British born, New York based typographer Craig Ward continues to update his portfolio with decorative typography employed to illustrate the concept driving the meaning of the words.
Liverpool born illustrator Adrian Johnson has kept busy and has been updating his portfolio with more of his simple in execution yet sophisticated in wit illustrations.
London based studio Hat-Trick Design have not only an interesting body of work but an equally interesting way of displaying it. They are also on the lookout for a Senior Designer and I am guessing it would be a healthy learning experience being under their employ.
Adam Ellison graduated from the University of Brighton in 2008, and he is currently working as a freelance illustrator/designer back home in Essex. He recently updated his portfolio with some fun and colorful work.
Swedish design studio Ateljé Altmann has a no frills squeaky clean body of graphic design work for print. It’s sharp and classic with a strong emphasis on typography.
Brazilian illustrator Clayton Junior has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1999. He is currently based in London where he develops work for editorial, music and motion graphics. He holds an MA degree from the Camberwell College of Arts. He works with a pronounced retro-inspired style as an independent illustrator, and is represented as an animation designer by Studio AKA.
I am taken by this hand drawn alphabet by the Russian design collective Dopludo. It must have taken forever to not only to draw each letter but to think up what each letter would be. It’s an impressive effort.
Kid Plastik is Drew Taylor who pushes pixels by day and DJays at night. He definitely has a point of view happening throughout his work and it’s easy to see how his music lifestyle influences his design work. On a side note, I also like very much how he utilized his Cargo site.
Xavier Barrade has updated his very unique portfolio of work with some new and thought provoking projects. The above image is from a self-initiated project called ‘The Book’ which is a photo book about the presence of books.
Lab Partners is the collaborative work of Ryan Meis and Sarah Labieniec who are based in San Francisco. They have a friendly retro-inspired style that is hard not to like.
Hey Studio got in touch to let us know about a new graphic identity system created for the Spanish graphic awards publication called ‘Laus’. The system incorporates several stunning examples of editorial print work.
Make Believe Studio is a small home based design studio in Omaha, Nebraska. Having grown up in Nebraska, I am always excited to see a decent portfolio from there. MB&CO has just such a portfolio with a lot of projects being entertainment and music based.
Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British) have stayed busy updating with a few new projects at Non-Format (Awesome). Their minimal and geometric typography have become a staple in the list of go-to inspirers for contemporary graphic design and that is for good reason. Their work is downright classic and so is their approach.
Francisco Lopez and Monica Brand update their collective portfolio under their studio name Mogollon with more stylish music, entertainment and fashion-centric project work.
Stockholm based Museum Studio has been busy and has been updating with some new and as always unique project work. I cut their two posters for the exhibit “It was on Earth that I knew Joy” at the SCION artspace in Los Angeles in half just two show how the two worked together. Like I said, very unique and always interesting work.
Norwegian design firm Bleed has been busy and updated with several new projects. They continue to step up their game with a higher degree of sophistication in both their presentation and project work.
Graphic Havoc or GHAVA for short has stayed busy and have lately worked on campaigns for both AOL and Mtv. They are a staple on the inspiration list for a lot of graphic designers but they have turned much more strongly toward direction as of late. I particularly enjoyed some of their recent retro Napoleon Dynamite-inspired T.V. spots.
Brazilian design studio Quinta-feira which means ‘Thursday’ in Portuguese are cranking out a heavy dose of graphic design for print and editorial and have managed to amass a nice body of contemporary design work. I wrote about them way back in 2008 but they have continued cranking out good work since.
