07.31.08
Ryan Aylsworth is a talented photographer with a penchant for lighting and capturing beautiful models.
Michael Kutsche is an award-winning conceptual artist, illustrator and 3d artist located in Berlin, Germany. He has worked in VFX since 98 his experience ranges from art direction, animation, design and work for music videos and film. He specializes in designing character art. He has worked for some big names in the business.
This is a visualisation of numbers by Lennyjpg for Esquire.ru.
I would be happy to hang all of these in a large format on my wall.
“Benbo George is a graphic designer and illustrator. Originally from the Wirral, Merseyside, he now lives and works in London. He draws on various media to create his work.”
Wow, that is some crazy stuff going on right there.
Some stunning illustrative work by Leesa Leva, I particularly love this Radiohead piece.
07.30.08
There has been some amazing creative generated for Uniqlo lately and Uniqlo Try was a site I saw a while back that slipped my mind as far as posting it here. It really is an amazing website conceptually and a current project I am working on was in part inspired by this thinking. Fundamentally the website visually outputs the statistical data gathered by summing up the comments of 343 surveyed Uniqlo customers. Apparently they were surveyed in Uniqlo dressing rooms as I was told recently by a colleague. The site was designed by Simone in Japan. It’s a brilliant way to use Flash to flesh out an interesting concept as opposed to just using it for entertainment value.
Nice graphic design and typography work by Leslie David.
Can’t say much more than that because that is pretty much all that is on the site.
Alright this is completely not design or politics related and a touch sentimental but I just thought this was so cool. I love lions. They were my favorite animals as a child so I was pretty moved by this story.
Basically the story goes, in 1969 two men named John Rendall and Ace Berg saw a lion club for sale in Harrods. They felt sorry for the little guy I guess because he was alone and cramped in a tiny little cage with none of his original pride and no owner to speak of. So they decided to take him home and raise him. They were allowed by a local vicar to exercise the cub on the grounds of a local church and he lived with them at home. He quickly became too large for them to keep however and they decided it would be best to try to reintroduce the young lion back into the wilds of Africa. They decided they wanted to visit him a year later but local authorities warned them that the lion was now the head of his own pride and completely wild. He would not remember them and might even attack.
You can see how he reacted when seeing them above. A big ole lion hug.
There is some nice work for MTV Russia in the portfolio of graphic designer Timur Sultanov.
I know I have seen the work of Paul Graves before and I am pretty sure I have written about it but he has a lot of new work on his website that is worth checking out. It bothers me that the images are so small. I think if you are a photographer you should be showing your imagery as big as you can get it since that is your bread and butter. Even though the images are small you can see that Graves has an amazing sense of color and composition and he has the unique ability to adhere a memorable personality to strange inanimate objects. His work is very original and not easily forgettable. Spend some time clicking around because he has photographed a broad spectrum of subjects.
07.29.08
Interesting bits in the Tumblr portfolio of Jayne Helliwell at Drawing With Knives. Her last name would also double as a really kick-ass name for a rock band.
There is some really attractive work in the portfolio of Brooklyn-based Peter Sunna for both straight graphic design and branding.
Link uncovered via the almighty FFF.
Photographer Robert Charbonnet loves the little things about women that make them the most sensual creatures on Earth. He loves things like their hair, lips and eyes. I love those things too, so it was hard for me not to appreciate his work. I think I need to learn how to be a photographer.
Human Empire! Can’t belive i’ve never come across them before, its a wonderland of fresh illustration and design! The human empire is a Hamburg based graphic design and illustration studio. They have tonns of amazing work across the whole spectrum of visual disciplines.
Check it out!
07.28.08
I apologize again for not keeping up on my one TED talk a week policy but life has been a little hectic lately. I was just thumbing through some of the talks the other day and discovered this talk by Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor. Her story is unique in that she actually studies the human brain and suffered a stroke. She remembers every bit of the experience in vivid detail and tried her hardest to do so because she saw it as a once in a lifetime opportunity, if she survived, to share her first person insight with the rest of the world. That is exactly what she does in this talk. It has to be one of the most moving talks on the entire TED website and it really stuck with me. I have had someone in my family go through a similar experience that it took them a long time to recover from and it may be because of that I found Taylor’s talk so touching. It takes a massive amount of courage to share something like that with so many people and her story is really amazing.
Here is the background about the talk copied from the TED website:
“One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness …
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the “Singin’ Scientist.”
‘How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.’
Jill Bolte Taylor”
There is a nice long scroll of attractive work to be found at the website of Thomas Brooks. Can’t tell you much about him though, just that he has created some nice design.
