Study task 2 – inspiring illustrators

Study Task 2 – Inspiring Illustrators

Natali koromoto Natali Koromoto is an illustrator who focuses of character design, which is why I chose to look her illustration for research purposes.

I’m always really inspired by her work. Everything she does has a fun and colourful vibe, and generally just excites me.

Another aspect of her practice is the product design and range or items she sells via her own online store.

She has a strong online presence and following on social media like tumblr and Instagram which all helps direct traffic. But I think that the way she displays and applies her illustration is always very fresh and interesting. This Is something I wan to keep in mind when planning and proposing my own product range

Current items include apparel, badges, pins , prints and keyrings. Though along with this there’s occasional mascot design and ceramics.

Jack Teagle

Jack Teagle is an illustrator that I’ve followed for a while now. I feel like i have a lot of common interests both in content and also stylistically. He does a lot of character based stuff with a strong ‘nostalgia’ vibe. He has a few books published by Nobrow press which is also of interest to me. Thinking about this project, Nobrow was one of the routes of distribution I was looking at for my potential book. He also sells merchandise (cups cushions books etc) along side on the nobrow website.

Other avenues of merch and product distribution include working with a hand full of online retailers (for example designing limited edition t-shirts and prints). One retailer to note is ‘ohh deer’ – which specialise in ‘quirky illustrated gifts.’

Another thing Mentioned in my proposal was the ‘gifting’ market where illustrated goods do pretty well.

I think the fact that he does do nostalgia based stuff or work popular characters (like his heros seriese) means his work lends it’s to this particular market.

a lot of featuring & heroins self well

Ricardo cavolo I actually came across rocardo Cavolo’s work by chance just browsing books in colours may vary. I picked up his ‘101 artists to listen to before you die’, at the time I had already written my proposal, and then later on when I was researching him I found the 101 movies to watch before you die’ book. ( At the time i was a bit set back because it does look like the same project and I didn’t want it to look that way..) but actually, it’s a really good example of what I want to achieve.

These book’s are also published by NoBrow, his product range and distribution isn’t as extensive as jack teagle but he does sell his own products on his website like clothing, pin etc. Something he does that’s a little different is wall murals – like this example from urban outfitters.

Dela Deso Dela Deso is an illustrator that uses Pop Culture /film/celebrity icons at the focal point of his work – I’m interested in his stuff because it’s quite similar to the idea of parody, creating these weird characters (Edward pizza Hands There) out of popular or well known imagery. I really like his style and the general playfulness, none serious to it all.

He sells most of his work via an online store which similarly to other illustrators I’ve looked at stocks mainly t-shirts, apparel prints & pins – that seems like a pretty standard set up.