Grant Coghill is originally from the cold northern Scottish town of Tongue. He now lives in nice, toasty and warm Innsbruck, Austria (sarcasm, although I hear it’s very nice in Austria). There is something very retro about his illustration work but the bold swaths of vivid color are very digital now. While browsing be sure to check out some of his absolutely stellar apparel designs for Creme. Good stuff.
Illustrator Jonas Bergstrand has been busy since I last dropped in and he has updated recently with some beautiful illustration work that shows an enormous attention to detail.
Christopher David Ryan has been really busy lately and has kept updating his Flickr-folio with new examples of his retro-inspired highly considered design and typography layouts. I have always been a fan of his work and his updates do not disappoint.
Re:collection is an inventory of Australian graphic design produced between 1960 and 1980 subjectively curated according to the tastes of Dominic Hofstede.
There is a nice cache of inspirational randomness including old adverts, movie posters, book covers and general strangeness in the Flickr pages of Junkyard Dogs. All of which is inspirational for the visually and creatively inclined.
Graphic designer Simon Page produced a series of retro-style posters to commemorate the International Year of Astronomy. The posters were originally created as self promotional work but IYA09 was so impressed by them they decided to use them to help promote the event.
You can find an inspiring archive of advertising and design work created by Erik Nitsche here. The archive has been lovingly added to and maintained by BustBright over the past four years or so. Inspiring work.
I am really digging the throwback vibe of both this song and the video. Really well art directed and a lot of fun to watch.
Lots of credits and links:
Director: Alan Tanner
Producers: Jett Steiger and Matt Harfield
DP, Editor: Eli Born
Gaffer: Kevin Phillips
Key Grip: Wyatt Garfield
Swing: Jeremy Bowditch
Production Designer: Megan Fenton
Art Directors: Elizabeth Garner, Martha Carey, Ashley Fenton
Costume Designer: Jenny Reyes, Huy Tran, Oscar Covar
Makeup: Tiffany Johnston
It’s been a while since I dropped in on Andrew Holder and as far as I can tell, it looks like there is some new work in his portfolio (possibly even a new site). Either way, if you are unfamiliar with his work, it is a special retro-stylized treat.
You really have to appreciate the eye for spotting just the right retro/vintage imagery to create these undeniably cool photo-collage mashups. You can see the entire set in the Flickr-folio of Nick Blakeman (who really needs to make some prints of these by the way).
Yulia is an Israeli photographer who captures gorgeous retro-styled images of equally gorgeous women. It makes you want to wile away a romantic day at the beach and steal a kiss or two.
Wow, there is some seriously awesome retro-design in this blue note album cover archive. Really inspiring stuff. It gave me a lot of ideas. I love finding stuff like this.
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.