But sometimes, it all boils down to a punchable quote. “I’ve always loved typography and always sensed I was good at it, so the handwriting came a bit afterward when I started posting handwritten text on Instagram,” she shared in an interview with Freelance Wisdom.

She now has more than 80k fans on Instagram, embracing her soothing aesthetic. Of course, it took some time and a lot of work to reach that point. “When I was 12, my dad brought home the first version of Photoshop from his work and I started playing around with it,” she relayed. “I didn’t really know what graphic design was at the time, but I liked playing around with photos of celebrities and myself and I’d overlay them with text.”

After high school was over, she got into OCADU for Graphic Design in Toronto. But after a year or so, she dropped out. “I started making music at the time, and I started feeling claustrophobic with everything going on,” she said. “So I let myself take my time. People began asking me for designs, and from there, developed my brand.”

Her brand proved to be a success, and with more and more fans following her progress – the sky is truly the limit for Hansen.

The post Melody Hansen Will Teach You How to Learn from Your Mistakes appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

Known online as Grotesk, Meyer’s creative upbringing is indeed remarkable — a meandering journey that took him from Switzerland to NYC way back in 1999 and has catapulted him into fame. Over the past ten years, Grotesk has worked with almost all the key players in New York’s brand underground, drawing on his classical training and outsider’s perspective to develop an iconic graphic language and style.

But according to Meyer, his roots are actually found in his parents’ woodshop, where his family was making scale models for architects. “I was always drawing and building things with them,” he recalled in an interview with The Hundreds. “Then I got really heavy in the skate punk culture in the mid-1980s and then into DJ-ing and hip hop. I did a lot of flyers and zines in that time. That’s where I realized that I could make a career of design.”

After enrolling in art school to study design and communication, he realized design was – indeed – where his passion lied. But while his previous focus had been the design of minimalist catalogs, logos, and branding systems, over the years Meyer has switched gears, creating anything from t-shirts to skateboards.

His Instagram page might be a good place to start if you’re an aspiring graphic designer, or otherwise…

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Based in South East London, Isaac describes herself as a freelance image maker and animator thriving in creating engaging content. Her images are often a combination of hand-collaged imagery, layered with digital processes and effects, with the end result being both artsy and approachable.

“Collage is a brilliant medium to pick up quickly when you can’t draw well,” joked Isaac in an interview with D&AD. “I think a lot of my style actually comes from not being able to draw or animate very well. I developed something that was achievable within my skillset, so everything is kept it quite simple but trying to elevate it in the coolest way possible.”

“I gravitate quite heavily towards fashion imagery, faces, and the human form in general,” she further relayed. “It has always been my default, it’s a realm that feels very familiar and comfortable to me.” You’ll want to take note.

The post Collage Art + Fashion = Alice Isaac appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

“I discovered through this art a facility to express my ideas and thoughts without being limited,” the artist told in an interview for Ballpit and describes his aesthetic as “surrealism with modern abstract and psychedelic science-fi touch”.

His artistic process begins with an inspiration, and then he starts exploring images on things he likes.

“I can spend whole days looking for pictures. Find which image could match with another image. It’s a job where you have to be patient. I cut pieces of different images and then put them together in one unique image to make a story. 3 to 7 different images can be assembled on a piece of work,” he added.

Scroll down and check out his artwork below. We really enjoyed browsing through his Instagram page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow him for future updates.

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“Happiness co-exists with unhappiness,” he stated in an interview with The Design Kids, “they are interrelated and interdependent, like Yin and Yang.” As so, his illustrated series features both happy and unhappy faces, stamped across iconic logos or clear cut shapes.

“It would be delusional if the works just showcased happy faces,” he says. “We will definitely overlook true happiness if we do not embrace the opposite side of it. You need to go through the unhappy moments in your life to really unearth the meaning of happiness.”

As a designer, he makes use of bold and graphic shapes and colors. “I don’t think a designer should have a style, but an illustrator can develop their own style,” he relayed. “I am a designer but also love doing illustration and icon design. From my experience, it was all come naturally when I start designing it and drawing them.”

Check out some of his playful illustrations:

The post Chean Wei Law’s Playful Art Shows Both Sides of the Human Condition appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

“The whole thing creates a strange scenery where the viewer is free to imagine everything they want to in it. For me, suggesting is stronger than showing, and that’s how I try to work.” Indeed, her illustrations’ composition and overall ambiance are strange, calling to mind blank comic strips, waiting to be filled.

“When I started, I didn’t have preconceptions or rules,” she said. “I didn’t have a trained eye, and no idea of what I wanted to become. There was so much to discover. I started to work in black and white because it was easier, I wasn’t very interested in details. But then, I started to use bright colors and never stopped since. My work got more realistic, more detailed and more finished. Now I think I’ve found my way of working and my style has become stable.”

Take a look at some of her creations.

The post The Lifeless Landscapes of Marie Mohanna appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

But sometimes, it all boils down to a punchable quote. “I’ve always loved typography and always sensed I was good at it, so the handwriting came a bit afterward when I started posting handwritten text on Instagram,” she shared in an interview with Freelance Wisdom.

