Custom Shoes Tutorial by Sole Junkie
LUV shoes? Wanna learn how to paint your kicks? Steven Cedre aka Sole Junkie shares how to do so in this video.
Funky! Fun! Fantastic! dlite based in Torino, Italy, specializes in organizing events and congresses, and boasts experience of international scope and their website rocks! Must see!
This week issue is more about using visuals to instill gravitas into a portfolio website. Shown, four different approaches.
Damien Correll is a freelance designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY who likes to do type development, record covers, magazine illustrations, product development.
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Louise Fili Ltd 
specializes in equisitely crafted logo, package, restaurants and book covers. She is part of the Art Director Hall of Fame.
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Stefano Joker Lionetti aka Loveleft is an Italian designer who wants to promote good design culture with a strong penchant for typography.
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Odopod is a digital agency with an all new shocking pink interface. They help brands make new friends.
Blown away! Nando Cornejo operates the Blockmachine a project based on urban and nature structures and patterns. In the past couple of years there has been a resurgence of mirrored images and graphics throughout the industry, but this personal project has a clear-cut place all by itself.
Creating art worth adorning hotel walls is probably a great recognition of the worthiness of his visual explorations.
PetPunk reinvents using a pyramid shaped interface with project identified with geometric forms.
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Method chose a neutral beige palette with a well structured information architecture.
Mass Distraction is a project by Agnelli Davide and Drori Tal created back in 2004, though the ground thesis remains very actual, even moreso today.
“A series of three jackets (the Coin Jacket, the Hood Jacket and the Game Jacket) intended to provoke thought and discussion about the idea of presence: physical presence no longer guarantees a person’s availability and attentiveness.
Often, in order to remain connected the people both near and far, the mobile phone user multitasks between the two communication channels.
Whether disguised or not, this practice degrades the quality of the interaction with the people in his immediate presence.”
The Crisis of Credit (Visualized) by Jonathan Jarvis is a smart and brilliantly illustrated complex information animation that is quite instructive in understanding (at least partly) the current US$ economic turmoil and why there is such a domino effects in the financial services.
This project is part of his thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
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via Surfstation
Joost Korngold aka Renascent has acquired an international reputation for his exploration of the motion grahics discipline and the multiple projects that were quite innovative granted the limitations of technology when they were produced. He certainly can be considered a pioneer in the field.
View his 2009 reel to get an idea of his capabilities.
Welcome to the incredible meta-universe of Mars-1. Psychedelia meets hyper realism meets imagination on warp meets confounding and unearthly beauty.
The kaleidoscopic details and the richness of colors makes his work totally enjoyable. It invites the viewer to venture into awaken-dreams of exploration of the unknown. Great way to defeat any creative blocks and cynicism.
Bon voyage!
160over90 is a branding company! And what a company it is. Oh gosh their portfolio website is like a complete immersive course into what excellent design is about. Interface uses large expanse of white, simple and efficient navigation, beautiful visuals.
Their roster of clients not only is impressive, but even more is the quality of the work they have created. Oh and what about the dream space they work in? Top of the line. The photography to show their projects? Impeccable.
Probably one of the best portfolios discovered this year!
Walter Molteni aka UOLTS just relaunch his new portfolio website and just made my day! YAY! Awesome! Original! Unique! Now we’re talking about innovation at the service of design.
Luv the interface sparing details, the simplicity, the jolting contrasting colors and the navigation from project to project! WOW!
Hats off! To a long time alumni.
Visual delights guaranteed! Use the way back machine to land in a luxurious e-shop filled with romantic characters, sassy animations, handmade vignettes. Welcome to the fairytale world of Les Gourmandises de Lolita Lempicka 
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It’s been a while since a flash experimental website surfaced. Have a look at the Bignothing. Send a message, receive one. Watch the wildly colorful animated backgrounds.
They LUV design! It shows! We show it!
Helmo is the Montreuil (FR) based dual-head graphic design micro-agency of Thomas Couderc et Clément Vauchez who collaborate to create strong conceptual work.
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Raul Gomez was born in Cadiz in 1977. He studied industrial design, but his instinct, talents and passion for drawing led him to another route: graphic design.
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PROEKT is Moscow based design bureau founded by Roman Krikheli in 1999, and claims to have not made a single project they are ashamed of. Huge statement!
