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Aaron Miller
Aaron Miller is a freelance illustrator based in Cheltenham, UK who lives with his girlfriend and two chinchillas. After nearly a year of…
Abigail Daker
Her work, created using both hand-drawn and digital techniques, is influenced by fashion, cinema, literature, landscapes and old maps. Abi…
Adi Gilbert
Adi Gilbert is a Bristol-based illustrator and designer. He mostly produces work for the BMX and motorcycle scenes, but also has more…
Alessandro Lingua
Alessandro Lingua is a thinker with a BA in Design for Graphic Communication and a MA in Graphic Design. He’s currently working at…
Alexandra Zutto
Based in Miass, Russia, Alexandra Zutto is a 27-year-old freelance illustrator. Her subtle, vector-based style walks the line between…
Alex Mathers
Alex Mathers is a self-taught illustrator from London. He’s currently based in Tokyo, where he’s working with the Google design…
Anatoly Bazarov
Anatoly Bazarov is 24 and works as a designer in Moscow – though his So Hexy project was created in Cinema 4D in his spare time, at…
Andreas A Tjeldflaat
Andreas A Tjeldflaat is a Norwegian architect and illustrator based in New York. Over the past five years, he has worked on design projects…
Andrew Groves
Working under the name Imakethings, Andrew Groves is a freelance illustrator. He says: “I have a particular interest in the natural…
Andrew Lyons
Andrew is a freelance illustrator based in France. His clients have included GQ magazine, Google, Mercedes-Benz, Wired and the Financial…
Angie Taylor
Angie Taylor is an animator, illustrator and author with a twenty-year career producing animation, visual effects and motion graphics for…
Anna Richardson Taylor
Anna Richardson Taylor is a German-British design writer working for a range of international publications. A former features editor at…
Ari Liloan
Ari Liloan is a Filipino/Italian illustrator living in Berlin/Hamburg. Her style is a bastard of 1930s Golden Age surrealism…
Arisu Nomura
Based in Portugal, Arisu Nomura is a photographer and digital artist who blends still photography with digital painting, occasionally using…
Arturas Petkevicius
Based in Canada, Arturas Petkevicius is a freelance designer and illustrator. He’s currently studying Graphic Design at Ontario College…
Ashleigh Macro
Staff Writer at Digital Arts and Macworld. Ashleigh is also a book blogger, duck collector, Galaxy Defender and Potterhead (that’s a…
Ben Steers
Ben is a freelance illustrator and designer working out of the beautiful city of Bristol. Ben’s work is a mix of different graphic…
Ben the Illustrator
Ben O’Brien (aka Ben the Illustrator) has recently been illustrating from the loft studio he shares with his product designer wife on…
Bobby Haiqalsyah
Bobby Haiqalsyah is a Melbourne-based freelance graphic designer and illustrator. An accidental chef for many years, he hung up his knives…
Bram Vanhaeren
Athletics enthusiast Bram Vanhaeren is a digital artist from Belgium. He’s een developing his graphic style since first experimenting…
Brandon Spahn
Brandon Spahn is a student at Indiana University, where he’s studying Informatics, with a minor in Digital Art and Telecommunications.…
Breno Bitencourt
Breno Bitencourt is a Brazilian designer who lives in Bauru and works with client globally. He works primarily as a logo designer, but likes…
Buwaneka Saranga
Self-taught motion graphics and 3D artist Buwaneka Saranga lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He uses the digital medium for most of his…
Camilo Bejarano
Colombian-born multidisciplinary designer Camilo Bejarano is based in the US, where he works under the name Ph7labs. His work has appeared in…
Charles Williams
Charles Williams is an award-winning illustrator. He produces type and illustration for clients such as Volkswagen, the BBC, Nike and Adobe.…
Chris Hill-Scott
For the past five years, Chris Hill-Scott has worked as a contributor for some of the UK’s most popular BMX magazines, shooting action,…
Chris Malbon
Describing himself as a “creative all-rounder”, Bristol-based Chris Malbon has produced work for a wide range of clients and…
Chris Parks
Hailing from Tampa Bay, Florida, Pale Horse is the moniker and studio space of digital illustrator Chris Parks. Since opening the doors in…
Christopher Vinca
Christopher Vinca is a freelance designer, typographer and photographer. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, he studied Graphic Design at…
