Last time we scoured Europe for the best Photoshop talent going around. This week we're turning to beautiful South America to uncover 20 of the top digital artists on the continent. Is your country or city represented?
100 Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in Latin America
Jul 29th in Inspiration by Danny Outlaw
1. Pablo Alfieri
Representing: Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Pablo Alfieri is a graphic designer and illustrator born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2002 he started the career of Graphic design at U.B.A. (University of Buenos Aires), where he discovered his passion for design, illustration and typography. Since 2007 he has been working in local design studios like RDYA Design Group and Punga Visual Consorcio, and in January of 2008 he created "Playful", a showcase of his personal works, a free space where he plays and has fun with colors, typography and geometric shapes, the bases of his creative work."
2. Ezequiel Matteo
Representing: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ezequiel is an outstanding character designer who also moonlights as a graphic designer. His characters are bizarre and strange, but cute all at the same time. Aside from designing a variety of characters, he has also written a few tutorials for some of the major electronic arts magazines.
3. Adolfo Correa
Representing: Santiago, Chile
Adolfo Correa is a 21 year old student of Graphic Design from Santiago, Chile. Although he may be young, he is quickly picking up on the popular styles and design trends of the modern graphic design world. There is no doubt that upon his graduation he will have a long list of clients ready to work with him.
4. Guillermo Alarcón Rivera
Representing: Santiago, Chile
Guillermo Alarcón Rivera, a designer from Santiago, has a unique style that stretches across a variety of mediums. From illustration to motion design, Guillermo Alarcón Rivera has an arsenal of design skills that seem to work very well for him.
5. Genaro DeSia Coppola
Representing: Barcelona, Venezuela
Genaro DeSia Coppola is an amazing vector and flash artist with a style that is very much his own. If you think that his vector art is cool, than you are sure to love his flash work. His flash work takes his vector art to another level by adding color and movement to it.
6. Diego Diaz
Representing: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Diego Diaz is a graphic design that comes from Guatemala City. Many of his designs seem to feature a reggae roots and natural style to them. I can only wonder if this has something to do with his surroundings and lifestyle.
7. Ricardo Ajcivinac
Representing: Guatemala
It seems that Ricardo's first love is graffiti art, but his skills aren't limited to spray paint and concrete walls. He also excels at illustration and even some forms of photo manipulation.
8. David Galdamez
Representing: Guatemala City, Guatemala
David Galdamez comes to us from Guatemala City as well. He is one of those designers who is lucky enough to also have some traditional arty skills such as drawing and sketching. He does a great job at combining his two skills together to create unique pieces.
9. MASA
Representing: Caracas, Venezuela
"MASAs work has a strong emphasis in the research of Latian American pop and worldwide contemporary street culture. The result is a crossover where urban and folklore references get blended together to produce fresh ideas and strong brand identities in every work."
10. César Evangelista Bautista
Representing: Mexico Distrito Federal, Mexico
If you ask César Evangelista Bautista what it is he loves to do, he will tell you illustration. With such an awesome portfolio, it is easy to see that hes not lying. His character designs are hands down some of the coolest ones I have seen in a while.
11. ROAN
Representing: Mexico City, Mexico
ROAN's illustration and digital manipulation work - often blended together beautifully - explores many different styles and themes.
12. Juan Molinet
Representing: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Juan's surreal cartoon-like illustrations are highly sought after - and with good reason!
13. Fabio Sasso
Representing: Porto Alegre, Brazil
"I’m a graphic, web designer and the co-founder of a design studio called 3YZ Digital Performance and I run a blog called Abduzeedo where I share my thoughts, cool sites, and tutorials."
14. Cristiano Siqueira
Representing: Sao Paulo, Brazil
"I started my career working with graphic design in books, magazines and CD covers. Some years later, I went to packaging design, producing for the food and toy industry. After 7 years of experience, I finally felt confortable to start as a freelance illustrator. So, since 2005 I am an illustrator full time, working from my own "home" office, doing illustrations for packaging and graphic design, publishing, advertising and everything that needs to be illustrated. "
15. Rodrigo Francisco
Representing: Center East Region, Brazil
"I'm an 19 years old Designer & Illustrator, born and raised at the Center East Region of Brazil. Currently working as a Freelancer. Self-taught until Mid 2008, I have just finished my second semester at UCG Design School, Brazil."
