Inspiration

Orlando based designer, typographic & vector artist Joshua M. Smith loves to push creative boundaries. His personal project Hydro74 serves as a permanent platform for his personal projects and commercial works.

Niark1 is a Paris based graphic designer whose distorted imagination brings depth to his work. From his amazing vector art and illustration portfolio we can conclude that Niark1 is not only very talented, but he’s also very busy designing t-shirts, CD covers, flyers and working on editorial illustrations. Niark1 had his work featured in international magazines as Computer Arts, Belio, Semi-Permanent, Modart, Edtn, Joia, Rugged and De Fish.

Today we bring a selection of vector style artworks inspired by Dubai's signature structures such as the Burj Dubai, the highest steel-and-glass building in the world, the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab hotel and other famous skyscrapers and landmarks of the city of wonders. It’s the time of the giants!

Singapore based Sheena Aw aka Caramelaw is an illustrator and motion designer by day, and a true multifaceted superhero by night. With her vector illustrations, Sheena expresses her imagination through her vector sketches of a punky candy universe - cute meets morbid.

Today, it’s 29 years ago that John Lennon passed away. He was tragically assassinated on December 8, 1980 at about 10:50 pm in front of his NYC Dakota apartment. Lennon died on his way to the hospital. Only hours before, his killer Marc Chapman asked the former Beatle for his autograph. At his trial, Chapman told he heard voices in his head telling him to kill his idol. John Lennon left behind an enormous legacy, not only as a musician, but also as a writer, actor and activist. A vector art tribute…

Sixteen years ago, The Nightmare Before Christmas by gothic visionary Tim Burton and the immensely talented animation master Henry Selick was the first ever full length stop-motion animation movie. The film tells the strange story about a little world known as Halloween town. Jack Skellington aka the Pumpkin King, lives there solely to organize the yearly ritual of Halloween, in which his gang of goblins and goblins terrorize the world. Over the years, Jack became a bit disillusioned in his repetitive job, and longs to take over the job of Santa Clause. The result is a work full of clever gags, funny songs, genuine pathos and of course grand visual wit.

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.