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Ross McBride was born in the United States, earned his bachelor’s degree in graphic design and upon graduation, promptly moved to Tokyo where he has lived ever since. Upon arriving in Japan, Ross furthered his graphic design studies as a research student at Japan University (Nippon Daigaku).

Gradually, became more interested in product, and furniture design. In January 2000, K.K. Normal was established in order to manage Ross’ product, furniture, and interior projects.

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Featured: Normal Timepieces

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Featured: S&P Dolly salt and pepper shakers

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Featured: Command Sit stackable stools

Ted McGrath has worked with major publications and his mix media collages and illustrations are nothing short of eccentric. Doodles meet hand-drawn typography meet line art over photography meet cut-out effects meet..

Wowie! Behance Action Method stationery available at a nice 15% off from now to Dec 3!

Apak Studio launches the dreamy Space series posters.

Jon Knox aka Hello, Brute has hand casted the first edition of this vinyl toy named Danny. Hand painted. Each box is hand drawn too.

Fantastic 3D illustration manipulation and photo montage by Seagulls Fly for Sony Bravia. View upclose by zooming on images. This is an outstanding concept! What an idea!

Totally mmm taken by the 3d views that Alex Mathers illustrated. His portfolio bears the signature of someone who has found and is focusing on his unique point of view, sorta speaking. “He aims to communicate ideas through my work using fresh simplicity” and has succeeded.

The series of the plunging perspective are exquisite little eye jewels.

Manuel Larino is another promising illustrator.

Roman Klonek, born in Kattowitz/Poland, has a spot for old fashioned cartoons, especially East European Styles. In the 90s he studied Graphic Arts in Duesseldorf and discovered a passion for woodcut printing. Not only do you draw a concept but you then need to sculpt it and finally, print it. Quite a feat!

Check the about to view some pictures of him in action.

There seems to be a growing fascination in building Lego based characters. Showing: Model 17 Shunter Mec by Adrian Florea.

Call for entries. Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek from London-based design studio FL@33 are currently compiling and designing an exciting new book entitled ABC Dimensional (working title) to be published worldwide by Laurence King Publishing in spring 2011.

ABC Dimensional will be a handbook, source of inspiration and the a truly comprehensive showcase focusing 100% on three-dimensional experimental letterforms, sculptural shape-shifting letters, tactile experiences and surprising and inventive ways to interpret the alphabet, ranging from beautiful and humorous to poetic, witty and conceptual.

Deadline: January 6

Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies, students, visual artists… you are welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental artwork inspired by the theme:

WHAT DOES USA MEAN TO YOU?

We are expecting diversity and freestyle: all styles of outstanding visual media are welcome. Selected works will be featured through online exhibit and book (more information soon).

Deadline: January 31 (2010)

This is a rather really cool flash website for DJNR interactive portfolio which features a large video section serving as background and tangy yellow-green and black to highlight sections. Unusual navigation that works intuitively throughout all levels. Nice!

Professional, to the point self-promo and well done!

It’s time for the annual Friends & Family Holiday Sale, the best of the season! For a short time, take 35% off plus get FREE ground shipping on all on-line orders from Chronicle Books website.

Just use promo code FRIENDS at checkout.

Did my first wall collage when I was 14 over the felt burgundy (awful) wallpaper my mum was so proud of.. was she ever so very angry with my new found creative endeavor which I went on to apply to all kinds of surfaces including dining and working tables, bookcases and.. more walls.

Since, I have kept a penchant for flat art that blends on walls such as wall decals. Luv the smooth effect whereas there are no distinction between the surface it is applied to and the artwork.

Showing some of my fav from the Bodega collection.

Featured: Rostarr

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Featured: Space Ship Earth by Cody Hudson

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Featured: Castle by Cody Hudson

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Featured: Steven Harrington

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Featured: Kenzo Minami

Jaw-dropping illustrations made with drawing ink by Gerhard Mayer. Go see and be amazed!

Zorro is one of 21 characters in a little study of mustache style worn by well-known people illustrated by Made in England.

