Tom Edwards is an illustrator/graphic designer liv­ing in Brighton. While his port­fo­lio is all-around impres­sive, his drawings/collages are what I have really spent some time with.

Tom’s draw­ing style is some­what naive, but that is not meant to be an insult. His work is charm­ing, engag­ing, and very inter­est­ing in its sim­plic­ity. I have included images of sketches and sim­pler draw­ings, but he also has col­lages that com­bine both his draw­ing sen­si­bil­i­ties with color and shape design. Pho­to­graphic images that are used in his col­lage are nicely paired with his san­guine hand.

There are a num­ber of dif­fer­ent projects fea­tured on Tom’s web­site, but one I par­tic­u­larly enjoy is If Draw­ings Were Pho­tographs. It is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between him­self and Rob Matthews — Pho­tographs are styled around Tom’s orig­i­nal draw­ings. Usu­ally, it’s the other way around, and a very wel­come change.

All images via his web­site and Flickr.