The graphic design studio Cyan was established in 1992 by daniela haufe and detlef fiedler in berlin. They have a large modernist body of work with a heavy emphasis on typography. There is an impressive cache of posters in their portfolio and you can kill some time looking through the large images of their work.
Niky Roehreke is a german/japanese illustrator who graduated from the Central Saint Martins with a major in Graphic Design. She currently splits time between Tokyo and New York and has completed an internship at Mike Perry’s studio.
Vít Zemčík put the work of Josef Muller Brockmann in motion for an educational project made during the International Typography Workshop in Czieszyn. The task of the project was to put a print design masterpiece into motion.
Minneapolis based graphic designer Diana Quenomoen has a playful portfolio of work with a heavy emphasis on typography. She has some simple and classic work in her book.
Spanish graphic designer Alberto Hernandez has some excellent editorial print work in his portfolio including a controversial foldout brochure/poster essay about the work of Shepard Fairey.
Tom Sewell is a former designer from Studio Output who has decided to go on his own. He has some excellent work already in his portfolio and has a definite penchant for provocative image making. Skulls are forever cool.
The Future Mapping Company is producing some very unusual maps that bridge the gap between functionality and decorative technical art that any good graphic design lover would appreciate. I am thinking about picking one up to put in our studio. They are very reasonably priced and each has an interesting feature making them unique works of graphic art.
I believe I have written about the work of Jonathan Looman. He goes by the name ‘Lowman’ and his primary focus is the creation and manipulation of typefaces. According to Looman his ‘aim is to examine the associative powers of letter shapes and communicate at an intuitive level and so trigger the visual intelligence of the reader.’ He has some great work on display at his website ‘I am Lowman‘.
“Lorin Brown is a 23 year old Calarts grad, living and working in Los Angeles. He runs One & Done Studio which is an umbrella for his design and illustration work. His work has appeared in magazines, on t-shirts, album covers, and other printed matter. He has worked with The New York Times Magazine, Good Magazine, Stussy, Sims Snowboards, and a few others. He’s often praised for his unique talent of being able to sleep anywhere.”
Excellent work.
Toronto based designer Brian Banton is in possession of a small but striking portfolio of work.
French École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués de Bourgogne graduate Florian Chevillard labors under the aptly chosen name ‘Buroloco‘ which goes far in describing not only his approach but his body of work.
I wrote about Zip Design a very long while back and the London based multi-disciplinary design studio has since updated with some new and sharp looking project work.
Bison represents the work of Linsey Levendall and Daniel Orme who together form a creative studio based in Cape Town, South Africa. They have some highly illustrative, and at the other end of the scale strikingly minimal design and illustration work in their collective portfolio. All in all, it makes for a notable body of work.
Illustrator John Mattos has only one long and glorious scroll of beautiful images in his Behance-folio but it is oh-so-worth-checking-out. Mattos is the recipient of over 100 awards for graphic excellence from various graphic magazines and design organizations including a Gold Medal from the New York Society of Illustrators, Gold from the New York Art Director’s Club and Silver from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators. He has illustrated for just about every client and magazine you can think of and has also developed institutional projects and provided consulting for Harvard, Stanford, Art Center College, N.Y.U., Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of the Pacific, Brigham Young University.
The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) will presenting its annual letterfest conference Typecon from August 17th – 22nd at the Century Plaza Hyatt Regency in Los Angles. Typecon is the largest conference of it’s kind in the United States focused on typography. This years conference will be featuring more than 70 of the brightest names in type and design. You can expect dozens of workshops, presentations, panel discussions, networking events, tours, and social gatherings that will form a typographic adventure that will inspire you and your approach to typography for years afterward. You can learn more about the event at the Typecon website.
As a part of the conference every year there is an exhibit of the best typographic posters… this is where you come in. We are looking for poster submissions that are typographic in nature. Every year the turnout has been overwhelming in quality and in content. In the past the poster shows have done things like travel the world or been acquired by an art gallery. This year we expect the best show yet. The entries will be curated by the highly regarded graphic design and typographer Michael Cina of Michael Cina Associates. This is your chance to have your work seen by some of the brightest and biggest names in the industry of type and design.
Your typographic poster can be literal or abstract. In order to enter, you can click here to download the PDF submission form and complete the entry portion of the second page. After that, you ship your poster and you are ready to go. Changethethought will be covering the turnout so you can expect to hear more from us as both the exhibition and conference unfolds.
We can’t wait to see what you produce.
Salutpublic got in touch to let us know about having launched a new website. They have some very highly considered work for both editorial and webs in their portfolio.
Allan Peters is a Senior Art Director from Minneapolis working at BBDO. His work has been recognized by Effie, AdFed, AIGA, Print, How, Davey and Rockport. His series of ‘posters on a stick’ are just downright brilliant.
I can’t say much about the work of studio Losiento other than the work does all the speaking needed as it is smart and extremely sharp.