16. Juan Hodgson
Representing: Panama City, Panama
A bright, glossy style is the hallmark of Juan Hodgson's digital artwork. He regularly switches between illustration and photo manipulation.
17. Kochi Dowel
Representing: Panama City, Panama
"Hi everyone! I'm Osvaldo Restrepo best known as "Kochi Dowel" I've 22 years old and I'm a Graphic Designer from Panama city, Panama (Central America) I'm lead designer at McCann Erickson Panama and I do freelancing too if i got time... well that's it I think, oh oh yep my favorite band is The Deftones"
18. Jorge Aguilar / REAKTOR
Representing: Guadalajara, Mexico
"Reaktor is the human condition that empowers you to think by yourself and transcend. It’s one that raises his voice and never gives up. It’s not following trends, but having the power to create them and modifying what surrounds you. It’s having a solid argument and an unbreakable will. Reaktor is to live maximizing your own essence."
19. Alex Rivera
Representing: Mexico
"Graphic Designer trying have fun at the work, I love the Type, Creative Messages, Art Direction, Travel, Rol in projects and illustrate"
20. Benjamin Jimenez
Representing: Santiago, Chile
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( ADD YOURS )Hassen July 29th
Nice Collection!!!! Great designers!!!
( )Chandan July 29th
Good stuff. First!
( )DanteV July 29th
It seems I am the first one to comment. Well there are some great designs… specially from Brasil and Mexico… i love this posts that show us different works from different countries, still it is a shame that there wasnt a Colombian designer around here… well maybe next time.
( )Graham English July 29th
Please, oh please, specify img height in your posts. You should try to read your posts in Google Reader to know what I’m talking about. Your posts constantly push all subsequent posts down the page as they slowly load and ruin my reading experience.
( )MindTheGaspar July 30th
I must say, it happens when you open it in a browser as well anyways…
( )Jonathan R Price July 29th
I particularly like Pablo Alfieri’s Playful.
( )Aerodynamic July 29th
Love that 4th to last piece from Jorge Aguilar.
( )Some really inspiring stuff.
Yoosuf July 29th
nice list as well as the creative FOlks
( )Carlitos July 29th
Sorry, but as far i know, Mexico is not a South American country, not even Central America. not disrespect to anyone, but some of this people are not in the Top 20
( )Victor July 30th
I agre with, Mexico is part of north america and other like guatemala are part of central americas.
( )Ramon Allnightlong Mexicano August 15th
Mexico is in Latin America, but not South America. I believe the title of this blog post uses the phrase ‘Latin America’ ?
Adrian Madrid July 29th
Really great finds. Just to note though that neither Mexico nor Guatemala are in South America. Panama isn’t either but at least is right next to it. You could have said Latin America, though.
( )Rohan July 29th
You know what i like the most? These artists have a varied portfolio, and Danny has brought out many different types of artwork here
( )Hugo July 30th
Not only great designers, I´m sure they are quite less expensive than the first world designers!!! Greetings from Argentina
( )Vanhardisk July 30th
Cuando no haciendo el comentario capitalista de diferenciación sociopolítica económica para decir “contratenos a nosotros que cobramos menos” en un tema que poco tiene que ver con contrataciones artísticas =P
( )Hugo August 2nd
Marketing viral
snnaqvi July 30th
Very creative
( )Arnold July 30th
Fabio Sasso art is really cool!
( )Simon Vansintjan July 30th
I absolutely love the headphones image by ROAN.
I feel like this list has a much larger variety of designs on a much wider scale of application. It’s good to see that designers are also working for more physical results instead of just focusing on their web portfolio.
( )spidermonkey July 30th
Yeah, I agree, those headphones were incredible!
