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Shun Sasaki, Ikki Kobayashi, nuQ and Taro Uryu produce two mascots apiece, one each for the Olympics and Paralympics.

Despite the confidence which glimmers through her work, Montreal-based illustrator Cecile Gariepy is surprisingly fresh to the industry. Since graduating from film school a few years ago, Cecile has worked as a director, so “my work as an illustrator is very, very new. It’s only been six months since I started doing it more seriously”. In those six months, Cecile has somehow managed to formalise a nuanced and unexpected colour palette and a family of clumsily, clownishly charming characters…

Earlier this year graphic design studio Badesaison created an advertising campaign for "Perlaton", an annual music festival held in Zurich. The studio's approach to design is ideal for the event – unbiased in genre or taste – and in many ways the studio shares values that represent the festival as a whole. For this campaign the studio reference a number of typefaces that could be related to any genre of music, a gothic style balanced against graffiti typography. Their ability of combining…

While we’re constantly surprised (and pleased) by the oddly-elongated bout of sunny days we’re experiencing here in England, long days of sun are a regular occurrence for Spanish illustrator María Ramos. There’s nothing better than a picnic on days like this, and María agrees, illustrating a lunch full of character in her latest book, _Picnic,_ published by "Fulgencio Pimentel.":http://www.fulgenciopimentel.com/

Graphic and illustrative forms since 2007.

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In the next instalment of our Movers & Makers series, we sit down with leading creative founders to learn how and why they set up their businesses. This week, we meet Verònica Fuerte, the founder of Barcelona-based studio, Hey.

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For creative Cynthia Alfonso, her work, and the process of making it, is always “in continuous movement”. What this movement might be. however, depends massively on how she’s feeling, seeing her use visual communication as a way “to apply everything I absorb every day”. Consequently, her portfolio is built up with a mix of comics illustrations, which have garnered a unique following, and animations too.