Digital Temple Magazine has released another issue (issue 9) entitled ‘Rebirth Spring MMX’ that is again filled with some fantastic content. The above image is from the amazingly talented Jonathan Zawada who is featured in the ‘Design’ section of this issue. I am continually impressed by the content of Digital Temple.
Here is an outline of the most recent issue: MOTION : Edouard Salier for MASSIVE ATTACK / Splitting the Atom
ILLUSTRATION : Cody Hoyt
PHOTOGRAPHY : Carlos Nunez
PAINTING :Antony Micallef – Mark Warren Jacques – Aleksandra Rdest DESIGN :Jonathan Zawada FASHION:Amanda Camenisch POLA ADDICT : Katja Sonnewend DIVIDERS : Joao Travessa
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Gregoire Vieille is a French still photographer living and working in Paris. He has some nice imagery in his portfolio including this recent series for Amusement magazine about vintage consol games with set design by Pierre Hourquet.
Mike Barzman shot this experimental video at 1800 frames per second. I cannot claim to know exactly what he was trying to accomplish or say by shooting it, as he did not enlighten me via his email but I must admit that I found it fun to watch.
You can now pre-order It’s Nice That Issue #3 though their online Shop. The recent issue features the best from their blog in the last 6 months. Inside this latest edition are interviews with graphic design legend Milton Glaser, furniture design icon Tom Dixon, filmmaker Keith Schofield, illustrator Tom Gauld and fashion designer Sir Paul Smith. There are 42 pages of work featuring the likes of A2/SW/HK, Gregoire Alexandre, Leslie David, Christopher DeLorenzo, Anne De Vries, Daniel Eatock, Jochen Gerner, Marcelo Gomes, Charley Harper, William Hundley, Abi Huynh, Himi Kozue, Mårten Lange, Alastair Levy, Lucy and Bart, Susanne Ludwig, Livia Marin, Aakash Nihalani, Jasmine Raznahan, Isabella Rozendaal, SpY, Damjan Stanković, John Paul Thurlow, Adam Voorhes, Cardon Webb, Taizo Yamamoto.
It’s an amazingly impressive publication they have managed to pull together and terribly exciting that they have been able to wrangle interviews with some of the biggest names in the business. The pre-orders will ship March 31st and the issue officially drops April 1st. To put the cherry on top of an already large sundae, the issue also arrives with an oversized large-scale (980 x 550mm) screen print by Parra. The issue is available for the sincerely affordable price (even for Americans) of £10.00. Hot damn.
French Art Director, illustrator and designer Emeric Trahand, also known as Takeshi has updated his portfolio once again with some very rousing work. He is really starting to push his subject matter and there are some very interesting new examples of his style in this recent update. He is currently based in NYC.
Copenhagen-based multi-disciplinary arts and design studio Hvass&Hannibal have updated yet again with more intriguing work. Since 2006, its founders, Nan Na Hvass & Sofie Hannibal have been busy generating creative for the music, arts and publishing industries. They take a unique approach to every project they take on, the results of which shine through in their highly individualistic portfolio of work.
In a collaboration with the AIDS awareness fund (RED), book publisher Penguin commissioned a team of designers and typographers to create 8 new covers for Penguin Classics. Each cover uses a quote pulled from the text. Three of the eight covers featured were designed in-house by Penguin Press, with the remaining covers created by Nathan Burton, Studio Frith, FUEL, Grey318, and Non-Format (whose cover you can see above). It’s a great project and would have been fantastic to be a part of but (if you don’t mind me expressing my personal opinion here) I had mixed feelings about the covers myself. I felt like the executions were sometimes a little off for the subject matter. Regardless, it is nice to see Penguin branching out and doing something different.
I recently had the pleasure of going to see the GF Smith travelling exhibition of their promotional print material. Collected over a span of 111 years it’s an amazing and inspirational collection. The exhibition will be traveling around UK Universities this year.
Pictured above is the lovely poster designed by SEA for the event, get down and grab one whilst you can.
The Church of London, the creative agency behind Little White Lies and HUCK magazines has updated with a new website and a comprehensive update to their portfolio. As good as their publications are, it should come as no surprise that they have some great work in their portfolio.
Socio Design just emailed that they have posted new work in their updated website and it looks stunning. Socio Design is a London-based design consultancy specializing in graphic design, web design, art direction and branding. Their new site is clean and smooth and also stocked with equally clean and smooth portfolio work. Top notch all around. I was very pleased to get the email this morning. It sparked my inspiration for the day.
There are some beautiful bits happening in this experimental short film by Sean Vicary.
Description:
“The coastal landscape of West Wales provides the setting for this short film. Animation,music and photography are juxtaposed in order to explore the liminal space between land and sea.
The film has evolved from an original piece produced as part of an audio-visual performance with the composer Tom Middleton at the National Film Theatre, London.”
Motion and interactive designer Johannes Timpernagel has kept him self busy, flexing his creative muscles in the last few months by generating some great experimental animations. You can view them all via his Vimeo page.
Jorge León is a graphic designer based in Las Palmas GC, Spain. He loves what he does for a living and is currently seeking new project work. He has some nice work in his book not the least of which includes the album cover above for Tits Like Buffalos. I can personally guarantee that is probably the best band name you will hear today.
Other Scenes is the work of psychedelic illustrator and designer Michael Willis. He is also one half of Panther Club, a newly formed multi-disciplinary studio founded in 2009 with artist and illustrator Lindsey Gooden.
03/15 MEXICAN DRUG WAR The FBI has vowed to help Mexican officials in an escalating violent war with rival drug cartels that claimed the lives of 2 American employees of the consulate in the Cuidad Juarez. Both were murdered after leaving a consulate social event. On Sunday, The State Department authorized the temporary departure of dependents of U.S. government personnel from the consulates in Ciudad Juarez along with five other northern border Mexican cities.
03/12 FIVERR The website Fiverr asks, in a very broad way, what would you do for 5 dollars? Or better yet, what could you get done for 5 dollars?
03/10 COREY HAIM DIES 80’s movie star Corey Haim passed at the age of 38 at a hospital in Burbank, California. Some reports have suggested the cause of death may have been an overdose as Haim struggled with drug addiction for years following his success.
02/27 ICEBERG ADRIFT A massive iceberg has struck Antarctica dislodging a gigantic block of ice measuring 48 miles (78 kilometers) long and about 24 miles (39 kilometers) wide and holds roughly the equivalent of a fifth of the world’s annual total water usage. Holy crap.
02/27 CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake has struck Chile with a death toll so far standing at 82.
