We’ve curated a fantastic selection of illustrations showcasing some of the group’s best work from 2016. We hope it serves as inspiration for the great possibilities of 2017. Illustration is a wonderful, evolving medium and illustrators have found increasingly relevant ways to utilize their talents. The first section focuses on self-initiated work and leads off with fun animations, one of the growing areas within illustration. There are also great examples on how graphic design and lettering have made their way into illustration. There is also plenty of demand for more traditional work, tapping into the organic trend. Within advertising and packaging, you’ll see published pieces for Disney, Pinterest, BMW, McDonalds, Little Debbies and the Royal Mail. Be sure to scroll down to see some pretty amazing editorial and publishing work.
Personal Work
Eran Mendel‘s animated characters are sure to make you chuckle
Oliver Sin chose his contribution to The Monster Project, where professional illustrators re-interpret childrens’ monster drawings. Oliver is our most popular animator. See his animation portfolio: http://mendolarefprod.wpengine.com/project
Amanda Lima chose a GIF from ‘The Most Zutto made a GIF in her style for self promo
Haunted Places in the World’ Halloween series
Tim Boelaars designed some graphic plants for his piece ‘Bluegreenery’
Luke Lucas made a screen-print of a 26 letter monogram he created for an exhibition in Australia called Louder Than Letters
Amy DeVoogd illustrated this summery page for the Mendola 2017 calendar
Aaron Sacco was inspired by street life in Austin
Hugh Syme‘s surreal work is more than a little unnerving
Laura Barrett worked in her intricate silhouette style to create ‘Autumnal Fox’
Poked Studio is great at creating whimsical worlds in a 3D style, such as this piece “Consoles in Furry Land”
Tom Newsom – What is Christmas without some of Tom’s classic Santa illustrations?
Julia Green worked on some fantastical illustrations for self promo
James Boast played with pretty botanical pattern design
Ben the Illustrator asked people on Twitter what their dream workspace looked like, and created this from the answers
James Shepherd created a kid on a sugar high Kenny Kiernan worked on a more dimensional style
for self promo
Advertising/Packaging
Kate Forrester did some lovely lettering work for a poster for Disney’s Dream Big, Princess campaign
Anna Hurley made some cute illustrations of Pinterest employees’ memories for a memory box
Kim & James Neale worked with Spinmaster to create this fun promo image for the Disney movie “Zootopia”
Russell Benfanti made a Halloween scene with a friendly ghost for Lovegrown cereal
Jude Buffum had the awesome job of illustrating a page for the BMW art book
Jeff Wack illustrated some very hip birds for this Ted Baker ad
Echo Chernik worked on some magical posters for Ballet West’s “The Nutcracker”
Dahl Taylor illustrated the cover for Boston Beer’s annual report in a nice chalkboard style
Mick McGinty worked on packaging art for Boston Beer’s Angry Orchard cider
Joe Taylor created this poster for Actors Jim Talbot took on the classic Muffin Man for
Gymnasium school and Temperance Beer Company packaging for McKee Foods
who collaborate to raise money for the school and
entertainment for the brewpub
Robert Hynes illustrated farm animals for an ad for Safeway Corporation
Mona Daly worked with Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation to create a poster for a race event in Oregon
Andrey Gordeev illustrated ad work with TBWA Shanghai for McCafe
Miracle Studios‘ “The Specialist Strip”, was done for a tech company called TTI
Chris Wormell designed some adorable stamps with hibernating animals for the Royal Mail UK
Jim Kopp designed an industrial site plan for Inland Empire Utilities Agency
Lindsey Spinks did some promo illustration work for the Science Museum in London! The work was featured on posters, mugs, and other fun merchandise.
Editorial
Kirsten Ulve captured some culture for “The Art of Buying Art” for 5280 Denver Magazine
Daniel Long illustrated some window shoppers for Financial Times’ feature on Christmas books
T.M. Detwiler got futuristic for St. Louis Magazine and an article about Pixar’s vision for the future of movies in VR
The Image Foundation made a surreal 3D illustration for an article about wanderlust for Wired Germany
Heidi Schmidt illustrated this graphic piece for Sam Ward was commissioned by the
International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Affairs Forum for a story about our system
piece about how to make great climbs and descents of manipulation, corruption and control by billionaires, banks and corporations
Lucy Rose worked with Deloitte University Press to Tom Froese designed the Christmas cover
make an illustration about professional cybercrime and for Canadian magazine, The Walrus
how organisations can manage cyber risk
Laurindo Feliciano illustrated one of the year’s biggest losses for an article about a lack of men’s celebrity style icons today for the British magazine Mr Porter
Michael Crampton illustrated a cool, retro pullout Arthur Mount did some spots for CCO Magazine
for Baku magazine about improving content strategy
Matt Cook did some reportage sketches at The Times
Publishing
Andrew Davidson illustrated a new book, ‘Tales of the Peculiar’ with his gorgeous woodcuts. Andrew’s art won a silver medal in the Society of Illustrators annual show
Caroline Attia chose an illustration from her first book, ‘Monsieur Martin’ published by Maison Eliza
Lucy Davey designed this graphic cover for a book Heather Gatley painted a market scene and hand
published by Macmillan USA lettered this cover for Little Brown Books
Rachel Saunders illustrated an adorable cover for Rob Ball worked to illustrate covers for the
this Rudyard Kipling classic for Puffin Books, Kuromori series for Egmont Publishing
Penguin Random House
Christopher Nick painted illustrations for this book out by Oklahoma Heritage Foundation
