A few years ago, I tried my hand (lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively) at hand let­ter­ing. My lack of atten­tion to detail was not con­ducive to suc­cess­fully and neatly illus­trat­ing text itself. Kate Prior, how­ever, has it right. Her inven­tive and cre­ative solu­tions to the stan­dard posters and sinage boast the text as a focal point, not ...

Recently I had the plea­sure of vis­it­ing with Jor­dan Bernier, a Baltimore-based artist that cre­ates prints, posters, and zines, and active in the grow­ing Bal­ti­more art cul­ture. We talked about his inspi­ra­tion for pieces, his process, and of Bal­ti­more itself. He was kind enough to share some of his won­der­ful zines with me, as well ...

I’ve posted about my affin­ity for music posters before, and the posters by Chris­tine Hale really take the cake for me. They are a beau­ti­fully drawn but at the same time eye-catching. And, despite the vary­ing bands and events she’s cre­ated posters for, they all feel cohe­sive and seem to tell one giant story. The illus­tra­tions ...

Stine Belden Røed is an artist who cre­ates one of my favorite types of illus­tra­tion — the con­cert poster. Her web­site includes a num­ber of indie bands whom she’s cre­ated show posters for. Her port­fo­lio includes hand drawn type, peo­ple, with a bit of col­lage and even some sur­prises a long the way. There’s an unas­sum­ing ...

Andrew Holder is an artist liv­ing in Pasadena, Cal­i­for­nia. Not one to be tied down to a medium, he employs print­mak­ing, air brush­ing and other var­i­ous mixed media tech­niques into his work. Andrew keeps his port­fo­lio look­ing con­sis­tent by his shape design. Tri­an­gles, dia­monds, and scales all dom­i­nate his work despite how he chooses to dis­play ...

DJG Design (aka Danny Gib­son) is an artist/designer I’ve been admir­ing since I was in high school. He was the artist doing the show posters and local album cov­ers in my home­town and has since expanded his pop­u­lar­ity to more than just the mid-west United States. DJG’s media of choice really varies. He uses col­lage, ...

Nepo­muk is a small design and illus­tra­tion group from Berlin, Ger­many. With three mem­bers, they do a vari­ety of design and illus­tra­tive projects, includ­ing books, posters, and even col­or­ing books! 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 ...