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Luv it enough? It’s a desktop too.

Found this spoofy and hilarious take on in-house idea processes illustrated by Scott Campbell. Hit the link to view the rest: Eight ways to kiil an idea.

toxiclibs is an independent, open source library collection for computational design tasks with Java & Processing. After 2.5 years of continuous development & refactoring, the collection consists of >14k lines of code, 124+ classes, 18 packages bundled into 7 libraries. The classes are purposefully kept fairly generic in order to maximize re-use in different contexts ranging from generative visuals, data visualization to digital fabrication, use as teaching tool and more.

View the showreel sampling users generated examples.

Bjorn Rune Lie is a Sweden based freelance illustrator. Gotta luv his style and quirky smart concepts and sense of humor.

It’s all about finding and exploring the visual beauty of drops of water filmed in very slooooow motion: Time Warp – Water.

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via: Guy Kawasaki

Emilia Forstreuter enthralling, superb animations makes the mind visit unknown territories with her lush forms and the beauty of the movements.

Featured: Yonder (don’t miss about to view more visuals)

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Featured: Amstel (don’t miss about to view more visuals)

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via: Fubiz

Up-close with a complex data visualisation poster for A B Peace and Terror project created by The Luxury of Protest.

Juan Carlos Pagan is a designer, typographer, and painter who lives and works in New York City. Soon after graduating (Parson’s) he found himself compelled to explore all aspects of typography in great depth, using the written word and it’s structural manifestations to fuel the majority of his work.

STILL poster series nice illustrations by Michele Angelo aka Superexpresso who was born in Italy, studied painting, then visual and industrial design. Currently working as a freelance designer in Barcelona.

“A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.”

As much as I hate pigeons, this animation is irresistably funny! Pigeon Impossible written, directed and produced by Lucas Martel.

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via: Michel Dumais

El Studio (based in Scotland, kind of intriguing how they came up with this name) collaborates with all walk of professionals in the trade and delivers outstanding print work. Most of all, clean typography layouts. Really like their website and how they present their work in the lightbox.

Overdrawn elements on black & white photography for Untitled 4 magazine by Micah Lidberg who displays a solid (and edgy) portfolio of illustrations and graphic design.

Talk about diversification, prolific Mike Perry hits on the Eames Bucket Chair. Now that’s transforming a modern icon into a fad rocking chair!

Smart! Minimalist cover by Isaac Tobin titled Piracy for the University of Chicago Press.

Wesley Allsbrook energetic movements and strong flow of fantasy elements mixed with slightly sinister makes his illustations quite memorable.

Achetez un mot pour ceux qui n’en ont pas. Géniale campagne pour la Fondation pour l’alphébétisation: Mots Dépôt!

You’ve never seen birds photographed in such a way! Not only worth visiting as a natural story study, Andrew Zuckerman mesmerizing photography is of superlative quality. How he achieved and repeated this feat, remains and open-ended question.

Clues anyone?

Lisa Shahno is a Moscow-based fashion designer. She makes experimental clothing inspired by geometry. Her last collection “Squaring the Square” have taken Createurope: Fashion Design Award first prize this year.

Startling lines and make-up!

Pretty astounding! Lego based figures created by a group of fans named the CubeDudes. Featured are all from Angus MacLane‘s collections.

Domestika Meetings poster series by Abel Martinez Foronda.

Michael Freimuth is an art director, designer and illustrator based in NYC who has under his belt, a solid and varied stack of projects.

Featured: 2 posters from the Select (an independent Chicago-based cooperative dedicated to expanding the boundaries of media) series.

Raindrops are falling on my bed. Nice printed polar fleece Rain Blanket by Little Factory.

A hauntingly beautiful song and motion graphics video It’s Okay for Land Of Talk.

Remarkable drawing skills and budding design portfolio for this 23 yrs old human male currently studying graphic design at University College Falmouth in the UK. Name: Adam Dedman aka Itscallingme.

When I grow up I will be as good as he is!

