Ben Tallon

I came across Ben Tallon while reading the Guardian, who Tallon illustrates for. I love his hand crafted style and use of typography mixed with clever imagery to convey oftern controversial and sharp meaning. I like hand draw/made illustarion in design as I think that you can feel more of the personality behind it, there has been real connection between pen and paper and not simple Control Z if a mistake is made. It is perhaps even mistakes that give personality to this hand rendered style. In readin a review of Tallon's work I found that some of his deisgns have been comissioned and produced in an hour, which keeps his ideas fresh and alive. I think you can see this in his work. Though I can't imagine producing something within an hour as I have a great tendency to overthink. This quick style has a great energy to it and perhaps I could try it in future projects.

Wacker Eins

Wacker Eins is a Berlin based illustration team which specialises in fashion illustration, they often sell their illustrations to advertising companies and fashion/lifestyle magazines. For example they were recently commissioned with outdoor advertising for the “spring” campaign for one of Berlins most successful shopping centres, this was particularly interesting to me considering my last project for university, where the brief was focused around outdoor advertising. The sketchy hand rendered style of their illustration gives both a fashionable and relatable touch to designs. The designs are also contemporary and hidden detail is often inserted, such as the flies on the dress of the illustration above. This gives a deeper meaning to the images and makes you question their true meaning, whether there can be true beauty without a little ugliness, even if it is well hidden.