Top Designers and Illustrators of 2024
From bold, colorful illustrations to sleek and polished product designs, this list features outstanding creatives shaping the future of the industry. We created this initiative because design is powerful, representation matters, and championing the next generation of creative talent is critical.
This year’s list of honorees was curated by Noun Project, the world’s most diverse and extensive collection of icons and mission-driven photos, and our partners at Canva, Dribbble, and Webflow.
Monica Ahanonu
Monica Ahanonu is a freelance illustrator working and living in Los Angeles. She is an expert in color theory, vector illustration and motion design, and her bold, energetic, and colorful work has been sought after by companies including Google, The New York Times, Adidas, and Disney.
Tyler Elise Blinderman
This Boston-based designer’s inspiring body of work focuses on mental health, the environment, and personal growth.
Elisabetta Calabritto
From organic illustrations featuring food and florals, to geometric explorations of spaces and precise icon designs, Elisabetta Calabritto’s work is detailed and deliberate. Based in London, her work can be found everywhere from editorial projects to web interfaces.
Jordon Cheung
Jordon Cheung is a product illustrator and art director at Cash App. From geometric shapes and enclosed icons to organic florals with beautiful gradients, his design style flexes to the needs of each project.
Maya Ealey
Maya Ealey is a senior brand designer and illustrator at Asana. Her work is colorful and geometric, and she has an affinity for straight lines, hard edges, blocks of color, and vibrancy.
Cachetejack
Spanish design duo Cachetejack has worked with brands like Burger King, Netflix, and Nike to bring their illustration universe full of color, energy, humor, and irony to the masses.
Spencer Gabor
Rooted in expressive figures and bright colors, Spencer’s work often showcases a variety of textures and techniques.
Robin Hilkey
Robin Hilkey is a Brand Designer at GoFundMe in New York. Focusing on social justice and humanitarian causes, she’s making a positive impact through her bold, hand-drawn illustrations and lettering.
Jennifer Hom
From Google Doodler to former Head of Illustration at Airbnb, Jennifer Hom’s flexible style has allowed her to create a wide range of beautiful artwork. Her love of saturation and meaningful temperature shifts are a consistent theme throughout her projects.
Anna Hurley
Anna’s vibrant, colorful, upbeat, and vintage-inspired style is infused with positivity. She’s brought her love of bright colors and mid-century inspired art to projects for a range of clients including Disney, Target, and Reddit.
Katrina Navasca
Bright, minimal, and playful, Katrina's work features beautiful gradients and rich colors. Drawing inspiration from music, writing, and critical social justice issues, she communicates clear and powerful messages visually.
Jhonny Núñez
Jhonny Núñez is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary expert in illustration. His distinct, creative, colorful style has been sought after by brands including Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, and more.
Luis Prado
Luis Prado is an Argentine-born graphic designer and illustrator. His visually engaging icons and colorful designs communicate powerful sentiments around politics and social issues, as well as playful expressions.
Rebekah Rhoden
Rebekah’s work features expressive, typography-driven layouts, unexpected color palettes, and dynamic compositions.
John D. Saunders
John Saunders is a designer, marketer, and the founder of Black Illustrations, an online resource of beautiful illustrations of Black people that can be used for web design, applications, and more. With over 80,000 downloads, illustrations from the collection have been used by the CDC, Harvard, Google, Amazon, and Webflow.
Rafael Serra
Rafael Serra is a type designer and lettering artist based in Portugal. His bold, distinct design style features strong typefaces and his retro reinterpretations of famous logo designs are sure to inspire.
Jocelyn Tsaih
From large-scale murals to illustrations and sculptures, Jocelyn Tsaih’s abstract and figurative work provokes introspection, curiosity, and a desire to dive further beyond the surface.
Hank Washington
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Hank Washington is the founder of Hank Designs Studios and the creator of Fuzzies. Bold, warm, Fuzzie, and friendly, his work is fun and relatable.
Sophia Yeshi
Sophie Yeshi is a designer and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. As someone who identifies as queer, Black, and South Asian, she creates work featuring bright, bold, beautiful colors and shines a light on Black women, women of color, and folks in the LGBTQ+ community of all shapes and sizes.