I have no idea if this has been discussed before. I used to be more in the loop a few years ago, but I still have a few of my favourites: John Dyer Baizley - y'all propably know him: http://aperfectmonster.com/ Godmachine - http://godmachinedesigns.blogspot.com/ Rafal Wechterowicz - an artist from my home country: http://www.facebook.com/raf.the.might?fref=ts Share yours please!
I like each of them, but I get the feeling that this kind of design is pretty trendy atm, not like this is a bad thing and the mentioned guys are really good at this style. It's a bit like audio engineering, Sturgis for example is pretty good at what he's doing but there are hundred of guys with a similar style that aren't as good as him because that's a pretty famous style atm. John Dyer Baizley stands out quite a bit imho, really digging his stuff. I am still digging the guys I liked 10 years ago: http://frankfrazetta.org/ Frank Frazetta - creator of the almighty death dealer http://www.spawn.com/ Todd McFarlane - Spawn, that's it! http://www.danseagrave.com/ Dan Seagrave - his art has a strange twist to it, really digging it, reminds me of a graphic version of h.p. lovecraft stories http://www.chipkidd.com/gallery.html Chip Kidd - really different, pretty famous guy, digging him especially because of the flat design on the Jurassic Park book cover. http://shadowness.com/GraphicDude Florian Wirth - a friend of mine who I know since I am 8 years old, he did loads of stuff 10-15 years ago with my brother, really strange alien style stuff and so on, nowadays he works as an Art Director. http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1996/?id=324 Erik Nitsche - I am a sucker for classic swiss design... http://www.drewstruzan.com/ Drew Struzan - look at the stuff he did... nothing more to add, everyone has seen his work! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bierut Michael Bierut - so simple, so great, yep, I love typography The last one is probably my brother, he's actually just drawing and sculpting for fun in his freetime, but he's really, really good at it. I still think that it's a waste that he's a dentist now...not sure if it counts here. He's pretty good at adapting styles and changing them, he was able to draw almost photorealistic versions of animals with 7-8 years, most of the time he's just scribbling with a pencil on small pieces of paper, but it doesn't really matter what kind of tool he uses. At least 30% of my work is designing stuff, but my brother has like 10 times more talent in the fingertip of his pinky than I have. No clue how he does it, a 2 meter acrlyic painting on canvas or a 1 cm small sculpture made out of stone, he gets it done, really frustrating
Dan Seagrave, Travis Smith, Giger, Ed Repka, Dave Patchett (Cathedral covers), Steven O'Malley, Kristian Wahlin, Andreas Marshall, Derek Riggs, Michael Whelan, Tanya "Nacht" Stene (first three Ulver albums), Robert Venosa (Cynic), Robert's wife Martina Hoffmann, and a new guy named Chris Cold who is a fantastic speed painter. http://chriscold.deviantart.com/
Me... If i could ever create what i see in my head. But seriously talking I have always ejoyed Mike Shinoda's and Joe Hahn's work.
+1 on Rob McKinnon and of course the Man, Travis Smith! The Deus.exe art is killer, that guy did a good job for you.