Ciara Phelan
Ciara is an illustrator working from Open in North London. Since graduating in 2008 from studying graphic design at Brighton she…
Clara Facchetti
Clara is an aspiring journalist currently studying Digital Media at King's College London and interning at IDG UK. She enjoys writing about…
Craig Minchington
Craig Minchington – aka Adora – is a digital artist based in Bristol. He’s been making things light up and shine since…
Damien Vignaux
Damien Vignaux, 28, is an art director based in Berlin. Most of his work involves print and motion design for clients such as EMI, MTV, Nike…
Dan Mumford
Dan Mumford is an illustrator and designer hailing from Central London, where he works in a shared studio in Dalston. Dan mainly works in the…
Dan Swinhoe
By day Dan Swinhoe is UK editor for CSO Online, covering enterprise cybersecurity. By night he writes about music, mostly of the heavy variety
David Mahoney
David Mahoney is currently studying Product Design at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Art. He also freelances for publications…
David Popov
David Popov is a London-based graphic designer, illustrator and pattern master. He’s currently the senior designer at graphic design…
Derek Lea
Derek Lea is an award-winning digital illustrator and author, with clients that include high-profile North American advertising agencies and…
Dominique Byron
Dominique Byron is a recently graduated illustrator based in Manchester. She enjoys creating bold, geometric work and mixing together digital…
Douglas A Sirois
Doug Sirois was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has since illustrated and designed everything from children’s book covers and CD…
Dwayne Bell
When Dwayne found out that he could make a living (kind of) drawing and creating images he was cock-a-hoop. And after discovering Photoshop…
Eelco van den Berg
Eelco van den Berg is an illustrator, painter and graffiti artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He can often be found freaking out in…
Ee Venn Soh
Malaysian-born Ee Venn Soh loves to see technology from a design and psychological perspective and vice versa. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the…
Emanuele Colombo
Italy-based Emanuele Colombo studied Audiovisual Communication Sciences at the University of Milan. Using his skills in video editing and…
Emilio La Mura
Emilio is a young freelance graphic designer, who graduated in graphic design from the Academy of fine Arts in Naples. His specialisation is…
Emma Leonard
Emma Leonard is a Melbourne-based illustrator, who combines traditional media with digital techniques to create carefully considered…
Eric Kim
Eric Kim began his career in comics with Oni Press. He’s also illustrated Degrassi: The Next Generation Vol. 3, created the comic strip…
Eric Van Den Boom
Eric Van Den Boom is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer who works under the name BoomArtwork. Based in Utretcht in the Netherlands,…
Evert Martin
Evert Martin is a Ghent-based graphic designer. Apart from the usual graphic work, he has spent time refining a technique that involves…
Fabio Benedetti
Fabio Benedetti is a creative Italian Designer and design enthusiast. He moved to the UK in 2007 after studying Languages and Humanities…
Freya Betts
Freya Betts is a 23 year old London based illustrator. After leaving school at 18 she pursued her passion for film and landed a job in the…
Gareth Hughes and David Elwell
Gareth Hughes is a Manchester-based designer, who has an interest in stories, music and writing. His spare time is spent on projects that…
Giacomo Lee
Giacomo is Deputy Editor and Social Media Manager for Digital Arts, and has talked tech and art on the BBC, interviewed Takashi Murakami, and…
Gordon Reid
Illustrator and designer Gordon Reid – aka Middle Boop – has developed a solid reputation, with an international client list that…
Grace Rasmus
Grace Rasmus is an editorial intern at Digital Arts, PC Advisor, Macworld UK and Tech Advisor. She studies journalism at Boston University…
Gyppsy
In between spending time as his alter ego Tony Dones, Gyppsy is also ustwo’s chief pixel-perfectionist: nothing makes him happier than…
Harry Frank
Harry stumbled into motion graphics as a starving musician. He lives in Detroit south of 8 Mile, earning a living as a designer, teacher, and…
