Design news | Aug 08
Som de Lisboa is a state of the art audio-visual production studio aiming at integrating music and technology.
Tim Jarvis has been partner and Creative Director at London-based agency The Profission Partnership and active in the fields of brand identity, print and web. He has evolved his fundamental methodology to meet the needs of his clients across all of these mediums.
Astounding photography by Lyle Owerko. The Africa series covering the Samburu people made me realize how body piercing, especially ear extensions, are not by-products of neither EU or North America underground fashion endorsers, for one.
Putting this aside, the light contrast and treatment as well as the genuine candor we feel, make his work endearing and draws you to dwell on the process of what he is seeing and capturing.
Don't miss an experiment he just released: the (vintage) Boombox project. Just finding the items must have been like attempting to find a needle in a haysack.
Ralf Gellert likes people and it shows in his photography! Excellent portrait and staging for fashion shoots.
Well this photograph, Tony D'Orio, has a sense of humor that can be sometimes a bit darkish, nonetheless, the photomontages and retouching are quite amazing (and as you will see, he has done a number of takes for a certain type of campaigns.
Joe Wigdahl does not specializes in any particular style of photography but his, have this story telling flavor, captured from every day life or more staged for editorial work.
Everywhere We Shoot has restocked their portfolio. This creative duo is taking pleasure in gigantic handbag attacking the city, a greasy hobo roaming the streets in couture ... these are the stuff that dreams are made of, or perhaps someone's delirious fantasy. But for Everywhere We Shoot, these are the kind of things that happen in a day's work
Penelope Dullaghan is versatile her work ranging between illustration, fine art, type, patterns. Her projects are stamped with a dreamy like signature, and her choice palette mostly pastelle with contrasting accents.
Inclined towards family and lifestyle illustrations, she has been widely published and her work awarded too.
Make room for the kids because Tamara Schlesinger shoots them to perfection and as you know, most of the time they get restless, her achievements are celebrating her patience and timing. Sweet!
Nutz about food. Food as art. Foodie alert by Marcus Nilsson whose photography is mouth watering and staged sometimes quite dramatically. Reminder of the Renaissance natures mortes masters.
Gui Borchet is an art director originally from Rio de Janeiro who has a stunning portfolio has paid his dues working with some of the largest agencies. First, I like the one page grid with big visuals that embeds movies and multiple views of some of the projects and he says: “Scrolling is fun” and he over delivers on that quote.
Now on to his actual realizations! Oh my! Everything is just excellent.
TokyoCube reshelves the store with new products arrival which include a fashion line and cool plastic figures such as the Sug H60 by unklbrand.
Get ready for lift-off! Grab a coffee, sit back and be patient because Weestar portfolio will require your full attention for more than a few minutes, to fully enjoy and appreciate.
“Graphic designer. Illustrator. Partner of JOYN:VISCOM studio, now he is working and living in Beijing, focusing on the iconographic, typeface design, toys, street art and other media, based upon different kinds of iconographics.”
Mattis Dovier is still a student and I really like his graphic design and 3d experiments. At 19, he has a promising career ahead.
POL OXYGEN issue 27 is out with a cover story that features SØLVE SUNDSBØ portfolio of portraits who is the Norwegian fashion and advertising photographer whose colour-saturated, hyper-real prints offer a bizarrely beautiful world.
Pierre Vanni is an art director and his one-pager portfolio shows huge graphics and when you mouse-over - starts a little slide-show. No words - lets the work speak for itself.
RevistaColectiva is a collective of artists of the world presenting new trends in art, design and culture originating from Costa Rica and founded by Juan Manuel Betancourt.
Each issue is printed and a small movie is available for a quick view of inside content. The articles for each theme are well-written too.
They are accepting proposals for their upcoming issue: Planet Alert.
If tragedy strikes what would you expect? A little help from your friends and if as so happened to Justin Feller and his girlfriend who lost EVERYTHING in that fire, help from anyone would be great.
If this prompts you to help - please do so by donating - no amount too small when you start from nothing.
Couldn't have said it better: “A self-developed artist, Robert Hardgrave creates work both highly intricate and abundant with personal symbols.” There is turmoil and spiralling chaos but his work is still having a somewhat figurative appeal where the attention to details prevail.
