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Future Deluxe created this animated piece for One’s Global Famine campaign. It’s a simple yet effective little piece showcasing some sharp art direction and nice typography.

Credits:
Created by FutureDeluxe / futuredeluxe.co.uk / twitter.com/​futuredeluxe
Creative Director – Andrew Jones
Lead animator – Jim Howells
Animation & post production – Jason Drew
Sound design – Zelig Sound
Illustration: Peter Greenwood
Animatic & storyboards: Persistant Peril / Will Scobie

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Future Deluxe, One, Typography

World famous doodler (that doesn’t sound quite right but you know what I mean) Jon Burgerman has updated his website with all manner of colorful new works. He’s also included a blog this go round that details some of the goings on in his life and that’s always a nice feature when you really love an artist and a lot of people love them some Burgerman.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, doodles, Drawing, John Burgerman, Painting

Alright I am just going to come out and say it, I love the stuff Alex Varanese does. It just oozes style and the likeability factor is so so high in his work. It’s like orange tic-tacs. I can eat a whole package of them in one sitting. He recently posted a few new things to his Behance including a series of visuals for an animated series he was considering called ‘I am Made of Robots’ and of course it’s awesome.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Alex Varanese, Illustration, San Francisco

Madrid based designer Pablo Abad has updated his portfolio with some colorful, psychedelic native-american influenced motifs which are a lot of fun to look at. He’s developed his own perspective when it comes to typography as well and you can once again see that in his updated works.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, Madrid, Pablo Abad

Tom Lane AKA Ginger Monkey (not sure where that name came from exactly, hopefully there is a good story behind it) has updated with some slick new graphic-based illustration work that makes a strong use of color.

written by Christopher | tags: Ginger Monkey, Graphic Design, Illustration, Tom Lane

Editions of 100 recently updated their store cache with some new prints including the print above titled KOMPAKT-KASSETTE by Daniel Freytag. They have done a nice job curating some minimal but attractive prints.

written by Christopher | tags: Editions of 100, Posters, Print, Silkscreen

Australian designer/illustrator/artist Zoran Nova has some excellent pop-inspired graphite drawings in his portfolio that are expertly rendered. We dig it.

written by Christopher | tags: Australia, Drawing, Illustration, Pop, Zoran Nova

“Jan-Kristof Lipp. Born in 1984, student at University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin, class Prof. Fons Hickmann, former Creative-Director for creative services for the germany-based publishing-house Gestalten, Ultra-Beauty-Operator for the De:BugMagazine and the good visual soul for the young musiclabels WHITE and Aim, Jan bounces back and forth somewhere between chaos theory and visual multi-disciplinary masterplan.

Jan works within a strong network of designers, developers, writers, journalists, musicians, djs and all kinds of good people in creative services.”

Ah to be young and talented.

written by Christopher | tags: Berlin, Graphic Design, Jan-Kristof Lipp

Barcelona based motion design and 3D studio Diestro are laying the foundation early to become a juggernaut. They already have some air tight network branding and animated 3D work under their belts. Best to keep an eye on them. Make sure to visit their website to check out more of their work in greater detail.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Broadcast, Diestro, network

So a bunch of kids break into a school swimming pool expecting a little above the law yet innocent fun and then…awesomeness ensues.

This is the official video for Dye’s single ‘Fantasy’ directed by animation wunderkind Jérémie Périn.

Directed by Jérémie Périn
Written by Laurent Sarfati & Jérémie Périn
Artistic Direction by Mikael Robert
Produced by Excuse My French / PH & Tigersushi
Executive Producer : Constance Guillou
Production Coordinator : Perrine Schwartz
Commissioner : Jill Caytan
“Fantasy” is taken from the DyE album TAKI 183.
Purchase via Tigersushi: tigersushi.myshopify.com/​products/​taki183
Purchase via itunes: itunes.apple.com/​fr/​album/​fantasy-remixes-special-edition/​id470893928?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Dye, Fantasy, Music Video

If you haven’t dropped in for a while or added it to your RSS, Space Knuckle is still adding all kinds of black and white and fun all over stuff to his blog at Dante Ross.

written by Christopher | tags: Blogs, Dante Ross, Josh Van, Space Knuckle

Bijan Berahimi recently updated with some tasty new print work. He was kind enough to send us a little mailer last year that we really liked. He has an interesting perspective when it comes to us use of type, color and layout. We dig it.

written by Christopher | tags: Bijan Berahimi, Graphic Design, Posters, Print

It’s been a little while since I dropped in on pop culture, psychedelic painter extraordinaire Dave MacDowell and I am glad I did because he has since posted some new works to his Flickrfolio for the Thinkspace Gallery that are fantastic.

written by Christopher | tags: Dave Macdowell, Painting, pop art, Pyschedelia

Mexican design studio Savvy is churning out some closely considered branding work. They list capabilities in Marketing, Communication, Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Architecture truly lending credence to the term ‘multi-disciplinary’.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Graphic Design, Mexico, Savvy Studio

If you are a letterpress fan (and we are) then you will admire the work of Minneapolis based letterpress studio Beast Pieces. They are consistently cranking out some gorgeous work for clients all over the map and their name is spreading far and wide because of it.

written by Christopher | tags: Beast Pieces, Letterpress, Minneapolis, Printing

The mainstream media has in many ways chosen to ignore the rising ‘Occupy’ movement which is now spreading virally across the U.S. Political pundits are already murmuring the sound byte ‘American Autumn’ after the ‘Arab Spring’. Here in Denver the Governor is currently at a loss as to how to deal with the protesters now camped out in front of the state capital.

In response to the lack of coverage one amateur filmmaker decided to shoot his own video at the source of the movement.

Directed by Alex Mallis + Lily Henderson
Cinematography by Ed David
Edited by Lily Henderson + Alex Mallis
Assistant Camera: Andrew McMullen + Diana Eliavoz
Assistant Producers: Dana Salvatore + Jillian Mason
Titles by Jason Drakeford.

BrooklynFilmmakersCollective.com

Alex – AnalectFilms.com
Lily – thinplacepictures.com
Ed – kittyguerrilla.com

written by Christopher | tags: American Autumn, Occupy Wall Street, Politics

Olivier Trudeau brings you a pretty fun little stop motion video all about ninjas and who could possibly resist that? Y’all got nuttin’ but love fo tha ninjas.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, film, Ninjas, Stop Motion

James Murphy throws a little sex, cartoons, satanism and a dash of colorful pop into his cauldron and churns out some fun imagery that would make for a nice screen print or two.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Characters, Drawing, Illustration, James Murphy