Minimalism in Russian movies posters

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St.Petersburg based designer Andrey Gubin probably was inspired by Olly Moss minimalistic posters, decided to start his own project and then a contest for Russian/Soviet movies posters. Being a professional graphic designer Andrey aimed to polish the results to get all that enormous quantity of cinema memes and metaphors to one simple graphic idea. Full contest available by this link

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Toormix logotypes

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Toormix is a creative studio specialising in art direction and graphic design established in Barcelona a decade ago. Despite their strong portfolio we invite you to check the logotypes they make for customers, in overall they are awesome still few of them remind us ariston and casa da musica and few other are fun shit. Don't forget to check their portfolio.

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Old Black by DAT DAT DAT

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Studio DAT DAT DAT was founded by Andreas N. Fischer in 2008, after his graduation from the Berlin University of the Arts. Old Black is Egyprixx´ remake of the song of the same title by the drone doom band Earth. The graphic elements are a mixture of 3d-renderings and flat 2d textures aligned in space.

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Susan Kare

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According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Susan Kare is “a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Since 1983, Kare has designed thousands of icons for the world’s leading software companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style.”

She began her career at Apple, Inc. as the screen graphics and digital font designer for the original Macintosh computer, initially advertised as the “computer for the rest of us.” Her studio’s work has continued to optimize for clarity and simplicity and to present concepts in clear, concise, and memorable ways.

Don't forget to check her portfolio and find out the fact she draw icons for Facebook too.

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Lou Reed Chair by Starck

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French designer Philippe Starck has created an armchair with an organic, anthropomorphic outline. The 'Lou Reed' armchair is part of a collection for Paris's Royal Monceau Hotel, fully refurbished by Starck, where it is placed in every room. The video directed by Sébastien Jousse shows of the creation process of the chair.

UPD: RIP Lou Reed it's so strange to have a last news on your page about this post.

Paper Fox by Jeremy Kool

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Melbourne based designer just started a project of an iPad/Android storybook "The Paper Fox" and he is selling the fine-arts prints to fund the app development.

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El Mac

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Miles "Mac" MacGregor is a LA based graffiti and mural artist. He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, and has since worked consistently towards mastering his signature portrait style. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, and Vietnam.

Some of his murals have become local landmarks, especially his collaborations with Retna, which combine Mac’s representational figures with Retna’s abstract lettering and designs. Mac continues to focus primarily on creating more public art in different parts of the world, painting photorealistic canvases, and evolving his brushwork style.

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Calendar 2012 by Irina Vinnik

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3rd most viewed designer on Behance Network (over 2mln views) - Saint-Petersburg artist Irina Vinnik released a new awesome Calendar for 2012. In the name of "The Eyes of Imagination"

With the new year approaching, I am excited to represent a new Calendar. This limited edition of the yearbook called “The Eyes of Imagination” is a deep insight into my intangible imaginary world, which I’ve tried to perceive & depict. Each page portrays the spirit of the month as I see it. All of these drawing were created in 2011 and you might have already seen some of them in my sketchbook – it’s my annual report for those who love my paintings.

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Handmade fonts

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From a graphic design studio with a passion in typography, Tallinn based "Handmade" grown up to a huge laboratory of typography made by hands. They do fonts from everything usual and obviously simple like food, home appliance objects, paper, metal and even meat. Don't miss their Christmas set and all other fonts on a good sale.

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Black Ocean

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You may seen short motion identity created by Future Deluxe for Black Ocean. Here is a long version featured by sound designers from Zelig commissioned for this project

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DESIGNerd

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DESIGNerd was founded in mid 2010 by the Australian based internationally award-winning graphic designer (and publisher) Kevin Finn on behalf of design enthusiasts the world over.

As a self confessed DESIGNerd, Finn has developed the 100+ Design Trivia Game concept as a fun, social and accessible means to further promote design education and awareness. To achieve this, Finn invites some of the world’s most significant and influential designers to share their vast knowledge through their personal selection of 100+ trivia questions.

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