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Edgar Bąk doesn’t say much about himself at his website but he does have an attractive body of editorial graphic design work.

written by Christopher | tags: Edgar Bąk, Editorial, Graphic Design, Print

Film in the Blanks is an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters. It’s a very interesting study in graphic design and some of the results are a lot of fun to look at. See if you can guess what movie each poster represents.

written by Christopher | tags: Film in the Blanks, Graphic Design, Minimalism, Movies

Coppens Alberts is an Amsterdam-based design studio established by Patrick Coppens and Christine Alberts. Their focus is editorial design for web and print, identity and custom typefaces. There is some good print work in their book, just be sure to click the ‘shuffle’ button.

written by Christopher | tags: Amsterdam, Coppens Alberts, Graphic Design, Print

Auckland based design studio Everything has some exceptionally beautiful branding and print work in their portfolio. They take a a no nonsense approach to brand strategy and brand identity design, brand guidelines, brochures, websites, marketing communications, vehicle liveries, destination branding, exhibition design, signage, clothing and uniforms, advertising campaigns, marketing suites, annual reports, logos, information graphics, enewsletters, posters, direct mail, furniture, bikes, packaging, games…everything.

written by Christopher | tags: Aukland, Branding, Graphic Design, New Zealand, Print

Rumors Studio based out of Brooklyn has some nice identity work in their portfolio. If you are going to letterpress a business card, don’t mess around, just go for it.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Brooklyn, Graphic Design, Print, Rumors Studio

Buenos Aires based designer Pablo Alfieri is off and running this year with a new website chock-full of work for some huge name clients. It’s great to see him doing so well and see him move forward so quickly. It looks like 2010 is going to be a big year for him.

written by Christopher | tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Graphic Design, Pablo Alfieri

Minneapolis-based design studio Eight Hour Day continues to stay busy and build their client list with some big names, most recently Digg. Their clean, stylized, consistent and easy-on-the-eyes approach to design and branding makes them very appealing. It’s easy to see why they are keeping busy.

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, Eight Hour Day, Graphic Design, Minneapolis

Pogo is a boutique design studio based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have some great work in their portfolio but I was particularly drawn to their branding campaign for MTV’s 16 and Pregnant show. At first I think I was drawn out of sheer jealousy for what would most definitely been a great campaign to have been awarded but then I was really impressed by what they created. You don’t need to speak Spanish to appreciate the faux-infomercial above.

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, Argentina, Beunos Aires, Graphic Design, Pogo

Digital illustrator and Photoshop wizard Neil Duerden continues to stay busy working for numerous clients. He has recently added around 70 new illustrations to his portfolio which continues to grow exponentially.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, Neil Duerden, Photoshop

About:
USA BY DESIGNERS is an international artistic project whose aim is to unveil a multitude of images of USA from the inside and from the outside. Design as the expression of a cultural vision, a political vision or a simple and unposed feeling… Design and its diversity as a new way to catch USA.

USA BY DESIGNERS is a project of  HUG United ™  (HYPE UP GALLERY) co-founded by Astrid ROUSSEAU and Julien GRANDCLEMENT aka ODBO.

Call for Entries:
Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies, students, visual artists… you are welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental artwork inspired by the theme:  “WHAT DOES USA MEAN TO YOU? ” 
We are expecting diversity and freestyle: all styles of outstanding visual media are welcome. Selected works will be featured through online exhibit and book (more information soon).

You can read more about entering and the judges panel involved with USA By Designers here.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Politics, USA, USA By Designers

Belgian designer Tom Hautekiet has a great looking website and some equally good looking work in his portfolio. It’s just a fun yet simple site to browse through.

written by Christopher | tags: Antwerp, Belgium, Graphic Design, Tom Hautekiet

Art and design studio Morning Breath has updated with a new website and some new work in their portfolio. I guess I had no idea just how much album art they have done so that was a bit of an eye opener for me. I am more familiar with their poster/art/screen printing work and didn’t realize how much design is their bread and butter.

FYI: The above image is available as a signed 3 color screenprint here.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, Morning Breath Inc., Print

“Grafik Design Awards 2010 Launches to Celebrate Stars of UK Graphic Design Grafik Magazine, the UK’s only monthly magazine devoted entirely to graphic design is to launch its own awards scheme. The first Grafik Design Awards is open for entries at www.awards.grafikmag.com with a closing date of 31 January 2010. The awards event itself will take place 29 April 2010.

The Grafik Design Awards launches as the only UK awards dedicated solely to graphic design. The judging panel is made up of a combination of respected designers who represent a variety of disciplines and non-UK designers and non-designers who have a great understanding of the graphic design industry. Judges are: ANGHARAD LEWIS, WIM CROUWEL, NICK ROOPE, EMILY KING, EVA RUCKI, PETER SAVILLE, CAROLINE ROBERTS, BEN PARKER, KATE MOROSS, SARA DE BONDT, PHIL BAINES and MARINA WILLER.

Entry for one piece of work costs £50 and £25 for additional entries thereafter with a free three month subscription to Grafik magazine included in the entry fee. There are no categories; any work that is graphic-related and represents the broad spectrum of talent in the UK graphic design industry will be considered. It is open to all: individual designers, design groups, students, artists or companies. A total of ten projects will receive an award, with a coveted Grafik Design Awards Trophy also being awarded to ‘Best Newcomer’ to be judged and awarded by Peter Saville, and ‘Best Studio’ to be judge and awarded by Wim Crowel.”

This sounds like a pretty remarkable opportunity to get your work (if you live in the UK) in front of an amazing panel of judges. Thank you for the note Richard.

written by Christopher | tags: Contests, Grafik Design Awards, Grafik Magazine, Graphic Design

Un.titled UK Creative Director James Warfield has updated with both a new website and work. There is some beautifully considered graphic design in his portfolio including the above brochure for Hickling and Squires. He was kind enough to link back to Changethethought in his links section as well and I thank him very much for that.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, James Warfield, Print, Un.titled

My friends at the local (local for me anyway) Boulder, CO design studio Cypher 13 have been really busy this year and continue to push their name into all the right places. They have recently released a couple of new typefaces at Hype For Type that are now available for purchase and download. One of the fonts is a geometric compressed sans-serif while the other is a play on type rendered by liquid crystal displays.

written by Christopher | tags: Cypher 13, Graphic Design, Hype For Type, Typography

Venezuelan design studio MASA has a small update in their Behance-folio featuring a nice album design for ‘Los Amigos Invisibles‘.

written by Christopher | tags: Album Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Masa, Mexico

Barcelonian design agency Ruiz + Company have updated their website and portfolio. Choosing something from their body of work to represent them is nearly impossible. Every single project is impeccably produced and no-doubt analyzed and toiled over to the most minute detail. That is probably the reason for their long list of impressive awards that includes gold Clios, Gold from the New York Art Directors Club, Gold from the London International Advertising Awards and Silver from the Cannes International Advertising Festival. That is only a few of the awards they have won. If you are looking for some inspiration today, this will probably do the trick. Beautiful design. What are they putting in the water in Barcelona? I was just there, and I hope I brought some of whatever it is back with me.

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, Barcelona, Graphic Design, Ruiz and Company, Spain

There isn’t much in the way of information about illustrator Mateusz Kolek at his website. What you will find however are some really nice illustrations that speak more about his abilities than words could manage.

written by Christopher | tags: Drawing, Graphic Design, Illustration, Mateusz Kolek