Antique and vintage graphics are such a wealth of inspiration for layout, typography and colour. The Patternbank team stumbled on these stunning antique radio tuning dial graphics and thought we’d share. The collection was curated by Michael Feldt for the Indiana Radio site, which is a huge information database for antique radio enthusiasts. We recommend you delve deeper and check out the site to view more visually inspiring vintage dials and charts.
Patternbank love the intense mixing of patterns going on in Luis Alves fabulous illustrations. Alves is a illustrator and graphic designer based in Lisbon, Portugal and from his work you can see how he loves to mix patterns from vintage tiles and textiles to create something new and modern. Alves uses a mixture of digital and marker based techniques in his work combining a love of soul and funk which can be found in commissioned posters on behance/UrbanMyth.net and his Flickr page.
Street art takes many forms, Patternbank stumbled across these unique and dynamic murals and thought we’d share. These hand cut, hand painted creations are the work of Rome based Italian street art duo Sten & Lex. Using a technique they call ‘Hole school’ Sten Lex create huge murals that consist of cut out stencils and blown up photocopied imagery. The duo are best known in the history of stencil making for introducing the halftone stencil technique where the main part of their stencil portraits are composed by thousands of lines. Graphic subject matter is a mix of historical and religious figures as well as Lex herself. They are currently showing at Magda Danysz Gallery in Shanghai until the April 30th so definitely worth a look if you are visiting.
These quirky, oddball illustrations are the work of Netherlands based art studio Patswerk. Situated in The Hague, Patswerk was founded in 2008 by long time friends Ramon Avelino, Rogier Mulder and Lex van Tol. The studio collective use playful, surreal, complex compositions that mix an array of everyday objects in fresh colourful statements. See more of their unique and fun work at the recently updated website patswerk.nl.
Tokyo born artist, graphic designer and illustrator Natsuki Otani has the ability to combine a rainbow of vibrant colour, with a sophisticated illustrative style to create these stunning images. Her Fashion Illustration for A/W 2012 featured in Station Magazine (images featured) depicting designs from Mary Katranzou, Peter Pilloto and Prada have a simple, inky fluidity which is, unmistakably her signature style. Patternbank loves the strong sense of pattern throughout her work and her sensitivity to detail and proportion. Check out her list of talents and achievements at her website.
Patternbank are loving LaTurbo Avedon’s colourful digitally fractured creations. LA based, social media avatar and artist caught our eye recently with her amazing online computer generated pieces. Using various 3D rendering tools LaTurbo reinterprets photographs to create some mesmerizing digital imagery. See more of her work on her portfolio site turboavedon.com
Agata Dudek graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2010 and has already completed a wide range of stunning design projects including Magazine Illustration, Posters, Book Covers, Street Art and Toy Design. Loving the simple block colours and stencil effect of these pieces. For more of her creative output check her Behance page.
Patternbank have spotted Ed Fairburn’s amazing map based portraits on a handful of inspirational blogs recently and thought we’d share. Based in Cardiff, illustrator Ed Fairburn creates portraits using old vintage maps to bring his unique artworks to life. He explains ‘ I paint, draw and construct using a flexible range of tangible media across a wide range of surfaces and contexts, allowing my practice to exist across various disciplines.’ Patternbank love the way Ed’s illustrations transpire from intricate road networks and structured landscapes. See more of his work at his portfolio site edfairburn.com
