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Who needs ice cream scoops on a cone when you can have ice cream shavings in a cup…with eyes?! Eyescream is a new ice cream bar that’s opened up in Barcelona, Spain. The branding is awesome and fun and makes me want to take some back in time to when I was a kid so I could feel like I was eating a monster. The cheesecake flavour particularly excites me.
Via: m Barcelona
The cool people at iam8bit Gallery in Los Angeles shall soon be having an exciting exhibition themed around the infamous Nickelodeon. This is just a preview of some of the art that will be exhibited at the show, so those attending are in for a real treat! Not only is it a showcase but it also has all of these fun things too: 1. LIVE Tunes by DJ Lance from Yo Gabba Gabba, 2. A very cool photo playset, 3. A super-sized ”Animated GIF Theatre”, 4. SLIIIIIIIIIIMEEEEEE! Someone take me to LA?
Via: Cartoon Brew
Luke Ritchie is a South African designer specializing in branding, illustration and typography. He creates lovely identities by illustrating with typography.
I love this design by Christopher Doyle, graphic designer from Sydney Australia. I like the clean minimalistic design complemented with monochrome photography. Reading these resolutions made me laugh because as a designer I know how true they are.
The Great Catering Company is a market leader in private and corporate catering. Their branding had to be innovative, contemporary and desirable. These bold and colourful illustrations are the key visual device unique to the brand and complement their brand philosophy “serving amazing anywhere”. The colours are made of food pigments- this lovely branding was done by this company
It’s high time for another e-visit to Ryan Brinkerhoff, aka Bandito Design Co. If we were as cool as him, we would have made all these posters too. But we didn’t, so we’ll just have to look at them for extended periods of time. And maybe cry a little.
Multi-genre Brooklyn-based producer/remixer Jonathan Dagan known as ‘j.viewz’ has explored the limits of music. Experimenting with fruit and vegetables. Jonathan wires up very unlikely musical instruments to re-create the popular ‘Teardrop’ by Massive Attack. Jonathan who has years of experience with remixing different sounds, creates full and complex pieces that push the boundaries of music and brings the art back into ‘Artist’. from here
Savvy Studio, based in Spain, recently designed the corporate identity for a new bar in town, Gomez.
“Gomez is a bar that meets a basic need in the nightlife of a city, a place where you can hear good music and drink well. The creative concept behind this exhibition is simple: mix the classic stage of a common pub with graphic elements and modern plastics, a sort of reconciliation between the traditional and the avant-garde.”
Via: Form Forty Five
Netherlands based design duo, RAW COLOR, created this amazing, playful corporate identity system for food design studio, Keukenconfessies. They are known to use colour beautifully and it is evident in this project.
Neil Stevens is a one-man studio, creative illustrator, image-maker and graphic artist based in St Albans and London. The work he create includes illustration, prints, posters, image-making and design across all areas of music, sport, technology, art, finance, nature and the environment. You can also follow him on Behance an Twitter.
This first project is posters designed for the 2012 Tour de France. There have been three categories of prints available, Tour Greats, Tour Scenic and Tour Type prints.
This second set of posters is based on a set of old airline baggage tags. Steven says he was amazed at the variety in designs produced since the 1950s. There was something about the now iconic, easily reconisable three letter abbreviations of the city destinations, and the small surrounding details that he thought would look great blown up and on a wall. They often avoided logos, had no advertising, and were purely just the information you needed.
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