Christian San Jose is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Pasig, Philippines. By day he is a senior web designer for an internet marketing company, and by night he works as a freelance illustrator. His list of clients include Nike Phil., The Coca-Cola Company Phil., ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, and OctoArts Films, among others. He loves illustration and thinks that it is an amazing way to express oneself. Read more about him in this interview.

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Rubens Scarelli, also known as Rusc, is an illustrator and graphic designer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It seems like there is something special in Brazil’s air, that it produces some amazing designers and illustrators.

Ruben’s illustrations are crafted with clean linework and attractive colors that are perfect for t-shirts. He creates some fun, expressive, and engaging characters through his illustrations. In this interview Ruben talks about his creative journey, his passion for t-shirt designs, his future goals and inspirations.

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Chris Leavens is a talented vector artist born and raised in Pennsylvania who now resides in Los Angeles. He graduated with a BA in film and video and initially worked in the film industry. Later Chris decided to take a break from the film biz and began working as an illustrator, graphic designer, and web designer, focusing primarily on educational material for children.

Chris creates vector art entirely in Adobe Illustrator including textural elements. Chris’s work incorporates absurdity, anthropomorphism, and a healthy dose of humor. For those who don’t know he has also written a tutorial for Vectortuts+ .

In this interview he talks about how he got started in the design industry. He gives an insight into his creative process, talks about the awesomeness of vector art and Adobe Illustrator and much more!

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Caramelaw (aka Sheena Aw) is a motion graphic designer and illustrator from Singapore. She majored in animation back in school, but ventured into broadcast design when she started working. She has done design work for MTV Asia, Sony International, DC Comics, and many others.

She loves drawing fun and crazy candyart. She finds herself immersed in her little world of candies, rainbows and mushrooms. Caramelaw is a big nature lover and it plays a big part in her art creations. Through her art she hopes to reach out to the world and bring joy to those who love her art.

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Meet Draco, a fantastic illustrator from Brazil. He works as a full time designer in a web agency. Draco has a unique and distinctive style of illustration and he designs some awesome T-shirts which are printed by the most famous online T-shirt websites. Read on this interview to learn more about him and his work!

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Helen Huang, a.k.a. CQcat is an illustrator from the US, who is originally born and raised in China. She is a full time designer at an interactive ad agency and has the passion for illustrations. Through her beautiful illustrations, she tries to capture every inspiration she has and shares her vision with the world.

Helen says, her heart always desired to be in a creative field which motivated her to change her career choice from being a lawyer to a designer. Read on this interview to know about her work, her future goals and how she enjoys creating art, learning new things and pushing her style forward.

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Christopher Lee is a multi-disciplinary designer and illustrator from Sacramento, California. He currently resides in Burbank and lives a double-life working full-time as an art director in the motion graphics industry for Buck and as a full-time freelance illustrator for a variety of clientele.

In this interview Christopher shares with us how he got started in the digital art field. We learn about his formal education, work, and his career. He also reveals ideas, inspirations, and his love for drawing, illustrating and creativity! So let’s have a digital chat with this talented and highly skilled designer/illustrator.

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Micheal Heald from the UK is a mixed disciplined creative professional who runs his award winning design studio Fully Illustrated, which offers creative services, from design and branding to illustration and 3D motion graphics.

Michael says, his heart truly lies with cartoon illustration as there is nothing like the process of bringing something to life on paper and as rewarding than seeing someone’s face light up with a smile upon meeting one of his characters. His passion and enthusiasm for creativity is truly reflected by the stunning visual imagery he creates and could be seen throughout his portfolio.

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An ambigram as defined by Wikipedia, “is a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation.” To simply put, an ambigram is a typographical creation where the word reads the same when upside down, or flips to create a whole new word. Ambigrams are often very sophisticated and very imaginative typographical style of visual design.

So let’s take a look at some delightful graphic logotypes that read the same when they are reversed or flipped upside-down.

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I’m excited to present you an interview with Yiying Lu, a bubbly Sydney based designer who is responsible for one of the most iconic images Fail Whale which appears on the micro-blogging/social network Twitter whenever their server slows down. Her Fail Whale illustration has been so much loved that some of the Twitter users became fans of this whale so much so that there is a Fail Whale Fan Club. But, that is not the only feather in Yiying’s hat, she has been named as one of 100 Emerging Leaders in Australia in Innovation category. She is also the winner of the Shorty Awards (the best producers of short content on Twitter) and creator of Foul Owl, the illustration used by Twitter for suspended/spammer accounts.

Yiying has a number of appealing designs and illustrations in her portfolio and a confident artist that she is, her dream job is to give visual refreshment to the current Google Logo, so read on into this interview to learn more about her.

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