Ojala is a well-known illustrator, graphic designer, and art director from Estonia whose works were published in media all around the world. Like, for example, his digitally done paper cuts inspired by the pandemic were featured on the cover of TIME magazine. But he was also featured in many other publications, websites, blogs, and newspapers.

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He begins his project with an idea transmitted onto a blank sheet. When the sketch is done he transfers his hand-made work to the digital world.

“Within my work process, I like to study the forms of shapes and to work closely with light and shadow. I like to keep my illustrations minimal and well-advised. I combine consummate craftsmanship with a healthy sprinkling of wit,” Ojala told The Huffington Post.

Every “paper cut” is done with so much precision. The artist seeks inspiration from events that affect us all. From the pandemic and global warming crisis to problems that humans are dealing with daily.

If you are curious to see his creations, check out the gallery below. Don’t forget to tell us your opinion in the comments below.

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Peter Tarka’s imagined interior landscapes provided us with a source of inspiration. Minimal, geometric, and altogether captivating, they present the ideal home for quarantine and beyond. Tarka’s use of color is also striking, inspiring us to experiment more with pinks and blues when it comes to our homes.

Entirely self-taught, Tarka’s motto (and advice for other aspiring artists) is simple: “Work hard and get enough time of sleep (repeat until the end of your life).”

An award-winning art director, graphic designer, and illustrator, amongst his accolades are a Silver Cannes Lions for Art Direction & Design and a Bronze Cannes Lions for Use of Social Platforms. His unique aesthetic hasn’t gone unnoticed, having collaborated with brands as big as Apple, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, and LG.

But according to Tarka himself, he gravitated towards this minimalist, digital aesthetic mainly because he couldn’t draw without the aid of a computer.

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“I started pretty early with Photoshop CS2, which I got from my father’s friend (I’m almost sure this was a pirate copy),” he shared with Medium. “I always liked drawing, so I started creating really simple stuff with brushes etc…”

“In 2011, I started thinking about giving more depth to my illustrations, so I used simple 3D tools from illustrator and then retouched them in Photoshop to give them a more natural feel,” he further explained. “After this I moved onto Cinema 4D, which has turned into my main program along with Photoshop.”

The end result is both captivating and inviting. And while our homes and interiors are far from ideal, Tarka’s digital landscapes are something we can aspire to… at least in theory.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Peter Tarka (@petertarka)

The post Peter Tarka’s Digital Interiors Are Ideal for Quarantine appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Indeed, there’s a sense of vitality in her work, a colorful blast that might make your head spin. It’s the kind of creative energy you’d want in your feed, and Johnson admits she’s not prone to get stuck in a creative rut. There are always too many ideas and not enough time,” she notes.

Working full time as an illustrator and designer, her clients include brands like Anthropologie, Hallmark, and the Land of Nod, with her work printed on anything from women’s and children’s wear to paper products, home furnishings, and giftware.

“If something is going pear-shaped I like to push through and make it work and I think that by doing that I get interesting and unexpected results,” says Johnson. “But I’m also very organised and logical. I enjoy creating groups of related pieces – collections. Cohesiveness, harmonious color, a common thread that links all my work – these are all important to me.”

Her words and designs might just get your creative juices flowing.

The post Victoria Johnson Proves That More is More appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I love collecting ’70s interior design books for inspiration,” admitted Brown in an interview with Design Milk, stating her sources of inspiration. “The over-the-top colorful palettes, quirky motifs, and the overall carefree attitude of the ’70s excite me, and those are elements that I like to bring into my work.”

Color, as it turns out, is front and center in her designs, a fact that also comes across in her chosen moniker. “My name was actually given to me by a friend who was trying to figure out my middle name,” she relayed. “She jokingly guessed Purple since my first and last name already happen to be colors. I loved the way Jade Purple Brown sounded, so I decided to use it as my artist name. My name is a clear depiction of my work: colorful, strong, and unique.”

Based in New York, Brown collaborates with fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands, working as an illustrator and graphic designer, as well as an art director. Her bold, and oftentimes digital illustrations, are aimed at encouraging herself and others to be more optimistic and free. And with clients like Apple, Facebook, Sephora, and Google, her optimism is very much contagious.

The post Jade Purple Brown’s Optimism is Contagious appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I’m mostly inspired by the sea and the seashore, clear sky and sunny days,” she shared with Talenthouse. “I would say that generally, Mediterranean life is a big part of that well from which I draw inspiration. It’s not so easy to explain the exact thing I find inspiring about it, but it is present as a general feeling in my life and work. I think that it can be felt by looking at my work, it gives it a dreamy, calm, and a bit of a poetic atmosphere.”

The poetic quality found in her work might be tied with the subjects she chooses to explore. With her work spanning from editorials and branding to advertising, her creations touch on topics like lifestyle and wellness, but also nature and environment, as well as female empowerment.

“I prefer digital over analog because it gives me more freedom to experiment,” Golubović says, adding that she uses a Wacom graphic tablet. “As I really often change my mind about how something should look, it is more convenient for me to draw digitally and it is less time-consuming,” she explains.

The post A Bit of Sea and Sun: Milica Golubović’s Digital Illustrations appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Now, a few years later, her brand is making quite a splash online, both on Instagram and YouTube; while her online Etsy shop is continuously restocking. Her merch includes a range of prints, pins, and other paper goodies, all infused with that Katnipp magic.

Based in North-East England, Kay is also working on her first children’s book for a small publisher in Scotland. “I have always had a passion for illustration & design for as long as I can remember,” she writes on her website. “I wanted to pursue this as a career but found jobs few-and-far-between and when a job did come up, I found it was someone else’s creative vision rather than my own.”

“Slowly but surely, I have created designs, from custom portraits to hand-printed mugs (which I do myself in my little studio),” she says. “I can honestly say this is my passion, I am so thankful everyday that I get to create and illustrate cute things with some of my favorite colors & inspired by the things I love the most (Anime, coffee, books & animals).”

Zoning in on the things that made her happy (meaning illustrating cute pastel happy stuff) proved to be the right decision for Kay. Now – through her buzzing YouTube channel – she encourages other creatives to do the same. Follow her lead!

The post This Illustrator Will Teach You How to Grow Your Independent Brand appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I always say my style was kind of born out of necessity,” she admitted in an interview with Inky Goodness. “When I first took the leap away from production I had minimal skills, I was ok at Photoshop, I could open After Effects. But technically I was a total beginner. My style is pretty low fi because my skills were pretty low fi, collage is also a great medium to work with if you can’t draw that well!”

Based in South East London, her clients include giants like Reebok, Nike, Prada, and Adidas, amongst others. With each project, a different set of tools is required. Sometimes her work requires hand-making collages, while other times its all completely digital, but more often than not she finds herself mixing it all up.

“I don’t feel like I really have a consistent process, everything I work on is so different,” she says. “The only thing that I really try to do for every job is research and mood boarding.” Take a look at the finished result in the gallery below.

The post Alice Isaac’s Art Is a Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“They are my everything and I use them in abundance,” she stated, talking about her use of colors with Ballpitmag. With colors come textures. “I need them a lot to communicate the nature of the art itself,” she explained, adding that she’s also drawn to patterns. “I am waiting for the day when people will be able to enter an illustration and feel the painted texture just by starring at the art,” she stressed.

Scrolling through her digital illustrations might come close to jumping inside her art. Her work – focused on people, food, and nature – is bright and joyful, with her characters seeming to jump right out of the screen.

“I love to look at a piece of art and be able to create stories out of it,” says Yogatella. “For me, the work of an artist is just the seed that would evolve into a thousand other trees. The artist plants an idea, a concept or a feeling and the world can multiply it in million various ways.”

Here are some of our favorite works by her:

The post Add Some Color to Your Life with Yogatella’s Illustrations appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Growing up, the Swiss-born creative used to hang out in his parents’ woodshop. “I spent time drawing with my brother and making things out of wood,” he recalled. It was there, in his parents’ shop that he formed the first connection with the world of art and illustration.

But as he grew up, so did his passion for all things creative. Having worked for the past 10 years with almost all the key players in New York’s brand underground, Meye draws on his classical training and outsider’s perspective to develop an iconic graphic language and style.

His art is an inspiring mixture that includes anything from digital illustrations and murals to sneaker design and sculpting. “I believe risk-taking is more about daring to try something new,” he says. “You don’t want to be pigeonholed as the person who’s only known for one thing.”

There’s no shortage of creativity on his Instagram page. Here’s a taste:

The post Kimou Meye is an Artist with a Capital A appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“Being a city person I’ve always loved the thought of combining my illustrations with architecture and space,” she shared with Inky Goodness. “I would like to see my work in large scale, possibly in the form of decorative panels or shapes that become an integral part of an urban experience. I like the idea of my work being educational and functional within a city environment.”

“Over recent years my visual identity has evolved a lot,” she admitted. “It’s been a very interesting and fun journey even if sometimes the direction I was taking wasn’t always clear… even to myself. The change of location, from Florence to such a big city as London and then Berlin, exposed me to meeting artists and having more access to art in general than I had before. This really helped me to express myself and be able to experiment with the message I wanted to convey. “

“With time I decided to slowly ‘abandon’ the graphic design world and learn to develop my own visual identity,” she added. “Gradually, and with a lot of practice, I moved from a more hand-drawn and rough style to a more harmonic and clean one, where my execution of shapes and lines became more refined, getting closer and closer to the visual style I had set out to achieve. At the same time the color palette that I’m currently adopting emerged naturally.”

Check out some of her illustrations in the gallery below.

The post Vanessa Branchi’s Illustrations Have an Urban Feel to Them appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Ojala is a well-known illustrator, graphic designer, and art director from Estonia whose works were published in media all around the world. Like, for example, his digitally done paper cuts inspired by the pandemic were featured on the cover of TIME magazine. But he was also featured in many other publications, websites, blogs, and newspapers.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Eiko Ojala (@o_eiko)

He begins his project with an idea transmitted onto a blank sheet. When the sketch is done he transfers his hand-made work to the digital world.

“Within my work process, I like to study the forms of shapes and to work closely with light and shadow. I like to keep my illustrations minimal and well-advised. I combine consummate craftsmanship with a healthy sprinkling of wit,” Ojala told The Huffington Post.

Every “paper cut” is done with so much precision. The artist seeks inspiration from events that affect us all. From the pandemic and global warming crisis to problems that humans are dealing with daily.

If you are curious to see his creations, check out the gallery below. Don’t forget to tell us your opinion in the comments below.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Eiko Ojala (@o_eiko)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Eiko Ojala (@o_eiko)

The post These Digitally Done Images Look Like Paper Cuts appeared first on MobiSpirit.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Peter Tarka (@petertarka)

Peter Tarka’s imagined interior landscapes provided us with a source of inspiration. Minimal, geometric, and altogether captivating, they present the ideal home for quarantine and beyond. Tarka’s use of color is also striking, inspiring us to experiment more with pinks and blues when it comes to our homes.

Entirely self-taught, Tarka’s motto (and advice for other aspiring artists) is simple: “Work hard and get enough time of sleep (repeat until the end of your life).”

An award-winning art director, graphic designer, and illustrator, amongst his accolades are a Silver Cannes Lions for Art Direction & Design and a Bronze Cannes Lions for Use of Social Platforms. His unique aesthetic hasn’t gone unnoticed, having collaborated with brands as big as Apple, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, and LG.

But according to Tarka himself, he gravitated towards this minimalist, digital aesthetic mainly because he couldn’t draw without the aid of a computer.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Peter Tarka (@petertarka)

“I started pretty early with Photoshop CS2, which I got from my father’s friend (I’m almost sure this was a pirate copy),” he shared with Medium. “I always liked drawing, so I started creating really simple stuff with brushes etc…”

“In 2011, I started thinking about giving more depth to my illustrations, so I used simple 3D tools from illustrator and then retouched them in Photoshop to give them a more natural feel,” he further explained. “After this I moved onto Cinema 4D, which has turned into my main program along with Photoshop.”

The end result is both captivating and inviting. And while our homes and interiors are far from ideal, Tarka’s digital landscapes are something we can aspire to… at least in theory.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Peter Tarka (@petertarka)

The post Peter Tarka’s Digital Interiors Are Ideal for Quarantine appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Indeed, there’s a sense of vitality in her work, a colorful blast that might make your head spin. It’s the kind of creative energy you’d want in your feed, and Johnson admits she’s not prone to get stuck in a creative rut. There are always too many ideas and not enough time,” she notes.

Working full time as an illustrator and designer, her clients include brands like Anthropologie, Hallmark, and the Land of Nod, with her work printed on anything from women’s and children’s wear to paper products, home furnishings, and giftware.

“If something is going pear-shaped I like to push through and make it work and I think that by doing that I get interesting and unexpected results,” says Johnson. “But I’m also very organised and logical. I enjoy creating groups of related pieces – collections. Cohesiveness, harmonious color, a common thread that links all my work – these are all important to me.”

Her words and designs might just get your creative juices flowing.

The post Victoria Johnson Proves That More is More appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I love collecting ’70s interior design books for inspiration,” admitted Brown in an interview with Design Milk, stating her sources of inspiration. “The over-the-top colorful palettes, quirky motifs, and the overall carefree attitude of the ’70s excite me, and those are elements that I like to bring into my work.”

Color, as it turns out, is front and center in her designs, a fact that also comes across in her chosen moniker. “My name was actually given to me by a friend who was trying to figure out my middle name,” she relayed. “She jokingly guessed Purple since my first and last name already happen to be colors. I loved the way Jade Purple Brown sounded, so I decided to use it as my artist name. My name is a clear depiction of my work: colorful, strong, and unique.”

Based in New York, Brown collaborates with fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands, working as an illustrator and graphic designer, as well as an art director. Her bold, and oftentimes digital illustrations, are aimed at encouraging herself and others to be more optimistic and free. And with clients like Apple, Facebook, Sephora, and Google, her optimism is very much contagious.

The post Jade Purple Brown’s Optimism is Contagious appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I’m mostly inspired by the sea and the seashore, clear sky and sunny days,” she shared with Talenthouse. “I would say that generally, Mediterranean life is a big part of that well from which I draw inspiration. It’s not so easy to explain the exact thing I find inspiring about it, but it is present as a general feeling in my life and work. I think that it can be felt by looking at my work, it gives it a dreamy, calm, and a bit of a poetic atmosphere.”

The poetic quality found in her work might be tied with the subjects she chooses to explore. With her work spanning from editorials and branding to advertising, her creations touch on topics like lifestyle and wellness, but also nature and environment, as well as female empowerment.

“I prefer digital over analog because it gives me more freedom to experiment,” Golubović says, adding that she uses a Wacom graphic tablet. “As I really often change my mind about how something should look, it is more convenient for me to draw digitally and it is less time-consuming,” she explains.

The post A Bit of Sea and Sun: Milica Golubović’s Digital Illustrations appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Now, a few years later, her brand is making quite a splash online, both on Instagram and YouTube; while her online Etsy shop is continuously restocking. Her merch includes a range of prints, pins, and other paper goodies, all infused with that Katnipp magic.

Based in North-East England, Kay is also working on her first children’s book for a small publisher in Scotland. “I have always had a passion for illustration & design for as long as I can remember,” she writes on her website. “I wanted to pursue this as a career but found jobs few-and-far-between and when a job did come up, I found it was someone else’s creative vision rather than my own.”

