John Paul Thurlow illustration

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New York based British artist John Thurlow (@jptcovers) has called our attention few years ago while working on personal series of "a selected magazine covers redrawn with a sole pencil". This project host more than a hundred of stunning cover arts that are two times worth than the original magazine cover. His next Covers vol 2 features free artwork mostly inspired by magazines but layered with personal wordings or common phrases (also inspired by music). Outside illustration world he is Creative Director at Grey Group and also has a personal design-related portfolio on Behance.

Vool - the wooden laptop stand

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The Dopludo's Collective concept wooden laptop Vool stand we spoke about year ago went to production. Initially designed by collective member Lesha Galkin this piece of eco-design will perfectly fit any friendly house or freelance environment. Check the details and prices on http://vool.me/

http://vimeo.com/40696923

Punk You

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Founded in 2009, Russian design studio "Punk You" based in South Siberia. Now they are proud to be in a first top ten of Russian branding design companies having a good set of award-winning projects in portfolio. Also Punk You organized the first and unique "Fake Advertisement" festival in Russia. We really enjoyed digging their website with a smile put on the face http://www.punk-you.ru

Alex Mikhaylov Europa Plus 2012 idents

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Moscow based art director Alex Mikhaylov created video identity for TV channel of the leading Russian radio.

http://vimeo.com/38911403

Directed by Alex Mikhaylov Production producer: Elena Orlova DoP: Maxim Zhukov Sound: Anna Lavrenko Stylist: Kirill Vychkin Hairs: Leonid Romanov Make up: Savva

Art-director: Alex Mikhaylov CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Modelling / animation: Alexander Sokolov Lighting / rendering / compositing: Max

Titles for MAD2012

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Pity we had not visited "Mad In Spain" festival this year as we did in 2011. MAD2012 took a place (literally yesterday) on 13-14 April in Madrid. I bet this was a wonderful festival featuring Stefan Sagmeister, Aaron McBride, Jordi Bares, Nando Costa, Mario Eskenazi, Cuban Council, Vitaly Friedman, Randy J. Hunt, Hanzo, No-Domain, Bendita Gloria, Adobe. And here is Official MAD2012 Titles made by Nando Costa http://vimeo.com/40058332

Behind the scenes: http://vimeo.com/40040586

Watch festival videos from previous years on MAD's Vimeo

Ilya Kazakov illustration

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If you ask what is the state with characters illustration in Russia we'd definitely shows this guy first. Ilya Kazakov one of the most productive illustrator on Russian illustration scene has already completed more than a thousand of works and most of them made for commercial FMCG companies in Russian and overseas.

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9 years: Official T-Shirt

If you follow us recently than you saw the t-shirt we released together with designers from Hobo And Sailor. This is a Special DCN9 T-Shirt that brings you Luck and Glory! We did a page on Behance Network featuring GIF animation of our Paris based editor Xavier Bourdil, demonstrating the power of the DCN9 T-Shirt: check it out now www.behance.net/gallery/Designcollector-9/3619571

[box]Or buy it directly from Society6 (для России в онлайн-магазине Printdirect)[/box]

9 years: Designcollector + Google Currents

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Designcollector is celebrating 9 years today on Friday 13th :D Obviously we spam today with the projects we have under the sleeves. Here we go with the brand new mobile version of Designcollector available on freshly released Google application called "Currents". Briefly, Google Currents is a cosy reader kiosk delivering content from different online sources adapted as digital magazines. It designed and tailored for all Android and iOS devices.

[box] Designcollector Currents Magazine can be found in application library by our name or directly opened from mobile with installed Google Currents using this link http://dcult.net/dcgoogle Please subscribe![/box]