3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Marta Gawin is a Polish multidisciplinary graphic designer with some great experimental visual identity, sign system, poster, information, exhibition and editorial design work. Since her MA in Graphic Design (Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice) in 2011, she has been working as a freelancer for cultural institutions and commercial organisations. via FFF
BHSAD tutor Dmitry Karpov shared with us a new student project. This time the challenge was to create an animated movie poster, the new media to expect in a few years in all POS of any cinemas.
Chinese industrial company famous for its manganese mining got a bold identity developed by Polish design studio Necon
Here is a series of hand-lettering typography made by Becca Clason (founder of Cheerletter) based on food. Between precision, creativity and humour, Becca Clason pays attention to details and aesthetic of her gourmet messages.
Graphic calendar created by Moscow-based Yulya Plotnik is a perfect example of artists and designers shining light on printed culture.
Barcelona agency BLOCD sent an awesome bottle of wine for their clients including a lovely silkscreened packaging indulging them to take colour pencils and draw together over the illustration printed on it.
Leading Russian graphic design and identity systems studio Eskimo released their new personal branding. Check it out and find previous works of studio chief Pavel Emelyanov posted on our blog
Stefanie Brückler is a graphic designer based in Graz, Austria. She specialises in both print and digital design with particular interest in branding, editorial design and typography.
Paper artist and illustrator Ollanski is a graduate from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and his formal education is in Biomedicine with a specialisation in molecular neurobiology. However, his life has evolved around drawing, painting and crafting since very young. In December 2008 he quit his PhD position at the Max Planck Insitute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin to become a freelance illustrator and paper artist for a variety of clients. His style is extremely precise and realistic so that you sometime believe you’re watching a photography before realizing it is paper. Ollanski is represented by Cosmopola in Germany and ArtAssociates in the Netherlands.
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Be creative in 2015 following every month words of wisdom of the Mr Cup (Barral Fabien) creative manifesto letterpress calendar. Limited to 500 copies, it is composed of 13 cards printed on 700g french paper.
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Poster designs made by Jorgen Grotdal, designer and lettering specialist from Trondheim Norway. Grewing up in a rougher surrounding and handcrafted area, he is inspired by vintage accessories and ideaful simple inverted letterings. Made with pens and chalk his style expands in a set of interesting goods.
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Channel One Russia commissioned lettering master Igor Mustaev to work on winter festive TV splashes that he did on chalkboard. View it on Behance
Channel One Russia team: Art director: Dmitry Likin Photographer: Sergey Kholmanov
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Áron Filkey is a Hungarian graphic designer specializing in hand-made and analogue solutions of graphic works. Check his clever graphic designs on aronfilkey.com
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EDB Singapore is a lead government agency that hired a great bunch (with the help of The Secret Little Agency) of digital magicians from Ars Thanea. Creative guideline was clear – the illustrations must presents three different subjects, which follow a common style - a housing objectwith connected scenes. The results of this awesome collaboration can be seen below and find the full design process on Behance
Ars Thanea Showreel 2013 http://vimeo.com/77584293
UK-based home cinema brand Superfi has a fun series of photographs that imagines what it would be like if Apple designed and sold The Beatles’ albums.
Graphic designer Sarah Brockett created the project Bold Bakery, an unconventional bakery that stuffs its cakes and cookies with sarcasm and sass instead of cream and sugar.
Though it’s branding may make it appear cute and friendly, the Bold Bakery is not where you want to purchase Grandma’s birthday cake from. It is, however, the perfect place to have a pie created for your cheating husband, or your bratty pre-teen daughter. This establishment simply oozes with sarcasm and sass. Don’t have anyone on your “shit list”? That’s okay. Plenty of our customers partake in “cake wars”, where they gift their friends with raunchy baked goods for no reason at all. Sometimes a little crude humor and chocolate cake is all you need to get by in life
Mexican design studio SAVVY released a nice stationary work for local restobar Abarrotes Delirio. Check savvy-studio.net for more identity cases like this
Seems Norway can't stop being the most expensive country in Europe they need more attention. Last time they drew it with innovative Money Banknotes design and not long ago they released a new update of the National Passport design.Oslo based studio Neue won the competition by giving a modern, simple, but still attractive new design as a result. Titled ”The Norwegian Landscape,” this design shows nature as the “essential part of the Norwegian identity and tradition” as Neue Design Studio puts it.
Born in Hannover, design-breed in Oslo and living in Nürnberg, Philipp Zurmöhle has a portfolio of a classy European designer. Rooted in illustration Philipp creates clean and minimalistic graphic design worth to review on his portfolio website www.philippzm.com
Who said it will be easy? To create logotype for the city like Saint Petersburg is like to direct a play of "Lady Macbeth" or "The Master and Margarita". Everybody knows it but nobody got close to it, dead or alive. The city identity requires a lot of everything: starting from a very complicated history ending with citizens that has a lot of doubts and bits about living here. To understand the city as someone said you must "drown" in it, or it will spit you outside or even leave you dying. Literally, Saint Petersburg has a lot of faces, and everyone who gets here see its own face. So let's check the three version of Saint Petersburg City Logotypes.
The first one is said to be done by Moscovian (sic 1!) design studio "Art.Lebedev", but it is not approved. Please take this in consideration while studying the logo. First posted on German website (sic 2!), it spread across Russian web with a lot of doubts over iconography and some typography issues.
Done by initiative group lead by Ruslan Chernobayev (St.Petersburg Design Week) and talented illustrator Alex Andreyev and supported by BCA Agency, ILOVESPB is a next pitch to have pros and contras. The logo has a personal website http://ilove.spb.ru/ and hope has a long journey to be real.
The third pitch is again from Moscovian studio of Yakushev Branding has a good typography designed by Ivan Gladkikh and lemon-faced trend of "generic" logotype, that we'll leave on your consideration. Personally, this project is a good moodboard and research of possible graphic design trends, but hardly represents the Saint Petersburg City itself.
Meanwhile please enjoy the beauty of the city in different timelapse motions we collected all this time