“Slowly but surely, I have created designs, from custom portraits to hand-printed mugs (which I do myself in my little studio),” she says. “I can honestly say this is my passion, I am so thankful everyday that I get to create and illustrate cute things with some of my favorite colors & inspired by the things I love the most (Anime, coffee, books & animals).”

Zoning in on the things that made her happy (meaning illustrating cute pastel happy stuff) proved to be the right decision for Kay. Now – through her buzzing YouTube channel – she encourages other creatives to do the same. Follow her lead!

The post This Illustrator Will Teach You How to Grow Your Independent Brand appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I always say my style was kind of born out of necessity,” she admitted in an interview with Inky Goodness. “When I first took the leap away from production I had minimal skills, I was ok at Photoshop, I could open After Effects. But technically I was a total beginner. My style is pretty low fi because my skills were pretty low fi, collage is also a great medium to work with if you can’t draw that well!”

Based in South East London, her clients include giants like Reebok, Nike, Prada, and Adidas, amongst others. With each project, a different set of tools is required. Sometimes her work requires hand-making collages, while other times its all completely digital, but more often than not she finds herself mixing it all up.

“I don’t feel like I really have a consistent process, everything I work on is so different,” she says. “The only thing that I really try to do for every job is research and mood boarding.” Take a look at the finished result in the gallery below.

The post Alice Isaac’s Art Is a Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“They are my everything and I use them in abundance,” she stated, talking about her use of colors with Ballpitmag. With colors come textures. “I need them a lot to communicate the nature of the art itself,” she explained, adding that she’s also drawn to patterns. “I am waiting for the day when people will be able to enter an illustration and feel the painted texture just by starring at the art,” she stressed.

Scrolling through her digital illustrations might come close to jumping inside her art. Her work – focused on people, food, and nature – is bright and joyful, with her characters seeming to jump right out of the screen.

“I love to look at a piece of art and be able to create stories out of it,” says Yogatella. “For me, the work of an artist is just the seed that would evolve into a thousand other trees. The artist plants an idea, a concept or a feeling and the world can multiply it in million various ways.”

Here are some of our favorite works by her:

The post Add Some Color to Your Life with Yogatella’s Illustrations appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Growing up, the Swiss-born creative used to hang out in his parents’ woodshop. “I spent time drawing with my brother and making things out of wood,” he recalled. It was there, in his parents’ shop that he formed the first connection with the world of art and illustration.

But as he grew up, so did his passion for all things creative. Having worked for the past 10 years with almost all the key players in New York’s brand underground, Meye draws on his classical training and outsider’s perspective to develop an iconic graphic language and style.

His art is an inspiring mixture that includes anything from digital illustrations and murals to sneaker design and sculpting. “I believe risk-taking is more about daring to try something new,” he says. “You don’t want to be pigeonholed as the person who’s only known for one thing.”

There’s no shortage of creativity on his Instagram page. Here’s a taste:

The post Kimou Meye is an Artist with a Capital A appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“Being a city person I’ve always loved the thought of combining my illustrations with architecture and space,” she shared with Inky Goodness. “I would like to see my work in large scale, possibly in the form of decorative panels or shapes that become an integral part of an urban experience. I like the idea of my work being educational and functional within a city environment.”

“Over recent years my visual identity has evolved a lot,” she admitted. “It’s been a very interesting and fun journey even if sometimes the direction I was taking wasn’t always clear… even to myself. The change of location, from Florence to such a big city as London and then Berlin, exposed me to meeting artists and having more access to art in general than I had before. This really helped me to express myself and be able to experiment with the message I wanted to convey. “

“With time I decided to slowly ‘abandon’ the graphic design world and learn to develop my own visual identity,” she added. “Gradually, and with a lot of practice, I moved from a more hand-drawn and rough style to a more harmonic and clean one, where my execution of shapes and lines became more refined, getting closer and closer to the visual style I had set out to achieve. At the same time the color palette that I’m currently adopting emerged naturally.”

Check out some of her illustrations in the gallery below.

The post Vanessa Branchi’s Illustrations Have an Urban Feel to Them appeared first on MobiSpirit.