Style Pack: Typographic Design
Image Credits (clockwise from top left) © Alesia Nava, Oscar Wilson, Mark Matcho, Dave Homer, Chris Labrooy, and Agustina Gastaldi.
Get lost in the luscious letterings of these typography titans from the Directory of illustration.
Style feature: typographic design. Sometimes subtle, sometimes brash, our everyday lives are filled with carefully chosen design, fonts, coloring, and formatting. This Style Pack feature celebrates artists whose specialized work in typographic design helps describe the world around us. Enjoy our gallery of 21 artists, with highlighted work from: Oscar Wilson, Agustina Gastaldi, Dave Homer, Becky Thorns, and Beato. Whether it’s for editorial, advertising, or publishing, these artists have you covered from A-Z.
Image Credit © Oscar Wilson
Oscar Wilson graduated from the Graphics (printmaking) course at Leeds in 1994, and established his studio in 1996 following a period working at Advanced Graphics London (fine art screen printers). He lives and works in North London.Influenced initially by late 70’s / early 80’s BMX and Skateboard cultures, Oscar began to see the emergence of early Electro culture in London, where the letter based ‘graffiti’ art form ‘took hold’ of him for the next decade or so. Oscar also works in collaboration with (brother) Ben Wilson as ‘Wilson Brothers’
Image Credit © Agustina Gastaldi
Agustina Gastaldi is a Spanish artist whose skills across lettering, papercraft and illustration know no bounds. With a background in Product Design originally, Agustina made the switch to Graphic Design and hasn’t looked back since. After graduating, Agustina worked at the renowned Barcelona-based studio Vasava for clients such as Nike, PUIG, Uniqlo, Hotel Ritz, Atlético de Madrid, EMI Music, Moët Chandon, Mango, EasyJet, Estrella Damm.
Image Credit © Becky Thorns
Becky Thorns is an illustrator based in Cornwall. After completing a Fine Art degree at Falmouth University in 2015, a longing to apply her work led to a move into illustration and graphic design. Drawing inspiration from her travels and nature, Becky’s detailed, textured illustrations and lettering style aim to include an element of narrative and adventure. When Becky is not working, you can often find her exploring the great outdoors or curling up with a nature or true crime documentary.
Image Credit © Dave Homer
Dave Homer is an illustrator and designer based in Sydney Australia. Once the Art Director at Sony Music, he left & co-founded a design and illustration studio called Debaser that specialized in creative work for the music industry. For 11 years, Debaser created artwork for some of Australia’s biggest acts and picked up 4 ARIA Awards for Best Cover Art along the way. Dave still does music related work, but now he concentrates on illustration and hand drawn typography. “My work all ends up in the computer eventually, but most of it is created with a pencil and paper first. I’ve had a few solo exhibitions of my paintings and am currently working towards my next one.”
Image Credit © Beato
Beato is a Portuguese-born, London-based multidisciplinary designer, specialising in bespoke typography, visual identities and image-creation. Since establishing his own practice, Beato has been working in the creative fields of graphic design and illustration, collaborating with clients from the fashion, sport and music industries for the past 9 years with the desire to create fresh, forward looking art and design. Recent commissions include work for Nike, Carhartt and Esquire.
