A Friend Of Mine- small Australian design studio

Cited from AFOM's About page:
A Friend Of Mine Design Studio (AFOM) is a small, Melbourne based design practice which works with a range of clients small and large. Much care and thought is put into every project. AFOM has experience in brand identity, art direction, signage, shop fitting, interiors, posters, image creation, publication (most things design related), and has a strong passion for crafted and bespoke typography.

AFOM is run by Suzy Tuxen. Talented friends are called on to collaborate for specialty crafts or when things get busy.

Leaflet for Lumen


Identity for Pixlet- digital production and editing company


Business cards created for Adrian Goodman (writer and director):




Identity works for Carla Grbac (jewelry business):

Labels: Australian, branding, font, identity, logo, typo, typography

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Works by Norwegian designer- Robin Snasen Rengard.

Works for Godt Valg environmental campaign caught my biggest attention. Very good concept which is implemented perfectly. Each of the images communicate clear message with minimal effort- brilliant work!







Oslo Fashion Week. Each of works created for marketing of this campaign follows the consistent patterns but at the same time preserves their individual, original character.









Typographical illustration for Beautiful Decay Magazine

Labels: advertising, branding, font, Norwegian, poster, typo, typography

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Info taken from UNIT's website:

UNIT is the collective and collaborative work of UK designers Si Billam and James Sanderson. We work globally across music, fashion, lifestyle and youth culture. Together we craft, construct, experiment and play with ideas.

UNIT (We are, This is) work on various fields of graphic design. They have created quite huge amount of music CD covers. Their typography skills are the thing that caught my attention.

Si and James have worked for clients including: EA Games, MTV, Coca Cola, Human Studio, Universal Everything, Pollinate Records, Carbon Logic Publishing, Computer Arts, Urban Splash.

Labels: album cover, cd cover, font, identity, logo, typography

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Southsouthwest- design studio based in Melbourne, Australia. Neat portfolio and very professional works.

Mero


Keep Cup


X&Y Magazine

Labels: Australian, branding, font, identity, logo

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"Faith is spiritualized imagination" - portfolio of Paul Sych is a trip around various typographic forms and creations. I have looked through all of his works presented on his website: some of them are brilliant; the others may be just good. Nevertheless, you can clearly see that this man has got talent in expressing emotions and information in typographical, simplistic forms.

Biography cited from his portfolio website:

For over 2 decades, Paul Sych has been exploring and practicing many of the parallels between art and music. After completing his studies from both York University’s prestigious Jazz Program and from the Ontario College Of Art & Design, Paul founded his multi-disciplinary design studio Faith, in 1989. Paul has consistently offered new methods of expression by using custom typography as a catalyst within his work and has challenged both clients and peers alike to enter his world of unique and flamboyant use of type and imagery. In addition to being commissioned by legendary designers, art directors, educators and forums on typography internationally, his work has been widely exhibited and published globally. Paul continues to explore visual and typographic works in print, branding, public art, motion graphics and broadcast design. Recently, Paul has focused his interests in teaching, lecturing, conducting workshops and personal critiques to both students and colleagues alike in a effort to begin a new dialogue on typography and design methods.

Just for Kicks


The Juggernaut


Peace


Love (me(?))

Labels: font, identity, logo, typo, typography

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Frank Muller is a German designer who probably works within various design areas. However, it's the typography which struck me as really innovative and original and this is what I want to talk about. Frank is presenting his works in his personal portfolio, United States of Design as well as on White Label which is a showcase of Frank and some other designer, Markus (I didn't make effort to look for his surname; I didn't find it on White Label site).

I present a few of Frank Muller's works below- those which in my opinion are the most fresh and cool. You will find more of his typography works in his portfolio.

Basic Math- font made of geometrical shapes:


A handcutted font:


Logotype created for advertising campaign of Adidas:

Labels: font, German, typo, typography

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Mats Ottdal is a graphic designer from Oslo, Norway. He finished his bachelor degree in Communication Design in Melbourne, Australia. It looks to me that he's very good at what he is doing. He has created a clear and consistent style which is recognisable in most of his works. Illustrative style visible in the typography works, clear and very nice illustrations- perfect works. The portfolio itself is very neat and clear- perfectly fitting the style of the artist. My favourites are presented below but there is more in the portfolio.

1. Frisk- packaging and visual identity for drinking yoghurt. I'm looking up to the way Mats has approached this particular project- beautiful illustrations which are simple at the same time. I'm sure that all of the kids would like to drink yoghurt from such bottles, I would like to try it myself ;).


2. "Healthy hot chocolate on your mind"- this project is the good example how creativity and talent for illustration can create a perfect identity product. Citing the author:

"The brown palette indicates the different flavours of chocolate & also parts of the mind."

To create this work Mats Ottdal drew with hand the typography and then processed it in Photoshop and Illustrator.


3. I like how Mats has used the popular symbols and converted them to a neat vector illustration in the personal project presented above.


I found that his portfolio doesn't cover all of his works. For the full reference please visit his blog- you will find more of the interesting projects there.

Labels: branding, font, idea, typo, typography

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Toko is a design studio established in Rotterdam in 2001, but now operating in Sydney (from 2006). Toko concentrates mostly on the print design- book & magazine design, identity, posters etc. If you visit the portfolio you would quickly realize that there is a very big emphasis put on the importance of typography.

Many of the prints are very original because of the experiments made on the typefaces. In this way the works fulfil the most significant role- they really stand out from the crowd.

Labels: design, font, poster, typo, typography

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Changethethought.com has been founded by Christopher Cox as the place for his own art works. Now apart from working as Christopher's portfolio it has transformed into a kind of a community with other editors involved.

What is more interesting for me are the Christopher's works. The ones presented above is just a small fraction of the art works that can be found on his changethethought.com. The style of them seems to be very brave and original- there is a lot of experimenting with colours, shapes and combining many concepts. The artworks are divided into many categories: print, illustration, web, type and personal works. Many of these categories are filled with works of the best quality. I find the whole portfolio very inspiring, it's a shame that I couldn't put more of the images here. Check it yourself.

Labels: colour, font, illustration, t-shirt

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Lisa Rienermann - www.lisarienermann.com

What a superb idea Lisa Rienermann had.. she made the new typo out of the images of sky and buildings. It looks surprisingly well, at the same time quite funny. In her portfolio you can actually see the whole alphabet made out of the pictures with building-and-sky motive. Inspiring, isn´t it?

Labels: font, idea, typography

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