Devkick has put together a great little synopsis of inspirational examples of European graphic design dating through the 1950’s to the 1970’s. I have seen most of it but there were a couple of examples that were new to me. All and all there is some really great examples in the collection including references from De Stijl to International Typographic Style and it makes for a great inspirational resource.
Daniel Baer has some very nice graphic design work in his portfolio.
From his about section:
“Swiss-born Daniel Baer’s imaginative and elegant style of design and art direction had led to collaborations with clients in the fields of art, publishing and luxury retail. Baer’s diverse range of work spans multiple disciplines, including editorial, book, advertising and packaging design.”
HappyPets is a swiss based ‘experimental lab in the creative, graphic design, image and illustration domain’. They have a body of inspiring work for you to feast your eyes upon.
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.