Hazel Mead
Hazel Mead is a freelance illustrator, moving society forward with her feminist work which covers a range of topics including periods, female…
Henry Burrell
Henry is a staff writer for Digital Arts, Macworld and PC Advisor. With a few years under his belt honing his digital know-how via tech PR,…
Hydro74
Working under the moniker of Hydro74, Orlando-based designer Joshua Smith is as happy creating type treatments and illustrations for…
Igor Scekic
Igor Scekic is an illustrator, digital artist and graphic designer from Zagreb, Croatia. Currently studying Graphic Design at Zagreb…
James Davies
After working as an art director on magazines, Davies is now a freelance graphic artist and designer. With a portfolio featuring work for…
James Davies
After working as an art director on magazines, Davies is now a freelance graphic artist and designer. With a portfolio featuring work for…
James May
I am a freelance motion graphics designer based between London and Tunisia who has worked on a number of music video projects for Nero and…
James White
James White is a visual artist and designer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. With 11 years of experience, James has worked on an array…
Jean Pichot
Jean Pichot is a freelance visual artist currently living in Sweden. He has a wide range of experience as a creative/art director, designer…
Jean-Pierre Le Roux
Jean-Pierre Le Roux is a 29-year-old 3D designer/animator based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has many years experience in a multitude of…
Jeffrey Bowman
Jeffrey Bowman is an illustrator based in the mountains of Norway. His work has a keen sense of exploration and his outdoor lifestyle…
Jennifer Cirpici
Jennifer Cirpici lives in The Netherlands. Her work is characterised by bright colours and often involves photo manipulation combined with…
Jimmy Gleeson
Jimmy Gleeson is a Melbourne-based freelance Art Director & Designer. His previous experience includes seven years in fashion and…
Jing Zhang
Originally from China, London-based creative designer and illustrator Jing makes her living by doing things she loves. She works for clients…
Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford is an illustrator and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels. She creates intricate, hand drawn illustrations…
Jonathan Topf
Since graduating from the National Film and Television School, London-based Jonathan Topf has worked as a director and animator. He mainly…
Jonny Wan
Sheffield-based freelance illustrator Jonny Wan graduated from the Manchester School of Art in 2008 and has dedicated a lot of time to…
Karan Singh
Karan Singh is an freelance illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. He’s had over four years experience working in a studio and…
Kervin Brisseaux
Kervin Brisseaux is an illustrator and designer living in New York. His portfolio boasts work for Nike, Aquafresh, and various designs for…
Kevin Roodhorst
Dutch 23-year-old Kevin Roodhorst is studying graphic design in Amsterdam, with hopes of moving on to an advertising agency or into the world…
KittoZutto
Kittozutto believe in the power of dreams. So it’s hardly surprising that this art and design boutique’s combination of fine…
Lizzie Mary Cullen
Featured by the BBC and in The Independent, Lizzie Mary Cullen says her work can be likened to bad motorway food; “it’s all over…
Logan Brinkley
Logan Brinkley is an illustrator and digital designer. He’s a partner at award-winning welsh digital design agency Carbon Studio, and…
LouLou & Tummie
Dutch illustration duo LouLou & Tummie are developing an ever-expanding empire of colourful graphics and characters. Led by their passion…
Luis Armesilla
Luis Armesilla – aka Aesthetic Therapie – is a Spanish designer based in Madrid. After studying Fine Arts in Madrid and Lisbon,…
Marcus Reed
Graduated from Newcastle College with an HND in Advertising (Illustration). Moved to London where he worked at Saatchi & Saatchi's for…
Marguerite Sauvage
Marguerite Sauvage is a self-taught illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. Her client have included Apple, Marshall Fields, Longchamp, Louis…
Markie Darkie
Markie Darkie, aka Ferdinand Mark Bsa, is based in Edmonton, Canada where he works as a full-time graphic designer. His clients include the…
Mark Mayers
Freelance illustrator and designer Mark Mayers is based in Cornwall. With over 18 years’ experience, he can recall life before Macs and…
