Chris Robinson

“[My work] tells stories from the African American experience that creatives can use in everyday design. Visual representation is so important right now.”

Meet Chris

Houston, TX-based illustrator Chris Robinson’s (he/him) work brings together his professional experience in graphic design and his personal cultural heritage. His illustrations depict subjects playfully while remaining deeply rooted in rich family and cultural histories.

“While searching stock illustrations on various sites in the past, I identified a lack of representation of Black people,” he says. He turned this discovery into an opportunity to bridge the gap in design by creating his own characters and backgrounds that reflected these resilient communities. With his commission project for Adobe Stock, and inspired in part by the Family Life creative brief, Chris aims to highlight the Black family, and all the beauty of Black culture through illustrations, patterns, and design in his signature style.

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