Take a journey into the world of Diftype where each pixel is filled with extraneous collage like details integrating subtle nuances of 45 degrees lines, textures and graphic artefacts.
When I'm 20 - I will design like Niklas Lundberg :)0
These two girls from Ittestudio have more inclinations to design anything on anything for anything and their blog aka PopPervert just shows the dazzling array of their shared interests.
When will they ever learn??? by Carole Guevin
I find it incredibly naive that some marketers think that because people flock somewhere a market suddenly exists, becoming yet another slice in the pie of potential revenue-generation for corporations to grab.
Fundamentally, a community, unless based on buying power, will do exactly what and why it was started for in the first place, and anything added to it, unless more functionalities will twist the model out of place.
So under the guise of facilitating communal activities was there, laying all along, the big rampant lure of reaping big bucks?
Does it mean that if you create a large enough user base that it will instantly turned into big wads of (advertising) dollars?
What should have been done in the first place is perhaps include the monetizing model from the get go. For example, what if Facebook was available to a monthly fee to join, there probably wouldn't be 300 millions users to boot but let's say that there were 10M paying 5$/month it would still turn out a hefty 50M$ a month (and lowering the numbers on either side (users/monthly fee) would still be incredibly profitable because your expenses would go down accordingly).
It's hard to have any sympathy.. lesson here: before you launch - think it through.
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Many New 'Friends' to be Made Online, But What About Dollars? by Gregory M. Lamb
Social Network Websites Are Booming. If Only They Could Turn a Profit. “It's been a huge disconnect between traffic to social network sites and revenue. People clearly, especially on the social networks, [are] not particularly interested in clicking on the ads.”
Can Social-Networking Sites Make Money? by Bryant Urstadt
Advertisers Shun User-Generated Video by Anick Jesdanun
Net Video Ads: Attention Vs. Annoyance by Anick Jesdanun
Gary Hutswit: “I think that, especially today, it’s crucial for us to re-examine how we make and use consumer products at every level. And if you could get all of these designers and design experts together at a dinner party, what would they talk about?
Objectified, the film will hopefully represent that conversation.”
Si Scott is the brilliant mind behind a little film he did about drawing, and drawing he knows! His use of repetitive and concentric lines make up for art nouveau like elegant illustrations.
Helen Rush and Nicki Field don't what you to call Agency Rush an illustration agency, because it is so much more. They provide an exclusive creative service, managing projects from commission to production and more. They offer strategic advice on changes of direction, instigating new initiatives and nurturing careers.
Tomas Pena who declares himself part of the Spanish design underground, has worked with prominent graphic design studios and put up a little gem of a reel!
Cristina Guitian is an illustrator whose line arts adorned huge installation as well as editorial and print assignments. Her naive like characters reminds of childhood drawing attempts but her compositions denote concepts that are mature.
When using geometric forms and real or imaginary lines to create art like yet commercial photography, I think about the work of Kim Holtermand.
What I find especially worth noting is that not only the compositions are almost always using a strict linear grid but also the two pre-dominant palette: greenish/cyan and grayish/pink enhance the surreal or dreamy like textures and light.
Amy Pelletier is another talented photographer with a somewhat humoristic edge and irky style of composition. Definitely someone to watch.
Designed by Engine Digital who happens to have a couple of job openings: interactive designers, producers, intermediate flash developer and more.
Time is precious especially for geeks. That’s why Geexoo - the geek feed hub has been launched. Geexoo aggregates the latest feeds from top blogs from over 30 tech topics.
Eva Lindemanhas a simple typographic and word based navigation as well as columns of little icons to display her graphic design and illustration work.
The Survey, 2008 by A List Apart
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.
Heard this sentence? You know quality when you see it! Well this is what would best define Chris Ro graphic and editorial design projects aka ADearFriend. Just upgrade me with 10% of his imagination power and I should be ok. The number of original treatments and quality of composition is staggering not withstaking how some layouts really trick the mind.
Worth visiting from top to bottom!
VEAUX is an online talent market that helps fesh creatives sell themselves, and picky buyers find the choicest cut of artistic goodness around. Simple interface, bright colors, yummy!
Design and programming by Synthetic Infatuation.
Quodrant is a design studio headed by Jack Tan. He is an art director and programmer. His experience lies in the interactive domain. He is very intrigued by music, culture, manga and film.
