There is some really nice work in the portfolio of Thomas Couderc and Clément Vauchez. I can’t devise too much from there website because it is in French and I am a dumb American, but there is some great work there that is worth spending a little time to thumb through.
There are some nice updates happening at Neuarmy. I am a sucker for letterpress type.
I am slowly but surely updating my portfolio on a daily basis with cleaner and more product focused imagery of my work. I think when it is all complete it will look nice and slick but it is going to take some time and doing to get it all completed. So over the next couple weeks you will start to see the portfolio section get cleaner and neater. I will send out a note when it is complete and do another post. There is some new work being sprinkled in there as well.
A coworker sent this to me today and it was so dead on in so very many ways I could not resist sharing. Stuff White People Like is blog about, well you can take a guess. The thing about it is, there is a lot of content and damn it all if I didn’t identify with just about every single entry. Are we that transparent? Maybe our whiteness makes us so. Oh well, don’t just read the headlines either because the actual content is every bit as good as the headlines.
Nervo has created a series of e-cards for online brand Let Us Kiss. That is all the detail you can gather currently from the description of the project. The real nugget here is the motion graphics for the e-cards as they are all unique and totally compelling. I would love to see these on television. The visuals are stunning to say the least. You can also view stills of the animation at Nervo’s Flickr account.
There has been some fantastic work poured from the minds behind Formavision. Since it’s inception in 2003 they have generated campaigns for brands like Coca-Cola and Diesel. The word, ‘impressive’ doesn’t really do justice to what all they have done, but it comes close. Spend the time it takes to look through their work, it is worth it and the browsing is accompanied by enlightening interviews with the people behind the creative.
There is some lovely work on display in the portfolio of the very young but extremely talented designer Ben Atkins | A.K.A En Bloc. He currently lives and works in Kent, England where he drinks Belgian Beer and daydreams about Natalie Portman.
Corey Holms resides in Southern California where for almost a decade he has been designing logos for television shows like the Sopranos and creating typefaces for Veer.
Well, it looks like people are stepping up for Obama in a big way so far in Texas. There is a great thread about it here at the Daily Kos. I think he is going to take the state, personally and I hope he does because winning Texas is going to send a strong message to the world about American’s sincere desire for real change. He has already reached 1 million donors and counting.
Thank you to all of the people visiting the site so far for the Obama Posters and as I said before please feel free to distribute them however you choose. Use the graphics as well in the Illustrator files to make your own t-shirts, stickers, bumper stickers, etc. They were created as a free and clear resource for anyone interested in helping spread the message.
Adam Espinoza sent me this link a while back and I completely spaced out posting it because of one of a million possible excuses but fourth year design student, Lowman | a.k.a. Jonathan Looman has some great work already in his portfolio. He is currently living in The Hague studying in Utrecht.
Thanks Adam.
Proud Creative is a creatively-led multidisciplinary design studio based in London. Founder, Dan Witchell is also the full time curator of Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch. Witchell can take credit for breaking Parra in the UK, whilst also bringing over Geoff McFetridge, Gregory Gilbert-Lodge and Experimental Jetset, not to mention his support of UK talent - UVA, Daniel Eatock and Eine.
Blanka has some absolutely fantastic design products for sale including some of my favorite posters of all time, but sweet Lord, you will be paying by the British Pound and it won’t come cheap. Damn the U.S. economy. It is totally harshing on my design mellow man.
Ian Kim has created some vibrant and jarring illustrations. He graduated in 2005 from NYU with a degree in film and television and now resides in LA where he currently works and plays.
London-based Studio Small creates and art directs work for exhibitions, packaging, identity and literature. There work is solid all the way through and exudes a sort of contemporary classlessness.
I couldn’t figure out much about Antoine Manuel from his website but his work is great.
Quite frankly, I am a little embarrassed that I missed Spam Studio. Somehow they flew under my radar, even though I have seen their absolutely brilliant video for the Naive New Beaters. Take the time to watch the entire video on their website because it is worth every second.
Wow. I mean wow. I really mean wow. Just wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. There are not many things in life that have sincerely moved me to tears, but I am not ashamed to say, in absolute seriousness, that watching Paul Potts sing for the first time had this very effect.
I grew up singing and even performed in an opera when I was 12 years old. I sang the lead in an opera called Amahl and the Night Visitors. It was one of the most demanding things I have ever done artistically, and I have always regretted not pursuing acting and singing further. So, to see someone who had been lingering in the desperate shadows of life like Paul Potts, step onto the stage of the British equivalent of American Idol, a show called ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, and do what he did really pulled my heart strings. It is one of those rare moments in life when you feel like you really got to see something beautiful happen. The only word that comes close to describing his performance is transcendent. The guy is the real deal, and he is just amazing. Since his audition, he went on to win the show and has gone on to become an overnight sensation that is sweeping across the world. You can find numerous examples of his enormous talent on YouTube.
He really is an example of how, if you have a dream and believe in yourself, you can do what your heart desires and go all the way. It is nice to see a genuine star shine in what sometimes seems to be such a weary world. Thank you to him for having the courage to step forward and share his gift with the rest of us. I wish him all the success the world has to offer.
Jack Dahl established Homework in 2002 from the beautiful city where my Grandmother was born, Copenhagen, Denmark. He helped put a face on the international men’s fashion magazine He. Since then he has worked with Self Service magazine and Work in Progress advertising design studio (Paris) on some of todays leading fashion references including Jil Sander, Prada, Pucci, Chloé, Celine, Colette and Virgin Records. His portfolio is one long study in quality design.
