05.16.11
Laundry’s latest reel. Always worth checking out.
04.10.11
Tim Navis is a ‘simple dude’ who likes beautiful things and knows how to capture them through the lens of his camera. Sometimes his imagery hints at darker subtexts but there is definitely a beauty throughout his portfolio.
03.26.11
Motohiro NEZU is an LA based graphic designer and illustrator who is churning out some nice pop art influenced works including some tasty drippy vector portraits of famous basketball players.
03.14.11
Paul Cayrol is an Art Director at the famed motion agency PSYOP. My guess is you have to have some serious skills to get through the door there and those skills are definitely represented in the updated portfolio of Cayrol’s personal website Cuban Haze. Loads of goodness including some simple but wonderful character design for Target.
02.14.11
LA based motion design studio Royale updates with a new website for the New Year featuring a bevy of new work.
01.31.11
I know I have written about motion designer, illustrator and graphic designer Chris Saunders before but I had to do it just one more time. I visited his portfolio again the other day while looking for inspiration for motion boards and was once again totally moved by his portfolio. He has a wondrous hand when it comes to Photoshop and his use of color will melt your brain.
01.26.11
Vincent Pacheco who calls himself Mudchicken has updated with a lot of new work at his interesting website and portfolio. It’s more a spilling of ideas than anything and seems to function as a kind of archival assembly of sorts. The piece above definitely spoke to me.
12.06.10
Los Angeles based illustrator and designer Julia Sonmi Heglund has been on our radar for a long time. It’s been a while since we last checked in on her site and she has kept busy and updated lately with some new and fun illustration work that is worth looking into.
10.26.10
Los Angeles Art Director Jeffrey Docherty has updated his website with some excellent design and illustration work. His vector work is exceptional. It’s a perfect blend of detail and simplicity that manages to maintain iconic simplicity. That is not an easy thing to do and Docherty has inspiring style for miles.
10.21.10
Ashkahn Shahparnia (pronounced Ash-Con-Shaw-par-neeyah) makes fun and funny things. Despite their deceptively simple appearance there is some interesting thinking bubbling cynically just under the surface of all of his work. It’s a funny but provocative affair and he recently updated with all kinds of new goodies, most of which would definitely illicit a response between giver and receiver. I wonder, is Purple Rain made out of Purple Drank?
10.12.10
Motion designer and illustrator Ken Gunn Lee was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He now resides in LA where he is building a kick ass freelance portfolio cranking out character development with serious style for the likes of Motion Theory. He’s one to keep an eye on.
10.03.10
Oh Buck let me count the ways you inspire me. I have had the unique experience of working for an agency that hired Buck and was totally mind blown by what they produced. They are still high atop my list of the very best motion, animation and creative film studios out there. Above is plenty testimony to that fact.
07.30.10
Shhive is the experimental portfolio of Los Angeles based motion designer/concept artist Kenneth Robin. He is currently freelancing for Logan and is cranking out some beautiful work.
06.13.10
Hollywood based motion graphics studio Laundry has kept busy and continues to updated their site with new projects as well as new project proposals. I hired Laundry for my very first Colorado Lottery TV spot a long time back while I was still at Cactus and kept an eye on their progress ever since.
06.04.10
Zambezi apparently means shark. It’s also the name of a small Venice-based (Los Angeles) advertising agency run by a boot strap crew who pushes out some big ideas. They have some excellent ad work under their hat and our responsible for some very fun-to-watch commercials.
Give us a call guys. We’d love to work with you.
06.02.10
“Keith Scharwath is an LA based designer, illustrator and art director who has been creating iconic works for the art, fashion, and music industries for the past 10 years. Notable projects include poster, title and promotional design for the 2008 film Beautiful Losers; exhibition design for Re-Run, a traveling art show curated by Aaron Rose; and most recently guest art directing the spring 2010 issue of GOOD magazine. Originally from New Jersey, Keith studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York.”
Keith has some beautiful work in his portfolio that exercises a high degree of understanding what it takes to move between curation and creation. His exhibition work is truly stunning.
05.24.10
Los Angeles based illustrator Andrew Holder has updated with several new examples of his personal brand of illustration.
04.07.10
Bobby from Kitsune Noir strolled into Arktitp’s Project Space in Los Angeles to capture several behind-the-scenes images from the Parra exhibit. It looks like it was a great show and Parra decided to keep it black and white. The above piece was my favorite. Be sure to scroll down at the always wonderful Kitsune Noir to see more images from the exhibition.
