrained and strict in others. His linear sharp ladies are surrounded by scatty doodles and floral representations. Absolutely beautiful!

Linn Olofsdotter has worked with many top brands as a graphical illustrator creating such things as album covers, magazine illustrations and even graphics on clothing such as Levi T--shirts. She has also helped brand television networks such as MTV. Her main focus today is on editorial fields such as fashion and advertising with La Perla being her main attribute. I particularly love this work for it's use of colour and how Olofsdotter has made the scene seem whimsical and light. It reads a very fresh and new vibe

Nikki Farquharson is a 24 year old freelance designer living in London. She has a great passion for colour, patterns and typography and has produced many books and featured in numerous magazines.She has also done such collaborations with Benefit Cosmetics, Fujifilm, Nike78 and many more. I love her use of mixing photographical images with pen and paper, and she demonstrates that she is unafraid of patterns and crazy forms and shapes, and that she definitely has a great eye for colour.




After looking at coolhunter for inspiration for this mighty blog of cool, I found some amazing illustrators that I found it to be only fitting that they were included in my very own library of cool. They feature similar  techniques and amazing skills. To be honest they were the reason that over the summer I got quite obsessed with illustrating, especially with different techniques. It makes sense to experiment in every way shape and form possible before choosing a media, look or silhouette. The same goes for what I intend to do with garment construction and designing. It's all about thinking outside of the box. Not to have a closed mind, and not to be afraid of many failed attempts before perfection is found. If at first you don't succeed try try try again!