Grzegorz Domaradzki (iamgabz.com)- another Polish designer who makes it big. Beautiful style- drawings with a bit of Photoshop or Illustrator (or both). Looks cool! And one day I would like to have an ability of working just like Grzegorz- being a freelancer who can choose what projects to work on and doing stunning work.

Cover illustration proposal for Polish music duo Kucz&Kulka / pencil, AI and PS / 2009 / Rejected (cited from iamgabz.com)
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Personal project (pencil & Photoshop)


T-Shirt illustration for Ardentees (pen, AI and PS)


"Create What You Are"- Illustration for Digital Temple Magazine (pencil and PS)

Labels: album cover, cd cover, colour, graphic design, graphics

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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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Nazario Graziano is an Italian designer specializing in printed illustration. He is available for hire, collaboration. He is combining various techniques such as collage, hand-drawn fonts and some retro-looking elements. Each of his works is very lively, colourful and positive- I adore his style!

Illustration for Swiss Radio Toxic.fm


Printed illustration


Art direction for Firewater Events


Poster and flyers for ANTICLUB

Labels: collage, colour, illustration

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This needs to be a very short post. I liked a few of the pictures made by Juliana Pedemonte and decided to show them to you. Her illustrations usually depict some funny robots, machines or other electronic devices with funny pleasant face expressions. Most of them are smiling actually.

I already talked about some illustrators who create works that might resemble what Juliana is doing. You might consider checking them out as well:

Alberto Cerriteno
Indeepop
Irena Zablotska- Joulu
Friends With You

Labels: Argentinian, colour

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Electric Heat is a commercial portfolio of Nigel Evan Dennis, young graphic designer from Chicago.

His style combines different artistic techniques (photography, standard illustration, typography) to create his advertising works. The list of his clients is long and it includes the following: Converse, Adobe, Lipton, MTV, Toyota, Microsoft, Fanta, Sony BMG, Coca-Cola, Absolut Vodka.. He has also created works for the American hip-hop artists, namely Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common.

Cherry Coke campaign:


Converse's product campaign:


Other:


Other:

Labels: advertisement, advertising, American, colour, motion graphics, original, photography

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Sicksystems is a design studio from Moscow, Russia. The agency is formed by 3 talented guys: Aske, Kio and Kola (I love their nicknames :)) They started as graffiti artists some years ago and actually this influence is quite visible in most of their works. Now they are working with various media and in many design areas. They are very careful about the geometrical forms and shapes as well as the graffiti-like typography.

In the portfolio there are plenty of good works: advertising commercials and posters, clothing (T-shirts, accessories), snowboards, logotypes. Plenty of good stuff- below I present just a few examples of their works. Enjoy!

Miller evolution advertising campaign


Rubik's cube promotional T-shirts


Commercial for 9linesmag.com blog


Sicksystems' promotional materials


Sculpture made for Nike advertising campaign (I love this one!)

Labels: advertisement, colour, design, graffiti, graphics, identity, logo, sculpture, streetart, t-shirt, 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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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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Emil Kozak was born in Denmark and started working on his design skills there. He moved a few years ago to Barcelona, Spain to continue a career of designer.

Emil started to work with graphics inspired by the skateboard art. He developed his style making the detailed, clean illustrations with just a few colours. In his portfolio you would find many neat illustrations printed on skateboards and surfboards, designs of T-shirts and logos. Below I would like to present some of Emil's works- skateboards and the designs of lampshades created for special exhibition.

Skateboards:




Lampshades:

Labels: colour, design, illustration, skateboard

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