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Design and art direction brought to you by Dani Bembibre Belda who does beautiful LP covers, illustrations and art installations.
Who is the mastermind behind the MCAD Compositional Engine, Generative Engine which was a winner of the ADAA 07? Do you know the Haptic-Data project? Wanna see the work of someone who really-really luvs new media?
Now operating from Minneapolis, Kyle Phillips is a passionate interaction designer and developer actively working on installation and web experiences and his portfolio, really impressive.
Top Dollar “builds everything upon a holy trinity founded on continuity, consequence and love.” Although the website does not show yet any work, once you have assembled a clear statement of who you are, only good tidings can be the outcome.
Let’s stay tuned to what this Swedish advertising and marketing agency does next! BTW Luv the Change is Hope, statement.
Are you rebuilding your portfolio website? Well instead of showing a bland placeholder with site under construction as explanation, why not flaunt your past projects in a one-pager?
This is what Susanne Burri a super talented graphic designer from Paris, chose to do, so potential clients can still see her work and contact her for commissions.
Godbye Google by Doug Bowman
“I’m thankful for the opportunity I had to work at Google. I learned more than I thought I would. I’ll miss the free food. I’ll miss the occasional massage. I’ll miss the authors, politicians, and celebrities that come to speak or perform. I’ll miss early chances to play with cool toys before they’re released to the public. Most of all, I’ll miss working with the incredibly smart and talented people I got to know there. But I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.”
Wanna see a portfolio that contains complex information and succeeds in packaging everything in a simple and interesting way?
“From the beginning, Emanuel Barbosa chooses to embrace print, web, illustration, environments, product and fashion rather than specialize is design approach. Graphic design has been is first and major passion, therefore since 1998 he teaches this discipline at ESAD – Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Matosinhos, Portugal) and organizes exhibitions, workshops and lectures about this theme.”
OgilvyOne Athens is looking for a experienced Interactive Art Director who can concept,design, produce whatever he thinks of.
Ogilvy & Mather Dusseldorf came up with this outstanding concept to support a most urgent cause, feeding kids in their community. We often lend the power of images to ignite an emotional response, but Donate-A-Meal, takes it much further.
Don’t just try the functionalities by which you will experience the website. Show your appreciation and truly give back!
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Recipient of a Cannes Lion d’Or 2009
Design for a good cause! Rafael Esquer (check the ‘Dimensional’ section to view his contribution) over 3 years ago received an email from Michael Bierut inviting him to be part of the School Library Initiative by designing a mural.
Michael said “There is a modest budget and a guaranteed emotional return on investment.”
Totally awesome murals! Must see!
Matt Taylor can toggle easily between seriously (sometimes) dark topics to highly joyful editorial work in his illustrations! His drawing and technical abilities are excellent.
Definitely someone to watch for.
Superestudio a design and animation company has produced this award-winning movie for the AXN Film Festival.
Wowie! You gotta see this!
McFaul Studio does it all with brio: book cover, illustration, toys, tatoos, wall design, motion graphics and their works reflect a deep set into the graffiti and urban design scene.
Nice flash website too.
Well, well, well, what do you know? Bello+Co are exploiting a blond retro clad bomshell to drive their brand home. Questions: do blonds sell? Or have more fun? Or are more biz savvy? Or credible?
What do you make of this concept?
For all the packaging lovers, Lovely Package® is a leading source for the very best that package design has to offer.
How Two Friends Built a $100 Million Company
What an inspiring story, the rise of Method which products are environment friendly. Bullet steps to remember:
1. Differentiate yourself
2. Persistence pays – even in a recession
3. Branding isn’t just for big companies
4. Stay nimble
James Joyce aka One Fine Day is a London based artist and designer who produces strong editorial and illustration projects by using big typography, bold colors and just the right amount of whimsical.
LUV this cover for Creative Review. He does not overshadow the message – he is the message.
No matter what the situation or economic turmoil, this is the only thing that matters: Designers, Respect yourself!
Falling head over heels for the work of UK based, This Studio created. Like this striking poster for the Victor Felix art gallery. Oh wait on.. there is more to see. Print or interactive!
Good design makes my day!
Mike Perry Studio aka Midwestisbest is one those incredibly prolific jack of many trades who don’t skip a beat while juggling many hats. Totally mastering and crafting awesome hand-drawn typography and illustrations, he is proof that talent has power enough to open the loftiest doors.
