Michael C. Place at Build has an idea for a set of A6 postcards matching actual historical events, births, deaths, scientific breakthroughs with their proper Pantone color. There is more information about the subject on the reverse side of the card. He used Wikipedia as a reference. I say print those bad boys up.
Publik has been kind enough to grace the world with a genuine reprint of the Experimental Jetset t-shirts that swept over the globe and inspired a million imitations.
But now you can grab the OG.
London-based design studio Proud Creative has relaunched with a clean and cracking new website brimming over with beautiful examples of contemporary graphic design.
Alex Witjas currently works at Mike Perry’s studio in Brooklyn where she is generating some colorful design work that is just flat out good fun.
Michael Freimuth is an art director, designer and illustrator based in New York City. He works at Tender in Manhattan and also serves at the Creative Director for Chicago-based Proximity Magazine and the desgign journal Matériel. His portfolio of design work is stunning.
French designer Jonathan Budenz has some wild and crazy work in his portfolio. I can’t profess to liking all of it but some of it is just nuts (in a good way).
Stockholm-based design agency, ClapClap have some very nice design and identity work in their collective portfolio. There is some nice use of color happening throughout.
Olga Midlenko is motion/graphic designer and director who has conceived some beautiful imagery for style boards. It’s more art to me than imagery for motion graphics. Her original love was interior design and architecture but there is no questioning her talent for motionography.
Bleed is a multi-disciplinary design consultancy based in Oslo Norway. They have an interesting website and some equally intriguing work in their portfolio.
The typographical illustrations created by Jonathan Zawada for the ‘Big Mouth Project’ are just downright spectacular. You can read more about the project at Zawada’s website.
Australian design firm Qube Konstrukt sent a note that they have launched a new website featuring some slick new work.
Albert Exergian recently completed a series of posters on the theme of popular TV shows. He kept with an extremely minimal approach throughout the entire series. Minimal is the new black (and I think it is here to stay for a while).
There is some really nice graphic design happening in the portfolio of Spanish designer Erola Boix. Click on the little images at the side to access the different pieces in the portfolio.
The Casual Optimist has posted a nice Q and A with David Pearson from David Person Design on his process for generating some truly beautiful covers for Penguin Books.
I have posted the GDI’09 website before but ran across this poster at Dropular today and had to repost the GDI website. The site was created to showcase the work of 2009 graduates of BA(Hons) Graphic Design & BA(Hons) Illustration at the University of Brighton. There is just some stellar work in the student portfolios. Really inspirational.
I am a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick. I am also a huge fan of his landmark achievement in film that in my opinion has never been matched, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I am also a fan of Kubrick’s favorite font, Futura. Tonight while watching that movie with my computer in my lap (like any good multitasking American) I thought it might be fun to knock out some posters celebrating 3 of my great loves with 3 different posters. I realized in the process just how remarkable the movie really is that it can be represented through such minimal symbology. Anyway, it was a fun little exercise and you can see the other 2 posters in the print section of the site. I am not sure I could print a run of these without getting in trouble but I will probably print some just to hang around my home.
The Church of London emailed while I was on holiday to let me know about the latest issues of Little White Lies and Huck magazine. Both of the current issues are running features on Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are. To commemorate the release of the film they hired Geoff McFetridge (who created the final credits for the movie) to create an illustration that can be split across the covers when they are placed next to one another. The issues were released on October 31st.
Tomato updates their site with a huge amount of work that you can spend some serious time surfing through and being inspired by.