She now has more than 80k fans on Instagram, embracing her soothing aesthetic. Of course, it took some time and a lot of work to reach that point. “When I was 12, my dad brought home the first version of Photoshop from his work and I started playing around with it,” she relayed. “I didn’t really know what graphic design was at the time, but I liked playing around with photos of celebrities and myself and I’d overlay them with text.”

After high school was over, she got into OCADU for Graphic Design in Toronto. But after a year or so, she dropped out. “I started making music at the time, and I started feeling claustrophobic with everything going on,” she said. “So I let myself take my time. People began asking me for designs, and from there, developed my brand.”

Her brand proved to be a success, and with more and more fans following her progress – the sky is truly the limit for Hansen.

The post Melody Hansen Will Teach You How to Learn from Your Mistakes appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

Known online as Grotesk, Meyer’s creative upbringing is indeed remarkable — a meandering journey that took him from Switzerland to NYC way back in 1999 and has catapulted him into fame. Over the past ten years, Grotesk has worked with almost all the key players in New York’s brand underground, drawing on his classical training and outsider’s perspective to develop an iconic graphic language and style.

But according to Meyer, his roots are actually found in his parents’ woodshop, where his family was making scale models for architects. “I was always drawing and building things with them,” he recalled in an interview with The Hundreds. “Then I got really heavy in the skate punk culture in the mid-1980s and then into DJ-ing and hip hop. I did a lot of flyers and zines in that time. That’s where I realized that I could make a career of design.”

After enrolling in art school to study design and communication, he realized design was – indeed – where his passion lied. But while his previous focus had been the design of minimalist catalogs, logos, and branding systems, over the years Meyer has switched gears, creating anything from t-shirts to skateboards.

His Instagram page might be a good place to start if you’re an aspiring graphic designer, or otherwise…

The post From T-Shirts to Skateboards: Grotesk’s Creativity Is Endless appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

Based in South East London, Isaac describes herself as a freelance image maker and animator thriving in creating engaging content. Her images are often a combination of hand-collaged imagery, layered with digital processes and effects, with the end result being both artsy and approachable.

“Collage is a brilliant medium to pick up quickly when you can’t draw well,” joked Isaac in an interview with D&AD. “I think a lot of my style actually comes from not being able to draw or animate very well. I developed something that was achievable within my skillset, so everything is kept it quite simple but trying to elevate it in the coolest way possible.”

“I gravitate quite heavily towards fashion imagery, faces, and the human form in general,” she further relayed. “It has always been my default, it’s a realm that feels very familiar and comfortable to me.” You’ll want to take note.

The post Collage Art + Fashion = Alice Isaac appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

“I discovered through this art a facility to express my ideas and thoughts without being limited,” the artist told in an interview for Ballpit and describes his aesthetic as “surrealism with modern abstract and psychedelic science-fi touch”.

His artistic process begins with an inspiration, and then he starts exploring images on things he likes.

“I can spend whole days looking for pictures. Find which image could match with another image. It’s a job where you have to be patient. I cut pieces of different images and then put them together in one unique image to make a story. 3 to 7 different images can be assembled on a piece of work,” he added.

Scroll down and check out his artwork below. We really enjoyed browsing through his Instagram page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow him for future updates.

The post Take a Look at These Digital Art Collages Inspired By Sci-Fi appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

“Happiness co-exists with unhappiness,” he stated in an interview with The Design Kids, “they are interrelated and interdependent, like Yin and Yang.” As so, his illustrated series features both happy and unhappy faces, stamped across iconic logos or clear cut shapes.

“It would be delusional if the works just showcased happy faces,” he says. “We will definitely overlook true happiness if we do not embrace the opposite side of it. You need to go through the unhappy moments in your life to really unearth the meaning of happiness.”

As a designer, he makes use of bold and graphic shapes and colors. “I don’t think a designer should have a style, but an illustrator can develop their own style,” he relayed. “I am a designer but also love doing illustration and icon design. From my experience, it was all come naturally when I start designing it and drawing them.”

Check out some of his playful illustrations:

The post Chean Wei Law’s Playful Art Shows Both Sides of the Human Condition appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

“The whole thing creates a strange scenery where the viewer is free to imagine everything they want to in it. For me, suggesting is stronger than showing, and that’s how I try to work.” Indeed, her illustrations’ composition and overall ambiance are strange, calling to mind blank comic strips, waiting to be filled.

“When I started, I didn’t have preconceptions or rules,” she said. “I didn’t have a trained eye, and no idea of what I wanted to become. There was so much to discover. I started to work in black and white because it was easier, I wasn’t very interested in details. But then, I started to use bright colors and never stopped since. My work got more realistic, more detailed and more finished. Now I think I’ve found my way of working and my style has become stable.”

Take a look at some of her creations.

The post The Lifeless Landscapes of Marie Mohanna appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.