1. Dan Tobin Smith

Artist Dan Tobin Smith doesn’t build his works in photoshop– he carefully selects a world of color and creates these chromatically-bisected works of art by hand.  You’ve likely seen Smith’s work before, he created the album cover for Jay Z’s The Blueprint 3 (which we talked about moments ago in another post).  Long before the Jay Z album cover, Dan Tobin Smith developed a style so unique, so different, that his work is gaining international acclaim by the minute.  When Jay Z’s latest album goes platinum, that’s essentially a million copies of Smith’s work sold into the public.  [see more at dantobinsmith.com]