Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Laferrière – Art Director and graphic designer working freelance, she creates still and moving images that encompass her poetic, sensitive and spontaneous vision. She plays around with typography, collage, and video, and aspires to move towards set design where she can develop a more comprehensive approach. We just love her poster series for a bar in …
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Newspaper Animal Sculpture
Reading Time: 2 minutes Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama skilfully creates textured sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper. The unique application of each newspaper segment proves to be an eeffective method of forming the wild fur of snow monkeys or the density of scales found on the back of an iguana. For Hitotsuyama, these details …
100 Days of Form and Colour
Reading Time: 2 minutes Designer Seth Nickerson took on the 100-day project challenge and the result is amazing. For 100days straight, he designed an abstract composition and shared on his Instagram what he calls 100 Days of Form and Colour. Seth is a graphic design, art director, and illustrator in Charlottesville, Virginia. On the project, Seth stated that: “Just …
The fantastical world of Aldo Crusher
Reading Time: 2 minutes Aldo Crusher is a Motion Graphic Designer at Discovery Networks. His Cosmopolis Project Series focuses on map design. Crusher combines his unique style of illustration with complex colour combination inspired by the respective cities he covers. He interprets the voice of the city(s) and blends it with his signature style of geometric shapes and complementary …
Jordan Bolton’s iPosters
Reading Time: 2 minutes Manchester-based artist Jordan Bolton creates striking photographic posters inspired by film and music, using only his iPhone. Jordan states that: “The original plan was to use famous lyrics in the artworks but after it turned out to be too expensive to license the words I decided to do the artworks as though they were alternative …
Harvard Business Review Patterns
Reading Time: 2 minutes Juan Diaz-Faes was commissioned by Harvard Business to create twelve patterns for twelve specific topics they covered in college. These topics include Demographics, Data Analysis, Emotional Intelligence, Decision making, entrepreneurship, management, innovation and experimentation, research projects, personnel management, life balance, health and stress and Communication.
Just my Type
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jenue is a Spanish Artist and Art director, who divides his time between Madrid and London. He makes playful images for editorials, music, and advertisements with his own colourful view and style. He is in love with creating words and images, where art and design make a big difference and go further from traditional typography. Always keen …
Brand by Hand: Famous Logos Meet Hand Lettering
Reading Time: 2 minutes Designer Sara Marshal, has created a set of famous logos which have been reimagined in hand written lettering. Corporate graphic design has been steered towards a flat minimalistic style, where few colours and large areas of negative space are used. Alongside this minimalist movement, hand lettering has risen in popularity, which in contrast is characterised …
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The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories
Reading Time: 3 minutes Another day, another post, another intern. Today’s intern is Andrea – a third year Graphic Design student at the University of Johannesburg. She loves the beautiful and vibrant city of Johannesburg, (lots of) Fairtrade coffee, and the Tiny Book of Tiny Stories. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is a trilogy collection of poetic short stories, no …
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Football Posters for Football Fans
Reading Time: 2 minutes English designer, Rick Hincks, graphically reconstructed some of the most memorable goals in Football to create an exciting series of inforgraphical posters. Now you don’t have to replay those goals on screen, but rather frame them for your wall, nice! (via Fubiz)