Mike Perry

Jim Stoten and Mike Perry For Dwell Magazine from Michael Perry on Vimeo.

http://www.mikeperrystudio.com

Mike Perry is personally one of my favourite illustrators, his style has elements of naivety to it and can feel very raw, yet there is a very clean feel to it by means of colour and finish. This is portrayed by how he uses his hand drawn wobbly lines and spruces them up digitally. Every piece he produces holds his fingerprint.


I purchased one of his books named "Hand Job", this contains a collection of hand drawn typography from many artists such as: Kindra Murphy, Holly Hopkinson, Luke Ramsey, Stefan Marx and many more. What makes this book appealing is that all of the artists have very different styles, giving you different perceptions on typography. I have constantly used this book for inspiration with hand drawing my fonts, it contains everything in it you could ask for. It is quite a large book at 256 pages and amazingly cheap for it's size (currenlty £14.39 on amazon, time of post).

Mike Perry is another top artist I would highly recommend to anyone delving into illustration and his book is brilliant for hand drawn typography.