We’re looking for an illustrator to do our book cover (we’ve got a concept but the style could go in a few different directions). Any suggestions?
I like
Shane Tanner's work.
Alisha.
I like Eric Drooker a lot. www.drooker.com
A friend of mine who's site does not even begin to do him justice - The illustrationist
Claire Robertson has a great style. She did Powazek's book (though I much prefer her other work). Also, my friend Geoff Gibson has a great style (see a collection of my favourites and his complete collection).
A designer her in Tokyo,
Junko Yokokura does pretty good work. She is fairly diverse, but has another site of illustrations in her
signature style. When she gets contacts from abroad I often handle the communication for her, as her design sense is great, but her English isn't. If you'd like to get in touch with her, feel free to e-mail her at the e-mail address on her site, or you can send the e-mail straight to me, and I'll make sure that she gets and understands it.
Me :)
Kevin Cornell. His sketches are wonderful, lively and human like the approach at 37signals.
I really dig aaron jasinski.
I love Kirsten Ulve and Marcos Chin.
Kevin Cornell. His sketches are wonderful
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wow! great website and kevin is very talented.
aaron jasinski also gas a great style.
You guys should hire Biz over at Genius Labs
I have samples posted on the iSpot . If you are interested, please drop me a email.
Russ
How about one of the Pixelsurgeon.com crew?
Richard May
Jon Burgerman
Rex Crowle
Preshaa or
Autumn Whitehurst (my favourite)
richard mcguire does clean, zippy stuff.
Illustration or book cover design?
I know he has a sick dog, but I don't know if Dean Allen, of Cardigan Industries and Textism fame, still does book cover design.
i'll second Steve G's nomination! Geoff Gibson is very talented.
These folks do some beautiful stuff, though I am not sure it is the 'vibe' you would be looking for.
Isle of Printing
Just out of curiosity/naivit: it looks like quite a few of these illustrators' sites are done with Flash. Is that because Flash offers better ways to show off artwork, or is Flash perceived as more "artistic" in terms of providing more creative control, or is it just that they're trying to be trendy?
I have no idea how the 37s crew are going to choose, every one of the people linked from this page is enormously talented!
heres a really good one:
http://www.captaineuro.com
You can have your cover done in a superhero, comicstrip style, while at the same time learning about the new superpower, the EU!
(actually I think a superhero, comicstrip style would be pretty cool. just an idea.)
What about the folks at xplane?
I was going to say Evan Hecox, Jaime beat me to it.
I highly recommend
Julie West, fantastic work.
try chris ware. he is a chicagoan, noted comic book artist and does lots of illustrations. his line style is super clean and would probably fit nicely with your content.
we love Shawn so much!!!
Yes, I agree with Georgi, I think the xplane gang would be a good match.
I know of a guy that is a great talent, check out Ben Nettles. He just had a fulll page spread in Playboy.
I really dig Arthur Mount's style. Though the technique seems to be overused nowadays, Arthur's work remains really special!
Trevor Van Meter is my guy.
bocigalingus must be something funny.