The small but considered portfolio of designer Anthony Dimitre who calls himself Surplus shows a lot of promise as does his clever thinking which can be witnessed simply by viewing how he strung his domain name together.
BKW&Co is a forward thinking design office located near Boulder, Colorado. They have some very good looking work in their portfolio and we have recently been in touch about hopefully working on some projects together in the coming year.
Berlin based graphic design studio Onlab has had a busy year and updated last month with a few new projects including an attractive set of materials for the Ménage à 3 speaking event at Bauhaus University Wiemar. Talk about a graphic designer’s dream project.
“Print-process is the new sister company to the online print shop Blanka. Print-Process was born out of the concept of creating print in a more democratic and liberating way for our customers.
With Print-Process the idea is to give more power to the customer. We have 1 fixed price structure [depending on the size of print you order] and the artists all work democratically to the same system. The customer can choose the print they want to own, but now depending on their finances or the size of the space they live in, they can chose the same great work but now are able to specify the size and better control the price they pay. The work is all digitally made to order to the highest giclee print standard, and to keep the cost friendly for the customer, it is made to an open ended edition. Some prints by some artists, whilst open ended, may run to a limited time frame. We believe this is an interesting way of getting our unique design work out to our customers without compromising artists’ individual standards. Our aim is that this will be a liberating concept and fulfilling experience for both our artists and our customers.”
Graphic designer Donna Wearmouth has a small but promising body of work that makes use of the barest of minimal forms and typography.
Designer Leif Podhajsky has been on a roll this year in a big way. He’s recently returned from working on the album art for the upcoming release from Lykke Li and recently posted some new work to his site for Tame Impala (I love that band). He’s one to keep an eye on in 2011 for sure.
Melbourne born London based designer/illustrator Timba Smits is a self described lover of all things ‘vintage’ or ‘old-looking’ and he puts that inspiration to good use in his sometimes sexy vintage-inspired design and illustration work. He complements those illustration skills with some strong design work and an obviously good sense of humor.
Famed design personality Stefan Sagmeister has updated with a brand spanking new website just before the new year’s bells begin to chime. The site itself features a home page that shows and an overhead view of his rather cramped workspace that updates once every minute. No studio nudity so far although I am sure some is to be expected or at least some X-acto blade self mutilation. One can only hope.
Multi-disciplinary creative agency Tsto is made up of a talented group of individuals including Antti Uotila, Inka Järvinen, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Johannes Ekholm, Jonatan Eriksson and Matti Kunttu. As expected they have a nice portfolio of creative work including a snowboard design for Burton. Wardrobe malfuction, nipple slip!
Julien Brisson who calls himself Plasticbionic hails from Nantes, France and recently worked as a Creative Director at Serial Cut (who also recently updated) but is now on his own freelancing for agencies worlwide with a nice collection of work in his portfolio.
Barcelona based graphic designer and illustrator Marta Cerdá Alimbau has updated her website and portfolio and wanted to share it with the readers of CTT. We felt obliged to tell you because we like what Alimbau does. Save us a seat at your favorite bar in the gothic quarter Marta, we’d like to take a little design/typography pilgrimage next year and would love to say hello.
Dan Mountford is a Graphic Designer/Illustrator and a student at Brighton University. His experimental photo collages have attracted a little buzz this past week because they are a lot of fun to look at.
We make it no secret that we absolutely love the posters produces by The Silent Giants and they recently updated their store with a new series for ‘Our Infinite Universe‘. You can buy them individually or as a set for only 100 clams which is an amazing deal for a truly artistic set of prints. We just wish the previews were a hair bigger so we could get a better preview of how beautiful the posters are in the storefront. They are one of the best new shops out there though for what they do and they just keep getting better.
Philly-based design studio/poster-making shop Heads of State have updated both their website and portfolio with new work. The site is exactly what it needs to be as well letting the work speak loud and clear for the studio.
Tastefully minimal editorial work marks the portfolio of Amsterdam-based Mainstudio. Their layouts for Mark Magazine are quitely simply gorgeous.
Edit is a project in which each participating designer was asked to represent a musical genre using only one element and one typeface that clearly states the genre. The end result is a series of minimalist posters available for purchase.
The infamous graffiti-inspired design crew 123 Klan have updated with a new website with several new projects including work for clients like dAidas, Nike, Stussy, Vans, Carhartt and Johnny Cupcakes. They’ve kept busy over the years and have really boiled their style down to what works.
Dutch illustrator and designer Stefan Glerum freelances out of Amsterdam with a retro flair and a real eye for typography.
