Greek Art Directors Dimitris Koliadimas and Dimitris Papazoglo joined forces to launch the design studio Designers United. It has been onward and upward since with an expanding list of clients and a growing body of exceptionally realized graphic design and typography work.
London-based graphic designer/art director Ramon Marin has some clean and cracking work in his portfolio. Really attractive work.
Michael Freimuth is an art director, designer and illustrator based in New York City. He works at Tender in Manhattan and also serves at the Creative Director for Chicago-based Proximity Magazine and the desgign journal Matériel. His portfolio of design work is stunning.
Art direction team Ahonen and Lamberg have some really nice work in their collective portfolio. The site is pretty cryptic but the click-through yields some tantalizing layouts.
Via Do It For The Fame (a fantastic blog).
Manchester-based graphic designer/art director, Adam Rix has some really nice work spanning a broad range of mediums in his portfolio.
Asif Mian has some brilliant direction work up for inspirational viewing. It doesn’t stop there either. There is equal parts brilliance in the Art Direction and Design section of the site. Be sure to check out both. Real talent.
French Art Director/Designer Phoks has updated with some colorful new work.
New Zealand born NYC bound Art Director Jeffrey Docherty has some really tight work in his book. All of it is top shelf.
Here is a little about Filip, in his own words from his website:
“Filip Kleremark
Thinker, maker, doer.
I’m very passionate about my work and have a hunger for problems that need creative solving. I have an interest in digital media and the way we interact with things in our daily life. I want to create solutions for brands that engage, brands that also believe in a better future, brands that believe creativity can gain commercial success. I’d like to tell stories people want to hear and give the audience what they might need, not what they already have or have seen before. I want people to react and interact with good ideas, therefore I aim to create work that stays alive, not campaigns that are hot at the moment and forgotten about in a month. Trends show you how to follow, not lead. I want to challenge boundaries and constantly evolve myself and the industry. I’m open to new methods of working, new technology and driven by innovation.
The ad of the future is not an ad.”
He was kind enough to email me about himself and his work and I was really impressed. Thank you Filip.
Illoz is a portfolio site for Illustrators that doubles as a very useful workspace for art directors. It’s an experiment, of sorts. The idea is to establish a new and better way for art directors to find and interact with Illustrators. The program was created by two guys with an idea, the same two odd-balls that brought Drawger to life.
I happened upon the blog/writings/work of the famous designer Chip Kidd.
The ever-so-talented and still-so-young Brazilian Art Director/Designer, Silencio sent a note that he has updated his portfolio with some visually arresting new work.
“Damien Poulain is a french graphic designer and art director who has lived and worked in Germany, Spain and Italy before recently settling in East London where he founded his practice in 2003. Specializing in print-based projects including books, small-run publications and record sleeves Damien Poulain also creates posters and other communication imagery for art galleries, fashion designers and music labels. Ongoing projects include t-shirts for 2K by Gingham, hand-crafted set design for magazines such as Tank, Arena Homme+ among others, as well as website design. His personal work has been well documented in Grafik, Dazed & Confused and Creative Review magazines, where he mixes digital and hand-crafted processes.”
Tom Crabtree is a talented graphic designer with an impressive resume who now resides in San Francisco after a recent stint at Apple. His work is minimal but expertly crafted and he has worked for some amazing agencies and big clients.
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“Black-Marmalade Studios was born in the fall of 2004 as a way for DeChazier P. Stokes-Johnson to have a change of pace from the sometimes static life being an art director at a advertising agency brings. Since then DeChazier has art directed, designed, & illustrated, for some of today’s top brands. He is a proud family man, art director, observer of creative culture, and entrepreneur, in that order. He tries hard everyday to attain a healthy balance between them all even though he knows pure balance is unattainable.
Besides continuing to art direct DeChazier is currently working hard on his creative observation site the Marma Spot and as an editor for Yes Yes Yall.
By day he art directs & designs for JWD-Creative and by night he lets loose for Black-Marmalade Studios.
Hudson-Powell is responsible for some interesting and ambitious work. That work includes the co-direction of the beautiful and brilliant video above for PJ Harvey. Great stuff.