Mart Biemans
Mart Biemans surely is no stranger to the dance music industry. Having worked with some of the biggest acts in dance music, major record…
Martijn Rijven
Martijn Rijven is a graphic, typographic and illustrative designer, running a one-man show out of Amsterdam, the Netherlands called…
Matt Nelson
Matt Nelson is a motion designer and general internet dude. He runs an independent collective and creates content for brands,…
Mimi Launder
Mimi is a staff writer for Digital Arts, with a particular interest in illustration. She is also lovingly devoted to theatre, books and good…
Miriam Harris
Miriam Harris is a staff writer for Digital Arts. Miriam has a background in news journalism and has previously worked as a digital…
Miss Swanne
Illustrator Miss Swanne has produced work for TV and web advertising, publishing, along with the odd private commission or two. She…
Murilo Maciel
Murilo Maciel is a 26-year-old illustrator from Brazil, and works as a freelance designer under the creative identity GrafikDust. His style…
Neil Duerden
Self-confessed ‘Mac monkey’ Neil Duerden lives near Manchester. He creates pieces that combine photography and complex vectors…
Neville D'Souza
Digital painting “is my life, it helps me escape to another world,” says concept artist Neville D’souza, whose present…
Nicol Natale
Nicol Natale is an editorial intern at IDG UK. A former student-athlete, Nicol recently graduated from Fordham University, New York, with a…
Nik Ainley
Nik Ainley is a UK based designer who has a passion for producing personal art and illustrations. His work has featured in magazines, books,…
Ollie Munden
Ollie Munden, aka Megamunden, combines nature’s creatures, tattoo design, 1980s skate graphics and an essence of the Far East to create…
Pariah Burke
Boston-based Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer, and a design, publishing and digital publishing workflow expert. He is the…
Paul Holland
Paul Holland is an English graphic artist who relocated to Paris in December 2005. A graduate in illustration of Kingston University, Paul…
Paul Shih
New Zealand-based artist and designer Paul Shih is originally from Taiwan. His work is about events and characters, and is inspired by his…
Pete Fowler
Artist Pete Fowler is best known for his artworks adorning the covers of most of the Super Furry Animals albums. Pete’s inspiration…
Peter Lin
Born in Hong Kong, Peter Lin moved to London at 16, and graduated from University of Creative Arts. He now works as creative director of…
Pomme Chan
Born in Thailand, Pomme Chan moved to London in 2002 and has become a sought-after illustrator. Her distinctive felt-tip style…
Rachel Joy Price
Rachel Joy is a lettering artist based in London. She works on a range of projects from crafting lettering for brands - logos and…
Radim Malinic
In the past few years, Radim Malinic has established himself as a sought-after commercial illustrator. His recent projects have included…
Ratinan Thaijaroen
Ratinan is a 24-year-old artist (who illustrates under the moniker of Ise) who was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. She describes…
Ricardo Ajcivinac
Designer and art director Ricardo Ajcivinac works at TBWA Guatemala. He combines Adobe Photoshop with traditional illustration and graffiti…
Rob Carney
Rob Carney is an editor and writer with over 17 years' experience of working in the creative and tech industries. Previously editor of…
Roberta Alidori
Roberta Alidori is a university student of Politics and Sociology and IDG UK Tech Media's newest intern. She loves writing, being up-to-date…
Rob Millington and Stuart Dearnaley
Lead creative Rob Millington, and 3D artist and innovation developer Stuart Dearnaley both work for The Neighbourhood. The creative studio…
Rob Shields
Based in Philadelphia, self-taught digital artist Rob Shields explores a wide variety of commercial and self-initiated projects. To see…
Sam Hampton-Smith
Sam is a designer and illustrator based in the cold bit of Scotland. He works in print and web design as well as in motion graphics. He is a…
Sascha Preuß
Bubblefriends, that is Sascha Preuß. He loves creating colourful vector illustrations. Bubblefriends have fun enriching the world with…
Sean Freeman
Under the pseudonym ‘There Is’, Sean Freeman is constantly seeking new and interesting ways of treating and creating images, as…
