I like each of them, but I get the feeling that this kind of design is pretty trendy atm,
not like this is a bad thing and the mentioned guys are really good at this style.
It's a bit like audio engineering, Sturgis for example is pretty good at what he's doing
but there are hundred of guys with a similar style that aren't as good as him because
that's a pretty famous style atm.
John Dyer Baizley stands out quite a bit imho, really digging his stuff.
I am still digging the guys I liked 10 years ago:
http://frankfrazetta.org/
Frank Frazetta - creator of the almighty death dealer
http://www.spawn.com/
Todd McFarlane - Spawn, that's it!
http://www.danseagrave.com/
Dan Seagrave - his art has a strange twist to it, really digging it, reminds me of a
graphic version of h.p. lovecraft stories
http://www.chipkidd.com/gallery.html
Chip Kidd - really different, pretty famous guy, digging him especially because of
the flat design on the Jurassic Park book cover.
http://shadowness.com/GraphicDude
Florian Wirth - a friend of mine who I know since I am 8 years old, he did loads of
stuff 10-15 years ago with my brother, really strange alien style stuff and so on,
nowadays he works as an Art Director.
http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1996/?id=324
Erik Nitsche - I am a sucker for classic swiss design...
http://www.drewstruzan.com/
Drew Struzan - look at the stuff he did... nothing more to add, everyone has
seen his work!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bierut
Michael Bierut - so simple, so great, yep, I love typography
The last one is probably my brother, he's actually just drawing and sculpting for
fun in his freetime, but he's really, really good at it.
I still think that it's a waste that he's a dentist now...not sure if it counts here.
He's pretty good at adapting styles and changing them, he was able to draw
almost photorealistic versions of animals with 7-8 years, most of the time he's
just scribbling with a pencil on small pieces of paper, but it doesn't really matter
what kind of tool he uses.
At least 30% of my work is designing stuff, but my brother has like 10 times more
talent in the fingertip of his pinky than I have.
No clue how he does it, a 2 meter acrlyic painting on canvas or a 1 cm small sculpture
made out of stone, he gets it done, really frustrating
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