Magnus Blomster

            Magnus Blomster is an independent/freelance graphic designer living in Stockholm, Sweden. Blomster is 31, and has been drawing his entire life. He does illustration when he is not working at his day job. He has always appreciated the style of Art Nouveau and this has a very strong influence on much of his work. Magnus uses exclusively Adobe Illustrator in creating these pieces. Many of his works are adaptations from photographs of his girlfriend. He then sketches the aspects of the image that are not part of the photograph on a separate layer, and combines these on the computer.

            His work has a very strong illustration element. The pieces are so detailed and feel as if they are almost hand drawn in some instances. His work adopts the Art Nouveu style, but makes these pieces more contemporary and relevant to today’s viewer by finalizing his images on the computer. His work has strong 20^th century overtones, but adds dynamism to this style by transforming his images through the use of contemporary digital tools.

Aesthetically, the work is extremely ornate and decorative. I like the more graphic-feel that Blomster’s work seems to have. I’m not usually dawn to most vector art because of the strong computer-generated aesthetic. However, Blomster’s work feels almost hand-drawn. There is so much depth, and intricate detail in so many of his pieces. Some of his earlier black and white pieces remind me of some of the first illustrations that I used to create by using pen and India ink. The work is strongly referential, but also has a personal and captivating undertone which seems to draw the viewer in.

Works Cited

http://magnusblomster.com/