Barcelona based creative studio Coco Bongo attack their projects with a rabid and infectious passion. This attitude has allowed them to work with some great clients and sifting through their work is a lot of fun. All you have to do in order to grasp their unique personality is keep your eyes on their logo animation in the upper left corner of their site. Great stuff.
Michael C Place and his wife have updated their website at Build. For the devout design fan Michael really needs no introduction as his work has been a strong influence on many designers over the years. His ‘keep it Helvetica’ approach has kept his work classic throughout his career and has kept him in the eye of many a client.
In case you do not know his story here is a little of his background from his new site:
“Michael C Place studied graphic design at Newcastle College from 1988—1990 and makes no secret of the fact that he left early to follow his dream of designing record sleeves. Michael worked first with Trevor Jackson in London before moving back up North to work with influential graphics studio The Designers Republic in Sheffield, where he worked for the best part of 9 years. Whilst there Michael produced some of the best-known & seminal works of tDR that, although always anonymous, became well-known amongst followers of the studio. In 2000 Michael took a break from the design world and went on a 10-month world trip with his wife Nicky, returning to set up Build in 2001. Michael features in the 2007 film ‘Helvetica-A Documentary Film’, has spoken at numerous conferences worldwide, & has several times been a judge at the prestigious D&AD global awards.
Michael is the Creative Director of Build.”
Recent Leeds College of Art graduate Lucy Gibson uses simple geometric forms in her work juxtapozed with organic imagery. Although some might be tiring of the geometric trend in graphic design, I do have to say that I really like Gibson’s work and minimal approach.
Graphic Designer and Art Director Jimmy Soat A.K.A. Flux Filter Form got in touch to let us know that he recently updated his portfolio with an archive of experimental works at his website It’s All About The Process.
I dropped in on Mike Orduña yesterday after seeing some really endearing pictures of him and his son on Facebook yesterday. I always feel like some weird stalker when I look at stuff like that on Facebook but something shows up in your feed and you click on a picture and the next thing you know you are looking at something like that. Facebook kind of weirds me out because of that. Seeing him with his son did make me excited to be a dad though.
Anyway, Mike who goes by the name ‘Fatoe’ has some new work in his portfolio and as always it’s worth checking out.
Talented minimalist Spanish graphic designer Eduardo del Fraile has updated his portfolio with some strikingly colorful new work. Congrats on your country’s win in the World Cup Eduardo.
Norwegian visual communication studio Grand People have updated with some new and very eye-catching new design work. Their new site does an excellent job of proudly displaying their bold and colorful design work.
Russian illustrator, designer and motionographer Vladimir Tomin has some fun work in both his home website portfolio at Space Jump and also in his Behance-folio. The above image was apparently made photographing cereal and vegetables.
Brazilian Lucas Camargo A.K.A. ‘Flash’ is currently a Senior Art Director for F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi. He has a wild and varied body of work that features a vivid imagination and some really raw talent. He more than capable of shifting from pencil to screen and does so in style.
Poster Roast was established by Chris White (3d Glasses), and now assisted by his future wife Alex Curtis (Thr33 Designs) with the intention to help develop and promote Poster Artists within the UK. It is quickly becoming the UK equivalent to the insanely popular American cousin Gigposters.com. There is some really nice work up at PR and it is continuing to grow.
Glasgow based studio Graphical House have just launched an online shop with some nice minimal posters that would look attractive on the wall of any well-to-do design or advertising agency. The above is my personal favorite.
Josh A.K.A. Space Knuckle sent me some emails this week to notify us that he had updated his Flickr-folio with a new experimental portrait series. The study yielded some interesting results including some very fun animated gifs. Thanks for the update Josh and please keep the email submissions coming. It’s a lot easier than picking through the hundreds and hundreds of websites that I check every week.
Lisbon based design studio Alva-Alva has been updating their Flickr-folio with work lately including some very nice album art for ‘Paus’. There have been a few small updates to their home website as well and their work is always good to drop in on from time to time for inspiration’s sake.
My Boulder based friends at Cypher 13 have relaunched their blog Joyengine. There are several options for viewing the content and they have opted for a clean and crisp design this go round along with a new logo treatment. They also have some new work in their portfolio worth looking into. Their packaging for Olade beverages and design for the Biennial of the Americas collateral are particularly sharp. The site is looking sharp boys. Congratulations.
London based studio Hat-Trick Design have not only an interesting body of work but an equally interesting way of displaying it. They are also on the lookout for a Senior Designer and I am guessing it would be a healthy learning experience being under their employ.
Adam Ellison graduated from the University of Brighton in 2008, and he is currently working as a freelance illustrator/designer back home in Essex. He recently updated his portfolio with some fun and colorful work.
Swedish design studio Ateljé Altmann has a no frills squeaky clean body of graphic design work for print. It’s sharp and classic with a strong emphasis on typography.
Kid Plastik is Drew Taylor who pushes pixels by day and DJays at night. He definitely has a point of view happening throughout his work and it’s easy to see how his music lifestyle influences his design work. On a side note, I also like very much how he utilized his Cargo site.