Moving somewhere? Here is a fantastic announcement example: “Our idea for this self-promotion project is to communicate our existence and arrival to the new country, Singapore from New York City and leveraging on our name Foreign Policy.

We decided to blend concepts of current affairs, political affairs, maps, the world and the leaders, to be used as content on the piece.”

YiYing grew up in Taiwan, was strongly under the influence of Japanese culture and cartoon and now residing in London, has created the Noodoll hub full of fluffy characters; am currently falling head of heels for Riceroom :))

They LUV design! It shows! We show it!

There are so many illustration styles in the end being memorable, is what matters most. Lovely illustrations by various authors and agencies.

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If You Could contribution by Emmi

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Web Designing Cover by Loworks

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Hunt & Gather by Lab Partners

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Mountain Woman (Happily Never After show) by Michael Wandelmaier

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CD cover for Edward Mirzar by Maxwell Paternoster

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Holland Film Festival by Sue Doeksen

Qube Konstrukt were commissioned to do a very special outdoor print ad. You’ve gotta read this and see the result! Wowie!

Gotta luv Froghand logo and long lasting self-promo material and approach in doing so. He totally has embraced the “(Online) the brand is you” principle I teach.

To view, click last icon in the work list.

Freunde von Freunden is an interview magazine (text and video in German only) that documents the creative work and habitats of mostly Berlin based individuals, whether at home, in the studio, in their apartment or neighborhood.

Take a look, worth it if only from a visual point of view and if you are curious of how other ‘creatives’ environments.

Craft it yourself funky Readymech cameras that you can actually snap pix with! Download the .pdf follow instructions and voila. Nice DIY project (great for students and teens).

Featured: World Pinhole Camera

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Featured: Peyote Camera

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ndlr: Other available DIY: Photos of Your Mother, Astrocam and Dr. Livingstone.

H2Oil is a data information design animation that aims to disclose information about very crucial questions; produced by La Moustache.

“About” What are the Tar sands? Just a drop of the insanity.
“Water” What’s more precious? It’s falling through our hands.
“NAFTA” How can this happen? Working fast for their interests.

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via: DesignFlux

Me luvs sushi even the Super Sushi (Lego) ones created by “Big Daddy” Nelson who is a LEGO fan, and a former LEGO Ambassador from Hawaii.

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via: Khoi Vinh

Brilliant Help Remedies packaging design by little fury; gotta luv the clean minimalist and simplicity of the labels.

Clémentine Derodit aka Bupla just released a beautifully illustrated book full of cutie recipes (and signature characters) for kidz titled El toque!

High-end 3D character design illustrations by Mark Gmehling. Insane concept and exceptional renditions!

Barnaby Coote is a student and aspiring photographer who already belted some remarkable retouching and photo-montages skills. The Slinky Girl won him 1st place in the ADAA competition in the photography category.

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Adam Paterson is another student who (working with Santi Tonsukha) has created this amazing Seed Packaging project which was also awarded 1st place in the ADAA competition in the packaging category.

What are you wearing this Winter? Check the Headict collections. Nice website and cool caps for just about any taste. Gotta luv the fact they have used Renaissance or Middle-Age portraits as head mannequins.

Seriously?!?! It was deemed we need to see Mickey (Mouse that is) darker side! They didn’t ask me.

What do you think of that?

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via: nytimestech

Featuring a new talent: Martin Sati who is an excellent graphic designer and illustrator and destined to have a fruitful career. What talent he has! His approach and resulting works are downright fresh, original, refined and breaking the mold to open a new level of visual goodness in our industry.

Electrolux Infinity is one of the best immersive and interactive experience micro website I’ve seen this year.

Toggling between the light / dark interface changes is an efficient cue and a smart idea to highlight the little diamond shapes sub-level navigation that takes you to another rich media section.

Picture, design and user experience perfect!

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ndlr: Bruno Costa art directed this project by F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Brazil. Read the brief and other interesting details about the food prep, for ex.

