Here’s another Kick Ass Artist—Zach Shuta. I love the look and feel. The work has that rockabilly badass vibe to it with the crisp black and white logos (not to mention the skulls and attitude). Check out his site for more awesomeness.

Jon Contino is one of my favorite letterers/artists around. He calls himself an alphastructaesthetitologist. If your work was half as cool as his, you could make up words too. I love the distressed, old-school, Americana, kick-you-in-your-teeth feel his work has. He also has the best logo of any designer I’ve ever seen. If that wasn’t enough, he’s the co-founder of the very cool and retro looking CXXVI Clothing Company. Here’s a great interview with him. Love the work.

One of my favorite things to do is buy posters or t-shirts at concerts. They’re usually very cool pieces of art, screen printed, short run stuff. And as an artist how cool would it be, to be making those amazing posters for Spoon and Wilco?! Here’s a bunch of very sweet music art from A. Micah Smith, one of the best.

 

 

I love Daniel Castan’s painting style. There’s such a cool feeling to his artwork. I went to NYC for the first time last year and now looking at these, I feel like I’ve experienced each painting. It’s all great…the texture…the colors…so good. What I found cool is that he uses a resin in his oil paints to help accelerate the drying process and help create those wonderful layers of texture. Enjoy.

Flying Mouse, aka Chow Hon Lam, is a “t-shirt designer” from Malaysia. That’s what his bio says anyways (I like the illustrations as prints more though). His illustrations are colorful and fun and the ideas behind them are great. The ideas are so cool and so simple that I’m actually pissed that I didn’t think of these before! And another neat thing is “Flying Mouse 365″— 1 design a day, every day, 365 designs a year! You can get all of his work as prints on Etsy or as shirts on his Website.

Thanks to that good old Twitter, I’ve come across a bunch of designers that I wasn’t familiar with. Matt Lehman is one of them. After looking through his work and seeing how good it is, I feel I should’ve already known about him. In related news, I feel much worse about myself.

It’s fitting that last Friday I had my Top 5 Hot Rod Rebel Bands, and then this week I come across David Vicente. His work fits the whole 50s-rebel-rockabilly-punk-
psychobilly type of lifestyle to a tee. Such cool stylized illustrations. Very awesome.

Kevin Dart is an amazing illustrator from Southern California. He has a very cool 60s vibe to his illustrations…the colors, the fashion, the bond-esque girls. He’s also the creator of the amazing Yuki 7, a jet-setting spy girl, and her team of beautiful secret agents, the Gadget Girls. In an interview with Grain Edit that I read recently, he talked about his love of 1960s Asian pop music and spy films, and this seems like the perfect illustration/design child of that. Cool. Way cool.

Looks That Kill – HD from Yuki 7 on Vimeo.

 
Here is some non-Yuki work…very stylized awesome stuff…