Siggi Eggertsson is a designer and illustrator from Iceland, and is one of the artists slated to appear in ‘Pick Me Up’, a contemporary graphic art fair at Somerset House in London.

Eggertsson, alongside other designers such as Hvass&Hannibal, Mr Bingo and Pierre Nguyen, will be commissioning exclusive prints for purchase at the show. So buy a ticket, attend the event and get your grubby mits on a future treasure…

Read more about Siggi Eggertsson here and check out Pick Me Up here.

Not only does Christian have quite possibly the best second name around, but his art is both dynamic and enthralling at the same time…

The organic nature of smoke lends itself to many an idea, but rarely is it executed in such a haunting, surreal fashion. Wildgoose, whilst barely out of studenthood, has created a range of pieces labelled ‘Beyond Study’ that stand up nicely as fluidic, natural items, worthy of praise.

Check out the overview from Free Range 2009 here

By trade, Tim Biskup was a draftsman working in animation across the States. Since hitting the fine art world, he has honed his craft creating fascinating, dark images delving into different areas of what he interprets as ‘baroque modernism’.

Check out Tim’s site here for more information.

Who is BNE and what do the BNE stickers represent?

Apparently this question has been on many a tongue for some time now, but in a similar style to Banksy, this graffiti artist has now added traditional exhibits to his guerilla methods. Check it out at the New York Times.

Doze Green is a member of the Barnstormers art collective. A highly talented artist, Doze is reputed to have an element of premonition in his pieces; a foresight of things to come.

The Barnstormers are a collective of New York/Tokyo-based artists who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances. The group formed in 1999 after a pilgrimage to the rural town of Cameron, North Carolina. During the trip, twenty-five artists painted dozens of barns, tractor-trailers, shacks and farm equipment. Consequently, the tiny tobacco farming community became the unlikely Mecca for the urban collective.

Read more about Doze here, and check out the Barnstormers here.

Skineart is a site dedicated to the collection of sketches, doodles, illustrations and fully-fledged fine art pieces rendered beautifully in Moleskine notebooks.

The piece above, by an artist with the handle MattiasA, is a great example of what inspirational designs can come from spending time with a pen and pad.

But to what extent is the author inspired by the history of the Moleskine itself? Picasso is often cited as a Moleskine adopter; does this link with a master of art inspire all moleskine users to produce feets of design to the best of their ability?

Liu Bolin is a master of artistic disguise. Placing himself in day-to-day scene, Liu merges himself into the background imagery using drawn and painted camouflage.

Check out some more of his work on the Guardian site here.

Kaleidoscopic renders created with the iPhone app, JDReflect.

Generative art, although a little soulless and repetitive (in an exponentially repetitive way), is both interactively entertaining, and generally fun, especially with the way it’s vessel is executed by Joshua Davis and his mobile applications outfit, Sideways.

The iPhone provides a perfect platform for this type of iterative art style, whereby screen touches control how the kaleidoscopic images evolve. The kaleidoscope results are based on an image generated from mashing together preset colour schemes with Davis’s design styles, a system, that although limited by 9-10 colour palettes and 6 styles, still has an infinite number of variations and ‘generations’.

In his own words, Andy Kehoe “…was the son of a sea merchant that was killed by pirates when he was just three years old.” Regardless of this hoaxsome tragedy, Kehoe has gone on to become an eminent player in the contemporary US art scene.

This month, Kehoe is exhibiting for the second time at the Thinkspace Gallery in LA. The show, titled The World Unseen and Those In Between, is Kehoe’s second exhibition at Thinkspace. He describes the show…

“The World Unseen is a place where the spirits of the dead, the never living and the yet to be all reside. This world lies unnoticed to the living yet each world shapes the other. The thinnest of curtains separate the worlds and they perpetually intertwine and overlap. Some live between both worlds and are neither living nor dead, but something more fantastic and in some cases all the more horrible.”

The pieces themselves feature stark yet gracefully realised landscapes, with an element of characterisation, unease and foreboding present in each. To preview the pieces, and find out more info, visit www.thinkspacegallery.com or check out Andy’s site here.

This poster entitled SUGOI! by the two person studio, TADO, is really very cool. Based in Sheffield, UK, the pair, Mike and Katie, dedicate their days to creating cool characters and rich, sumptious illustrations for customers and cool people alike.

The SUGOI! poster originally began life as a commission for Virgin Atlantic, and following the success of the design, the pair decided to remix it into something a bit more personal, and use sales of the print to benefit the charity, Western Part Hospital Cancer. Great design, great cause.

Check out TADO here.