Butterfly is a sweet and melancholic fairy-tale like music video by G Dragon produced by Imagebakery with a nice mix of incorporated live action and motion graphics fx.

Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. “Discontented with the flat surface of traditional landscape paintings, he began exploring the relationship between experiencing nature with the body and creating art objects that depict that experience. It is in that transfer, where he takes delight, manipulating cultural codes and blurring the boundaries between nature and artifice.”

Check the Relief serie which are technically complex in both execution and composition as well as inspiring in its aesthetics.

While doing a research, discovered some of the Custom Rolitoboy vinyl toys by proeminent designers. Aren’t they cute?

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Featured: Small and Rounds

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Featured: Mar Hernandez aka Malota

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Featured: Julie West

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Featured: Mini Rolitoboy French Kiss serie — more images here.

Hommu produced eco-chic wall stickers. Gotta luv the Paella (one of my fav Spanish dish) and Gazpacho — which surprisingly really look good on walls other than the kitchen.

Debbie Millman is Sterling Brands design group president. Got acquainted while supporting early Design Matters radio shows where she interviewed design leaders weekly. She wrote the How to think like a great graphic designer book which I highly recommend.

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Hats off to a Powagirrrl who recently got elected President of the national AIGA. You make us proud!

This professional association for design mission is “to stimulate thinking about design, demonstrate the value of design and empower the success of designers at each stage of their careers.”

Same as Netdiver mission since onset: “Welcome to a design and digital culture magazine devoted to tutoring, empowering and stimulating creativity. We champion the LUV of design worldwide, online and beyond.”

Must see from top to bottom! Makoto Yabuki original projects and fantastic direction works.

Featured: AS ONE motion graphics

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Featured: Mask paper construction + photography

Kaleidoscopic! Josh (Davis) had shown early comps of this app at a conf last Spring and thought it a genial idea. Luv it that he has ported is digital generative art randomness algorithms to the iPhone. You can design (and save) unique wallpapers, view, interact and share your creations.

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REFLECT is available for 1,99$ for the month of November.

Wrap it up! Protect and adorn your iPhone with designy skins. Wide variety available at Infectious described as “community designed goodness”. Perfect as happy-bday gifts!

Art Directors Club 89th Annual Awards Call for Entries is now opened. Announcements of the winners will appear in national and international advertising and design publications, both in print and online versions. Winners will be announced at the Gala ceremony at ADC Gallery in New York in the spring of 2010. Winning work will go on a worldwide exhibition tour and be published in the Art Directors Annual 89, the longest-running archive of leading creative work in global advertising and design.

Deadline Design: January 22
Deadline Interactive: January 29
Deadline Advertising: February 5
Deadline Hybrid: February 26
Deadline Students: January 29

Another pearl found! Very nice website and portfolio projects for Blok Design who claims to be a “design studio and space for ideas, idealist and intuitive, international in character and scope..” The About text is quite a literary delight.

Don’t miss the Caban, Emigre Film, Evolutiva and Ödün projects. Bottom line, I have enjoyed most of their projects.

Quick note about these taglines: “There is always another way” — “Certainty is the death of exploration” — enough weight in these words to kickstart creative juices.

Wanna see a fantasticly well produced and designed project initiated by Lottie Crumbleholme a recent graduate of the RCA (Royal College of Art)? One that I wish would be replicated the world over?

Doing your bit is a campaign designed to give environmentally conscientious people ways of turning their individual actions into a larger form of political protest. This project is based around the idea, “If you are already doing you bit, wouldn’t it be nice to get a bit of help?”

Now that’s a really nice website for Fuzzco a creative studio from Charleston, SC specializing in web and graphic design. What I find totally original is the sections headers titles that load as little hinged bars! Cool!

Well it is a hard task to take complex information and translating it into simple to understand symbols. Robert Samuel Hanson is a pro at paring down illustrations to the essential. Specially luv these from the Monocle series.

Fresh out! Freddy Boo is a new illustrator who lives and works in London. He creates humorous and imaginative graphic digital images.