New Workbook Illustrators Help Shape Your Campaigns in 2020

Ana Gómez Bernaus is a visual adventurer who landed in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Barcelona, Ana studied graphic design at Elisava School, but at that time she was also very drawn to illustration. Barcelona and its Catalan-modernism style influenced her early work, creating fascination with the rich organic ornamentation and the details. When she decided to move to New York, she fell in love with typography, and her work acquired a more rational and organized flavor. Barcelona brought her a taste for illustration, New York allured her with typography, and now both disciplines live with lettering in L.A. Ana has been awarded with the Type Directors Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence, Nominated for the 2013 Lürzer's Archive 200 Best Illustrators worldwide 2013/2014, and her work has been featured in several books and publications.  

Yulong Lli is a Shanghai-based freelance illustrator and MFA student at the China Academy of Art. His illustration style blends the cultures of eastern and western Shanghai and draws inspiration from vintage illustration posters, modernism, and graphic design. He is always experimenting with new ways to tell stories through illustration, utilizing his sense of color and composition.  

Shealeen Louise is a watercolor painter based in Corrales, New Mexico — a small village outside of Albuquerque, where she was born and raised. She grew up in a family who encouraged creativity at every turn, and she spent much of her free time as a child drawing, baking, writing plays, and playing piano. Ironically, years later it was while pursuing a music career that Shealeen realized  physical art was her truest passion. She is best known for her detailed and lush floral watercolors.  

Zutto, whose real name is Alexandra Zutto, is a self-taught freelance illustrator based out of Russia. Using Adobe Illustrator, she creates colorful, playful scenes straight from her imagination, hoping to use her art to communicate with the outside world. Zutto also publishes works-in-progress as a sort of tutorial, allowing fans to see an in-depth look at her artistic process.  

Luke Lucas is an Australian creative with a self-made career spanning two decades. In the late '90s, he co-created an international in-line skating publication, Fourinarow. From there he co-launched Lifelounge and simultaneously a creative agency, online portal, and print magazine. In 2011 Luke transitioned to a full-time freelance career to focus on the work he's most passionate about: type. His conceptual illustrative typography has attracted attention from publishers, agencies, and brands across the globe. Today his regular clients include Nike, Target USA, Esquire and the  New York Times.  

Illustrator and art director, Chris Thornley, AKA Raid71, always wanted to draw comics. Inspired by Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, he spent six years studying art and design before realizing his dream career as a full time graphic designer and illustrator. His retro illustration style, classic take, and detailed line work has charmed lifestyle brands. Raid71 is one of Lürzers Archive 200 Best Illustrators in 2016.  

Hadas Hayun is an illustrator, artist, print, and surface designer, and decorator. Since completing her BA in Visual Communication at Bezalel Academy, she has honed her skills working with various clients and projects, from web companies to haute couture textiles- everything illustration based. After graduating from Instituto Marangoni Milano, she expanded her collaboration network worldwide while working with luxury fashion designers and companies. Hadas’s work begins with the physical illustrating material: watercolor, ink, pencils and ends as a carefully edited digital file ready for printing on a variety of surfaces. The original pieces are as important to her as the printed versions, and her commercial projects are as personal to her as her self-directed artwork. In Hadas’s view, any image is a surface, and every surface should have a story. Hadas lives and works in Tel Aviv and Milan.  

Max Loeffler was born in rural Germany in 1989 and started out illustrating extensive album artworks for punk and metal bands after doing his homework. After graduating from the Graphic Design department at Hochschule Darmstadt in 2017, he began working as a freelancer with renowned clients like the New Yorker, the New York Times, Adidas, and Google. He still enjoys creating artwork for bands. Influenced by the classic surrealists, as well as retro science-fiction book covers, he likes to look below the surface of one-to-one visual translations, adding meaning and room for inference by wrapping his illustrations in the dense atmosphere of a surreal and melancholic parallel universe. His urge is to translate and decipher what can only be felt, not directly seen, and to amplify this visually, particularly in his personal work.  

Lucy Rose is a graduate from Falmouth Universty. Her work is largely inspired by vintage prints and art deco posters, using limited and muted color palettes. Lucy has always loved the print processes and this is reflected in her work, she combines hand-print inspired layers with pen drawn figures and puts them together using digital techniques. Her work features a mixture of both narrative and decorative elements to create striking, graphic compositions.  

Barbara Bongini was born in Milan. She knew at an early age that she would be an artist. She went to an artistic high school and later enrolled in the Illustration program at the IED (European Institute of Design). After graduation, she pursued a career in children’s publishing, illustrating several series for different age groups for the largest Italian publishing houses. Barbara has considerable experience in the advertising field as well, designing packaging materials, leaflets, brochures, posters, characters and background for cartoon series. Barbara is also an author of several series of moveable children’s game-books and an album on modern art for children.    

Guy Stauber is a UK born illustrator based in Southhampton, UK. Guy’s work is inspired by popular culture , movies and music. He applies these influences to incorporating graphic design , vector  and limited color palette in his illustrations. Aside from his illustration work, Guy is a Trustee for an arts charity ‘A Space’ . They are committed to nurturing emerging artistic talent through a growing infrastructure of project platforms.  

Peter Horvath, born of Hungarian descent into a lineage of photographers, began taking pictures at age 6. After spending his formative years inhaling darkroom fumes, he worked as a stills photographer until he discovered computers in 1995 when a friend gave him a Macintosh Plus. Shortly thereafter, he happened across the work of Dadaists John Heartfield and Hannah Hoch, whose work exposed him to the world of photo-montage. He has since produced digital collage works exploring narrative, abstraction, and the hypnagogic, and continues to push the boundaries of convention, displacing the familiar and nostalgic with unique, surreal touches. Peter’s ability to master bold compositions that convey complex concepts is what makes his work stand out. His impactful images make him a natural choice for the nuances of editorial work, and the call-to-action needs of advertising. His work is featured in the newly published book from Die Gestalten, "Illusive - Contemporary Illustration", as well as an upcoming book on collage. Peter has been awarded numerous grants from The Canada Council for the Arts for his new media work, and is the recipient of commissions from Rhizome.org at The New Museum, NYC (2005) and Turbulence.org New Radio and Performing Arts, Boston (2004). He has exhibited in museums and galleries across the globe including the Whitney Museum Of American Art‘s Artport (NYC), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico City), the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (Quebec City, Canada) and FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil).