Now Portland based graphic design Michael Spoljaric’s career path can be traced back through Attik, the Phantom Research Foundation, R!OT Manhattan, Spontaneous and now Nike where he works on the basketball account and is responsible for these excellent illustrations that I ran into on a trip to NY this summer. NOTE: Apparently the talented illustrator Saiman Chow created the illustrations. Apologies for any confusion and credit where credit is due.
Smatik is the work of lithographer turned pixel cruncher André Ljosaj who has an amazing imagination and the ability to create some amazingly imaginative imagery.
Writer John Pavlus has asked a question that has sparked a healthy debate amongst the design community over the creation of postera to spark aid for disasters and has used James White’s (Signlenoise) recent poster which raised $7,000 for charity as the crux for his argument. It’s caused quite a stir if you scroll down the read the comments, and to be honest we have struggled so far with what the right reaction to our concern over Japanese crisis should be as a studio. We thought about creating a poster but immediately felt mixed emotions about doing so for the very reasons Pavlus raises but we also see the positive in creating something that inspires people to give who otherwise would not. It’s an interesting debate. What do you think?
We decided probably the best thing we could do was just post a link to donate to charity which you will now see to the right of the blog until we think it’s the right time to take it down.
Montreal based design studio Feed has been churning out some excellent design work since 1999 and you can see several examples at their recently updated website.
I’ve lately been super active on Flickr and have become a bit of an addict about updating as frequently as I can. It’s given me a new reason to create and I have enjoyed the engagement and conversation that comes immediately through using Flickr. I noticed recently after sending a few emails back and forth that Michael Cina had been loading all kinds of good things into his Flickr account including some excellent new artwork for a Ghostly Records release. I’ve been a fan of Cina’s work for a long long time now stretching all the way back to the late 90s. So it’s great to still see him doing such inspiring work. I know he’s a busy guy having just started a new business and having his first child. I know that because I did precisely the same thing in the last 12 months and it’s a lot to take on. Keep up the great work Mike.
OK-RM is a London based design studio founded in 2008 by Oliver Knight & Rory McGrath. They have a very understated but strong body of classic graphic design work for editorial represented in their portfolio.
W+K Shanghai designer Sally Zou has had her hands on some nice projects running from motion through design and illustration for clients like Nike.
Mediainvia is the work of Brazilian designer and illustrator Diego Morales who is utilizing some unique color combinations to generate some good looking imagery.
Non-Swiss sounding named graphic designer Rosario Florio is actually very much Swiss especially in how he approaches his subtle and simple typographically-rooted layouts for his numerous print projects. Enjoy the long scroll.
The notorious team that is Non-Format and by now needs no introduction in the design circle has updated yet again with some striking new project work.
Sam Dallyn just makes beautiful things. Those things range all over the place from clocks, to print campaigns to business cards but each one of them addresses a highly considered, clean and contemporary aesthetic that makes his work stand out as a whole immediately upon viewing the home page of his website.
Austrian designer illustrator David Mascha has updated with more colorful info-like graphics for companies like AT&T and IBM. I am really digging his abstract, colorful and dimensional visuals.
Netherlands design studio Pot And Vander Velden have some clean, simple print work in their portfolio that still manages to deliver a quirky sense of personality.
Clean, crip, cracking and ultimately Swiss work in the portfolio of studio NeoNeo who have managed to crank out some downright beautiful print work for some very large clientele.
Design studio Sanderson Bob has updated with some delicious new print and product work that is simple, smart and beautiful.
Matt W. Moore got in touch to let us know that he has updated his website for 2011 with all new projects, new goods for sale and just all around newness.
The design conference ‘Build‘ is putting some strong food out there for design thought including this great talk from Frank Chimero who the more I learn about the more I like.
Be sure to click the link and check out several other talks from the Build Conference that I would very much like to attend.
I don’t usually blog about other blogs but let’s face it most of what is out there on blogs is being generated by other blogs, email submission, tweets and really in totality the exchange of electronic media. It’s cyclical. What it’s starting to come down to is what some of my friends like to call ‘content Djaying’ or in other words ‘curation’.
Visual Journal is a blog run by Oslo-based Swedish Graphic Designer Joakim Jansson who works as a senior designer at the multi-disciplinary agency Bleed. He’s relatively new on the ‘content DJaying’ scene but I really like the tracks he is laying down so far.
The above image is comes from the studio work of Teacake.
