After the slightly delayed launch of our new, flagship site (the one you’re looking at), and 11 days spent reviewing the best designs from 2009, HC2 is finally ready to explore 2010. Before we begin, in case you haven’t noticed, our Design News now has a voting feature, which allows you to love or hate accordingly. Hopefully you’ll love today’s featured artist as much as us. Jonathan Bartlett is a New York based illustrator with a knack for metaphor and clever stories. As you can see, his work has a great vintage feel thanks to 50’s style characters as well as light, pleasing colours.
While you might know him as SeeJBdraw, Jonathan’s vintage illustrations are often populated by popular heroes, Circus performers, jugglers, and magicians. These characters often find themselves in precarious, and otherwise humorous situations throughout his work. His client list includes: Small Can Be Big, Digital Temple, and the Harvard Business Review, just to name a few. SeeJBdraw cites his influences as being:
the great outdoors, growing up far away from the cities, Norman Rockwell, pattern, symmetry, faces, music (loud, soft, fast, slow), clever lyrics, a cold drink, exercise, Achille Mauzan, Bo Bartlett, and Claude Monet.