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Dai-Dai Tran is a Parisian vector artist with a clear and recognizable no-nonsense style. Taking advantage of the full potential of vector-driven software, Dai-Dai’s illustrations are sharp, smart and cheeky. His portraits of celebrities - dead or alive – as Michael Jackson, Che Guevara, Pharell Williams, Michael Jordan or president Obama show a beautiful synergy of character design and storytelling, merged with original structures, vivid colors and with amazing illustration skills.

Warning: Brazilian illustrator Guilherme Marconi’s images may cause severe reactions to people allergic to glorious bright colors and kaleidoscopic repetitions. For his project “My Schizophrenic Brain”, Marconi created wallpaper-like vector patterns, with a twist. His motto seems to be “Never Enough”. For Marconi, less is not more. More is more!

Some people love to work with personal messages or important issues. Andrew Bannecker, an established digital artist who dabbles and professionalizes in vector illustration is such a person. Andrew Bannecker managed to bag reputable clients like Starbucks, Vodafone and Coca-Cola. Being the talent that he is, his work is wildly recognized by Communication Arts, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, 3x3 Magazine and SILA.

Jerome Castro, the 35-year-old vector illustrator and graphic designer behind HelloFreaks always starts his artworks with paper, a pencil or pen because this was the way it was done before computers came out. But if you look at the HelloFreaks portfolio, it’s safe to say that he’s a little bit less traditional than most illustrators.

Vector artist Orkibal Labikro hails from Malaysia and is twenty-eight this year. We’re not even sure if this is his real name because very little can be found about this amazing illustrator on the Internet. What we know? Orkibal claims to be a boring person when you consider him in the context of a human being. But when you look at him as an alien, he becomes more interesting.

The secret of Ziemowit’s work lies in the creative combination of traditional strong concepts and cutting-edge digital illustration. His excellent humor, amazing drawing skills, along with his very original vector-drawn characters has led to a lot of appreciation within the advertising world. Now it’s time for the rest of the world to discover this illustration artist and his impressive vector art portfolio. An interview.

Best known as the artist who designed the iconic “Hope” poster for the Obama campaign, Frank Shepard Fairey is the mastermind behind “Obey Giant”, a populist “experiment in phenomenology”. To make the Obey Giant project one of the biggest art campaigns ever, Fairey put out countless spray paint stencils in the streets, 20,000 posters and over a million stickers. Today, the “Andre the Giant” image and “Obey giant” logos are true cultural icons, surfacing in exhibitions, TV shows and films.