Yuki Ishii: AGIdeas

Trends & Designers

Trend 1: Grotesque/Quirkiness

-Ghostpatrol-

Ghostpatrol is a Melbourne-based illustrator.

He's drawn many illustrations since he was a kid, and he keeps on drawing on his sketchbooks now as well. Some of them have very strong concepts behind, the others are just some sketches from his daily life.

Images from: http://ghostpatrol.net

His illustrations are very quirky, which I think is very interesting and stays in your mind strongly. Most of the kids in his works don't have any facial expressions at all and they often appear holding knives. They never be happy smiling faces, and I think this is a big trend in illustrations recently.

-Webuyyourkids-

Another example is Webuyyourkids, the sydney-based design team.

They were formed in 2005 by Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney.

"Computer Arts magazine described our work as "Harsh Majical" and "Fresh As Fish In Restaurant". We like to draw pictures about witchcraft, mishaps, misdemeanours, and voodoo."

http://www.webuyyourkids.com/site/about/

Sonny's inspirations are comic, skateboard, and Neckface, an American graffiti artist.

Biddy was inspired by the collections of his grandfather's (or father's?) 50's movie posters when she was a kid.

And they both like horror movies but artistic ones. I can see they give them a huge impact on thier works.

Images from: http://www.webuyyourkids.com/

Trend 2: Bold sans-serif

(International typographic style)

The other trend is International typographic style (also called Swiss style).

This trend has been seen for a few years, but I think it still works very well when the design has very strong concepts.

-Andreas Uebele-

Andreas Uebele is founder and director of the bisual communications agency Buro Uebele in Stuttgart. In recent years, his agency's sork has honoured with more than 240 national and international awards.