I have to admit that I am a gushing fan of Sci-Fi illustrator Dan McPharlin. Everything he puts his fingers too just turns into pure magic. He has updated his Flickrfolio recently with new album art for various bands that was completed in his trademark 70’s throwback style and all of it is just beautiful. Dan is the man.
Swedish motion design studio Upper First has been cranking out some noteworthy projects lately including the experimental music video above for Mille shot in collaboration with photographer David Einar. The use of mannequins as a canvas for video projection is super clever.
Design studio Sanderson Bob has updated with some delicious new print and product work that is simple, smart and beautiful.
Simple dropshadowed vectors with a soft Photoshop noise filter overlayed are serving Brighton-based illustrator Johhny Wan very well. He is sticking to what he has figured out how to do and the results are a lot of fun to look at. Be sure to click the links at the top of his Cargo site to see his work at other locations around the ole internets.
Wow, mark us down as huge fans of the retro comic book-inspired work of North Carolina based illustrator Patrick Leger. His work is bold and colorful but highly accessible from the childlike subconscious memories of every boyhood (or girlhood) comic book and newspaper comic fan.
French artist Marvin De Deus Ganhitas AKA Black Gepeto is laying down some strange abstract compositions that can be enjoyed via his Flickrfolio. We likey. Very strange yet very hip and of course that perfect combination is very French.
Director Danxzen makes porn punk for the Deadbots in a sort of American Apparel chick kind of way.
British illustrator Daniel Mackie does one thing very well and that is watercolor. It’s a bit of a lost art sometimes when it comes to illustration but Mackie is holding his niche firmly down with some lovely work for a long list of clients.
“The West Lobby is a kinetic space, centered around 8 giant central columns wrapped with mirrors and LCD screens. Rockwell Group’s LAB installed 384 displays on the columns and 26 behind the registration desk to create a platform for a variety of customized immersive digital experiences in the space. Off this lobby is the dream-like Vesper bar with a ceiling covered in metal mesh to look like a cloud, and shimmering silvers and whites throughout the space.”
Beautiful result from this effort.
Toronto based motion designer Nicolas Girard recently updated his reel for 2011 with some tasty goodness.
There are some good things happening at Plunk, a motion design and 3D studio that I can tell you nothing about because there is no information on their website whatsoever. But there is some good work happening.
Matt W. Moore got in touch to let us know that he has updated his website for 2011 with all new projects, new goods for sale and just all around newness.
Some people absolutely love the Zeitgeist series of videos and other absolutely despise them. There are obvious reasons for the emotions evoked on both sides of the equation that the videos ask people to consider. One thing that is absolutely certain and pertains to this website, is that they are definitely asking society to ‘Changethethought’. Please find the time to watch the entire video because it may actually do just that.
The design conference ‘Build‘ is putting some strong food out there for design thought including this great talk from Frank Chimero who the more I learn about the more I like.
Be sure to click the link and check out several other talks from the Build Conference that I would very much like to attend.
Russian illustrator collage artist Masha Rumyantseva has an interesting perspective primarily fueled by a bygone slightly naive era that seems slightly sad when put into the modern cynical techno-industrial societal complex.
Designer/illustrator Matt Leyen has some good yet simple stuff happening in his Flickrfolio and he has put a lot of emphasis on getting his work out through t-shirt design portals like Threadless and Design By Humans but I suspect if he keeps it up his work will break out into other areas.
I don’t usually blog about other blogs but let’s face it most of what is out there on blogs is being generated by other blogs, email submission, tweets and really in totality the exchange of electronic media. It’s cyclical. What it’s starting to come down to is what some of my friends like to call ‘content Djaying’ or in other words ‘curation’.
Visual Journal is a blog run by Oslo-based Swedish Graphic Designer Joakim Jansson who works as a senior designer at the multi-disciplinary agency Bleed. He’s relatively new on the ‘content DJaying’ scene but I really like the tracks he is laying down so far.
The above image is comes from the studio work of Teacake.
Photographer Irina Werning mined a little piece of popular art culture gold when she surmised the simple and seemingly obvious idea for her photo-series titled ‘Back to the Future’. The ‘seemingly obvious’ idea (that you wish was yours) is that by using an old photograph of her subject as a marker to help her restage the exact same environment and expression of the subject allows for a humorous and sometimes inquisitive examination of what really happens as we mature into adulthood.
