Grid Compositions

Clients: Domestika, Zoro, Audible

Work: Vector illustration, infographics, layout

One of my favorite creative exercises is creating a composition out of (sometimes) dozens of different illustrated assets, combining them into one layout. It forces you to think with an open mindset as you build and try out several solutions to a layout – like a puzzle you’re creating as you solve it.

With some client projects, I would often be left with lots of leftover illustrations that I couldn’t figure out how to share on their own. So I began experimenting ways to combine them together to fit into one piece, and it’s now become a signature style of mine that’s great for getting several ideas and subjects across at once.

I taught a Domestika course on how I concoct these compositions by using over a dozen separate illustrations and a simple grid. Using design principles like hierarchy, balance, and contrast, we can start to build a layout that looks cohesive and like they were always meant to look like this. In the course I go over my methods for not only creating vector illustrations, but how to think openly and creatively to combine them together, whether that be in the sketch phase or after your illustrations are completed. Below are some examples of how this one came to be.