“Duane King is a designer, thinker & writer.”
King’s thinking aligns his highly considered design work and it is exhibited beautifully in the same fashion as the recently relaunched website Thinking For A Living coded by CSS master and in-and-out sometimes Denver local Ian Coyle.
Although I have posted the work of Russian illustrator/designer Alexandre Efimov before, there are a few new bits and bobs in his portfolio that are technically masterful enough to warrant another look at his work.
Design and branding agency Kutchibok Ltd has some sublime design work in their portfolio all of which is beautifully realized and highly considered.
“TrustoCorp is a New York based artist (or artists) dedicated to highlighting the hypocrisy and hilarity of human behavior through sarcasm and satire. TrustoCorp targets areas in the public domain typically reserved for messages of trust and authority and subverts them with messages of mayhem and absurdity hijacked from the visual style of our authorities.”
TrustoCorp recently stocked some local store shelves with fake products in line with their above manifesto. I remember some guy stocking local Denver stores with fake Gatorade bottle that said something utterly meaningless about Tiger Woods. That was the wrong way to do something like this. Trustocorp has done it right.
Aaron Carambula, Dennis Payongayong, Erik Marinovich, and Jason Wong from Friends of Type have printed and released their first series of beautiful letterpressed posters that combine to create the statement ‘always play amongst friends’. The posters look amazing and you can see more detailed images at For Print Only.
New York-based Graphic Designer, Art Director and Photographer Irwin Tobias Matutina has a small but highly considered body of commercial work as well as some striking images in his personal cache.
Scroll down down down and down to see the primarily music industry related design and art direction work of Jacob Escobedo including a very nice project for Broken Bells.
Dynamo was created by Thibaud Tissot and Yassin Baggar to carry out self-commissioned editorial and typographical projects. They have a small but very promising body of work.
“Thibaud Tissot is a graphic designer who graduated from School of Applied Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH) in 2007. Since then, he works at onlab, focusing mainly on editorial projects.
Yassin Baggar is a graphic designer who graduated from School of Applied Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH) in 2007. He has been an intern at B&P Typefoundry and NODE Berlin Oslo. He now works on a publishing project with Christian Bordeaux and does freelance between Berlin and Switzerland.”
Over 500 works from the legendary Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel have been gathered here. Each piece can be viewed individually and zoomed in to look at a larger scale. It’s the holy grail of graphic design and if you are unfamiliar with Crouwel’s work, spend some quality time picking through it. This is inspiration guaranteed.
London based graphic design duo Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton who labor under the name Sawdust have recently updated with some new project work including a new poster for independent music artist Angel-A.
Brent Couchman has nothing to say of himself except for an impressive click-through of colorful sometimes retro-inspired design and illustration work that is highly considered and consistently good. Enough said.
Paul Fox is a ‘multi-disciplinary’ (there’s that word again) designer currently available for freelance positions. With a squeaky clean body of color-popping work I think any smart client would deem Fox’s work worthy of an A+. Alright, I know but I just couldn’t resist myself.
Bucharest-based ‘brand aesthetics’ company Acme Industries has an inspired body of design work taking a different approach to each project in order to achieve the best solution and highest vision for each client.
After 9 years in the commercial design industry including a stint at Gendall, Cornwall’s largest agency, Neil Tinson founded his own studio in 2007. He has amassed a nice portfolio of clean design work and continues to serve his local design community through teaching at both the University of Gloucestershire and University College Falmouth.
Ed at Ferndale, Michigan-based design and screen printing studio The Silent Giants has been keeping me posted as to their progress and it has been nothing but progress since they started. Every update to their website and portfolio is something amazing and I am just ever-impressed by what they are doing. Some of their recent poster and packaging work is beautiful stuff.
Brazilian design agency Quadradao has some work that is a bit of a throwback to a golden age of clean graphic design.
Graphic designer Michael Paukner has an interesting body of work on display through his Flickr photostream. What’s particularly interesting about his work is how he approaches each layout as an editorial piece communicating bits of factual and spiritual information. Not only is the work interesting to look at you also learn something new and fascinating through each piece. And he is lucky enough to call Vienna, Austria his home. How nice.
Genève-based Notter Vigne have a somewhat frustrating website, if you are not a fan of preload bars, but if you can spare a moment of patience the other thing they have is a fantastic portfolio of inspiring minimal design work.