He’s work with high and low fashion, published a well received book, eloquently titled Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, pillows and catalogs for Urban Outfitters, and much much more.
Enjoy the rest of day, it may take that long to digest is portfolio compilation.
Brian Piper is a design director with 15 + years of broad (& international) experience seeks new challenges in both print and interactive. He has a tremendous amount of energy, enthusiasm and flexibility. Just back from a 6 yrs stint in Germany, he’s on the ready for new assignments.
The Peter Saville principle.
‘Music covers are not graphic design, they communicate nothing.’
A cross between psychedelia 70s laced with an apparent obsession with Sargent Peppers’s record sleeve making and post-punk eras, most of her gigs are entertainment and music industry related. Kate Moross is a 22 year old London based creative practicing as an illustrator and graphic designer.
She also runs ISO & Isomorph Records which you can read about here. She claims having “a fascination with three sided shapes, illegible typography, and freeform lettering.”
Step into my cardboard office… via CR Blog
Nothing is a new commercial creative agency formed by Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten that just opened its doors in Amsterdam. The office is an unusual construction too, in that it is built almost entirely out of cardboard and is h.q. to building 4 in-house brands to be released in the near future.
If you want to make a splash in the design industry, finding such an original idea will definitely make noise around your brand, and Nothing is one heck of an example.
Illustrations by Fiodor Sumkin and photography by Joachim Baan.
Le Raclet is a screen print studio based in Milan, mainly focused on the production of fine art prints and tees made in collaboration with artists they support.
Showing a nice screen print of Helen Slater, screen powagirrrl.
This smooth surface bench – hanger – table conversation breaker, My Deer, is the handywork of talented Netherlands based Jeroen Wesselink who as a product designer explores quirky and yet usable solutions for everyday items.
In the end, he makes funky – catchy home (and SMO) props.
Tom Bagshaw is one of those astonishing illustrator who can draw in pure esthetical lines and realistic portraiture. Almost always staged in somewhat weird, fantasmagoric moods, the characters transcend the canvas.
Now on its fifth incarnation, welcome to the strange world of Mostlywanted.
Borja Bonaque is a young illustrator from Spain who draws wonderful kubik like buildings (he has an exacting sense of perspective) and cute minimalist characters.
Totally LUV the skateboards he designed!
Total visual extravaganza broungt to you by Camelia Dobrin whose illustrations display a surabondance of full-teeth eclectic characters, stretched body parts, linearts and details.
Mini-list of hubs and blogs. Bookmark baby, bookmark.
R is a new online mag about contemporary-art, graphic design, design, music and photography.
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Neo2 blog covers art, fashion, housing and is going full circles! What a fab way of showing thumbnails.
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Chad Kouri is one of the author of The Post Family. Luv the concept around launching the blog.
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Partfaliaz has a section dedicated to illustrator agencies worlwide.
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VBG is a visual communication service. Check the quotes!
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Coloured In is a brand new collective of graffitti artists, designers and editorial illustrators.
Michael Kelley chose a huge pixellated image to open up his photography portfolio. Excellent portraiture!
“His work has been described as a celebration of the mundane with a twist of humor. (whatever that means)”
Matt Owens and company at Volumeone did this sobering animated piece in collab with Good Magazine. The power of images and a strong storyboard delivers a memorable message.
Like as if anyone can put its head around: 800$ billions or a 5k / per second spending ratio. Insane!
The Hidden Cost of War.
You into retro-50’s furniture or accessories? Room Service is a neat kitschy little store with a wide variety of post-modern diggs.
Diogo Soares came up with this t-shirt design. Wouldn’t that make a fantastic campaign anchor for a non-profit against all wars organization? Or a fab cover for Adbusters?
He claims to be a highly motivated, enthusiastic and conceptually driven jr. graphic designer, and were I you, would snatch him rightoway!
Firstborn developed this microsite for Sport Chalet. The Mountain is chuck-full of cool tricks: papervision API, perfect integration of video data tracking with flash tag element and a really nice 3D look.
Thanks Luis Guajardo for sending in the heads-up.
Bonsaimai is RIP, long live the new home for Maiko Guble, MongrelNation which is a Berlin based practice for imagery.
