
We have to appreciate the role of the internet whatever industry you’re in.
Either you’re an artist, model, sportsman or photographer, you have the ability to showcase and expose your work free on the internet and using social media platforms.
And this post is another example to add to that. Instagram is an easy way to discover artits, coz they’ve seen the bigger purpose of the platform and they’re taking advantage. We’re happy to present you 5 artists and illustrators that you have to follow this week.
@slaying.goliath – David Tshabalala
Bio: Mail&Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans’15 🎯Design Indaba Emerging Creative ’13 ⌨ ️Co-founder: Suketchi 👓Pop Culture & Style Enthusiast
8,118 followers
Slaying Goliath is a graphic designer and illustrator. He is popular for influencing and getting the message across through his work.
His style and approach are quite simple, he stays informative and focuses on daily social issues serving as a visual narrative on current news. He has explored subjects in politics, sports, music, fashion and more. Year to year he profiles different women through ‘Run the World’ series. David Tshabalala’s work has seen him selected to be an Emerging Creative at the 2013 Design Indaba. He has been featured on various creative blogs and was a mentee on the Play Energy Drink sponsored Creative Union reality show on Vuzu in 2013. David was also selected as one The Mail and Guardian’s 200 Top South Africans in 2015.
He has recently collaborated with Hollard on a Movember campaign.
@greiispaces – Lazi Mathebula
Bio: Award Winning Illustrator, founder and designer for Beautiful Boys Za and creative director for 2 room an ahh garage
4,240 followers
Lazi Mathebula known to many as Greiispaces, is an art director and illustrator. His sketches of everyday subject matter, including everything from shoes to street dogs, are vibrantly transformed by neon dashes and patterned etchings when they get to his computer. His unique style has led him to collaborations with everyone from Nike to local brand Supreme Being and he’s also featured as one of the Design Indaba’s emerging creatives. We have a feeling that with his adeptness for finding magic in the mundane, Mathebula is destined for great things – but don’t take our word for it, check out his work and see for yourself. He has expanded his work to his own clothing label Beautiful Boyz.
@louilance
Bio: Trying to make the pallet as wide as possible
3,639 followers
Louilance is an illustrator and graphic designer. His work is more about potraits, and done stellar work on images of Caspper Nyovest, Riky Rick, Amandla Stenberg and Nadia Nakai to mention a few. His presented his work on 2017 Back to the City Festival branding.
@karabo_poppy – Karabo Poppy Moletsane
Bio: award winning illustrator, graphic designer + street artist
30.5k followers
Karabo Poppy Moletsane is an illustrator and designer who uses her creative work to tell the South African story. The series of her work brings together inspiration from local cultures, global influences and historical connection. She was selected as one of the seven winners of the “Are You With Us?” T-shirt design competition run by Woolworths and US musician Pharrell Williams. We can go on and on with her huge portfolio of work and collaborating with a bunch of local+international brands. Recently she teamed up with Futura and Nike to create a 200m hand painted wall mural outside the Nike Football Training Center in Soweto. She has done more work with Woolworths, Calvin Klein, Jameson SA and Russell Hobbs to mention a few.
@african_ginger – Seth Pimentel
Bio: Illustrator
6,949 followers
Seth Pimentel aka African Ginger is known for his unique style of presenting art in form of illustration. His distinguishable art style finds inspiration in hip-hop culture, skate culture, punk culture and Johannesburg youth culture, as Seth loves to combine various styles into works of art that really speak to who he is and present a unique visual aesthetic. he has recently collaborated with Converse, Levis and Adidas to mention a few.
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