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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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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Polish graphic designers are really talented- I said that many times before but I will say it one more time now. I already wrote about some Polish artists (Maciej Mizer, Maciej Blazniak, Pawel Nolbert, Peter Jaworowski, Kacper Spala, Jan Felisk Kallwejt). Now it's time for Tomasz Opasinski- graphic designer who succeeded in being one of the most popular and productive poster designers in Hollywood movie industry. His posters worked as advertisement for so many famous movies- at first when I browsed through the Tomasz Opasinski's portfolio I couldn't believe that all of those posters could be done by one person. The movies that were advertised by Tom's works include "The Fountain" (directed by Darren Aronofsky), Disney's animated "Cars", "I am Legend" (starring Will Smith), "Bandidas"(starring Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz), "Hulk", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and many more. Tomasz Opasinski has received many awards for his works: Guru Award on PhotoshopWorld conference in 2002 (category: "collage"), 3 Golden Web Awards given by International Association of Web Masters and Designers and many more.

In one of the interviews Tomasz Opasinski says that posters' industry is really hard and that it's not only about Photoshop and graphics. One needs to have the ability of thinking strategically, talking with the customers and this is really hard to do in Hollywood's business. He also admits that work of poster artist in Hollywood movie's industry is difficult because of the amount of work that has to be done in relatively short time.

The most exciting part of Opasinski's portfolio is the "evolution" where you can look at what was the starting point of the works (mostly posters) and the final version after all the layers, details and colours were added. It reminds me of the "before" and "after" known from the commercials of dietary programs :).. But here such a comparison really makes sense and gives the idea about how much work has to be done to achieve such astonishing effects. Below you can find 3 examples I have selected- please visit Tomasz Opasinski's website to have a look at more of them- the collection is really huge.







Apart from commercial works made for Hollywood movie companies it is also worth mentioning that Tomasz Opasinski created many interesting experimental works. The amount of details present in those pieces of art is incredible- Tomasz has said that it's really a great experience if you look at the work printed to fully appreciate the complexity of the elements and colours. The images below do not have the satisfying resolution but still you can get the idea of how beautiful they have to be. It's not surprising that Tom is an Adobe Certified Expert and a member of American National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Congratulations, Tom!

Labels: advertisement, advertising, design, graphics, idea, illustration, poster

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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, illustration, typo, typography

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01.01.2007

17.03.2004

22.01.1999


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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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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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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