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Brussels based designer Carine Collin has crafted some extremely simple yet profoundly attractive work for publishing.
Brussels based designer Carine Collin has crafted some extremely simple yet profoundly attractive work for publishing.
The Rethink Scholarship is an $18,000 scholarship for aspiring art directors and designers to Langara College’s Communication and Ideation Design program. The winner will also receive a 3-month internship with Rethink.
Contestants are asked to fill a sketchbook in any way they want, or take it apart and rebuild it into something totally different. The book should both demonstrate who you are while the same time showcasing your abilities as a creative. The sketchbook should not exceed 250 pages in length but bear in mind that a few great concepts is better than a pile of mediocre ideas.
Labzeus is the graphic design work of recently graduated but deeply life-experienced Denver based designer Brian Neumann. I am hoping to work with Brian on future projects as I embark on initiating the creative service branch of Changethethought. Brian has worked diligently to improve himself and his skillset and has grown by leaps and bounds since I first met him when we was in the middle of study. He is currently interning at Cactus here in Denver. I can say with certainty that he is also a really great guy and an equally great person to work with. He is currently accepting both freelance and considering full time opportunities in Denver. So you might want to try and snatch him up before I can figure out a way to keep him busy.
Bangkok born Graphic designer, illustrator and typographic illustrator Pomme Chan got in touch to let us know she recently updated her portfolio with a new typographic illustration completed in collaboration with Sean Freeman (who also has some new work that is well worth looking into). She also completed a nice series of illustrated type for New York Times Magazine. Pomme is currently based in London where she can be commissioned to lend her unique artistically organic style to new design and illustration projects.
Hamish Makgill has updated his Brighton based studio’s website at Studio Makgill with some haute new work that has been burning up the creative blog-wire all day today. There is some beautiful work for print happening throughout the updated Makgill portfolio.
“Scott Campbell is a graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker, and musician working and living in New Orleans, LA. After spending his early 20’s learning various printmaking techniques at Louisiana State University and Penland School of Crafts, he devoted his time to teaching himself screen printing, recording and playing music all over the country, and working on print projects within the music & entertainment industry.”
You may recognize some of his work as he is also one of the founding members of Chattanooga, TN print collective Young Monster.
Leeds based design studio Design Project is responsible for some downright gorgeous design for editorial print and branding. I have to find out how they produced the business cards for Progress Packaging.
“Form+Format was conceived out of a relationship between creative strategist Ita Jalaluddin, graphic designer Daniel Neye and multimedia designer Marcel Wessling.” Their partnership has allowed them to work with clients like Vattenfall Europe, Nike, Kitty-Yo and Entak.Inc / Kilo Records. Their work has been featured, published and broadcasted worldwide in magazines, books and festivals, such as Die Gestalten, MTV Asia, the National Film Institute London and the highly acclaimed NEMO Festival in Paris.
Moffit Moffit is a rather unusual design and branding studio being that it is a collaborative partnership formed by identical twin brothers Andrew and Mark Moffitt. Aside from their looks they also share a genuine love for design and that is translated into some exceptional work for branding, art direction, graphic design, motion and online design in their joint portfolio.
Greek Art Directors Dimitris Koliadimas and Dimitris Papazoglo joined forces to launch the design studio Designers United. It has been onward and upward since with an expanding list of clients and a growing body of exceptionally realized graphic design and typography work.
Michael Cina is a long time inspiration to many of us in the modern design field. His work for We Work For Them was an influence on a lot of young designers in the last 10 years. WWFT also eventually lead to the start of the online storefront You Work For Them that many of us have purchased a book or poster from at one point or another. Michael is making some moves in 2010 and returning to his first love, design. He has recently updated his personal experiment depot True Is True for the first time in a long time. He has also launched Michael Cina Associates where he will be taking on design projects in 2010. It will no doubt be exciting to watch for the result of his efforts and we at Changethethought wish him the very best of luck in his new venture.
Edgar Bąk doesn’t say much about himself at his website but he does have an attractive body of editorial graphic design work.
Film in the Blanks is an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters. It’s a very interesting study in graphic design and some of the results are a lot of fun to look at. See if you can guess what movie each poster represents.
Coppens Alberts is an Amsterdam-based design studio established by Patrick Coppens and Christine Alberts. Their focus is editorial design for web and print, identity and custom typefaces. There is some good print work in their book, just be sure to click the ‘shuffle’ button.
Auckland based design studio Everything has some exceptionally beautiful branding and print work in their portfolio. They take a a no nonsense approach to brand strategy and brand identity design, brand guidelines, brochures, websites, marketing communications, vehicle liveries, destination branding, exhibition design, signage, clothing and uniforms, advertising campaigns, marketing suites, annual reports, logos, information graphics, enewsletters, posters, direct mail, furniture, bikes, packaging, games…everything.
Rumors Studio based out of Brooklyn has some nice identity work in their portfolio. If you are going to letterpress a business card, don’t mess around, just go for it.
Buenos Aires based designer Pablo Alfieri is off and running this year with a new website chock-full of work for some huge name clients. It’s great to see him doing so well and see him move forward so quickly. It looks like 2010 is going to be a big year for him.
Minneapolis-based design studio Eight Hour Day continues to stay busy and build their client list with some big names, most recently Digg. Their clean, stylized, consistent and easy-on-the-eyes approach to design and branding makes them very appealing. It’s easy to see why they are keeping busy.