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.
Leandro Assis
With a bold, colorful style, Leandro has created playful illustrations and unique lettering pieces for a range of clients including Apple, Disney, Netflix, Nike, and Spotify. He regularly uses design as a tool to celebrate Black culture, explore gender, and focus on LGBTQ+ rights.
Lucie Bajgart
A brand and product designer based in Prague, Czech Republic, Lucie’s main focus is creating distinct visual identities for companies with bold typography, bright colors and more.
Kevin Bongang
Kevin’s style features uplifting colors, swirling lines, and whimsical imagery. From painting murals to developing graphics for commercial brands, Kevin has worked with a range of clients including Jamba Juice, Mailchimp and Mellow Mushroom. He primarily enjoys working organically and when creating murals, letting the surrounding community and people inspire the pieces as they develop.
Wolf Bōese
Berlin-based Wolf honed his sleek and minimalist style by straddling the worlds of graphic design, illustration, icon design and custom typography. Aside from a wide breadth of digital design projects, Wolf spearheads a local chess club and enjoys photography in his spare time.
Audrey Chan
Audrey is a celebrated artist, illustrator, and writer based in Los Angeles. Her research-based projects use drawing, painting, public art, and video to challenge dominant historical narratives through allegories of power, place and identity.
Nicole Garcia
An illustrator and designer living in Portland, Oregon, Nicole’s work is playful yet refined. She creates structured, whimsical pieces that captivate the imagination and her artistic vision truly comes to life when working in 3D. Over the course of her career, she’s worked with clients including Snapchat, Webflow, and HP.
Minerva GM
With a distinct style characterized by rounded shapes, vibrant colors, and a variety of textures and cultural influences, this Cancún, Mexico-based designer’s work often features figures and nature. Over the course of her career, Minerva has worked with a variety of global brands including Adidas, Hallmark, Penguin Random House, Sesame Street, Starbucks, and UN Women Mexico.
Marko Ilic
Marko is a web designer with a passion for helping designers and freelance creatives succeed. In addition to his exceptional product design work, he is heavily involved in the design community, regularly mentoring up and coming designers and sharing valuable advice and insights from his career.
Maria Izvestkina
A visionary multidisciplinary creative with a profound passion for art direction, graphic and textile design, Maria brings rich symbolism into everything from digital illustrations to fabric collages. Combining the power of design and aesthetics with her deeply rooted values and Eastern European descent, Maria aims to create thought-provoking pieces through gentle activism in her work.
Tanim Khan
A product designer who specializes in crafting user-friendly and visually stunning interfaces for websites and mobile apps, Tanim’s passion lies in creating designs that not only look great, but also feel intuitive and modern.
Helen Lee
Helen specializes in illustrations of everyday things, using vibrant colors, depth of form and multi-layered composition, while paying special attention to details. She has applied this unique illustration style to commissions for everything from science exhibition covers to game promotion posters and advertising campaigns.
Sophie MacNeill
A registered Landscape Architect, textile artist, teacher, and multidisciplinary designer, Sophie manages a diversity of landscape projects that advance climate action, social justice, and an ethos of stewardship and reciprocity. Her artistic practice mirrors the professional, examining themes of ecology and connection through the slow and deliberate processes of drawing and stitching.
Kristle Marshall
Kristle is a designer and artist who focuses on lettering, illustration and animation. She currently works full-time at design studio Hom Sweet Hom and has worked with a variety of clients including Bloomscape, Coach, Upwork and more. When she isn’t designing, you can find her practicing bass guitar, watching anime and documentaries, and spending time outdoors.
Imogen Oh
With inspiration drawn from nature, mythology, and curiosities, Ireland-based Imogen’s art focuses on botanical and organic motifs. From designing and hand-painting signage for Diageo and their events for Guinness and The Open Gate Brewery, Imogen now focuses on illustration; both personally work and for clients like Penguin Random House.
Skinny Ships
Since 2013, design duo Richard Perez and Jennifer DeRosa have collaborated on design, illustration and branding projects for clients like Target, Google, and Fitbit. They live and work in Portland, Oregon, with their two cats, and have a shop featuring fun stickers, patches, and prints emblazoned with their work.
Karan Singh
Bold graphics with vibrant colors and strong, solid shapes make Karan’s work immediately recognizable. This Melbourne-based artist has spent time in cities around the world and has worked with clients including Apple, Airbnb, Nike, and the band Ok Go.
Diego Solas
Diego is a multi-headed visual creative based in the Philippines who likes to bring novel experiences to life through illustration, graphic design, and CG motion design with a keen interest in creating abstract imagery about form, emotion, and its intersections.
Steffi Lynn Tsai
Steffi’s work is colorful and bold, often featuring type and organic elements inspired by nature. This Brooklyn-based artist has worked with a variety of clients including American Eagle, Chipotle, Converse, Honda, and Sephora.
Loveis Wise
Loveis is an artist, designer, and creative director based in Los Angeles, California. Their unique style features soft shapes, figures, organic elements and enchanting color combinations. Over the course of their career, Loveis has worked with a wide range of celebrated brands including The New Yorker, TIME, Disney, REI, and Apple.