Ashley Oostdyck is an Australian designer, photographer and – in her own words – closet marine biologist. Her portfolio and blog are well worth getting lost in, and will most likely inspire you to run outside with your camera.

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Our favourite purveyors of big colourful calendars, Trebleseven have created an appropriately chic brand identity for the Yorkshire Fashion Archive, who are currently exhibiting their collection at the epic Salts Mill in Saltaire.

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Tasked with creating a comic for Nobrow’s new Graphic Cosmogony, Matthew Lyons applied some Josef Müller-Brockmann gridular wisdom to his distinctive illustrative style. The result, Push It Backwards, is really quite beautiful.

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Remember Trebleseven’s rather spiffing Socceraid World Cup posters from the Summer? Well they’re back with another piece of wall-candy, this time in the form of a colourful and lovely calendar, simply called Hello 2011. Perfect for brightening up that drab studio wall. Or radiator.

(Going off on a bit of a tangent/rant, to all printers/studios/agencies out there who want to send out promotional calendars and diaries: send them now or don’t send them at all. Receiving an unsolicited diary in the middle of February is quite useless and simply suggests that you’re incapable of delivering anything on time. It’s quite annoying.)

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Excellent portfolio by Portugese illustrator Cristiana Couceiro, who combines geometric structures, simple palettes and vintage photography to great effect, as in this illustration for the The New York Times Weekend Section.

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Federico Cabrera has a damn fine portfolio of mysterious, eery photography. Pretty much every shot looks like a still from one of David Lynch’s cheese-induced dreams. Which is a good thing.

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Philip Kennedy is the man behind the photo-montage artwork for the band Funeral Suits. He’s also rather good behind a camera, does a spot of lecturing and blogs at Fieldwork. Busy guy.

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Barnickel Design is a Brooklyn-based design studio specializing in brand development, art direction and graphic design for companies and individuals in the creative industries. More importantly, you just can’t beat a good bit of Eagle vs Deer, can you?

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Atelier de création graphique have a vast portfolio, including some great identity work for the Louvre and Centre Pompidou.

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Stockholmian Daniel Carlsten has an impressive portfolio, including printed goodies, art direction and some rather lovely film credits.

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