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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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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"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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