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SantaMonica is a Barcelona based brand focused on clean, crisp and classic graphic design. Consequently they have an absolutely stellar collection of posters and tee shirts available for purchase at their website. The images are a little smaller at their home website but you can get a much larger view in their Behance portfolio. I was confused by the ‘Santa Monica’ part of their name when I first came across the posters, thinking maybe they were part of a public campaign created for the city of Santa Monica. Nevertheless, they are expertly designed and I could imagine the posters generating a healthy dose of conversation in the right setting.

written by Christopher | tags: Barcelona, Graphic Design, Posters, SantaMonica BCN

One of my most favorite British Illustrators Steven Wilson updated some time ago with a new website. It’s much easier to navigate his extensive portfolio now and the images are also much larger than they were on his last website. So you can get a good look at all of the melting, colorful and downright popoliscious work spilling from the mind and hand of Wilson. I absolutely love his work. It shoots an arrow straight into my pop art heart.

written by Christopher | tags: Brighton, Graphic Design, Illustration, Steven Wilson, U.K.

Brazilian creative studio Firmorama has recently updated their Flickrfolio with some new illustrations offering up some strange arrangements of even stranger elements. I’m not entirely sure what exactly they mean but they are very interesting to look at.

written by Christopher | tags: Brasil, Brazil, Firmorama, Graphic Design

Pablo Alfieri updates his Behance-folio with a final overview of typographical works generated for various purposes on 2010. It’s definitely a reason to keep a close eye on him in 2011 to see exactly what might be coming next.

written by Christopher | tags: Digital, Graphic Design, Illustration, Pablo Alfieri

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.

written by Christopher | tags: Anthony Dimitre, Graphic Design, Logos, Surplus

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.

written by Christopher | tags: BKW&Co, Boulder, Graphic Design, Illustration

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.

written by Christopher | tags: Bauhaus, Berlin, Graphic Design, Onlab

Although I think we posted within another post earlier this week that Spanish design studio Serial Cut has updated, it’s worth nothing in it’s own post as there are some excellent new 3D illustrations on display at the Serial Cut website. They have gone full throttle down the 3D illustration path and have continued to produce some striking imagery.

written by Christopher | tags: 3D Illustration, Graphic Design, Madrid, Serial Cut

“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.”

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Posters, Print, Print-Process, Products

Graphic designer Donna Wearmouth has a small but promising body of work that makes use of the barest of minimal forms and typography.

written by Christopher | tags: Donna Wearmouth, Graphic Design, Minimalism, Posters

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.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, New York, Stefan Sagmeister, Web Design

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!

written by Christopher | tags: Agencies, Graphic Design, Photography, Tsto

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.

written by Christopher | tags: Alimbau, Barcelona, Graphic Design, Illustration

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.

written by Christopher | tags: Brighton, Dan Mountford, Graphic Design, Illustration, U.K.

Linsey Levendall and Daniel Orme make up Bison, a creative studio based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica. They have been our radar for a while now but have kept updating their portfolio with new and truly beautiful projects that straddle the line between art and design.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Bison, Graphic Design, Illustration, South Africa

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.

written by Christopher | tags: Edit, Graphic Design, Music, Posters, Print

I can’t seem to find an ‘about’ page at the site of designer/illustrator Lukas Brezak but what I did find was a large body of work that runs from extremely illustrative to somewhat graphic. His talent is not under dispute and his work is a lot of fun to look at.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Surgery Collective

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.

written by Christopher | tags: 123 Klan, Art, France, Graffiti, Graphic Design