Blastyle- design blog

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Believe me or not- I really do not read any Polish design magazines/blogs. It's not my fault that there are many good designers living in this beautiful country and they are present in the international design blogs and websites.

I don't remember exactly where I first encountered the works made by Kacper Spala. However, I remember that it was this beautiful black and white photo manipulation that you can see in the picture number 1. The amount of details and the perfection of this image is stunning and I couldn't take my eyes away from it.

Evolved.pl is a neat portfolio where you can find more works related to the photo manipulation, abstract art, posters and corporate id. Enjoy!

Labels: design, graphics, illustration, photography, poster, t-shirt

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Radim Malinic (aka Brand Nu) is the graphics designer based in UK.

I've found the works that you can see above extremely interesting so I decided to write a couple of lines about him. Radim has had his works published in books, magazines, posters, CDs' and DVDs' covers. His techniques combine layers of photography with colourful elements.

Labels: cd cover, colour, design, illustration, poster

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Photo by Daniel Cuthbert

Alberto Seveso is an Italian designer who has developed his own style of combining photography with vector illustrations with lots of colours and shapes. Bodies of the models are covered with the combinations of stripes, dots etc.

Original style, fresh concepts combining the photography with illustrations- amazing stuff.

Alberto's portfolio consists of the works made in this technique. And there are actually many of those there, try it out.

If you're interested you can also read the interview with Alberto Seveso here. He is explaining a little bit about his career in design, the inspirations, story behind "sperm shaping" (that's how he refers to the style he created).

Labels: design, photography

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Nik Ainley - ShinyBinary.com

Nicholas Ainley is a UK-based designer specialising in caring-for-details illustrations and graphics.

Nik Ainley's portfolio (shinybinary.com) is full of the really nice works. There is plenty more than what is presented above. Some are quite scary, for example the image presenting melted elderly woman's face.. Brrr, it's too horrifying and real to be put on my blog. ;)

Overall, the works are enjoyable. However, the website itself looks quite old fashioned and there is a big need for making it more pleasant for the viewers- I think Nik could get even more interest from people then if it looked more fancy. The other thing is that his portfolio looks to be quite popular- Nicholas is boasting of hundreds of thousands visitors. Congratulations, Mr Ainley and I look forward to seeing more cool works there.

Labels: design, graphics, illustration

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crisvector.com

I found Cristiano Siqueira by chance. I was looking into using the 3D models into standard 2D illustrations and images. Then I just stumbled upon the image that you can see at the top. I was amazed and that is why I had to save Cristiano's portfolio in my bookmarks. Today I looked at it again and decided that his works are worth showing in my blog.

Many of works of Mr Siqueira are very comic-like- it seems very true and justified since this is how it all started for him. Cristiano (born in Sao Paulo, Brazil) started by redrawing comic books. Then he sunk deep into the world of design and illustration. He gained experience in professional work and he is working independently in his own studio.

Undoubtedly Cristiano Siqueira has developed his own style, visible especially in the illustrations and images of 3D models.

Labels: 3D, design, illustration

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hejz.com

Another Polish designer, I won't count how many of them already got their own post in my blog. Is it my fault that they create amazing works and that they are popular in the designers' world? I hope you will agree with me that the works presented above are worth looking at and presenting here in my decent blastyle blog.

Vivid colours, amazing shapes and lines and care for details- in short about his style.

In his portfolio you can find advertising and branding works that he made for international companies. He did many works for Nokia and Nike, but other companies and organisations include Fanta, Unicef, Oakley, British Airways. He also designed a some music album covers (in portfolio you can find the cover for the album of Polish hip-hop artist, Pezet).

Peter Jaworowski works currently in Ars Thanea, creative studio based in Warsaw.

Labels: album cover, cd cover, design, graphics, illustration, poster

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Jimmy Turrell is a graphic designer based in London. The clients he worked for include Nike, Channel 4, MTV, The Guardian, New York Times, Universal Records, XL Recordings, Lexus.

The portfolio of selected works as well as the archives present the massive amount of illustrations and pictures.

The works of Jimmy Turrel keep to be simple and not too detailed but they look great - it proves that quite often the simplicity is the key.

Labels: design, illustration

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Ok, after quite a long break it's time for promotion of Polish design- it's really nice to see that many of my Polish fellows are well known and respected designers.

Pawel Nolbert worked for many worldwide known clients including Citroen, Coca Cola, McDonald's, Unilever... The pieces of work that you can see on hellocolor.com give you clear vision of the skills and talent of Pawel. I would definitely observe his work and check out all the new works coming up.

Labels: advertisement, branding, design, illustration

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Wow, I just love such playing with typography! That is really amazing that with traditional text or fonts you are able to do such amazing things. If you're interested in finding some other works related to typographic design and illustrations by Craig Ward please visit the wordsarepictures.co.uk. I'm sure you'll enjoy that.

Labels: design, illustration, typo, typography

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Two works that you can see above presented on dysplasii.com really amazed me- that's why I decided to present them here. Let's say that it's also a kind of promotion for Emmanuel- he is looking for a job as a designer, maybe you need someone with this profile?

The overall look of portfolio of Emmanuel Prissette doesn't appeal to me- the website is built on ancient html frames and it all looks not that attractive, probably it was done very quickly only for the purpose of presenting the works somewhere. Anyway, it's worth looking at some of his works.

Labels: design, logo, typo, typography

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aeiko.net

Pete Harrison is a British designer residing in London. In his client list there are many big names such as: Intel, Peugeot, Microsoft, BMW- impressive, isn't it?

His works show the very big spectrum of abilities and skills of this young designer- the typography, 3D-like art works, illustrations of all sorts.

Apart from freelance designing Pete is also developing his own clothing brand funkrush.com

Labels: design, t-shirt, typo, typography

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Not much to tell you about these posters. The simplicity of colours and nicely contrasting white shapes made of music notes and lines creates amazing effects.

The authors of these works work for the Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends based in Berlin.

I digged that design out from adsoftheworld.com

Labels: design, event, music, poster

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Andrio Abero (33rmpdesign.com) has got some really nice works in his collection- for more check out his website 33rpmdesign.com. He was collaborating with some musicians and in his portfolio you can find his posters and album covers.
His studio 33rpm was started in 2000, currently Andrio is working in in Brooklyn, New York (real gangsta, huh)

Labels: album cover, cd cover, design, poster, web design

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Erik Natzke keeps amazing me while I browsed through his collection of works in his portfolio. Every work aims to attract and suprise the viewer- his playing with shapes, colours, combinations of different patterns in every single piece of his work are just incredibly good.

The techniques Erik Natzke is using are also quite original. He is playing with the photos using Flash with Actionscript generating the deformations and patterns. You could see how transformed the original scene is in the two pictures below: (1) is the image Erik Natzke was playing with and (2) is the final result.

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Labels: design, flash

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edvardscott.com

What I find really astonishing about this artist is the combination of extremely powerful abstract colourful world with the style that is recognizable after first look on the work. "This is Edvard Scott", after you see his works you can actually feel it seeing something new made by him.

Amazing imagination of this talented illustrator / designer has been appreciated by many major companies including Nokia, L' Oreal, Mini Cooper, K-SWISS.

Labels: design, illustration

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