Jazzberry Blue
36 // Jazzberry Blue is an artist based in Toronto, Canada. Jazz had no formal training but instead learned how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator by watching YouTube tutorials. He currently lives in Toronto, though all his work prints and ships from a fine arts studio in Los Angeles. For inspiration, Jazz keeps his eyes open wherever he goes – for example, if he spots an unusual curve or colour combination at a subway station he will take it home as an idea. Jazz regularly licenses existing work to clients and companies for print or even commercial use, though he tries to avoid custom design work because he finds it difficult to incorporate someone else’s vision. His dream commission would be to create more album covers and movie posters, although he will be focusing on the art of mapmaking for the next year.
Design Heroes: Saul Bass, Robert Crumb
Colour Thief 3
Vivid colours radiate out from this circle, with one section left black to highlight more eccentric circles.
Colour Thief 4
Here the strong diagonal stripes contrast with the round edge of the outer circle for an interesting effect. Smaller circles in the middle draw the eye in.
Timelines
A fabulously colourful arrangement of triangles created in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Open
A large scroll uses light and dark to give the illusion of a roll of paper.
Around the Corner
Stripes bend around a corner with a perfect shadow that creates the illusion of depth.
Layers
The beautiful curves in this design suggest the pages of a book.