Sofles, an Australian graffiti writer with serious skills.
Have a gander at his site/blog, the work speaks for itself.

I’ve a piece in this group exhibition tonight. Come along and check it if you’re out and about in Dublin this evening. I’ll put up some photos when I get around to it in the next day or two.
The blurb on the show:

Gor a ligh? is a group show that includes some of Ireland’s best street art and graffiti artists.
Many of these artists have been creating work on the street for over the past 10 years, in Ireland and abroad.

The focus of the show is to change people’s typical perception of graffiti and street art by placing it in a new environment. To achieve this all work will be hung in a customised ultraviolet lit indoor space. These surroundings will permit viewers to experience the work in a whole new context, picking up on elements of the artists’ work that wouldn’t usually be seen on the street.

We hope to see you at the opening of the show in the All City Gallery, 4 Crow St., on the 27th of November from 6pm.

Here’s a link to a poorly designed site but with heaps of macro graphic inspiration, a site that showcases crate labels and an insiteful article on the knock on effect they have on the environment.

I came across Andy Smith’s work while flicking through Flickr yesterday. Great variety of illustrations, prints and animations on his site. I like the fact that his sense of humour is prevalent throughout his work. Strange that I hadn’t come across his work before given his impressive list of clients.
Site, shop (silkscreen posters), blog and Flickr.

Awesome Swiss painter with an unbelievable divercity of styles. Buy his book here, check his site here.

The Italian artist Blu is by far one of my favourite street artists. He is pretty well known at this stage due to his animations, so this post mightn’t necessarily be very much use to a great deal of people. Either way, I had to make some reference to him on my blog as I’m a big fan of his work. It’d be great to get him over to Dublin. God knows where we’d have room for his large scale pieces.

Here’s his site. His blog is integrated into his site. The WoosterCollective recently produced an interesting video about a sketch book he gave them, have a goo here. Apparently he goes through a sketch book a week. That honestly wouldn’t surprise me. His creative output is quite simply unbelievable. Blu also has a book you can buy. I got it a while back. It comprises of a mix of his murals and sketches. Highly inspirational stuff and pretty cheap for what you get.

Above are some illustrations created by Denise Nestor. I originally met her while working in a Dublin-based design studio called Zinc and had the pleasure of working with her for a number of years.

As you might have guessed a great deal of Denise’s work is based around animorphic characters. I love her style of illustration. The contrast her heavily detailed soft pencil drawings have with the vector elements within her compositions really works.

Denise is part of the Tinderbox creative network. Here is an article written by Denise on its blog explaining her work in more detail. Definitely one to watch!

I came across the Grain Edit blog earlier. Packed full of visual delights, this is a treasure trove of posts celebrating design style from the 50s–70s.

This evening I went to the opening of Abram Games’ exhibition ‘Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means’ in the NCAD Gallery. Games was a highly influential British designer of the 20th century, best known for his clear and effective graphic design in his WWII posters. The exhibition comprised of a large number of his framed posters, insightful sketch book pages, two flat screens showing his industrial design work and a glass case showcasing other various products he had designed. Games is a good example of a man who harks from a time in the past when designers were skillful multi-disciplinarians. A truly inspirational individual. The show is on 6th November 2009 – 16 January 2010 at the NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.

Games’ site. You can buy prints of his posters here. The shop acts as a great back catalogue of his poster designs, well worth a goo.

Dope photographer from L.A. I can’t get enough of his stunning work. Portfolio, blog and interview.