Christmas has come early for me. Adhemas Batista is absolutely one of my favorite illustrators, and he’s updated his site with some beautiful new work. He’s added a couple photos to the about section, and it appears that he has set up shop in Los Angeles with a new studio called Magenta. Hopefully that means we’ll be seeing a lot more work out of him.
I’m working on a project for GRSS, an organization within IEEE. The work is coming along really well, but I was totally in love with this design and it got nixed along the way. I’m sure it’ll creep back into a project somewhere someday, but I’m sad that it isn’t going to get finished. It was just coming into it’s own, and now it’s going to find a spot on the shelf before it was fully realized.
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Check out these amazing titles that spanish design firm Dvein created for the F5 conference in New York City. The lineup includes design firms of incredibly broad backgrounds, but the titles do an incredible job of tying it all together into a cohesive whole.
If I had any kind of cash, I’d have Dave Ellis paint my house. Really fresh, free of ’spray art’ wall cliches, Ellis’ paintings are full of movement and energy. Click through his portfolio to see his industrial truck paintings.
There’s plenty of rhetoric about design equality, and it generally surrounds issues of class. We don’t often see design issues address identity politics, and for that matter the disabled in particular. Check out Dutch industrial designer Jan Gunneweg.
If you’re into motion graphics at all, you’re surely familiar with the work of Jake Sargent. From Digital Kitchen, to Motion Theory, this guys has been defining the edge of motion graphics for years now. He’s got a new site up that’s definitely worth a look.
Please Watch this film. It’s a fictional piece about displaced peoples. It’s beautiful. It’s one-of-a-kind. I’m gushing, I apologize. I guarantee you’ve never seen anything quite like this. I also guarantee that it’ll effect you. Please watch it. Made by motion graphics guru The Ronin.
I can’t seem to get too far from brazil. My absolute favorite illustrator Adhemas Batista just updated his website with some new work. Nobody paints on top of photography better than Adhemas. These are full on illustrations. He doesn’t skimp on the color. If you’re looking for subtle, look elsewhere because these illustrations are luxurious.
The one and only Scott Hansen. He’s a rockstar in the illustrating world, and a bit of a rockstar in the rockstar world (He’s the recording artist Tycho). I like Scott Hansen because his rock posters don’t use any clip art and they don’t use any non-sequitur imagery. Don’t get me wrong, I love today’s trend in rock posters, but ISO 50 is a breath of fresh air in the over-saturated poster design scene.
I can’t say enough good things about Mr. Brazil Eduardo Recife. His fonts have practically defined the last few years. You’ve seen Porcelain and Selfish all over, I think Old Navy used Rosewood. Download the entire set at his website. While you’re at it, download his Photoshop brushes as well. They put something in the water down there, cause the Brazilians got it going on. See it at MisprintedType.com
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 (Chip Kidd) by Chip Kidd
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Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry
The End of Print by Lewis Blackwell
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop by Timothy Samara