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March 8 is International Women’s Day! Celebrate women around you by letting them know what a difference they make daily in your life: Grandma, Mother, Lover, Wife, Partner, Friend, Colleague where would we be without them?

Respect to all the powagirrrls who rock the design scene with more than pink design.

This girl can draw! Pepa Prieto is very well known for her illustrated characters that are both endearing and odd at same time. Her work has been published and exhibited all over.

iG Ad Campaign. The first campaign created by Lew’Lara/TBWA for IG (Internet Group) aims to advertise the women channel of the Brazilian portal. The Why Not? concept shows women versions of well-known public icons.

Totally rad!

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via: Eric Steuten

Cute! Mimipong Tear Purses : “Although we might be on the road to economic recovery, it is better to be safe rather than sorry so it’s best to keep tabs on our spending.”

The extra talented Beata Szczecinska aka Cityabyss who has a penchant for integrating fashion, photography and design elements, has updated her website with loads of new work. Want to own some her original illustrations?

Visit her online shop.

Jessica Hische is a typographer (who prefers drawing a font from scratch is easier than scouring the Internet to find the right one) and illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. She paid her dues working at a high profile shop (Louise Fili Ltd) and now is freelancing full-time with a scoreboard of impressive clients and recognitions as proof.

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You can do a virtual tour of her soho via Grain Edit.

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She runs the Daily Drop Cap which as name implies, a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap is posted daily.

Pouf it up by Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen who is a Master student in Design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. The colourful Drops pouf consists of an inner tube covered with recycled upholstery material. The pouf has been inspired by the process behind making tassels. Drops pouf introduces elements of childish delight and colourfulness into the user’s everyday life.

Corporations endorsed Helvetica as the font to use. Others design posters and packaging in Helvetica. Others dream of possibilities and make a film about Helvetica. While others cook with Helvetica?!?! Thanks to Beverly Hsu who created the Helvetica cookie-cutters.

Now that’s font-luving dedication.

Since first featured, Marcel Restrepo aka Leftyhand has moved on to create a fertile career as an illustrator using her exquisite drawing skills most with a hand-drawn look and feel.

Graciela Goncalves aka Animalito based in Argentina, designed and illustrated this gorgeous Live the Love poster. As her handle infers, she really is into creating hugely huggable fantasy animals and mysterious characters. Just what succulent and vivid dreaming is about.

Luv her color palette!

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Featured: Revista Collectiva – Greatest Hits submission

No kiddin’ these are real! Here’s to taking a concept and literally translating it into products. Anybody wants Porky Chop Pork or about a Meat Medley with plush toy and pillow (all from 100% recycled materials, from dye to fleece)?

Brought to you by none other than Sweet Meats the brainchild of Lauren Venell! Hats off to a new Powagirrrl!

As if passing nonchalantly through different spaces or strolling streets or hapchancing through elaborated stagings, Monika Schürle captures picture perfect randomness.

She can draw too! Her drawings resembles a somewhat flat and as color explosive version of her paper sculptures. If you have not seen Jen Stark artwork and paper sculptures yet, you should.

Los Angeles based, working regularly in NYC, Kimberly Nunneley is a photograher with an eye for catching poetic beauty. Her takes are young and fresh and evidence, she’s staying away from current (fashion) trend of showing it all with as much trash and decadence as possible, trend that is long past the threshold of borderline sexploitative photography.

Some portraits are little jewels.

We need more like her.

Another of my recent new fav design studio, Shotopop relaunched a new website which is a sharp break from their previous iteration. Reloaded with their latest new projects, gotta luv their wonderful creative output and originality.

so+ba (a creative duo composed of Alex [so]nderegger and Susanna [ba]er) defines itself as Swiss made in Japan (!!) and are total pros in the line of art direction, illustration and editorial design and of course, typically inclined to use lots of typographic treatments mostly commissioned from the retail, fashion and cultural entities who ain’t fearing lots of edge..

The sheer size of their portfolio is a testament to both their ability to land clients and deliver the goods.

Have a look at Sarah Kahn diploma project which is based around 5 different themes: compression, screenshot, copy/paste, use’s profile and code.

“The stake was to develop the emotional intellect delivered by some computing tools and functions, from virtual to manual.”

Luv the work of Katie Kirk whose illustrations are often kept very simple yet elegant by using solid elements in a limited color palette against an opaque background. Shown, two of the New York series.

You can also have a sneak peek at her home and studio spaces. Lovely!

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Featured: Coney Island Katie

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Featured: New York Nate

Victim illustration series by QQ Zhao is a striking social comment and somewhat sinister realistic look at the current state of “many young people today in China (who) have no sense of self-worth.”

In my view, this may even reflect a more universal and overlooked syndrome. Splendid execution.

Ohmori Seiko exquisite figurines are mostly 3d illustrations executed for advertisement in department stores, PR magazines, books and CD jackets, etc.

As you can see, her works is strongly focused on the female (gender). Some people might wonder “Why?” but the answer is very simple.

“I was born a woman.” says Seiko.