( )ev4n July 30th
a good list however i think there are some that have been left out and some that shouldnt be here. not naming anyone of course
very inspiring
( )What July 30th
Mexico is in North America.
( )mee July 30th
that is exactly what i was going to post.
( )he/she should change the to latin digital artists
vincent ng July 30th
i wish i will be on these lists oneday
( )Eliecer July 30th
It is good to see some work of some impresive designers from Latin America in here, so I appreciate your effort and presentation.
But there is a big mistake in the title and it should be fixed. Geographically speaking, South America countries are: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guyana, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina.
Countries like Mexico, Guatemala and/or Panama belong to Central and/or North America.
So the correct title of this post should be “Top 20 digital Artists in Latin America”.
Read more about our subcontinent in the following links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_america
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_South_America
Anyway, thanks for the post !!
( )shrenik July 30th
enjoyed loving it
( )Ron July 30th
It looks like #3 used your tuts..
( )Nardyello July 30th
I have to say I’m pretty happy Brazil had a few spots in this list!
Every artist here has great talent. Beautiful colors, brilliant shapes, and just phenomenal creativity.
( )Sushimoron July 30th
This is definitely better than the first one.
WOW.
( )Mirko July 30th
Tons of inspiration there, amazing.
( )Insomnior July 30th
Some amazing stuff here, love the headphones, but I think that Franz Ferdinand is a Rip Off
( )Onut-Adrian July 30th
Since I’m also a gamer i especially liked Genaro DeSia Coppola atari poster
Some awesome designs, makes me with i could do that quality of work.
( )luli July 30th
I guess you should change the post title to “100 Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in Latin America” since some countries that you mention are from Central & North America…
( )Veronica July 30th
Well there is no Colombian designers? mmmm I don’t think so
( )desgaus July 30th
Very impressive list! Love the Roan work (I agree with the headphones too!just incredible) and Cristiano Siqueira also. And of course the great Fabio Sasso from the awesome blog abduzeedo!
Is a great inspiration list!
( )Jeroen van Eerden July 30th
Love it!!!
( )Fabio Sasso July 30th
Thank you very much for including me in such a great list…. I have a few others to add, guys such as Eduardo Recife, Adhemas Batista, Doug Alves, Guilherme Marconi….
( )Diego SA July 30th
The design job is growing up more and more in South America everytime. These artworks definitely prove it and definitely makes from this post an excelent source for reference. Happy to see someone from my city, São Paulo. I really loved every artwork posted here and hope to see more top 20 from more countries! Thanks!
( )Jyrg1 July 30th
I liked Fabio Sasso’s work best. Nice collection though
( )Nigro July 30th
Great jobs!
( )Mauricio Hernández July 30th
Very good selection, i liked specially the work of Genaro DeSia Coppola, beatiful color scheme and sexy forms.
( )Vinicius July 30th
Fake… some works and features peoples are so bad.
( )I know to much better peoples here in Brasil.
dp July 30th
Some nice stuff here indeed.
( )Beto July 30th
Nice….although you haven´t seen colombian stuff!
( )EAMejia July 30th
This is central and south america, not only south
( )Rodrigo July 31st
And north.
( )supahfly July 30th
Awesome works!
Just a comment: Mexico and Guatemala are not a part of South America. Mexico is actually a part of North America and Guatemala a part of Central America.
( )Alvaro July 30th
Este post tengo que comentarlo en Español! excelentes diseños de muy buenos diseñadores de toda latinoamérica, felicidades a los artistas, muy buen trabajo
( )Alvaro July 30th
Anyway the title should be: 100 artworks from…. artist on Latin America
( )Bryan July 30th
Really nice work there
( )Jhon Leon July 30th
Good Designers and Designs overall. Good work! But I have to say, that Mexico, Panama and Guatemala are not in Southamerica, and that although tehre are good designers here, they are far from being the “top 20″. You can easily pick at random 10 designers from any faculty in Buenos aires or Bogota and they will probable have more jaw dropping stuff than the guys listed here.
