By Stacy David Wallingford | January 23, 2012 at 3:47 pm | One comment
I stumbled upon these great drawings by illustrator Gabriel Martínez Meave. I was really impressed with the editorial book cover designs that he drew which you can see some of below. I compiled a collection of some of his great illustrations and designs. Gabriel Martínez Meave...
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By Stacy David Wallingford | January 20, 2012 at 5:59 pm | No comments
Illustration and design, done well, can bring any project or message to life. It can make any meaning clearer and more easily understood by viewers. It can facilitate communication internationally. A picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes even more! Sdwhaven is here to...
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By Stacy David Wallingford | December 5, 2011 at 5:20 pm | No comments
I found the work of illustrator Kristian Olson while browsing through an illustration website and thought that the illustrations were amazing. They have so much going on and such great imagination. I think that this type of originality is missing from illustration and design...
Posted in: Digital, Illustration
By Stacy David Wallingford | November 17, 2011 at 5:55 pm | No comments
These great illustrations by Felicia Atanasiu are a little different from the styles of illustration design i usually feature here but they are just as good. Felicia Atanasiu is an illustrator from Toronto, Canada. She has done work for company's such as L'Oreal, PF Flyers, The...
Posted in: Illustration, Traditional
By Stacy David Wallingford | October 4, 2011 at 10:49 am | 3 comments
This is an amazing group of vector illustrations by Russian illustrator Zutto. If you lean more towards vector illustration and design you will find these illustrations really inspiring. The amount of detail and depth that is put into these designs is exceptional and impressive...
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By Stacy David Wallingford | August 8, 2011 at 6:23 pm | No comments
This is a collection of great illustrations by Sam Bevington. He is from London, UK and has an interesting body of illustration work. One of the things that i love besides illustration is seeing illustrations used in different situations and canvases. He has done a number of...
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By Stacy David Wallingford | April 18, 2011 at 10:27 am | 3 comments
Every Monday I try to do an artist feature focusing on great art from artists that hopefully you’ve never seen before, but should know about. The features range from illustration design, photography, graphic design, and even crafts design. This week is a collection of great...
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By Stacy David Wallingford | April 11, 2011 at 10:11 am | No comments
Every Monday I try to do an artist feature focusing on great art from artists that hopefully you’ve never seen before, but should know about. This week is a collection of great illustrations by Alexey Kurbatov. You can tell by now what styles of illustration design i prefer...
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By Stacy David Wallingford | April 8, 2011 at 6:35 pm | 6 comments
This is an extremely simple and easy way to make your own custom facebook banners in Photoshop. By now we have all seen them. Five unified pictures at the top of our friends' facebook profiles saying something clever or showing off a favorite sports team.
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By Stacy David Wallingford | March 21, 2011 at 12:29 pm | One comment
Every Monday I try to do an artist feature focusing on great art from artists and illustrators that hopefully you’ve never seen before, but should know about. This week is a collection of great candy inspired art by Massimo Gammacurta. You can learn more about him and see more...
Posted in: Digital, Illustration, Traditional