Deltainc.nl is a portfolio of streetart artist (streetartist?) from Netherlands. In fact it's hard to categorize Deltainc and define that "what he is doing is streetart". His roots are connected to graffiti scene but now many of his works are presented as exhibitions in the professional art galleries- painting, sculpture and relief are another form of expression. He seems to be very fruitful (I assumed it after looking through his portfolio). His style is quite unique and you can feel that his concepts are repeating through his works. Personally I really like the geometrical forms and the "battles" of those squares and lines.

I also enjoyed reading the following interview with Deltainc.





Relief:


Example of graffiti by Deltainc. Personally I like the sort of mysteriously "unfinished" or "hidden" parts of the work.

Labels: art, colour, graffiti, painting, streetart

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Justin M. Maller is the real master, who has got excellent talents and skills combined with amazing imagination. Very detailed and mastered compositions create illusion of real-life, 3D objects and it is really interesting to see the scenes which are created with such precision and taste.

Justin is an Australian-based designer working both as Creative Director at depthcore and as a freelancer. He has worked for many recognizable international clients including Samsung, Asus, Fiat, Eidos Interactive, Quiksilver, DC Shoe and many more.

Some of my posts contain more pictures- this particular post is one of them. There were simply too many nice works in Justin's portfolio- I strongly recommend that you visit it and see even more of them. If you click on any of the images you will see it in a bigger version.

Lebron James- work created for Acclaim magazine


Advertisement of Samsung:


"Heart"- collaboration with Hellovon


Bread & Butter, Barcelona


"Venus" in collaboration with Hellovon


"Trust the future" in collaboration with Hellovon

Labels: advertising, art, Australian, illustration

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Sisterface (Enrique Pastor and Juan Carlos Mesa) is a small studio which is based in Madrid/Shanghai. They work with various media; their projects include design and identity work for brands, music industry etc.

What I like in their style are the colourful, quite simple shapes which create the whole image. It is especially visible in two of their works created for the exhibition Simone de Beauvoir, which are presented below:





Branding brochure of Viacom presented below is created with a similar technique:


And this is a bonus image presenting a T-shirt made by Sisterface studio. Quite controversial, for some it may look horrible. What do you think about it?

Labels: art, branding, collage, design, identity, Spanish, t-shirt

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Oh Yeah Studio is a small graphic design studio from Norway composed of Christina and Hans Christian (btw I already wrote a post about someone else from Norway before). In the portfolio of Oh Yeah Studio all of works presented are non-commercial, customer-intervention-free. As they call it: "stuff after dinner".

Their style is quite difficult to describe. They use quite clean backgrounds, usually some grey gradients. The main elements of the picture are clearly presented and placed. What I like about their works is simple structures and the fact that fonts and shapes look unreal and unnatural. Hmm, as I said: it's hard to describe their works, better to look at them.

Labels: album cover, art, black and white, cd cover, collage, graphics, logo, original, typo, typography

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Devante Chang is a graphic designer from Portland, USA who has moved to Korea and is now working there. He had his works presented on many exhibitions in Seoul, Korea.
Definitely, out of all his works I admire most the illustrations made with the collage technique. I presented selected works below, I hope you will enjoy them as much as me.









Devante is also working with web and UI design as well as the identity and logotypes. I have decided to present two of the logos that I found really interesting and catchy:

Labels: art, collage, colour, graphics, identity, logo, typography

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Alberto Cerriteno is a graphic designer and illustrator from Mexico. The style of his illustrations is quite recognizable- while looking at the his works you have a feeling that this man really has got style and experience. Both of his portfolios design and illustration consist of massive amount of works. Personally, I like the illustration part more- the animals and creatures created by Alberto are stunning- beautifully shaped details, textures and of course the perfect line and style.







And this is what Alberto is talking about his work (cited from webesteem.com):

I used to call myself a multimedia designer because I like to use different tools in one single project, for example, I like very much to illustrate, to create motion graphics, 3D stuff, interactive applications all to create an original way to communicate some idea or message successfully.

