Interviews

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.

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.

Rubens Cantuni aka Tokyo Candies, a 27-year-old art director born in Genoa, Italy, found his passion already in his early days. Instead of roughing it up with the boys or kicking a football around in the fields, you would most probably find Rubens huddled up at home drawing, reading books and comics or listening to music while concocting his next masterpieces.

What do we know about Axtor Espeluzland? That he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. That he is rather self-taught than a model student. That he always loved to draw and made a career out of his passion in his twenties. As a graphic artist and illustrator, Axtor touches many different disciplines: drawing, graphical design, painting, vector art and installation art. Throughout the years he has worked with all kind of forms, formats, materials and supports in order to create surprising parallel universes. An interview with the grand master of surprise.

French street art heroes 123-Klan started as a graffiti crew in 1992. Today, Scien and Klor run 123-Klan as a creative studio in Montréal, Canada, specialized in vector art, character development, toy design and advertising. With prestigious brands and companies as Lamborghini, Coca Cola, Stussy, Sony, Nike, adidas and even Nasdaq on their client list, it becomes clear how graffiti style and vector illustrations have infiltrated the maintream martket.

Tim Lee is a Leeds Met graduate with a Degree in Fine Art. Currently, he lives in Leicester, UK while his parents continue to call Hong Kong their base. However, Tim still spends time with his parents in Hong Kong every year… and we dare say that his spending time there, being a part of the very Chinese-based culture, is a source of inspiration for him.

Ingrid de Lugt is a young and talented Dutch designer & illustrator. Ingrid’s amazing universe is all about happiness & sweetness - with a twist. For Vector NET, she talks about her background, personal style, ideas and techniques.