Flash website with projects listed with animated thumbnails and a load of little movies.
Wanna see a good example of launching a website as a start-up? Check out Enfatico. Industry heavy-weights make up the team, I guess that is promising. No portfolio yet. Just the pitch of what they will can and will do. Smart!
A space to watch!
Liz
Wolfe 
is powagirrrl and
knows the power of eye candy.. literally! Her photographic compositions
are quirky and original and follows the path of the unexpected!
Oh and she makes (shocking) pink rock!
Leandro Lima a young brazilian web designer, graphic designer, flash designer and illustrator recently developed a website for Jet a fashion brand. Sweet interface, awesome palette and nice use of flash.
YKM proves their point in being an interactive marketing communication agency that has the know-how. Using a large roster of huge images.. the captions are sometimes funny, but all are really smart! Bright and red!
Designspotter is looking for new guest bloggers and jounalists for their magazine. If interested in working with them - please send an email to Markus Gogolin.
David Arias is a just recently graduated graphic designer with a penchant for strategic branding and visual communications. Gotta luv the grid simplicity of the interface with big size thumbnails for his portfolio web site.
YOO is a design-focus property devlopment company enhancing quality and adding value through design and notwithstaking, the brainchild of Philippe Starck and John Hitchcox.
They make pretty and upscale, naturally.
I thought that crazy interfaces had somehow disappeared, well LUST / RANDOM just proved the contrary. Nothing usable, incredibly complex and hard to decipher, but hey, this is what they do:
“Design philosophy revolve around Process-based and Generative-based Design. Interested in exploring new pathways for design at the precarious edge where new media and information technologies, architechture and urban planning and graphic design overlap. Topics include graphic design typography abstract cartography mapping architecture urban media installations archiving data-visualizations random mistake-ism fonts type design new media interactive webdesign internet www art big bang chaos.”
Glossy, shiny, trendy, bubbly, exhuberant, expressive, excessively good graphic design and art direction.. for just about any media possible, including interior installations. Gee whiz... an almost mile long porfolio of eye candy they've produced thus far.
Did I say prolific too?
Fairspot published a fresh new interview with graphic design legend Hillman Curtis. This might be one of the last interviews before Hillman becomes a famous producer on the big screen!
BTW Hillman said tata to his lavender long standing website! Here comes spanking new and looking totally crisp and clean - in white accented black.
Jesse Hora restocks his portfolio with new illustration and graphic design works.
Just found this pearl - Emigre repository of essays on the philosophy of design and others on type and typography. Want more design references? Vist the Toolbox.
Colorful and funky idents and design by Black Marmalade which was born in the fall of 2004 as a way for DeChazier P. Stokes-Johnson to have a change of pace from the sometimes static life being an art director at an advertising agency brings.
Since he has art directed, designed, & illustrated, for some of today's top brands.
How Do You Walk the Line Between Work and Home? Share Your Best Practices With ALA.
Years ago I wrote this simple sentence: “What's the use of human intelligence if it serves only to destroy?” and wrote this essay. This is not a political call to action! This is REALITY! We do something about it and we survive. We ignore it and we disappear.
{dare} to change the World by Carole Guevin.
If you're into photography especially retouching and matte painting - get ready to see seriously mastered skills owned by Eugenio Recuenco, who is a photographer extraordinaire.
Don't miss his frescoe like composition! Mind blowing!
Subnormals, streetwear, streetart, skate and streetwear, shirts, hoodies, accessoiries and all stuff urban wear.
Fabulous footage of the making of a Nina Ricci ad spot by extraordinaire photographer and director Eugenio Recuenco, art direction by Eric Dove, where you can view small scale set, blue screen takes and more.
View the final version to appreciate all the work it took to get there.
Dave Kinsey aka KinseyVisual is an artist who likes working spontaneously, and utilizing a range of mediums, he constructs multi-layered, textured environments easily likened to the complexities of contemporary life.
Dominant - strong strokes, red and black with subtle undertones and details.
All white one page portfolio that shows an impressive list of design projects and illustration and photography and typography. Visual goodness brought to you by Manuel Pozo.
No flash, upon click, thumbnails are enlarged. Enough in there to keep busy for a while.
