There has been a gang of amazing poster artists toiling away this year for the Flight of the Concords 2009 spring tour. The results of their collective efforts can be seen here and if I may, they are amazing. Some of them are just absolutely beautiful works of art. I wanted the Aaron Horkey poster desperately, but unfortunately they are already sold out.
“Khristian is currently 21 and proudly resides in the Western suburbs of Melbourne. Khristian graduated from his degree in Communication Design from 2008 and is currently completing his honours at Swinburne University. He is also contributing at the faculties in-house studio, Design Centre, as apart of his studies.”
Everyone is making a big ‘to-do’ about the fact that he is only 21 years old, but I think the real ‘to-do’ is about his work being really good.
For the record, I think the age thing is a bunch of BS. Our culture is too obsessed with youth as it is. It’s a bunch of hype and it doesn’t pay homage to those who have gained wisdom enough to pass the torch.
What about longevity? To stay current and maintain in the creative field, you have to have real gusto and absolutely refuse to give up. There are always more flash-in-the-pans than eternal fires. A lot of people peak out when they’re young but there are a precious few who get better with age. Enough with the “OMG he is only 14 crap already.”
Joshua has posted some work to his new Krop portfolio. It looks like there are several pieces, at larger sizes that I haven’t seen before at his personal website. If you like his signature vector style, it’s worth a browse to see what he has been up to. Prolific. He has his niche cornered, that is for sure.
Richard Carey recently graduated from Brighton and already has some stunning work in his portfolio. It’s nice to see him redesigning/inventing projects like vinyl album packaging for his favorite bands in order to fill his book with timely and relevant graphic design. Very smart.
There is some really nice corporate branding work in the Behance-folio of Danish Designer Sebastian Gram. He also has a personal portfolio site.
Onlab is a design firm and co-founder of Etc Publications, a platform for independent publishing based in Berlin.
“Andrew has been working as a graphic designer since graduating from Leeds Met University in 2004. He has spent the last 3 years at B&W Studio, a creative agency based in Leeds where the majority of the work featured (on his site) was produced.”
There is some very unusual and beautiful design/illustration/art direction work in the Behance-folio of Paris-based, Romain Lenancker.
There is some gorgeous design for print in the portfolio of Design Unit.
About DU:
“Designunit creates visual expressions for brands through graphic design and imagery. Our work includes design and art direction of visual identities, packaging, interactive design, magazines and books.”
Tomi and Cherry is comprised of artist and photographer Tomi and illustrator, graphic designer and artist Cherry. They are currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I like to think of them as the Argentine fashionista version of Tom and Jerry.
“The Welltime is a design and communication studio founded in 2005 by Vanessa Farnot and Jose Palomero.”
“We May Vary is a showcase of work from thirty five graduates at the University of Salford – from the graphic design degree course. The work varies from illustration and typography to screen based work. All the work featured includes self initiated projects & commisioned work.”
There is some really great work in there.
22-year-old Bath School of Art & Design student, Tim George has some downright beautiful graphic design already in his book.
The guys behind Design Is Kinky have launched a website to showcase the project work they have completed whilst running their blog, circulating their own magazine and pulling off one of the best annual design events on the globe (Semi Permanent).
Atelier Müesli has a very large and eclectic body of work. There are some real gems in their portfolio and they aren’t afraid to experiment.
Marque Creative have updated with some clean and beautiful graphic design work.
Grand Army also emailed this morning letting me know they had updated their website and also their portfolio. I am a big fan of the Letter Press Series experiments.
Jodi A.K.A. Stefano Dembro, sent me a nice email this morning letting me in on the tidbit that he had updated his website with some really nice new work across several mediums.