“They manufacture contemporary media beyond rigid disciplines, combining traditional illustration, 3D modeling and ideation. They embrace new technologies, however, they will never stop using a pencil and deliberately cultivate a beginner’s mind forever.”
Well Helloplastika is Alberto Rodriguez graphic design and art direction portfolio which has a strong urban and muscic scene as well as typographic style on which to base his undertakings.
Simplicity going the xtra mile!
The Firm List has been active for eons and contains over 15,000 firms in over 170 countries for graphic and interactive design. It is now run with the help of volunteers who check for broken links and firms they know in their area and the interface has not changed a bit for many years.
Looks kind of web retro, if that style exists.
March 8 is International Women’s Day! Celebrate women around you by letting them know what a difference they make daily in your life. Grandmas, Mothers, Lovers, Wife, Partner, Associates, Friends where would we be without them?
Netdiver has been supporting women who rock the design scene with more than pink design for the past 8 years! Proud to be one of them!
Hats off to all the powagirrrls!
Hey is a multi-disciplinary studio composed of a trio of happy designers: Tilman Solé, Verónica Fuerte and Ricardo Jorge. They are totally enamored with typography and reflected in all their assignments.
From Barcelona with luv!
Digup.tv interview with Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt. If you are a fan of motion graphics and aspiring film director — this one is for you. Discovered the work of Rob aka TheRonin in the early days when he was just starting out doing animation. Black Day to Freedom film and initiative quickly gain world acclaim.
Chris Hewitt shares the same passion. As a self-trained graphic designer, he also made the switch to animation and co-produced the amazing OFFF NY bumpers. He has worked on many high-profile projects.
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via Surfstation
Freedom + Partners going flash 3D with their new website. Got mix feelings about this. From a usability point of view? A bit hard to navigate. As a little techno feat? No doubt.
Makes you wonder who does profit from developing such web experiments? Clients? Agency? Both?
Henrik Abrahams pencilled illustrations are extremely well executed and port the signature of one that has been drawing for a long time.
Alberto Cerriteno is a long time Netdiver alumni and as a Mexican illustrator living in Portland, he is strongly inspired by urban vinyl toys, alternative cartoons, and the pop surrealism movement. He has developed his own very personal technique and style, having always present a delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns.
Completely revamped his illustration portfolio, and he just keeps on getting better and better.
He’s always pushing to extend the scope of his conceptual work. Pawel Fabjanski updated his portfolio with new photographs.
Arik Mergi is an artist and graphic designer living and working in Tel Aviv. His art communicates what he sees every day in the urban landscape that surrounds us. Giving expression to small moments and situations that remind us, there is more out there.
Pimp my shoes man! Puma Archive self-indulging retrospective of almost seven (7) decades of shoe designing!!! Totally awesome flash website!
Mario Eskenazi is a seasoned Spain based graphic designer which identity, packaging and signage designs all bear a minimalist and refined typographic approach.
Luv these corporate ident collaterals.
Product as art. Art as product describes what Kvadrat Clouds are. These flexible tiles can be hung on the wall or ceiling or free standing and are attached with a special elastic band.
You create the forms, and recreate as often you want to fit your mood and vision. Gorgeous idea!
The photographic collection In Between (in the projects section) by Julia Fullerton-Batten is an experiment in non-gravity. The Teenage Stories is an experiment in scale. The conceptual staging is mesmerizing.
Both are must see!
Scott Listfield fixation on astronauts and dinosaurs dates quite a while back. He tiressly portrays this anonymous astronaut in the most peculiar of situations. With humor, he paints a kind of social commentary.
Who says you can’t be successful pursuing what you only like?
Joevw luvs bold vibrant colors and apply them in all he does: t-shirts, illustration and print design.
This girl can draw! Priscilla Wilson stylish mix of line arts and forms adorn loads of apparel. T-shirts (click on image to view the full illustration) and print work.
On first take – it looks kitschy and is yet another interface filled with placed objects. But then, this one displays the works of Roel Wouters who uses to his advantage, this kind of interface.
Intrigued? Find really creative graphic solutions in-motion.
Michael Bartalos has come a long way since we first featured. He has kind of diverted from his strictly cubic like illustrations towards more organic free formed ones and progressed steadily towards mix-media free standing installations. Out of this world!
Don’t miss any sections – it’s worth it.
Sensational portraits by Matthew Hollings which are all hand drawn, scanned and then finalized digitally.
