Design Inspiration: Ah! Not Real Monsters

Today’s first design inspiration is a set of illustration titled MONSTRES! which were created for the fourth issues of  Bonbek, a children’s magazine. The entire theme of the magazine was obviously geared around monsters and also included images from Monstoroma, a game featured in the magazine. The monsters’ styles remind me of yesterday’s post where I looked at a few infographics. Much like the characters created for those designs, these monsters evoke emotion and seem to come to life as a cartoon. Their expressions give them a realistic feel, while their design is far from realistic. The artist used a great color palette for each monster, with orange appearing to be a favorite color of the artist.I think the typography used really works well with the character design and his use of the drips in combination with the type seems to work well.  I really like their use of extra subtle shapes to add texture to the bodies of these creatures. Like other posts, there’s more images on the actual project page if you’d like to see more!