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Einar Guðmundsson is a graphic designer born and raised in Reykjavik, Iceland. He graduated with a B.A. in Graphic Design and Visual Communication from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2012. These animal portrait posters are build up out of triangular wooden shapes and I think it is beautiful! I’d love to hang one in my house.
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
We have always loved a good sloth. Andrea Wang an Illustrator and Visual Artist based in Berlin and Vancouver seems to think about them too. Her work is very naive and dream like. All I want to know is, what is going on in the picture where the man is projecting the forrest and the Sloths are asking questions? You can see more of her excellent and extensive body of work at andreawan.com or catch up with the latest happenings on her blog.
She has a short list of clients:
The New York Times, Nobrow Magazine, Wired Magazine, Computer Arts Magazine, Mozilla, Myspace.inc, Nylon Magazine, Poketo! , Lululemon Atheletica, The Walrus Magazine ,The Herschel Supply Co., Blood is the New Black, The North American Review, Maisonnvenuve , EF English First, Maclean’s Magazine, The Globe and Mail, TAXI Advertising, Rhode Island Monthly, NIDO magazine, Moco, Avenue Magazine, R. Newbold (Paul Smith), Meatpaper, Montecristo Magazine, NUVO Magazine, Cause + Affect, ION Magazine & Hip Guide, My Awesome Mixtape. And she has a won a bunch of awards…
Luke Ritchie is a South African designer specializing in branding, illustration and typography. He creates lovely identities by illustrating with typography.
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.
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
Hello there, lovely illustrator. Let’s be best friends. We can go paper shopping and take road trips together.
I have a giant girl crush on this lady. Is it because she’s talented? French? Draws sassy pinup girls? All of the above? Either way, here she is.
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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