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.

Andrea Armstrong
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Andrea Armstrong

With roots in rural Indonesia, small-town Manitoba, and metropolitan Singapore, this Vancouver-based artist specializes in character-driven art in the form of traditional portraiture, children’s book illustrations, and animation.

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Anatolii Babii
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Anatolii Babii

Anatolii is a multi-disciplinary digital artist, iconographer and pattern designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. His work explores human relationships with futuristic technology through abstract geometric shapes and rich, textured surfaces.

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Devanta Ebison
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Devanta Ebison

Influenced by editorial and Swiss design, Devanta crafts beautiful digital experiences for one of the world’s largest tech companies in his current role at Hero Digital. He is also the founder of Halftime Academy, a resource for the UI/UX community.

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Trixie Burgos
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Trixie Burgos

Trixie’s work often features colorful, organic, soft and textured pieces. She began her career as a 2D game artist in 2016 and fell in love with design and illustration after creating mascots, various stock elements, and graphic design templates.

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Joanne Andrea de la Torre
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Joanne Andrea de la Torre

From hand-drawn illustrations to clean lines and 3D compositions, Joanne Andrea creates sassy designs for serious impact. Through her work, she finds fun and approachable ways to interpret important topics like inclusivity, equality, and sustainability.

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Aurélia Durand
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Aurélia Durand

Aurélia Durand is an artist, illustrator, animator, and muralist based in Paris. Her work is vibrant and colorful, and she dedicates her artistic voice to representing Afro-descendants as joyful, proud, and empowered—a united community whose destinies are intertwined.

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Jea Gaviña
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Jea Gaviña

Jea Gaviña is an interdisciplinary artist and musician from the Philippines. With Fine Arts degrees in both Visual Communication and Painting, she enjoys exploring different mediums and styles to create art that tells stories through vibrant colors and textures.

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Pretty Useful Co.
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Pretty Useful Co.

Founded as a small good collaboration in 2016, Pretty Useful Co. has grown into a creative studio serving brands large and small. From designing brands bursting with personality to creating illustrations and animations that delight and inspire, partners Allie, Clare, and Katie care deeply about the work they do.

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Adam Ho
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Adam Ho

Adam Ho is a designer and artist with a strong focus on branding, interaction design, and art direction. He is based in Queens, New York and is currently running an independent studio design practice, working on Liquidities, and is a lead at VectorDAO where he’s branding the future of web3.

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Maheswari Janarthanan
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Maheswari Janarthanan

Maheswari’s work is an expression of her love of art, beauty, nature, and people. With a mix of folk art and bohemian styles, her pieces feature real and imagined worlds full of bright, beautiful colors.

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Polina Khristoyeva
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Polina Khristoyeva

Polina is a freelance illustrator from Ukraine who pivoted to art and design from a background in frontend development. Her whimsical visuals feature bold colors dreamy scenes that inspire the imagination.

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Nicky Laatz
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Nicky Laatz

From looped and swirling scripts to bold sans-serifs and whimsical illustrations, Nicky Laatz has been lovingly designing type of all shapes and forms since 2014. Her unique work has been featured by a variety of publications and brands including Penguin Random House, M&M’s, Victoria’s Secret, Diageo, and InStyle.

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Ka Lee
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Ka Lee

Ka Lee is a Hmong artist, designer, illustrator and art director based in Madison, Wisconsin. From bright, vibrant pieces to vector-heavy graphics with a hand-drawn style, Ka’s work often meshes culture with his love of design.

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Camellia Neri
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Camellia Neri

Over the course of her career, Camellia has worked with some of today’s best-known brands including Facebook, Intuit, Salesforce, and Intercom. Her work features beautiful color combinations and clean, refreshing backgrounds full of character.

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Diane Lindquist
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Diane Lindquist

A sharp, intuitive, multifaceted creative, Diane has worked with a variety of clients including NASA, RedBull, Google, Apple, Kickstarter and Everytable. She freelances under her studio Lindquist&Co and is the founder of GURL Museum Day, a platform for intersectional women claiming space in museums and galleries.

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Magtira Paolo
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Magtira Paolo

Magtira Paolo’s work features detailed scenes in grayscale and bright color palettes. From people and the spaces they occupy to their clothing and emotions, every design decision is deliberate.

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James Round
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James Round

Bold and playful with a focus on clarity, James Round’s work has been sought after by a variety of clients including the BBC, WIRED Magazine, and the Oscar-winning film Parasite. His compelling data visualizations and bold illustrations engage and delight.

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Andreas Wikström
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Andreas Wikström

Crisp, creative, and memorable designs are the hallmark of this Swedish designer’s style. Andreas has a love for designs that are clearly thought out from concept through to execution.

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Elen Winata
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Elen Winata

With a penchant for attention-grabbing, bright colors and simple, clean vector styles that combine structural graphic design principles with organic illustrations, Elen’s work spans traditional mediums as well as 3D, motion design, and AR.

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