Blind Spot is an animation piece created by Gobelins students Johanna Bessiere, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cecile Dubois Herry, Yvon Jardel and Simon Rouby. The piece has just been nominated as a Best Student Piece for SIGGRAPH 2008. For a student film is is very maturely accomplished with a great storyline with a few comedic punches. It makes for great entertainment and technically speaking its impressive work. Congratulations guys, keep up the great work.
There is lots of attractive design work waiting to inspire you at Australian design agency There.
Andrzej Dragan has studied in Warsaw, Amsterdam, Oxford and Lisbon and received his PHD in quantum physics graduating cum laude in 2005. He was then awarded the best MSc thesis in physics by the Polish Physical Society in 2001. He received a stipend from the European Science Foundation, grants from the State Committee for Scientific Research, Award for the Young Scholars from the Foundation for Polish Science, Stay With Us scholarship from the largest Polish weekly magazine, Polityka. He has contributed to conferences and seminars in Amsterdam, Gracow, Glasgow, Minsk, Munich, Oxford, St. Andrews, Warsaw and Tokyo. He is a member and former scientific secretary of the Head Commitee of the Physics Olympiad and currently works as an assistant professor of physics at Warsaw University. He has never drank a cup of coffee.
Andrzej has also been the recipient of many national and international music composing competitions. He became involved with photography in 2003. His work has since been published in 12 countries. He has been awarded Luzer’s ‘200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide”, gold and silver medals at the KTR ad festival, nominated the Cannes Lion award at the Cannes Film Festival, silver medal in the Corbis Photography Awards, gold medal in the Golden Drum Festival, bronze medal in the Epica Awards, third in the Pilsner Uruquell Contest, and was awarded Photographer of the Year in Digital Camera Magazine.
Wow.
There is some very nice work in the portfolio of NYC graphic designer and typographer Brian Thomas. Think butter not margarine.
Blanka has opened a Flickr account featuring all of the amazing vintage posters and prints they have sold or have for sale by the likes Wim Crouwel, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Otl Aicher, Build and many more. It reads like a who’s who list of some of the greatest designers in recent history and is a truly inspiring click-through for any aspiring or already accomplished designer. I don’t know what it was about the 70’s but I just can’t get enough of the design from that era or the music. We need to bring that back.
There is some really fantastic work in the portfolio of Hungarian Designer David Barath.
Here is his bio from his site:
“Born and raised in Novi Sad (YU) in 1977, DAVID BARATH has been living in Budapest (HU) since 1993. After working several years for advertising agencies as graphic designer and art director, he followed his passion for photography and became creative producer of publishing house Marquard Media. In the last seven years, he has outlined and produced several fashion and celebrity stories for various glossy magazines, while founding his own agency Visual Group. This latter is continuing its activity as a ‚company for creative problem solving‘, with David Barath as creative director, while he personally is working mostly as brand building specialist and graphic designer. He is also creative consultant of product design management company PapaMama Kollektív AB, signage producing company 321, and contemporary art gallery G13.”
Based in my hometown, Montreal, FEED’s work as emotion and sensibility. They have a big architectural influence in their work. I love the minimalist approach. Beautiful printing techniques and great use of monochrome. Very inspiring, even the archive work.
I have written of Evening Tweed before but they have just updated their site and there are some new gems in their treasure chest. Evening Tweed is a design collective consisting of the very talented Jez Burrows, Owen Gildersleeve, Sarah King and Tom Rowe. I like all of their work but Tom Rowe’s work really jumps out at me for some reason. His album cover, pictured above, was created using a magnetic liquid called Ferro Fluid. It is really stunning work. I love black on black.
As part of my ongoing attempt to post at least one TED Talk every week, I have selected Yves Behar’s recent talk about some of the iconic objects he has been responsible for designing. I thought Behar’s work was a little more closely akin to the nature of the blog. I hope you enjoy it. Copied directly from the TED website, you can read a little about the talk and Behar below:
Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he’s created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he’s working on now — including the “$100 laptop.”
Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium’s most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. Read full bio »
There is just all kinds of great work in the portfolio of Canadian design agency Paprika. You can spend a good half hour or more just clicking through example after example of good design.
Strength In Numbers is the third album by British born band The Music. I can’t wait to get my hands on this mind bending psychedelic third installment. Check out their new album website Strength In Numbers, and have a look at their song ‘Fire’.
Recent Liverpool John Moores University graduate, Matt Keers sent a note the other day alerting me to his tastefully minimal yet entirely modern body of work.
Ahh, these spots for Coca-Cola that ran in sets of 3 make me laugh every single time I watch them. They are just brilliant. Everyone in the agency must have gotten in on these somehow.
Credit where credit is due:
Client: Coca-Cola
Agency: Santo
General Creative Director: Maximiliano Anselmo,
Sebastián Wilhelm
Creative Director: Pablo Minces
Agency Producer: Abigail Harding
Production Company: Landia
Director: Andrés Fogwill
Executive Producer: Claudio Amoedo
Post Production: Che Revolution Post
There is some nice work and nice screen prints in the portfolio of recent University of Brighton graduate Verity Keniger.
I could not find much info on the Sydney based designer. But all of the typography and illustration work featured on his blog is pretty fantastic. Check it out.
Jinyoung Shin is a young NYC-based illustrator who is influenced by Japanese Manga but has managed to construct a vivid dreamlike style out of that influence. Her work has been compared for obvious reasons to artist Aya Kato but in the world of ‘love to hate’ hater artists and designers I think the comparison is unfair. If you have a look at Kato’s work it is lush and dense with vivid colors but the characters and environments are very different from Shin’s. I think it’s Shin’s subjects that set her apart with their long, lanky and overlapping limbs.
Comparisons aside, she is very talented and I do like what she is laying down.
Some amazing illustrative work by Ashley Wood. I love his style and the work he did for the MGS digital comic for PSP.
Matthew Newton has posted a new interview with photographer Nikola Tamindzic. His images form the visual lynchpin of Nick Denton’s Gawker Media since 2004. Gawker has become synonymous with documenting New York nightlife debauchery. Recently he has switched over to fashion and editorial. His nightlife images aren’t easily forgotten and tend to invoke shock and sometimes a little disgust. All of them are interesting though and are hard to peel your eyes from causing what I would call ‘curiosity traffic’ similar to driving slowly by the scene of an accident. It’s interesting work and an interesting interview.
