Fanny Papay talks with us about freelancing, playful projects, and proud moments.

Fanny Papay talks with us about freelancing, playful projects, and proud moments.

Everything is bright and bold in Fanny Papay's world. Her designs are exciting, inventive, and executed with a sense of humour and craftsmanship. She mixes sometimes uncomfortable surrealism with warm and inviting colour, in an unmistakable way that makes her work one of a kind. We were lucky enough at Grafik to catch up with her about her imaginative and stunning designs.

 

 

Tell me about your journey into the design and creative direction field.

 

It’s a very long story that...

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Vladimir Hadzic on spontaneity, creative process, and personal projects.

Vladimir Hadzic on spontaneity, creative process, and personal projects.

Vladimir Hadzic creates vibrant and invigorating illustrations, utilising a wealth of graphic detail, very fine lines, and striking colour combinations. His compositions dance around brutal and abstract themes, creating a sense that the viewer is floating through images of traps, doors, chains, platforms and odd shapes. Some of his posters read as busy and bright instructionals - it is quite amazing how Vladimir manages to harness chaotic compositions in such a controlled and elegant manner. We were lucky enough to catch him to spare a few words about his...

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Magdalena Marchocka on nature, digital illustration, and being stuck inside.

Magdalena Marchocka on nature, digital illustration, and being stuck inside.

 Madgalena Marchocka is a Polish illustrator, with a typographic focus and love for animation. Her illustrations have a beautiful, tender, handmade quality to them. Homely and warm colour palettes complement the scratchy texture of the brushwork, further bolstered by her unconventional and striking use of negative space. We were lucky enough to be able to pick her brains about her practice. Her brilliant work "Eden" is available from graphic editions.

 

We really enjoyed looking through your 36 days of type challenge, it was refreshing to see...

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Ailish Beadle on Spongebob Squarepants, creative process, and artistic weapons of choice.

Ailish Beadle on Spongebob Squarepants, creative process, and artistic weapons of choice.

Ailish Beadle is an illustrator of fantastically colourful and wonderful designs. Her compositions are always fun, bright and eye-catching and she has carved for herself an instantly recognisable visual signature with her tight linework and vibrant palettes. We were fortunate enough to be able to chat to her a bit about her work and process. 

 

 

Your illustrations are very bright and whimsical. What were your earliest visual inspirations? 

 

I'd say that my earliest visual...

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Javier Lopez on visual communication, cultural inspiration and design responsibility.

Javier Lopez on visual communication, cultural inspiration and design responsibility.

Javier Lopez is a London based multidisciplinary graphic designer, with a decade's experience working in many different areas of design. Javier doesn't like to stay in one place, you see. Throughout his career he has experimented with many different methods of visual communication. He's a seasoned designer of beautiful posters, he has focused on illustration for years at a time, he has designed for print and for web, and he's currently making gorgeous motion graphics. We were fortunate enough to be able to ask him some questions about his exciting practice.