20 Emerging Graphic Designers You Should Know

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Location: London
Specialty: Mural Design/Illustration

London-based typographer and muralist, Tobias Hall, makes his living creating beautiful, hand-drawn pieces of various sizes. Originally trained as a graphic designer, Hall quickly realized he was much more interested in the expressive nature of illustration than the sometimes limiting world of design. Today, Hall works with a variety of clients honing his design and illustration skills.

Location: New York
Specialty: Experimental/New Media Design

As an eclectic mix of artist, designer, and director, Keetra Dean Dixon has the unique ability of allowing her work to venture into uncharted territories. She has been recognized for her thought-provoking and timely work by various awards and institutions, including the US Presidents Award, SFMOMA, and ADC Yung Guns Honorable ranking.

Location: Berlin
Specialty: Branding/Identity

Thomas Kronbichler's work is strong and playful, taking a lot of cues from early '90s grunge/post-modern design, reminiscent of David Carson or April Greiman. He received his BA in Product and Communication Design from the University of Bolzano in Italy and at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He has worked for circus Büro für Kommunikation und Gestaltung in Austria and Meiré und Meiré Köln/Berlin. Currently, he is a designer at Fons Hickmann m23 Berlin.

Location: Brooklyn
Specialty: Illustration/Lettering

Kelli Anderson is a jack of all trades; she draws, photographs, codes, and uses many other skills to create her textured and intricate information designs. Her work has been recognized or published in numerous outlets including Wired UK, Real Simple, NY Magazine, and The Atlantic.

Location: Los Angeles
Specialty: Set Design

Adi Goofrich is a Los-Angeles based set designer and art director. Goodrich has created work for Wieden + Kennedy, Target, Apple, and Adult Swim. She studied painting, drawing, architectural preservation, and art history at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is bright and humorous.

Location: New York
Specialty: Illustration/UI/Product

New York-based product designer, Kennan Cummings, is an active part of the NYC design community, co-founding the much talked about event and forum night, Designer Debate Club. During the day Cummings works as the co-founder and Creative Director of well....Days, a photography app for smartphones.

Location: Los Angeles
Specialty: Art Direction/Illustration

Joshua Harvey is a Los Angeles-based designer and illustrator. Currently, he works as the Creative Director at Buck, which works with clients like IBM, Google, Coke, Toyota, and the New York Times, among others. Harvey's work spans various aesthetic styles from simplistic and playful to futuristic and photo realistic. His ability to mutate styles based on the client is impressive and invaluable.

Location: Brooklyn
Specialty: Illustration/Print

As a native New Yorker, Nicole Marie Rincon pulls inspiration from a variety of everyday influences. Formally trained in Graphic Design and Fine Arts from both the School of Visual Arts and The University of Connecticut, Rincon has been illustrating and designing for a variety of outlets, including standout work for Oprah Magazine, American Airlines, and PBS since 2010. Her illustrations are smart, witty, and welcoming. Her natural ability to craft loveable and clever characters out of light and pixels is one of the reasons she's on our list.

Location: San Diego
Specialty: Illustration/Print

San Diego-based designer Huilin Dai is a thoughtful and skilled designer. Her work is playful, fresh, and inspiring. Having graduated from Arizona State University in 2010, with a Bachelors of Science in Communication Design, Dai has been knocking work out of the park for the last 4 years, creating everything from invitations to infographics.

Location:Brooklyn
Specialty: Interactive Design

As a freelance multidisciplinary art director, Philip Sierzega has a passion for experimentation. With a degree in New Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a background in web design, Siezega's skill set is perfectly suited to his interactive installation-heavy work.

Location: New York
Specialty: Multimedia Design

New York-based multimedia artist, Jamie Carreiro, works as the Director of Innovation at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners NY. He has created work for Delta, ESPN, Heineken, YouTube, and Google, among others. Carrerio's background is an ideal mix of computer science and filmmaking, which have set a solid foundation for his current work.

Location: Portland, Ore.
Specialty: Illustration/Typography

Will Bryant is a Portland-based designer, illustrator, and artist. Originally from the South, Bryant now works full time in his studio in the North West, creating work for various outlets in various formats, including T-shirts, snowboards, posters, record sleeves, and even furniture. Bryant also teaches part-time at Portland State University. Last year, he won the ADC Young Guns award.

Location: New York
Specialty: Branding/Interactive/Web Design

Ashley Jones is a New York-based designer specializing in interactive web design. Jones currently works for Ro and Co as a Senior Interactive Graphic Designer. Her work is smart, often erring on the side of trendy and feminine, with its light, airy colors and use of ethereal photography. In 2013, Jones was named one of ADC's Young Guns.

Location: London
Specialty: Motion animation/graphic

Sebas and Clim is the moniker for London-based duo Sebastian Baptista and Climent Canal. The pair create graphic and animated projects and have worked for Target and the BBC, among others. In 2013, Sebas and Clim won the ADC Young Guns award as well as a YCN award for their work.

Location: London
Specialty: Branding

Originally hailing from a town in Essex, London-based designer Tom Hayes is a skilled branding and identity designer. His work is contemporary and on trend without being dated. Hayes' work mixes vintage lettering and printing techniques with present day design aesthetics, creating gorgeous branding and identity pieces for a wide range of clients.

Location: Johannesburg
Specialty: Illustration

Johannesburg-based designer and illustrator, Kronk, creates beautiful, intricate pieces in a variety of mediums. Kronk's graffiti-inspired pieces are both thought-provoking and aesthetically engaging. Kronk has created designs for festivals, restaurants, and publications and has also collaborated with many companies from Kid Robot to Google.

Location: Singapore City, Singapore
Specialty: Papercraft/illustration

Siang Ching is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Singapore. After graduating with a diploma in Visual Communications from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Ching founded Pattern Matters and started her own papercraft company. Her pieces are vibrant and expressive and push the dimensional boundaries of graphic design.

Location: Paris
Specialty: Claymation

Alexandra Bruel is a Paris-based designer. Her work is colorful, playful, and extremely intricate. During her graphic design studies at the Gobelins School in Paris, Bruel discovered plasticine; she has been creating beautiful three-dimensional objects and stories ever since.

Location: Nancy, France
Specialty: Paper Craft

Zim and Zou is the French studio created by Thibault Zimmermann and Lucie Thomas. Although the founders both studied graphic design, they found their calling exploring many different fields of design, including paper sculpture, installation, graphic design, and illustration. Rather than creating traditional two-dimensional images on a computer, the duo prefers to create real objects with paper. Their paper graphics are both beautiful and poignant.

Location: Miami Beach, Fla.
Specialty: Illustration/Typography

Miami-based art director and designer, Nicole Martinez, specializes in vector illustration and hand lettering. Martinez's work is light and playful, mixing thoughtful typography with playful patterns.