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Yummy looking food done in yummy looking illustration is just good for everyone.. all round! by Ampersand Food Groups

Beautiful illustrations have a place anywhere.. by Siddhi Yadav & Denzil Machado

Aino-Maija Metsola’s happy friendly illustrations will brighten up anyone’s day!

Sam Pierpoint is only 22 year old, but her range of work is insanely detailed and wide-ranging. I am especially drawn to her crafty, pen drawn, collage style.

XKCD is smart. So damn smart.

This is both cute and sad at the same time! Buy it on a threadless now now!

Fun, colourful, childlike paintings by Santiago Salvador

Emily Forgot is a UK based illustrator, and she has a range of cute illustrated plates!

Some nice illustrations from Barcelona and Warsaw based  Jan Kallwejt.

Made me smile. via threadless

Wieden+Kennedy and AM I Collective, a group of illustrators based in Cape Town, were commissioned by ESPN to develop posters for all 32 nations participating in the World Cup. The resulting visual orgasm, based on old Ghanian movie posters, will be used in adverts and print ads. You have to jump ahead to see all 32 artwork. Beautiful! via Creative Roots

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The artist behind my favourite game of all time, Cranium, has amazing depth in his illustrations, and as far as I can see, a cult following. His work is often subversive, but never outright gross. If I had a list of my favourite artists, Baseman will be right on top! Below’s some of his work from his Hide & Seek collection.

Bright, fun and colourful illustrations from Migy, whom I am quite sure did the Cranium illustrations as well. Which, by the way, if you have not played… is the best game ever!

*UPDATE* Turns out I was wrong about the Cranium part, not the part about it being the best game ever, but that the delicious illustrations were done by Gary Baseman, a hugely talented illustrator/artist whose works I have always admired but never knew the name to. Thank you Migy for your mail. I now know the folly of my mistake, which only means I have one more artist to admire and fawn over.

Brilliant stuf from Chow Hon Lam.

Johanna Basford possesses the rare gift of intricate detailed drawing by hand, that leaves anyone breathless.

Luv the gun-wielding Dino! See more here.

The wonderful world of Tebe Interesno.

Paul Tebbott has a way with colours, and airbrush effects and shapes and layouts and.. did I mention colours? Yummy stuff!

Alone-zino‘s amazing illustrations with details and scary eyes galore!

Beautiful pencil work by artist Cath Riley.

MessyMsxi says:

“Today, we buy more than we use and we throw away easily with increasing speed usually without another consideration. Together, we have succumbed to the Marketer’s selling of lifestyle and now lust for the newest and greatest; buying and throwing away what was the latest high-tech purchased a month ago. Innumerable products which we deem exquisite and valuable today become obsolete and unwanted tomorrow. Out of sight, out of mind; We take for granted the fact that once our almost new products are thrown out of the house, it magically disappears.

Murals of natural landscapes replacing nature is a picture of a dystopian future, where nature has finally been conquered by trash with heaps of yesterday’s prized possessions filling to our doorsteps. Here is the result of our throw-away addiction, where we can only look at the nature we failed to appreciate on walls as another facade, another form of packaging, and simply as another form of replacement.”

I Say:

“Detailed and beautiful, colourful and ultimately completely relatable to all of the city dwellers/consumption monsters I know we all are.”

I do like the work of Jessica Fortner with her unique one of a kind hand-sculpted illustrations. This is her latest offering about the future of food production. Nice!

I just bought this! So happy!

You could get one at Marc Johns.

…I wish! I wish!

I love Marc Johns…sigh…

This captures my dreams in vivid colours… thank you Zhou Fan.

EAT IT!!

The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree” by Audrey Fukman and Andy Wright.

“NEW LONDON, Conn. — Two Connecticut College student researchers have found that the ‘five-second rule’ – which stipulates that dropped food will be safe to eat if it stays on the floor for fewer than five seconds – might better be known as the ’30-second rule.’

The results prove, according Goettsche and Moin, that you can wait at least 30 seconds to pick up wet foods and more than a minute to pick up dry foods before they become contaminated with bacteria.”

Mark Bodnar and his childlike strangeness. I especially love the one of the barber pole.. *Snip Snip*

Great idea! More this way…

Matte just did a series of beautiful illustrations for Nike Urban Women.