06.23.08
I just put yet another new poster in the print section. More more more.
There is some promising work in the portfolio of the recently graduated Shaz Madani.
06.22.08
Clever work by Kevin Summers to match the clever name he chose for his website: This Is Make Believe.
06.20.08
I swear I thought I had written something about Joel Evey AKA Mikronized before. I have seen his work several times lately floating around the internets. So I guess an entry on him is overdue. He has some really interesting work in his book that combines a somewhat minimal approach to type with vividly colored random brush strokes with a little hipster pinache frosting to top off the cake. He kind of orchestrates this minimal order with a bit of random chaos giving all the elements the chance to just be what they are and it works. I like it a lot and it is an interesting mix of old an new. Good stuff.
06.19.08
Frankfurt-based Adrian Niessler and Catrin Altenbrandt have updated their portfolio at Pixelgarten. I was sure I had written about them before but better late than never. Great work in their book.
06.17.08
Jonathan Yuen is a multi-disciplined graphic designer based in Singapore. His flash and print work are jaw dropping and are always an inspiration. The navigation of his site is possibly one of the most fluid and enjoyable portfolios I have seen in along time. See for yourself.
06.05.08
Mikosa is a handmade magazine that features new artists from around the world, This mag is always a great source for inspiration. You can view most issues online Have a look here.
05.22.08
Who is Zip Design? Well, here is what they have to say on their website:
“Zip is a design studio working in youth, music and lifestyle sectors. We produce work for a diverse group of clients across all media.
Zip does graphic design, branding, illustration, web design and moving image, but most of all, we give clients a way to communicate with today’s youth culture. Our clients around the world rely on us to deliver high quality design, on time and on budget.”
Consequently, they have some really stellar work in their collective portfolio.
There is some nice, clean work in the book of Monica Nelson at To You Love Me. Monica currently resides in NYC and originally hails from Athens, GA. She is a recent graduate of the Pratt Institute.
05.16.08
Alright, so the fateful time has finally drawn near where it is time to actually print some of the posters I have created over the last several months. I have my quotes in for the first 7 posters. All of the posters (minus the Iso Series posters commemorating the isometric paper system) will be printed on A3 size paper. A3 is pretty close to 11×17. All of the posters will be printed on 100lb stock paper, some on white others on natural tone. Since they aren’t really large posters, they will be fairly inexpensive. The cost per poster will probably be in the 15-20 dollar range and I will be able to ship overseas, which makes it a pretty good deal if you are not subjugated to the sinking dollar like we are here in the states.
The question is, and I am having trouble with this myself so I am asking you, which ones do I print first? I will only be doing 7 at first and depending on how well the first series goes, I will be printing more in the fall. Which posters would you buy? Which posters do you like? Let me know with your comments or send me an email. I will be printing the ‘We Not Me’ poster for sure because there has been a really high volume of emails requesting that particular poster. Outside of that, they are all fair game. Please help me decide. I value your opinion as readers and you, after all, are my audience. If you frequent the blog often and enjoy the work I do, now is your chance to help determine what you would like to own for yourself. If you need a memory refresher, the posters are all listed in the PRINT section of the website.
Thank you so much in advance for reading the blog and supporting the site.
05.15.08
Elektrosmog has a virtual smorgasbord of work for publishing. To spare myself from rewriting their biographical information, you can read it below copied directly from their website:
“Elektrosmog is a graphic design studio established by Valentin Hindermann and Marco Walser in Zurich 1999. Since then Elektrosmog has been producing numerous printed matter projects such as catalogues, artist books, magazines, posters, plastic bags and beer mats, as well as identities for film production companies, restaurants and exhibitions. Whenever possible Elektrosmog designs its own fonts, some of them are distributed through lineto.com. Regularly Elektrosmog collaborates with other graphic designers, illustrators, photographers or web programmers. In 2006 Elektrosmog expanded its team through Simone Koller.”
Their site can be a bit of a chore to navigate but once you get the hand of it there is page after page of attractive layouts to inspire.
04.28.08
I created two more Changethethought ‘message’ posters last week. I wanted to try to create something timeless, yet stylish that looks as though it could either be current or could have been created years back. The font is entirely custom. It is a variant of the font I created for the Barack Obama posters that some people loved and others hated. I have since refined the font greatly to make it my own.
These posters will most likely be silkscreened on heavy paper, natural tone stock for the chocolate poster and white for the lime poster. I have been receiving a lot of emails lately requesting posters. I have not printed any officially yet but there should be some available near the end of this summer. I will let everyone know when they are in the storefront.
It’s been great just working with pure typography again lately. I almost forgot how much I love type. I have a new image series in the works however and that will be on the site sometime in the next few weeks. Lots of things going on. Stay tuned.
04.23.08
Well, I pulled a fast one and deleted a poster I created yesterday because I just didn’t like how it came out. This is another one I had been working on, off and on for a while. I finished it up to my satisfaction today and thought I would give it a post. You can view it along with all the other posters in the print section. As I said in the post I deleted, I have also put a bunch of my past type treatments in the type section as well.
04.04.08
I bet you didn’t think it was possible for me to create even more posters did you? Well, think again. There are yet even more in the PRINT section of the site and I am adding one at the rate of about one a week to every two weeks. I will be gathering price quotes later this month on printing and should have some in the store late this summer. I am looking into metallics, varnishes and potentially fluorescents. Should be a little something to love for every design nerd. Don’t take offense to that statement by the way, I am probably the biggest one of all. I have been experimenting with all manner of illustration style and typography. I am trying to really take one each poster individually and do something unique for each. There is a little more Brazilian love in there too since the love of my life is Brazilian. I will be going there again later this summer as well. I am ready now. I could really use a vacation.
There will also be a digital downloads section in my storefront later this year that will offer up, for a very low price, bundles of the vector art I have amassed and categorized over the last decade. I am also planning on offering up store space to my other bloggers, so there may be some of their tees, posters etc. available in the store later this year as well.