I'm digging this series done by graphic designer Nick Agin. In his "Old Timey Star Wars" series where he basically captures not only a galaxy far, far away but also an era from the past. Where being in your Sunday's best is the way to go. My favorite one is the Pvt. 1st Class 1057 Storm Trooper. Check out more of Nick's work here
Tim Wan is the creator of the Predictions Calendar Series. He states, "It's a series that interprets the definition of fakery by tampering with true events; placing them outside their original context to mislead, trigger nostalgia, and remind people of past events". It was such a success that it was awarded membership to International l Society of Typographic Designers. Not bad for someone who just graduated.
I personally find these calendars to be a great example of good design from the color palette choices to the layout and typography used in the design of these calendars. To bad these are not for sale. If they were they would be hanging in my house right now.
Broken Time Machines, which is Alex Varanese musical side project has just released the first single "The Ghost of Mission Street". It's a six-minute exploration of spacey, dreamy pop melodies with a glitch of electro and layered percussion. Not only does this track have a unique but day dreaming quality, it's also accompanied by a surreal and believable location with less-than believable details, such as the deconstructing jetliner seen through a concrete atrium.
I think this is a great combination of art and music brought into this project and I look forward to hearing more tracks by Broken Time Machines. If you want to check out more of Alex's work I highly suggest it. Don't forget to download your copy of The Ghost of Mission Street.
Laura Bifano has been working on her new series "Menagerie". It's a show of 10 polygonal animal paintings that she has been working on for the last three months. This series shows her fascination with the natural world and the world of computer games. She is not the only one with this fascination because her prints are selling like hot cakes. (Yes, hot cakes)! Each print is selling for about $40.00 a piece. She's currently releasing a painting a day and is up to number 7 so only 3 more to go. You can keep up with them on her Tumblr.
Who doesn't want a pixelated octopus doing what he does best? Creepin!
Transient is the word that comes to mind when I think of the works of Jim Denevan. They are short-lived as he uses the world as his landscape and use sand, ice and earth to create his geometrical sculptures. The brushes of choice can be anything from a piece of driftwood to a rake or even a bicycle. The result of using the landscape are stunning but without the remarkable location photography they would simple be a waste of time. Something that was once transient is now forever captured and that my friend is not a waste of time.
Here is another tidbit about Jim Denevan he is man behind the the traveling outdoor dining experience Outstanding in the Field. It's sort of traveling dinner event that sets up shop in farms, gardens, and other interesting dinning location across the U.S. They currently are doing a New tour for 2011 so maybe you can check it out this year.
I stumble upon the works of Patrik Svensson a.k.a (Prince Hat) and his series of minimalistic movie typography posters. In this series he tries to visualize the movie by using only the first letter(s) from the title, for example the i from "The Insider" as the shape of a cigarette, or the two k's from "The Karate Kid" as two fighting karate kids.
This series provides space which is great because sometimes less is more in the design world. People are sometimes just looking for something to fill that space, but if you take out all that noise. You can then direct your vision on something that's actually worth focusing on.
I highly recommend checking out more of Patrik work or check out his blog. If you want to know more about the thought process and see more of this series check it out on Designmodo
Jonahtan Mutch is a graphic designer from Toronto, who has a nice collection of designs in his portfolio. I found his work this morning while pursuing the internet. I picked out a couple of poster designs that I thought were well designed. If you want to see more of his work check out his website or follow him on Twitter.
I was pretty excited about finding .default magazine this morning. It is an online magazine that focuses on design, art, culture, fashion and music. It brings together artists from different fields and showcases there skills. Currently, they are up to issue 10 and .default magazine started up back in June of 2010. I would highly recommend checking it out. It has a smooth interfaces that gives reading an online magazine a fresh feel. If you don't believe me check it out for yourself.
Tanya Johnston is a graphic designer based in Montreal who use various visual aesthetics to capture your attention. Through pictorial and graphic processes she explores the realm of reality and illusion as reality. She states that she like to frequently combine the techniques of drawing, painting and digital imaging to illustrate and communicate a non-linear vision of thought and space.
Tanya's work immediately caught my attention with her use of visual depth and balance in her works and I also enjoy finding jems like these. Don't forget to check out her portfolio it's sure to hold more jems then what is posted here.
Moritz Resl's who is currently based in Venna, Austria caught my attention with his design work of the "Bike Love" illustration. The design is simple yet very elegant. Plus, I'm a sucker for bikes and I think this is a great depiction of how people like to think of there bikes.
I have also added a couple of other works Moritz did that I think are interesting and well designed. If your interested you should definitely check out more of his work on his Flickr or can follow him on Twitter.
This was an interesting project that I found on Behance this morning by Chris Berthe. The time it took to make these 3D letters using paper must have taken a while. Chris states that his project originally was created with a flat typeface in mind, paper & love is based on an octagonal grid and origami folds. The digital version represents this concept of origami by emphasizing transparency and by focusing on the shapes of the letter. The majority of the two-dimensional letters can be obtained by simply folding thin strips of paper and by following the octagonal grid. By taking what I had initially envisioned for the digital version, I created a new set of letters in 3D using paper, an x-acto knife and, of course, love (corny but true)!