Here are two examples design works taken from Alberto's portfolio:

Labels: art, collage, colour, graphics, idea, web design

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Another great design from Poland- I think I will never get bored with it. Studio K is a small design agency created by a couple: Krzysztof Domaradzki and Eliza Domaradzka. Out of those two Krzysztof is the one responsible for the artistic part.

His style is unique and really it is hard to describe it with just a couple of words. The illustrations are so detailed, many of them were first drawn (by hand?) and then digitally coloured, tuned up and finished. The final effect is perfect, check yourself two examples of illustrations below.

Volkswagen wallpaper:


Wallpaper made for the competition of Kitsune Noir


Krzysztof Domaradzki presents very big talents as a web designer. I like especially the websites in black and white- three of them are presented below. If you click on any of them you will be redirected to the studiokxx's site with bigger images.







As a dessert please taste some of the logotypes created by Studio K. Delicious, isn't it?

Labels: art, black and white, branding, identity, logo, Polish, typography, web design

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Indeepop is a "psychodelic world of fantasy, happiness and tears, good and evil, the world of sweetness and bitterness, mysteries and secrets, the world of bipolarity, absolutely unlike ordinary". The site is developed by the Russian team of designers who make works about the creatures living in Indeepop world. Their interests relate to various areas of art: illustration, sketches, streetart, skateboards etc. All of those media are explored by the designers who give the viewers the insight into the "indeepop" world filled with funny creatures, colours and lots of fun.

The concept of creating the new imaginary world and then trying to earn money on the merchandise related to it is quite old already. The project seems to expand and develop quite well but I think it needs some more integrity within the works to become more convincing for the audience. Project called Friends With You is (in my opinion) very successful in being a cohesive and attractive fantasy world. It might be useful for the Indeepop team to see how they have done and maybe rethink and consolidate the strategy.

Still, I don't want to say that I don't like the works which are presented on Indeepop website. I wouldn't talk about this project if I didn't like it: it's obvious, right? I like especially the illustrations (looks like I talk about illustration a lot recently) but also the skateboards are worth checking.

"Cuz its rainy"


"Candy Mushrooms"


"Salomon is love" + "Salomonis"

Labels: art, badge, colour, graphics, idea, illustration, streetart, toys

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I am loving the illustrations made by Irena Zablotska (Joulu). She is the Ukrainian designer with portfolio full of very nice works- it was quite difficult for me to select the images which would accompany this post. Most of the illustrations created by Zablotska are depicting some monstrously looking creatures. They are not really terrifying and actually it is quite pleasant to look at them. The pictures look to be quite simple at a first glance, but after having a closer look they reveal their complexity and amount of work which is needed to create them. Congratulations Irena- your works are brilliant!







Apart from illustration and web design Zablotska has also made some works in the area of graffiti and streetart.

Labels: art, colour, graffiti, illustration, original, streetart, web design

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Julien Vallee is a young designer from Montreal, Canada (currently living and working in Berlin, Germany). His works contain some characteristic features- many of them are the result of combination of crafts, collage and computer graphics. Julien said: "I like to use manual art well endorsed by the various technological tools available in order to make the bridge between manual and virtual art." When looking at his works it's quite clear that he makes it good.



And here you have the "making of":


Raking leaves in the wind- poster advertising the art exhibition


This motion photo was created in the following way- the pieces were binded together with the strings. After shooting the picture it was edited- the strings magically disappeared.

Labels: art, collage, colour, craft, design, idea, motion graphics

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Guilherme Marconi is a Brazilian designer with a huge passion for colours. The amount of colours is very characteristic for the designers from Brazil. Many of Marconi's works contain massive number of elements which correspond to one specific theme. The pictures are covered completely by the shapes: lego building blocks and toys in the picture below or the snacks and drinks (picture number 2). It must be really time consuming to work on such pieces but the effect is incredible.

Guilherme has created many advertising illustrations for the huge companies: Nokia, Absolut Vodka, Vodafone, MTV Brasil. Really impressive!

Labels: advertisement, advertising, art, colour, graphics

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Would you like to revise some of the things you had a chance to learn in primary school? Playing a game called BBC Questionaut, a Flash game developed by Amanita Design you have a chance to do it in a pleasant, entertaining way. In a game you get a chance to travel across the knowledge universe visiting different planets and solving the puzzles and answering different questions divided into 8 categories. The quiz questions you will have a chance to answer include mathematical problems, biology, physics, writing etc.

