Lesley Barnes

Animator/illustrator from Scotland. Click here for her blog.

Belle and Sebastian's I didn't see it coming, animation

Belle & Sebastian's tour poster, produced by strawberryluna

Alexander Girard

(1907 - 1993)
Architect and textile designer based in New York

Jacknife Posters

Jacknife Posters is a design based company from Bristol, producing some great gig and tour promotional posters, click here for their website.

strawberryluna

Is a duo of designers, Alison and Craig, from Pittsburg, using traditional printing methods. Click here for the blog

C S Neal

Neal is an illustrator and designer from Texas. Click here for his official website.

America Folk Art Museum

Established in 1961, they have an extensive gallery under collections on their website.

Folk Object

I found this blog, which displays pictures of folk objects from around the world, its an ongoing collectopn of graphic objects derived from the ornament and  utility of folk culture. Its curated by Clifton Burt.

Camilla Engman

Illustrator from Sweden, uses loose marks. Click here for her website.

Painting

Painting, using emulsion to veil and take away 

Screen print 

Converse design

Lena Sjoberg

Lena Sjoberg is an illustrator and writer of children's' books who lives in the country in Sweden. Click here for her blog.

Josef Frank Textiles

Architect, designer, and theorist Josef Frank (1885-1967) was known throughout Europe in the 1920s as one of the continent's leading modernists.

Wallpapers and textiles designed by Josef Frank have long been classics in the world of decor. They add a lovely mix of bold color, rustic imagery and a masterful use of overall pattern and scale to a room, they typify "Swedish Modernism" 

Elisabeth Dunker

Another blog Rosie suggested I look at was Fine Little Day by Elisabeth Dunker, who is an artist, particularly interested in hand crafted, folk art, outsider art and kid's art, click here for the link.  She has lots of links on her website. A recurring theme is the Scandinavian peoples have an appreciation for the outdoors that the British may not, this is reflected in the imagery used and the free flowing mark making

Screen printed pillow case

Screen printed ABC poster,

Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) Moomins writer and illustrator

Cover of 'Moomin, The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip'

Original images

Olle Eksell

Olle Eksell (1918 -2007) 1950s book illustrator

Imagery included is animal based and are quite simplistic and linear