If you want a unique design that will look unlike anything you have seen before -- with custom hand drawing, animation, caricatures, flash animation, etc. the best artist I know is
http://www.mark2000.com/
Right now he needs work -- we went to art school together and he's a personal friend so if you want to ask him questions, contact me at
[email protected] and I'll send his phone #.
This guy can draw cool shit all day long and convert it to vector formats for flash or whatever -- so if you have a project where you need a custom drawings, characters, etc -- Mark will hook you up.