( )MindTheGaspar July 30th
Very nice to see some recognition out there for latinamerican artists. As a novice designer from Panama, I must also express the joy of seeing two featured artists from my country.
( )Yurievi July 30th
You forgot to mention the Popwhore straight outta Mexico City.
http://popwhore.com/
http://popwhore.com/2007/
( )Yurievi July 30th
You also forgot …Cesar Moreno
http://1978.com.mx/1978/
( )dlv July 30th
excelenteeeeeeeeeee
por fin peudo hablar en español! jejeee
gracias por mostrar el trabajo de artistas latinoamericanos, felicitaciones a todos ellos !
( )4q July 30th
Not any Ecuador, Colombia, Peru or Bolivia artists??? F**k the list!
( )Cris July 30th
Gracias / Obrigado!
( )Hector July 30th
Most of the designers in this list should not be here. Mostly because of the awful color palette they use, inspired by the lack of understanding of design principles. Anyway, i think the title (apart from the south america thing) is right. These are digital artists and not designers.
If you want to see some great graphic designers from Latin America, this is not the place…
cheers.
( )RuthM. July 30th
great work, congratulations to all…
( )Tushar July 30th
nice work… really inspiring…
( )Corey July 30th
Great collection
( )chillyweed July 30th
Latinoamèrica que bien mucho talento felicitaciones brothers xP
( )felipe July 30th
de poca madre!!!
But… not all the countries are south american!! like Guatemala and Mexico..
The title is wrong … And i will add my favorites ones ….
http://www.albertocerriteno.com
http://www.eduardorecife.com
Saludos!!!
( )Alex July 30th
Hey!! Lovely Post, Very fresh and nice Style my congrats, i hope PSD.Tuts look more to Latin America. Well Done
( )guilherme lima July 30th
I from Brazil
My portifolio
( )http://boomovies.deviantart.com/
Benjamin July 30th
Un honor
( )unadventurer July 30th
wow tenfold. amazing comp. im gonna go cry now.
( )tavitooo July 30th
Excelente!! y donde esta Peru!!?
( )Earn31 July 30th
good stuff, but mexico is not in south america
( )ricardo villavicencio July 30th
This is a joke, right?
( )It feels like the new white trash…. too bad guys, it’s a college competition?
A friend of mine sent me this link… and i dont know.. this sucks!
aledesign.it July 30th
Fantastic, Fantastic, Fantastic, Fantastic, Amazing.. I love so much this post. incredible picture! Wonderful!!
( )Django July 30th
Holy **** since when Mexico is in south America? horrible
( )Enrique García-Salgado July 30th
wow, very nice images! i hope i can be listed someday
( )and yes, Mexico is not South America.
JohnM. July 30th
Wow these are great. I really like Ricardo Ajcivinac’s (#7) work. He should def. make some tuts for this site!
The “AMOR” piece is dope!
( )TrongHieu July 30th
wow . So amazing. I like #14’s style the most
( )lawrence77 July 30th
Huge and great list…
Good post Danny….
2 Thumpsup…..
( )D-kon July 31st
sorry for OT but everytime the same.
“i have nothing to say… but i’ll do it anyway…”
in nearly every new topic a senseless post.
please… please please think about it.
i’ve watched it for a few month… and honestly:
only if i see your avatar, i know before reading what you’ve typed.
so please… if you have nothing specific to say, think twice IF you really
have to post anything.
don’t get mad about this now… just a suggestion
( )Amatatomba August 13th
He’s not allowed to say something is good and compliment the article’s writer? Compared to the other people who keep repeating “Mexico isn’t in South America” after it’s already been addressed.
Amatatomba August 13th
Sorry, ended my post without finishing my thought. Compared to those people, his comments aren’t bad at all.
chitiore July 30th
nice pieces of art! Go go guatemalans!!
Dude, Guatemala is located in CENTRAL America….
( )Madhavan M July 31st
Impressive….!! Very nice collection. Thanks for the post Danny!
( )ronit July 31st
some pictures r great,aw
( )Humza July 31st
Good features. They all have lovely art
( )Johnny July 31st
Awesome work!