Simon C Page
Simon C Page is a self-taught graphic designer from the UK. He loves many aspects of design but his main passions are typography art,…
Simon Jary
Simon is the publisher of PC Advisor, and is also a contributing editor of Macworld – having edited Macworld for 10 years through…
Simon Wild
Simon Wild is an illustrator with a passion for telling whimsical little stories. Using drawing, collage and digital ink, Simon is inspired…
Sonja Stangl
Sonja Stangl is an illustrator based in Vienna – where she is happily working on Illustrations, Graphic Design, Character Design and…
Stephen Chan
Since leaving Liverpool John Moores University, Stephen Chan has carved out a successful career as a freelance illustrator, with clients…
Steve Caplin
Steve Caplin is a digital artist whose satirical photomontages appear in newspapers and magazines around the world. He lectures widely, both…
Steven Bonner
Scottish illustrator Steven Bonner creates art and type designs for clients, including the Scottish Government, Harper Collins, Cadbury, The…
Tabor Robak
US-based illustrator Tabor Robak’s work is heavily influenced by the hyperreality that he sees as his cultural heritage –…
Takumer Homma
Takumer Homma is a freelance concept artist and a digital illustrator for the entertainment industry who’s made a transition from…
Thomas Burden
Burden is a senior designer at design boutique I Love Dust. He also freelances under the name Therewillbeunicorns. He likes to produce work…
Tim Smith
Tim Smith, a.k.a. My Poor Brain, is a London based graphic designer and illustrator. Tim is known for his multidiscipline approach, having…
Toby Leigh
Toby Leigh is a London-based illustrator with an eye for the peculiarities of modern life. His humorous and ironic style has seen him work…
Tom Kemp Starley
Tom Kemp Starley is a freelance graphic and web designer based in Stratford. He says: “Art has always been my thing –…
Tom Starley
"Art has always been my thing," says Tom Starley, from Stratford, Warwickshire. "I've always loved mixing creative thinking with modern…
Valp
For Maciej ‘Valp’ Hajnrich, art and design has always been something more than just a profession. Based in Katowice, Poland, the…
Vida Vega
Vida Vega is a 2D animation director at Tandem Films. A graduate of the animation course at UCA Farnham, she’s also an accomplished…
Vince Fraser
Vince Fraser is a freelance digital illustrator and designer based in London, who has worked for clients including British Airways, PC World,…
Von Glitschka
Von Glitschka is principal of Glitschka Studios, and has worked in the industry for more than 23 years. He describes himself as an…
Wendy Ding
Freelance illustrator and graphic designer Wendy Ding is based in Toronto, Canada. She specializes in digital art and traditional…
YemaYema
Mercedes Crespo, better known as YemaYema, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Now 27, she has been drawing since she was 15, though she…
Alice Ross
Aice Ross is a writer and editor based in London. She does news, features, that kind of thing.
Craig Grannell
Craig is a writer and designer, who's been writing about design and technology since the late 1990s. He's a big fan of clarity, innovation…
Fabio Sasso
Graphic and web designer Fabio Sasso is best known for his Photoshop artworks and tutorials. He is also co-founder of Zee, a web-design…
Johann Chan
Johann describes himself as a design person who does things like graphic design, photography, video and rides small bikes. He has worked as…
Laura Snoad
Laura is a London-based freelance journalist specialising in design, arts and culture. Formerly the features editor at Grand Designs…
Lauren Dezenski
Lauren Dezenski is an editorial intern for PC Advisor, Macworld and Tech Advisor. She's currently a senior at BostonUniversity studying in…
Lisa Hassell
Lisa is a published writer and arts journalist, focusing on creative business, graphic art and illustration and design education. She regular…
Michael Burns
Michael Burns is a freelance writer with almost 20 years experience of covering the creative industries. As well as writing for Digital Arts…
Neil Bennett
Neil is editor of Digital Arts – overseeing the site’s stories, interviews, features and tutorials that…
Tigz Rice
Tigz Rice is a London based photographer specialising in fashion and boudoir with a vintage aesthetic. An Adobe Community Professional and…
