Michael Mcdonnell

Michael Mcdonnell is a Berlin-based Illustrative artist originally from Liverpool, England. His work implicates hand-drawn lettering combined with various playful illustrations and character designs.
Some of the artist's main inspirations come from advertisements from the 1950s and 60s. The artist likes the clean and minimalist style as well as the feeling of optimism from this era. Street Art and the quirkiness of European branding and logo styles are further things that influence the artist's works. It also shows a hand-drawn aesthetic and off-key style rather than something too sharp and clean. Street-life, Subculture, Music, Fashion, Skateboarding, and Cycle culture (Fixie/Track bike) are more things that inspire the artist in giving his analysis of the current state of affairs and opinions or ideas about the Zeitgeist as a whole.
The artist likes to work with a combination of wordplay and humour to comment on social attitudes and behaviour within different subcultures/movements and societies. He puts words together to make a prose/rap and highlights letters within these words to create brand new phrases. These phrases should get people to look deeper into the works and conjure up new feelings and ideas than what is readabl...