Fumi Mini Nakamura is a New York-based illustrator and designer. I first got to now her work via Juxtapoz. She is able to combine a dark, ornate and fragile feel to her illustration work, which I really like. She has sent me some of her latest work, including one of her workspace, for your eyes to feast on.

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New York-based illustrator Dongyun Lee was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. After he received his BFA in Visual Communication Design, he moved to United States and received an MFA degree in Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts. His illustrations have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and advertising.

I’m smitten with the old timey images of New York illustrator Lisel Ashlock. She really has a way with critters and portraits.

New York-based illustrator, and some time Lost At E Minor contributor, Sam Weber, has a nice collection of new work up on his website, including this piece, appropriately titled Prospero.

New York illustrator James Blagden’s work is so wonderfully trippy, I feel like I need to wear shades and a top hat when looking at them just to do them justice.

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I love the bold use of color and dramatic thematic overtones that characterises the work of New York-based illustrator, and Lost At E Minor contributor, Yuko Shimizu. This award-winning piece was for Microsoft’s Ultimate PC project, in which artists were asked to create series of five personal works using their PC instead of their Mac to showcase in Microsoft’s new experimental art site.

I am utterly head over heels for the loose, childlike paintings of New York artist Eddie Martinez. The unconscious seeps its way onto the page for us to savor in all its colorful, impulsive, and impressionistic glory.

Simple, colorful and somewhat esoteric, I really dig the work of New York illustrator, Rich Tu, a new SVA graduate student. It was something else to see his finely textured images blown up to poster size and beautifully displayed at the recent SVA student show.

I have a weak spot for the work of New York illustrator You Byun. Her pastel, Miyazaki-esque landscapes populated with their saucer eyed creatures just make me swoon. It reminds me of several other well-known illustrators working today, but I feel that she is onto something spectacular that will simply continue to evolve until we’re all just utterly blown out of the water.

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Rainbows shooting out of toilets. Trashcans everywhere. And what could possibly be a certain part of the female anatomy. Hmmm. My somewhat juvenile sense of humor is totally with New York-based illustrator and designer, Jesse Kuhn.

New York City-based illustrator Dongyun Lee is currently studying for his MFA, illustration as visual essay, at The School of Visual Arts. The quality of his work — which has enormous editorial appeal — suggests that he really is an illustration star of the future.

If you’re a New York based illustrator and looking for a little intensive tuition from one of the finest in the biz, Fernanda Cohen is running an illustration course from April 5th through May 31st, every Saturday from 11 am to 2 pm: ‘The course will focus on how to solve illustration assignments, self-promotion, portfolio, contracts, licensing and networking’. The course is targeted at graphic designers and fine artists who want to break into the illustration field. Registration ends on March 31st, so you’d better get in quick!

I’m a big fan of Fernanda Cohen’s work. The Brooklyn-based illustrator — and sometime Lost At E Minor contributor — has just completed a new series called War of Words which has received two silver medals from the Society of Illustrators of NY and LA, and will be featured in HOW International Design in March. Of the series, Cohen says: ‘War of Words focuses on the dynamic behind ten different universal arguments: politics, love, childhood, sports, customer service, religion, family, protests, friendship and self, because in the history of human communication and interaction, we’ve always argued over the same things, in a wide range of different cultures and languages’.

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