UEFA has just presented a new logo of Euro 2012 (European championship in football) which will be held in Poland and Ukraine. There are some controversies which are discussed in Poland right now:
-Polish flag's colors are not red and white (they are white and red instead)
-Some say it's too Eastern-Europe-like and not very fancy

Euro 2012 official logo:


Bigger version of Euro 2012 logo:



Euro 2012- map of venues in Poland and Ukraine:


The brand story of UEFA Euro Championships 2012 logo:


Personally I have to admit that I am not really sure what to think about it. The flourishing football with the flags as leaves gives good associations and should work well as a symbol. But on the other hand- hmm, it looks as a big-headed guy with widespread arms or sth. And it's really kind of old-fashioned, maintaining the stereotype of backward Poland and Ukraine..

And what do you think?

Labels: identity, logo, typo, typography

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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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A-Side Studio- Graphic Design and Illustration Studio

Cited from A-Side Studio:
We do ID's, tees, books, magazines, murals, posters, surfboards, skateboards, all the while freely jumping the divides between image and product, design and art, the flat page and the moving image. (...)
Complexity with simplicity, decoration with purpose; good design will always end in us understanding one another better.

Graphic design work for Port Eliot Festival:


Works for Cornwall Film Festival:




Backside of a booklet created for The Combined Universities in Cornwall


Selected logotypes:

Labels: graphic design, logo, poster, typo, typography

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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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Multiadaptor is a London-based design agency working with branding, print and communications design. Very neat and to-the-point style.

Labels: branding, identity, logo, typo, typography

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Born in Malaysia, living and working currently in Shanghai Driv (thinksimpleactsimple.com) is a young designer who works mostly with print, identity and logos.

Play-Doh. Description cited from thinksimpleactsimple.com:
Posters for Play-Doh modeling clay. Special die-cut on it to allows the poster
closed on it's own, the wonderful imagination revealed when people pull it opened.


Logotype for Dreams Factory (photography studio):


90s generation- book design and editorial (Nike).
Description cited from thinksimpleactsimple.com:
Research and stories about 90s generation produced for Nike, to understand and uncover the 90s kids in China.


I have selected some of them he has presented in his portfolio. For more click on the image:

Labels: identity, logo, typo, typography

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Born in Russia, Yulia Brodskaya started her career in Moscow, "producing contemporary office decoration artwork" for the companies there. Meantime she was studying Graphic Design. After she made M.A. in Graphic Communication in London she works now both as an illustrator and freelance graphic designer.

Her clients include RedBull, Orange, BBH, How2 T-shirts. She won some design prizes- 1st prize in Russian Conceptual Packaging Design Competition, she was also a Member of the International Society of Typographic Designers in 2006.

She makes original works which she calls "papergraphic". Take a look at them below:









And here are some other works by Yulia. I like especially the work on the bottom- sign "They want you" made of big corporation's logos. Brilliant idea!

Labels: graphics, idea, logo, Russian, typo, typography

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It's going to be the longest post in the history of Blastyle blog with the biggest number of works. If you read it through you will see works of not one, not two, not three but FOUR graphic designers!

Their works are completely different and it was a hard decision for me to put them all together into one post. Anyway, I decided so here it is.

I have stumbled upon the website of Unseen Agency and got fascinated by some of the works I have seen there. I've selected 4 artists out of 10 associated in the Unseen Agency, then selected 2-3 works which best illustrate their talents and skills and now I'm presenting them for you. Here they are:

1. Nick Deakin. Clients: The Guardian, Orange, New York Times, Virgin, Computer Arts Magazine.







2. Ben Javens. Clients: MTV, Digital Arts Magazine, The Guardian, Static Caravan, Capsule. And here is his page at Unseen Agency.







3. Alice Stevenson. Clients: G2, Volvo, Telegraph Magazine, Art Angels, Coutts Magazine. And here is her page at Unseen Agency.





4. Matthew The Horse. Clients: The Guardian, PlanB Magazine, Venue Magazine, The Economist. And here is his page at Unseen Agency.

Labels: graphics, poster, 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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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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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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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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David Carvalho is a Portuguese designer living in Lisbon and working with different design disciplines. During his long career he worked on many projects, some of which were well known in Portugal (this is at least what he says- I'm not living in Portugal and also don't have time to see if it's true or not ;-)).

David claims that he has been a designer since he was a kid and that he dedicated his life to the creativity. And I can surely say that this is true after looking at all the works presented in the portfolio.

Carvalho has had many different alter egos (aliases) for different artistic periods of his life. The previous one, Electroclandestino was killed by Karpa- ", he said before pulling the trigger"

Interesting personality, equally (or even more) interesting works. Enough to appear in the Blastyle Blog- the super incredible blog about amazing design.

Labels: skateboard, typo, typography

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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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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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Pablo is a 30-year old Brazilian designer with some nice ideas. In his portfolio I liked his illustrations most but you can also find there examples of typo works, web designs. Check pablolobo.com

Labels: illustration, logo, typo, typography, web design

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