( )Laura July 31st
Some of this is really great…lots of inspiration.
I really hate the third piece by Genaro DeSia Coppola though. I’ve seen it before and I think it’s disgusting…
Meh. Gamer chicks just get sick of being portrayed in certain ways I guess.
( )Camila July 31st
wtf? Mexico is at NORTH AMERICA and Guatemala at Central America. Even a kid knows it.
( )kochi dowel July 31st
Thanks for add me!! is such an honor
( )Nora Reed July 31st
These are very interesting and different. Definitely thinking outside the box. A lot of these have a very 80’s look to them. I wonder if that look is a particular interest in south America. They are beautiful!
( )Juan Molinet July 31st
hi dan!
my name is juan molinet, and i’m posted number 12, just like to say thanks, and to notice that the first image of my part of the post is not mine!
if you could take that image out or replace it for a work of mine, i would be thankful.
thanks!
( )Brian Bartholomew July 31st
http://www.eduardorecife.com/
Surprised this guy was not mentioned, but killer list regardless
( )Luis Lopez July 31st
I can agree with some people about Guatemala, Panama and Mexico are not in South America, it should be more like Latin America, and I think there is a lot of talent in the other Latin America countries not juts those mentioned here.
( )But anyway these guys showcased here are really talented no doubt.
Diego Diaz July 31st
Thank you very much for your support and for featuring my work in your article!.
Cheers from Guatemala.
Diego Diaz.
( )Flashy July 31st
There are some great designers in Colombia and Uruguay too.
( )Mario July 31st
I MUST SAY….
( )MEXICO IS STILL NORTH AMERICA
Travis July 31st
Very beautiful work. I can’t help feeling like they’re all doing the same thing with the exception of #4 & #11. If you scroll down the page at a medium pace you’d think you’re looking at one persons work. Very pretty. I especially like ROAN’s approach.
( )Rodrigo Francisco July 31st
Im really glad to be featured in this Article, and as Fabio Sasso said, there were a few other good names from Brazil to add! =D
Again, im pretty happy for being mentioned,
( )Thanks!
swapnil.gawande July 31st
its a very nice
( )Rodolfo bassetto August 1st
Hope to be the next brazillian guy in a list like that.. ^^
( )Adolfo Correa August 1st
thanks for the support!.. but i think that i don’t deserve to be in this article… maybe in the future…
cheers.
( )Genilson Lima August 1st
Muuuuuuito bom!Grandes fontes de inspiração!
( )Lucas Loyola August 1st
Sorry guys, but you did a BIG mistake with the South America countries, and there are more great artists in Brazil.
( )Paulo Canabarro August 2nd
Seems like you struggle a lot to make this post, most of the artists are not from South America, you missed great South American artists to give place to guys from Central and North America.
( )Rand August 2nd
Great designs… not to be a pain but is Mexico really in South America?
( )Sydney Architectural Photographer August 2nd
Regardless of where they are from it’s an inspirational collection of designs!!
( )Skellie August 2nd
Sorry for the geographical mistake everyone – geography is not my strong point! I’ve renamed the article correctly to specify ‘Latin America’. Thanks for your patience!
( )qualia August 3rd
i would’ve loved to see more, this stuff was great
( )César Evangelista Bautista August 3rd
Before anything else, I thank infinitely to include in their list of TOP 20 PSP Tuts Portal. It gives me a compliment and I hope to match it.
( )Thank you very much.
His friend and admirer.
Nikolas August 3rd
OMG! this is one of the things that I’ll have for design reference…all of these people are a GENIUS!…perfect Pictures..AWSM!
( )Gonzalo D. August 3rd
Chile has DEFINITELY got waaaaay bigger talents than those 3… and I bet the other countries got the same thing happening…
http://www.delrancho.org
http://www.salamagica.com
http://www.rburgox.com
just to name a few chilean artists who are way better…
a shame… at least on the chilean side…
( )Jon Arnold August 5th
amazing. thanks for the jolt of inspiration!!
