Organic Forms – Sasha Prood

I’ve had my eye on Sasha Prood’s stunning artwork for a while, since spotting her work on a few of my favorite blogs. She is an illustrator and typographer, currently residing in a tiny studio apartment in Brooklyn, New York, working as a full-time freelancer.  Prood’s inspiration is derived from natural forms - anything from biology cells to woodland animals. Her ...
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Typographical Journeys – Mats Ottdal

Tracking typography is another key area of the graphic design industry. Stylesight’s Graphics Team spotted these beautifully designed logos by Norwegian graphic designer Jeksel a.k.a. Mats Ottdal. Ottdal is a multidisciplinary Designer / Art Director with an additional passion for illustration and typography. After traveling to Australia to complete a bachelor of design, Ottdal returned to Norway to hone his craft. ...
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Editor’s choice: Visual Inspiration Week of July 16

Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of  illustrations, advertising posters, graphic design work, packaging and street art. (Click on images for information on the artists).
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Polygon Series – Mitchell Nelson

The New Designers exhibit never fails to disappoint.  With such an array of emerging talent all under one roof at the Business Design Centre in Islington, it’s always a day full of inspiring ideas.  We were on the lookout for the best graduate work to highlight in a future report when we stumbled across Mitchell Nelson’s mesmerizing large-scale artworks. We were ...
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Print Workshop – Levi’s x Anthony Burrill Printed Tees

The Levi's brand opened its first ever London based print workshop in collaboration with acclaimed graphic designer, Anthony Burrill. The Stylesight Graphics Team was on hand to meet Burrill and get our hands dirty screen-printing one of the limited edition tees. So this summer, Levi’s® launches its first ever London based in-store Print Workshop, taking place in the iconic flagship store, Regent ...
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Editor’s choice: Visual Inspiration Week of July 09

  Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of  illustrations, advertising posters, graphic design work, packaging and street art. (Click on images for information on the artists). I COULD HAVE DONE THIS.. from Briar Mark on Vimeo.
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Peaking Lights – Psychedelic Video

Stylesight's Graphics Team loves this totally mind-blowing video from husband and wife music duo Peaking Lights. Our Denim Team spotted this video with its incredible mix of cosmic backdrops, levitating cubes and flying babies, which are a real chaotic visual treat. It was directed by LEGS for the newly released track “Beautiful Son”, from Peaking Lights' recent album, Lucifer. This visually captivating  video draws you ...
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Embellished Portraits – Izziyana Suhaimi

Stylesight’s Graphics Team has noticed a number of embroidery artists lately, but we are particularly mesmerized by the work from Singapore-based artist Izziyana Suhaimi. We love how she merges different mediums and applies traditional craftsmanship to modern art.  After sketching the portraits, Izziyana introduces watercolor and then skilfully embellishes features such as beanie hats and shirt collars; these beautiful details almost jump ...
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Editor’s choice: Visual Inspiration Week of July 02

Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of  illustrations, advertising posters, graphic design work, packaging and street art. (Click on images for information on the artists).  
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Bread & Butter – Graphics Highlights

Stylesight’s Graphic team is deep in trade show coverage at the moment. We are currently in Berlin reporting from Bread & Butter and Bright. Key graphic highlights so far include camo prints and bandana motifs, girly portrait prints and 70s surf graphics. Print techniques are key this summer with flock, heavy embroidery and reverse prints all adding more depth and impact ...
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Photo Collage – Dawn Gardner

Collage art has been around since the 1920s, but the Stylesight Graphics team spotted Dawn Gardner’s artwork on our research travels and thought her versions were intriguing.  Gardner creates her prints and graphics both by hand and digitally, incorporating images from vintage magazines, her own photographs and old books to craft modern collages.  We love how she combines images of alpine ...
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Sketched Geometrics – Frau Grau

Stylesight Graphics Team recently stumbled across Frau Grau’s beautiful assortment of illustrations and decided we had to share them with you.  The Berlin-based designer combines sketched geometrics with organic motifs and arranges them in simple yet effective compositions. We love the naivety of the hand-drawn shapes painted in vibrant, jewel-tone watercolors on stark white backgrounds, offering great inspiration for summer prints. To view ...
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Nail Art Illusions – Graphic Inspiration

Traditionally, Chinese landscape artists use ink on paper, however Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-Hao has turned the process upside down, opting for a noisy nail gun and millions of nails to make his mark.  From a distance the nails form soft, sweeping lines but upon closer inspection the true mundane, industrial medium is evident. This unique method of creating art is similar to the ...
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Surreal Pencil Illustrations – Mario Hugo

Stylesight’s Graphic Team loves the work of Mario Hugo, a New York-based artist, designer and illustrator.  His surreal and almost haunting graphics are often sketched with graphite on found paper, offering a fresh, modern take on hand-rendered artworks.  The fine pencil illustrations are so detailed they could quite easily be mistaken for photographs. Mario tends to work with a tonal color ...
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Editor’s choice: Visual Inspiration Week of June 18

Stylesight’s Senior Graphics Editor brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of  illustrations, advertising posters, graphic design work, packaging and street art. (Click on images for information on the artists).
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