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Shun Sasaki, Ikki Kobayashi, nuQ and Taro Uryu produce two mascots apiece, one each for the Olympics and Paralympics.

In the next instalment of our Movers & Makers series, we sit down with leading creative founders to learn how and why they set up their businesses. This week, we meet Verònica Fuerte, the founder of Barcelona-based studio, Hey.

While we’re constantly surprised (and pleased) by the oddly-elongated bout of sunny days we’re experiencing here in England, long days of sun are a regular occurrence for Spanish illustrator María Ramos. There’s nothing better than a picnic on days like this, and María agrees, illustrating a lunch full of character in her latest book, _Picnic,_ published by "Fulgencio Pimentel.":http://www.fulgenciopimentel.com/

Hagihara Takuya is a Tokyo-based artist and graphic designer. His abstract work packs a visual punch without providing any sense of narrative or communicating anything familiar. The patterns he creates, typified by a glitchy and erratic aesthetic that hints at a disruptive creative process, could at once be a failure of a computer programme or an interpretation of animal markings. Hagihara says he finds “inspiration everywhere” and graduated from the Institute of Faculty of Technology…

Graphic and illustrative forms since 2007.

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Recently, Antonio Carrau has been making collaged works out of “glace paper” – paper that's coated with a lacquer to give it a smooth and occasionally glossy appearance. Often used by schoolchildren in his native Uruguay, it comes in 10x10 sheets, and the limited colour palette “works really well” for Antonio, who has distinguished a signature aesthetic of collaging these papers together into wonderful compositions.

For the Korean creative, "graphic design is like weight training" as her design muscles gradually build up over time. The established exhibition identity designer discusses.

With a portfolio that spans colourful beer branding and a lot of nostalgic music posters, Polish designer Natalia Pawlak draws on the kitsch of 70s and 90s aesthetics to create a style that clashes type, hazy gradients, and cut and pasted cartoons.