All images via his Flickr. Check out his website, too!

The dark ground not only makes Emilia’s line and color choices pop, but really saturate the eyes and make viewing, at times, an intense experience.

All images via Mini Title. Check out Emilia’s website.

Mr. Yen’s aesthetic is clean, crisp, and and generally monochromatic. It is evident that he’s a graphic designer at heart, as his hand cut type is impeccable. He has an active Etsy store that sells cards, wall hangings, and other original cut outs. I especially love his Spirograph cards!

All images via his Etsy. His blog is also a good read.

Upon viewing her work, I was instantly reminded of the Art Nouveau movement. Her drawings, like that the art movement preceding them, uses a hierarchy in design and shapes. Emphasizing line weight and scale, she has her subject contain different patterns with accent color. This results in some lovely, multifaceted drawings — the viewer can enjoy both individual patterns and how they all work together.

Her work is controlled, organized, and mixes clarity with ambiguity. It is like a well-crafted story; its voice original, ideas unique yet not lost on its reader.

All images via her website.

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.

DJG’s media of choice really varies. He uses collage, drawing, painting, and also plays around with typography to create his images. There is a lot of considered hap-haphazardness in his work; some pieces look chaotic, but they are always eye-catching and make sense. He holds back at the appropriate time to make sure a message is communicated.

DJG’s work is full of non-sequiturs and the pairing of images that don’t necessarily go together. It is very reminiscent of a lot of local show-poster cultures I’ve seen, but I think that his work is smart enough to go beyond just that, to something that’s a work of art.

All images via his website.

Nepomuk has some great variety in their work.They do a lot of pieces dealing with typography and book design, but also drawing a printmaking, involving less calculation. Nepomuk has such a nice, strong variety of work in their portfolio. Each piece stands by itself well but also feels cohesive in an effort by the three members.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what my favorite part of their work is — I think it’s some of their poster pieces that are heavily geometric and remind me of cross-stitch sewing (pieces were designed for a show titled, Astronomia Nova).

All images via their website.

Also prevalent in her work is a sense of whimsy (in the best sense of the word) and imaginary lands. I love her sense of color and the characterization she’s given to her worlds. They are interesting, not only in the proportion of the objects in her drawings, but also due to the materials she chooses to work with. There is a nice push and pull of collage and plain ole’ drawing’.

All images via her website.