20 graphic designers to follow on Behance

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With almost 30 million portfolio views in the past 30 days, Behance is quickly becoming the place to be for creatives. It's a great place to find new work and creative inspiration from top graphic designers and agencies.

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But, with so many of them to browse through, it can be difficult to know where to start. So to make things easy for you, we've done the hard work and picked 20 of the top graphic design portfolios that are definitely worth a look...

01. Montserrat Llaurado

With over 12 years experience in the graphic design industry, creative director Montserrat Llaurado certainly knows her stuff. Beginning her career in the advertising field, she teamed up with commercial director Pep Bosch, with whom she developed her eye for immaculate art direction, photography and film editing.

Her work helped Pep score two of his three Cannes Lion awards. She is currently working as the creative director and international head of design at the Lomographic Society in Vienna, Austria.

02. Jack Crossing

Jack Crossing graduated from Bath Spa University with a degree in Graphic Communication in 2008. He is now working as a graphic designer at EMPIRE Design in London. His innovative approach to graphic design has gained him plenty of appreciations among the Behance community.

03. Sam Pemberton

Sam Pemberton is an award-winning graphic designer with more than twelve years’ experience at some of Australia’s most reputable brand consultancies including Generation Alliance, Landor Associates, EKH Branding House (now known as Yello), Precinct, Principals, The One Centre and War Design.

04. Rob Pratt

London-based graphic designer Rob Pratt is currently working as the creative director at Jungle Creative. The agency has an impressive list of clients including MTV, Google, Sony and Virgin.

Rob won gold at the Graphis Logo Design 8 awards in 2011 and was highly commended at this year's IVCAs. His portfolio is a brilliant mixture of letterpress business cards, web design and leaflets and brochures.

05. Joshua Davis

With over 1,000 followers and over 40,000 project views, Joshua Davis's graphic design portfolio is well worth a look. Based in New York, Joshua is an artist, graphic designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions. Since 1995, he's been using technology and computers as a medium to create projects.

06. Alexandra Bruel

Paris based graphic designer Alexandra Bruel has been causing quite a fuss on the Behance network thanks to her quirky clay creations. This poster in particular was done for the Virgin Media Shorts contest, which focuses on up-and-coming filmmakers.

English monthly magazine Creative Review commissioned illustrators from the Handsome Frank agency to create a poster for each selected film. There's even some 'How to' pictures, which allows you to gain an insight into Alexandra's extraordinary work.

07. Andreea Niculae

Only joining Behance back in January of this year, Andreea Niculae is still a relative rookie when it comes to the creative network. However, from the looks of her graphic design portfolio, there's certainly plenty of potential here!

Based in Worchester, England, Andreea has already taken part in a variety of projects including the Little White Lies D&AD Student Awards as well as a number of Penguin cover designs.

08. Josip Kelava

The last thing Josip Kelava's university tutor told him was that "The worst thing a designer can do is not get noticed.” From those words, he understood that it wasn't about making something look good, but creating an emotional response that meant more than just a pretty picture. Take a look at his portfolio and you'll see he's done just that.

09. Siang Ching

Siang Ching is a Singapore-based graphic designer and illustrator. She graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts with a Diploma in Visual Communication, and also gained a First Class Honors Bachelors degree in Design Communication from the LASALLE College of the Arts.

Ching is the founder of Pattern Matters who focus on patterns and the handmade aspects of graphic design, which is perfectly depicted in the above infographic.

10. Rizon Parein

Back in the early nineties, Rizon Parein started off as a graffiti writer with a strong passion for 3D letter styles. When leaving school at the age of 17, he started working with graphic design.

The past few years he has worked more and more with photographers; integrating models into 3D architectural and graphical sceneries.

11. Dan Mountford

Although graphic designer Dan Mountford currently only has one project folder to feast your eyes on, it's an absolute stunner. The Behance community seem to agree too, with the folder gaining over 750,000 views and 14,000 appreciations.

Currently studying and working as a freelance designer in Brighton, England Dan has already worked with the likes of The Economist, Urban Outfitters and New Scientist Magazine.

12. Jessica Walsh

Jessica Walsh is already pretty well-known amongst the graphic design community but just in case you haven't come across her work - here she is!

Based in New York, Jessica has already had her work featured in numerous magazines and books, and has also won design awards from the Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, SPD, Print, Graphis, among others. Moreover, she was named Computer Arts' Top Rising Star in Design.

13. Petros Afshar

An up-and-coming graphic designer born in London, Petros Afshar specialises in graphic design, typography, print making, logo design and illustrations.

He already has an impressive client list, which includes Microsoft, Verizon, Hugo Boss, Nike, Puma, Adidas, Red Bull, O'Neill, Metro, Digital Arts, Sunday Times and Popular Mechanics.

14. Yurko Gutsulyak

Yurko Gutsulyak has been working in the graphic design industry since 2005. Due to the success of his projects, he founded his own graphic design studio in Kyiv, Ukraine.

For such a short period of existence the studio won such awards, like Epica Awards, Golden Drum, Communication Arts, European Design Awards, LogoLounge, Wolda, Golden Hammer, MIAF, KIAF and Idea.

15. Jarred Nickerson

Jthree Concepts is a Seattle-based design studio owned and operated by Jared K Nickerson. The studio's main focus is graphic design, character, logo, videogame, editorial, and textile design. They also specialise in art direction and branding.

We love Jared's quirky approach to design; especially this foxy number above, which worked as a T-shirt and label design as well as the overall branding for the clothing company.

16. Glenn Jones

Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Glenn Jones has been working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator for over 19 years. This guy certainly knows a thing or two! After a succession of hit designs for T-shirt company Threadless, Glenn went on to create his very own range of T-shirt designs.

17. Nicki Van Roon

Currently studying graphic design at The School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Nicki Van Roon is showing plenty of potential with his Behance portfolio. As well as this awesome CD packaging design above, Nicki has also experimented with bottle design, typefaces and corporate identities.

18. Kronk

Kronk is a graphic designer who also specialises in toy design. Hailing from Johannesberg, South Africa, his designs are full of life and colour. He's proved popular among the Behance creatives with his comic-like style and illustrated printed posters.

19. Tom Haynes

Tom Haynes is a graphic designer who has recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Although still very much in his early days, the project above particularly caught our eye.

Tom was part of the process in designing Avund Goods - a minimal leather goods company combining the accuracy of modern technology with the feel of traditional crafts. Take a look at his profile to see more pictures of the stunning graphic design approach.

20. Federico Landini

Frederico Landini is a freelance brand, type and graphic designer. Based in Florence, Italy, Frederico already has some impressive projects under his belt. One of which, is this stunning corporate identity for whitescape, which was used across all mediums.

Have you seen any brilliant Behance portfolios? Or would you like to share yours? Let us know in the comments box below!