Astonishing picturesque graphics combined with the sound effects and beautiful music created by Floex (Tomas Dvorak). It was a pleasure for me to play this game and admire the beauty of the world created by the talented Czech designers from Amanita Design studio.

Labels: art, flash, game, graphics

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Friends with you is a duo of artists: Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval. Since 2002 they have been working on the project which combines their ideas of Magic Luck Friendship with different areas of art.

Their website is so sweet and joyful- smiling clouds, shiny colourful buttons, plenty of nice interaction with the user. In my opinion this website is pleasant to watch and browse both for small children and adults and this is the biggest success of it. You can find there many nice examples of their works: toys, images, logos, installations. Most of them of course depict funny creatures- everything is filled with the ideas of Magic Luck Friendship.

In a shop you can buy toys, books and stickers. the selection is quite big and I would really like to have some of the goodies found there- would you like to buy something for me?

Labels: art, book, colour, logo, stickers, toys

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JK Keller is a talented designer who combines technology and powerful ideas to create amazing works of art. He seems to be most famous for the project called "The adaption to my generation - a daily photo project". The project started in 1998 and starting from this time JK Keller was shooting a photo of himself and in this way he tried to observe the differences in his appearance throughout the days, weeks and months. And actually he has changed a lot- you can have a look at the whole collection of photos here. If you're impatient and don't want to spend all your life browsing through the thousands of photos you can watch the video "Living my life faster" which sums up 8 years of the daily photo project.

Actually browsing through the various projects of JK Keller I found many others which are also very original. "Spam abstractions" is the combination of 100 hundred spam emails with the text deleted and you can see the result below.

Spam abstractions


The last project I found extremely interesting (yeah, you can call me a geek). However, it might be too complicated for me to explain how those images were created so let me just paste the explanation that I found on the site of this project made by the author:

"(...)But to answer your first query: how it works. The app that I wrote visits a website and downloads the source text. It parses the text, looking for links to other web pages, links to itself, links to other file types, email addresses, etc. Based on how many links it finds, it creates a “star”. The number of links found equals the number of spines on the “star”. Thus, if it finds no links, it draws a circle.

It then goes to the first link on the page and does the same thing. Then it iterates over thousands of pages. E-mail addresses are drawn as a plus-sign, errors are an ‘x’, non-html files are squares, and a line follows the path the program took.

Another caveat: The first instance of a web page is a unique star. Anytime the app finds that same page linked to by another page, it draws a line back to the originating star instead of another star.(...)"

Labels: art, idea, original, photography

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German designers keep surprising me- I've found many recommendable works recently. In the previous posts you can find dontclick.it (extremely interesting project) and the posters by Scholz & Friends Advertising Agency.

Now it's time for Alex Forster and his 3-D graffiti-styled portfolio.
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Some of the works are really interesting, take a look yourself.

The style that Alex has reminds me of graphical masterpieces made by Maciej Mizer (mosk.pl )-I wrote about him some time ago..

The portfolio of Alex Forster looks like that:


Nice, isn't it?

Labels: 3D, art

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Jeremie Werner, a French designer located in Strasbourg has caught my attention by some of his designs. The ones presented are the most attractive ones (in my opinion of course). Visit his portfolio , that's all from me about Jeremie

Labels: art, graphics, illustration

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Andreas Banderas' flickr

I haven't found much about this artist- he is Norwegian and makes really crazy designs which is the most important. Check out his flickr page, his website andreasbanderas.com seems to be under construction.

Labels: art, colour, idea, original

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mosk.pl

Maciej Mizer is a 2D and 3D graphic designer from Poland living in my home city, city of Lodz. The works he is doing are so vivid and colourful which stands in big contrast with overall quite grey and sad look of the city he lives in. Probably the passion of colours has something to do with another passion of Maciej, graffiti. On his website you can also see some examples of his graffiti arts.

Anyway, I have spent much time admiring some of his works and I really cannot exactly say what techniques and methods were used to achieve such astonishing effects.

Keep up good work, Maciej!

Labels: 3D, art, colour, graphics, illustration

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