Holding It Up

Andrew Holder’s colorful and minimal illustration work is vibrant and wonderful. He’s done work for an array of clients including Sub Pop, Urban Outfitters and Dwell magazine. His illustrations employ a wonderful sense of rhythm and asymmetrical balance. Overall, we just love it.

Happy to be in Love

Happy Lovers Town is the moniker under which Italian illustrator, Jonathan Calugi, creates his masterful illustration pieces. Jonathan has what could be considered a classically, clean style of vector illustration. Each piece is assembled from a variety of smaller vector-based illustrations and elements that he assembles and collages together into repeating patterns. His work is engaging and makes us more than a little happy when we just sit and stare at it for awhile.

Jolby and Friends Two Plus Four Plus Four

Portland-based art duo Jolby is the side project of designers Josh Kenyon and Colby Nichols. The two met and started collaborating while attending art school in San Diego. Their friendship transcended their academic studies to become a strong, symbiotic working relationship that would continue into their professional careers.

As an illustration duo the two have split their respective roles by strengths with Colby doing the drawings and Josh providing the color, texture and pattern work. It appears to be a perfect balance with compositions that are both whimsically engaging and elusively complex. Jolby’s work is infused with creativity and originality-two consistent traits that they’ve incorporated into an impressive body of work for both clients and personal projects.

The duos recent work has been primarily concentrated into a series of gallery shows focusing on their original story lines and thematic concepts. Each show culls together not only their original pieces, but also integrates additional artist works tied closely into the show’s themes-representing the duos strong commitment to collaboration with other creators. Each show is explosively creative which highlights the talent packed into these two talented minds (and four arms and four legs).