( )Imran August 6th
Marvelous work.
( )Imran August 6th
GREAT WORK
( )Jasmin Halkić August 7th
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
( )Jaz August 7th
can you include asia??? and make a compilation in that continent thx
( )Pavel Kraus August 8th
Moc hezký, krásná a inspirativní grafika.
( )Nice and inspirative graphics.
Pavel from czech
ridgecity August 9th
Isn’t Mexico Northamerican? At least that the maps say.
( )Illusionist August 11th
I liked few of the pieces here, maybe because I am biased towards, not liking too much abstract (which was too much of a prevalent theme here). I really think the Craftsmanship and design idea, as well as impact was much better in the previous post from Europe.
( )Alexander Bonilla August 11th
that was the best art work i ever saw and i never got bored not like the ones in the museums
( )Claudio (aglioeolio) August 11th
Just Amazing. I would like to see some of them in museums in bigger sizes someday
Congrats from São Paulo, Brazil
( )El Nitro August 11th
Come on, you call ALL of these guys top artists?
I mean, most of them are pretty skilled but I believe other people deserve being in this list instead.
Why isn’t MASA on the top spot then? They’ve been around for a long while and have an impressive skillset and portfolio.
Where’s César Moreno? (1978.com.mx), Chiara Bautista (www.myspace.com/logyu) and Alberto Cerriteño (www.albertocerriteno.com)? I easily consider them Mexico’s best illustrators today.
Where’s Nelson Balaban (xtrabold.net) and Guilherme Marconi (marconi.nu)? They’re all far better than most listed on here.
Someone needs to review their selection carefully.
Greetings from Mexico City.
( )El Nitro August 11th
P.S. Mexico is in North America and not all of Latin America is in South America. Check your geography
( )Amatatomba August 13th
That’s been said like a hundred times.
( )Daniel August 14th
Buenisimo!!
( )Ramon Allnightlong Mexicano August 15th
I’m surprised Doma (Doma.tv) from Buenos Aires Argentina was left out?
( )madman01 August 15th
thanks for this!!! a breath of fresh air. so much awesome artwork
( )Jose August 17th
Very nice work, excellent post!
Two more talented designers for the list, from Argentina:
Gianluca Fallone:
http://www.gianlucafallone.com/
Alex Dukal:
( )http://www.circografico.com.ar/
Lucas (brazil) August 18th
Come on seriously….latin american countries have so many artists 1000 times better than these …. Such cliche and unimaginative ideas, following a cliche isn’t making art, its bringing filth into it’s name: things that have no meaning, over contrasted, leter art…. come on. Squiggly lines that have a cheap outer glow on them. Excluding 3 or 4 people from the list, the rest aren’t good at all, not artists, not artists. Maybe next time you guys should do a bit more research before you post something that’s extremely inaccurate and cliche. People that follow others like cliches and all that junk, not artists, not people that can think for themselves… Just being sincere.
( )German August 18th
I agree with Lucas.
( )alejandro August 21st
It seems to me that blog’s owner needs to refine his eyes.
( )Ruman Malik September 1st
mind blowing…..
( )protokulture September 8th
C’mon guys, I really don’t know why I still read comments about… who should or shouldn’t be here, is that you are simply jellous ? just apreciate te job that it implyes. Just go and check out so many portfolios, it’s kinda hard to tell who’s next in appear, go and make your own list, get publish it if you’re disagree, but just queep in mind that tuts+ is fine and strongly recommended on inet, and their post was created by professionals and objetive people.
BTW I’m sick and tired about to read if México, Guatemala, Panama aren’t in south américa, c’mon guys, it has been corrected by author, please stop mentioned, or is it because you don’t have any creative words to share?
I’m a nearly known of ROAN (since I move to LA from Ontario and start to work in a local firm) because the Inet and I only can say that the kid rocks.
Keep it Tuts+
( )Loolitah September 13th
Super great collection, it inspired me a lot. Great artists.
( )Jat September 16th
Excellent work we go latinamerica.
( )@ilovek September 23rd
Good stuff
( )