Independent creative consultancy Made By Six has updated their website (and it’s very slick) as well as their portfolio. There is some inspiring design work throughout the Made By Six portfolio and they have done an excellent job wrapping it in a website that really sets it off.
Minneapolis based husband and wife run design studio Eight Hour Day has updated with a new site and as always a portfolio of clean, considered and understated work.
There are several excellent examples of clean design and typography in the portfolio of Amsterdam-based Baster. My suggestion is to just click the random projects menu and just keep on clicking.
Maddison Graphic is a small design studio that was established in 2006 by brothers Edward and Alfie Maddison, and is based in Ely, Cambridgeshire. There is some strong, clean and classic branding work in their portfolio.
Brian Gosset’s chosen title ‘The Art of Doing Something‘ symbolizes his philosophy to do art he feels good about and in turn hopefully inspire others to get involved in making the world a better place to live in. That’s a noble stance. He also happens to have an absolutely spectacular commercial portfolio as well. He’s an inspiring talent.
“This Year I will Try Not To was born out of frustration, complacency and laziness. Most designers are seduced by design trends. They’re easy to appropriate, and even easier to imitate. The challenge is to innovate. To be new. We decided the best (and most enjoyable) approach was to identify and document the most common trends we felt we had to avoid. Before long we found ourselves with a checklist of DON’Ts and a new aim: to try to be new. We may fail, but we will try.”
A little manifesto produced by Elliott Scott and Christopher Doyle.
Justin Blyth who used to occasionally write an occasional somethin’ somethin’ for Changethethought and also runs the expertly curated image/pop/trend-inspiration blog Them Thangs (which is awesome by the way) is also an excellent designer/illustrator/motionographer and has just updated his website and portfolio. He also recently printed and released a curatorial magazine under the tile ‘Them Thangs’ as well. Needless to say, Justin is a multi-talented individual and whatever he is up to is worth looking into.
Australian graphic designer Fabio Ongarato has some cleanly executed work in his portfolio. He also has a lot to say about design as a discipline in his about section.
‘Tweed Tom‘ lives in London where he works as a creative for Antidote. In his spare time he illustrates obsolete ‘mechanical marvels’. He is also one of the five members of the illustration and design collective Evening Tweed. Tom has some excellent screen prints on his website. The ones that I like are selling for £120 which I believe is something like 2,000 dollars U.S. (just kidding), but they might be worth it as a unique piece of art as homage to the printing process.
UK creative studio A-Side has updated with new work and a new site. There is a lot of different styles of design happening throughout their portfolio and it’s expertly executed.
Southwest UK based Designer/Illustrator Mike Harrison has updated his portfolio with some colorful new work. There is some nice collage work for Nike featuring a cast of world famous athletes.
Designer/illustrator Pablo Alfieri recently updated his Flickr-folio with some really fun new work. He is keeping his color palette bright and wild and still experimenting heavily with typography.
Brazilian Designer/Art Director /Illustrator Rogerio Lionzo is currently working at Syrup in New York City . While living in Brazil he was one of the founders and Art Directors at Mopa studio. He recently updated his website and portfolio with some new stylish and trendy project work.
Greg Durrell updated his portfolio at ABRIEFHISTORYOF with some amazing work completed for the Olympics in Canada. The colorways, layouts and illustrations created for the rollout of the Canadian games is strikingly gorgeous and still amazingly clean and simple. It’s totally inspirational graphic design.
Loïc J. Sattler has updated his ‘online sanctuary’ that he calls Lysergid with some sexy new work featuring attractive ladies interwoven into trippy collages. Looks like you got a little oil in your bum there sweetheart.
Kern the Word is the work of Christopher Branson, a young designer currently located in Denver. A few weeks back a care package arrived on my doorstep that included a t-shirt, business card, stickers and a couple of very nicely printed books. They were sent by Branson and I later ran into him at the Bordobello kickoff event in downtown Denver. I was really impressed by his intelligence and ambition. He’s going to go a long long way just as soon as someone opens the door to opportunity for him. It’s tough out there these days in the creative market and just about every other market but he is definitely someone who would add unique talent to any team. If I could swing it right now, I would grab him up myself. Hopefully in a few months I will be in the position to bring in some young talent. That’s always where the future is. You hearin’ me Denver ad agencies?
Here is a brief description of The Little Book of Shocking Food Facts recently released under Fiell Publishing:
“Combining thought-provoking graphic imagery with truly alarming information culled from some of the most authoritative sources around the world, The Little Book of Shocking Food Facts is literally jam-packed with essential truths you need to know about global food politics, fast food culture and healthy nutrition. This startling yet visually stunning book is guaranteed to alter the way you think about food production, while also changing your personal eating habits for the better.”
The book was painstakingly designed, spread-by-spread by designer Craig Holden Feinberg. Craig studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and worked at Fabrica, The United Colors of Benetton Communications Research and Development Center in Treviso, Italy. Craig is a collective member of the Changethethought Creative Studio and is one of the most talented designers I have come across in Denver. I visited his apartment where he explained the creation of the books which took several months and involved literally concepting and creating each spread according to the fact meant for that particular layout. It was quite a process and Craig used everything he could think of including gathering up garbage, letting food rot, taking photos of his brother against a screen backdrop in his downtown apartment and putting just about anything you could imagine on his scanner.
The book itself is part of a larger series printed under Fiell publishing that involves communicating important facts and research in a digestible, visual way. Some remarkably talented designers and artists were involved in the creation of the books. You will be able to pick them up in places like the Museum of Modern Art for around 15 dollars. That’s a great deal for a book full of unique and timely art.
NY based design consultancy Original Champions of Design has rebranded the Girls Scouts of USA. It was a subtle rebrand but the rollout of the system included the creation and implementation of some well executed patterns. I think it was an intelligent approach to such a daunting project that involved such an iconic brand.
