Pete Fowler

Pete Fowler is a Welsh artist well known for his artwork for the Welsh band Super Furry Animals. He is a freelance illustrator and "monster creator" inspired by Japanese art, folklore, myths, psychedelia and super nature. He works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture.

Pete's art is done in a postmodern cartoon style. Most of his work revolves around a central narrative and features a recurring set of characters. The "monsters" Fowler creates all reside on "Monsterism Island." Fowler invents extensive back-stories for his characters; each has its own specific traits and levels of "monsterism."

Fowler is most known for his designer toys of his characters, which he himself manufactures with his own company.

Monsterism Artwork

Monsterism Animation



Monsterism Toys

Super Furry Animals Album Covers

www.monsterism.net/

Jez Burrows

Jez Burrows is a designer and illustrator living in Edinburgh. His style harks back to classic design and he shows good illustration and strong design skills in his work.
His work is beautifully simplistic, delivering its message with the use of simple shape and the sparse use of colour.
Though it could be digital, his work appears to be hand printed and beautifully textured.

www.jezburrows.com/

Banksy

Banksy is a British graffiti artist whose true identity is unknown.

His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, appears in cities worldwide. He turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a piece; he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour.

Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects include rats, monkeys, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly.

After following a white paint trail around the streets of shoreditch it ends up at this stencil.

In late August 2008, marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Banksy produced a series of works in New Orleans, Louisiana, mostly on buildings derelict since the disaster.

In August 2005, Banksy, on a trip to the Palestinian territories, created nine images on Israel's highly controversial West Bank barrier. The wall stands three times the height of the Berlin Wall and will eventually run for over 700km—the distance from London to Zurich.

This piece is located on one of the main roads, leading out towards the Bethlehem checkpoint to Jerusalem. It is drawn on the side of a building, not on the Wall itself, largely for security reasons. The soldiers do not take kindly to professional entities spending a lot of time at one place on the Wall. Such people are generally arrested for terrorist activity and accused of trying to destroy, blow up, or weaken the structure.

This wall marks the spot where over 40 people were killed during the first Intafada (the little holes along the top are from bullets).
While Banksy was painting it a lot of people came over, some to shake his hand and others telling him to go away. Eventually the local MP was called out to diffuse the eighty-strong crowd that had built up (by which time Banksy had left and the piece was completed by the local kids.

www.banksy.co.uk/

Glenn Jones

Glenn Jones, aka Glennz, is a graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand('GLENN' from 'NZ' = GLENNZ). He started his career by designing corporate identities and designs for packaging. Glenn began submitting T-shirt designs to Threadless.com as a hobby and after a few years of success there, he decided it was time to focus on designing tees.

He uses vectors for all his illustrations. His insperation comes from a wide variety of pop culture references which he puts an original and humorous spin on; often poking affectionate fun at tv programmes, movies, pop culture icons and things from his childhood.