From his bio section: “Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch is an illustrator and fine artist based in San Francisco, California.Maxwell has created illustrations for newspapers, magazines, musicians and websites for numerous clients around the world.”
Matthew Palladino is based out of San Francisco but is currently in New York until the end of August. That is honestly about all the information I can give you about him. Oh yeah, that and he makes some really cool illustrations.
Ha ha, zing. Did you like how I wrote that post? Sorry, I know it was pretty corny. I partied like a rockstar in New York this weekend and I am fried today. Cut me some slack.
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.
Character is a design agency based in San Francisco. Character was established in 1999 by Benjamin Pham, Patricia/Tish Evangelista and Rishi Shourie. The studio now employs a team of art directors, designers, project managers, brand strategists and writers. Character has generated creative for Nike, Levis, Restoration Hardware, Kohler and Pottery Barn. They have some beautiful design work in their portfolio. All of it is on point and highly accomplished.
Steven Knodel is a San Francisco based Graphic Designer currently working for advertising agency, Venables Bell & Partners. He has produced creative for Audi, A&E Television Networks, HBO and SlimJim. He has some very unusual work in his portfolio that combines a sense of design-classicism with a contemporary twist. It makes for an interesting browse where you can see some modern trends influencing the visuals but they never seem to stray to far from the root fundamentals.
San Francisco based Art Director Bryan Denman and designer Ryan Teuscher built a special flickr search bar specifically for the creative community. According to Denman, “It pulls in a flickr feed at speed (w/ some other tricks) so that an AD can quickly scour the site as a source for reference material.”
In the image above you can see what was yielded by my search for ‘typography’. You can try it out yourself at Compfight.com. It really is impressive how fast it compiles the images and it even has filters for images licensed by Creative Commons. If you occasionally have to hunt down imagery like I do for use in comps for ads, it could really come in handy. Flickr has a lot of large image as well that will look a hell of a lot better than a stock photo blown up to 20 times it’s size with a giant ugly watermark right over the middle. Thanks Bryan.
