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As a student web designer, I immediately smiled at the clever word play used in this series of HTML and CSS tag posters. Greek graphic designer Costas Papaconstantinou is literally ‘applying tags in life.’ His use of colourful expressions has combined coding with typography and graphic design to showcase a wonderful series of humour and [...]
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Let’s do a quick music re-cap here. May was a pretty good month for new album releases: The National, Vampire Weekend, Daft Punk, and more. Take a look at this collection of extremely literal logo GIFs from Paste Magazine. There’s one cool little design to celebrate each new release. See if you can guess which is [...]
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More than 100 of the world’s most exciting and influential artists, illustrators and designers including Oliver Hibert, Tatiana Arocha, Insa, Stanley Chow, Kai and Sunny and Pete Fowler have taken a paper dog and made it their own as part of the two-year Gerald Project. Culminating in an exhibition currently at New York Design Week, [...]
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It’s amazing what kind of bold faced lies come out of designer’s mouths. Call it designer slang, jargon, or terms of the trade, but we all know it’s bullshit. This is a comprehensive collection of only the best design jargon bullshit. It’s a good laugh if nothing else. One of my favorites is the ridiculous [...]
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Let’s get back to basics. “O” is for Owl; “F” is for Fox. This cute animal alphabet by Mat Mabe puts a modern spin on the age-old tradition of teaching children their letters with the help of little pictures. I would love a large poster or book of these prints. Go on, order one for [...]
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You can spot a Petting Zoo poster a mile off: fine forms and tasty shapes, delightful restarint and hefty usage of animals. I love the angles and how they maximise the inherent roughness that screenprinting has if you let it. They’ve made countless gig posters for all kinds of bands that really stand out from [...]
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Imagine getting this VIP ticket holder package in the mail. It has your ticket and poster. But the poster is a mask and a graffiti stencil. The info booklet is also a stencil and totally interactive. And the grenade shaped box even comes complete with a surprise ”jumping-snack-in-a-can prank” to get you in the right mood. With this package, the [...]
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Melbourne-based Lure Graphics is a graphic design studio with an uncommon approach. Founded by 23-year-old graphic designer Melissa Pepers, their effervescent and successful concepts are inspired by life. The eye-catching logo featured here, designed for vending machine company Candy Solutions, demonstrates Lure Graphics’ avant-garde process. Beginning with handcrafted letterforms created from toothpaste, the company’s monogram [...]
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Dunya Atay is a visual artist who works with different mediums across various branches of art – from illustration to graphic design, street art to sculpture. Image creation through line art is her biggest love. You can find her works in some nice publications such as Lurzer’s Archive 2011/12 Best Illustrators, Fresh 3 Cutting Edge Illustrations and Quatro Publishing-Digital Illustration.
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New York artist Jazzberry Blue uses bright colors and playful pop culture references. His work has crazy titles like ‘Gum, Drugs and Coca Cola (gifts under 5$ for the witchdoctor who has absolutely everything)’. It’s bold, graphic and fun.
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Wu Yimeng is a graphic designer from Berlin who works on book layouts and print for cultural events. Having been in Paris and Berlin after growing up in Shanghai, her rich cultural background blends elegant Chinese tradition with real and digital paint. Her work feels well-balanced, light and playful. Her series of posters for the Berlin Confucius Insitute – the Chinese Cultural center – is remarkable for its theme and approach: objects of daily life bring a visual warmth while standing there without people around.
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Sometimes we are missing opportunities just because we don’t know they are out there. Well, this has to be stopped. If you want to be constantly updated with photography, illustration, animation and graphic design competitions, Graphic Competition is the right website to take an eye on. A collector of good quality competitions of all creative [...]
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My friends recently set up a platform for collaborative graphic design around the globe. It comes with a suitably kickass format: basically, its themed exchange rounds bring a slamming alliance of five graphic designers together every month, who them proceed to rewarp each other’s designs. OuterEdit will launch only on July 17 this year, but [...]
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Graphic designer Craig Ward has stepped into the world of directing. In a new video for British composer Ryan Teague, Ward and his team create a groundbreaking work using electromegnetic fields, sub zero temperatures, and 2000 volts of electricity to grow their very own icicles. Take a few moments, put on some headphones, and prepare to trip out on this mysteriously [...]
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Pittsburgh-based Sapling Press is the brainchild of graphic designer Lisa Krowinski. Her wonderfully witty letterpress cards and stationary showcase her dry sense of humour and never fail to make me chuckle.
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