I have been getting into graphic design from Iran again and there is a name that I always love seeeing, Ghobad Shiva. His work is varies from illustration to modernist with a strong sense of typography.
He has a site that shows all of his works, here. Ghobad also has a new book out on his works that shows almost his complete body of work. For sure worth a visit and a bookmark.
Mike Davis works just down the hall from us so there’s a pretty good dialogue back and forth between our office and Burlesque where he works. He’s also a huge nerd for classic graphic design and runs a blog , So Much Pileup, devoted to digging up the greatest of graphic ephemera from the high modern to post modern years (Definitely worth following). And, we should also probably mention that he’s a talented club DJ (Mike2600).
Name: Mike Davis
Company: Burlesque of North America
Website: http://burlesquedesign.com
Short explanation of what you do or who you are, one or two sentences.
Burlesque is a group of graphic designers, illustrators and screenprinters. Headquartered in Minneapolis, we create graphic art for mainly music-based clients, host art exhibitsin our First Amendment art gallery, and put out music releases on our BRLSQOTHEQUE record label
Color: woodgrain
Music: Black Sabbath, Public Enemy, The Kinks, Wild Style soundtrack, MSTRKRFT
Book: Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer, Typographer
Designer: Herb.
Animal: Cobra Kitten
Website: friendster.com
Place: Space
Shape: Obelisk (no homo)
Artist: Chuck Close
Typeface: Helvetica Bold
Movie: Raging Bull, Empire Strikes Back, Goonies, When We Were Kings
Work: What?
Word: What!
Season: Autumn, even though I live in a city where the space between Summer and Winter lasts 30 seconds
Magazine: Plumpers
Guilty Pleasure: MC battles, 21st century Pro Wrestling
Distraction: The internets
Love: Hate
Hate: Love
What are you working on right now?
Cuckoo clock art print, two gig posters for Flight of the Conchords, CD artwork for anticon
What career would you switch to if you had to stop your current profession?
Fulltime DJ / music maker.
Why do you __________?
Because you always ______________
Yale is on point, lots of great grad work coming out of there (Hi Vance!) Neil Donnelly’s 100 Warm Jets project for instance, is an interesting exercise in process, organization, and presentation.
About a month ago we released a new font, Matter. We felt it would be beneficial to go an extra mile and create a small PDF zine to further show the typographic value of Matter.
Download the Matter Zine (Right-Click, Save As)
Swedish graphic designer Joakim Jansson is this week’s featured designer. His work encompasses many areas related to design including art direction, graphic design, typography, illustration, branding and web. He also contributes to the Style Press blog and DJs as Soda Popinski in his spare time. Here’s a little more about him and his work…
From the big wigs over at Canada Type we now have their second bundled collection. This set includes 14 different type families and a total 31 different font weights and variations. So go ahead, revive and freshen up your font collection with this super discounted set today! This package saves you over $125! In this sour economy, this might cost a grip up front, but you save so much more in the long run and grand scheme of things. Perfect for any agency or small design shop’s type collection.
Personally, I really like Canada Type and what they are doing. These guys are typeface making machines, just look at how many of their fonts we handle. I really like this work ethic, which is, well WORK!
Super nice guy and talented illustrator Damien Correll has been doing these beautiful covers for the podcasts over at Radiozero. Go there and check them out as well as the podcast if you need some tunes to get you set for the weekend.
I am going to riff a little with the spirit of today’s theme, Earth Day.
First, there is a really nice zine for earth day titled, RRR. You can check the pdf out here and has a lot of really nice work from a lot of players in the illustration-design arena. I think you can only find it here, so feel free to link this post up. Proceeds from future sales of the printed versions of this book or artwork found within will go to benefit the Surfrider Foundation. Don’t forget to check out Steven Harrington’s Earth Day poster. Thanks, Jonathan.
I really like themes, collections, etc so thought I would put my top 10 albums to listen to today:
David Axelrod - Earth Rot
Marion Brown – Sweet Earth Flying
Dee Dee Bridgewater – Red Earth
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Olesi: Fragments Of An Earth
Sandoz - Live In The Earth
Augustus Pablo - Earth’s Rightful Ruler
Madlib – Earth Sounds
Vangelis – Earth (Essential listen)
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Earth – Hex
If you’re in Minneapolis tonight, PB&J (Peter, Bjorn, and John) are playing a show with Chairlift at the Fine Line Music Cafe. This beautiful poster was screen printed by Mr. EMQUINN and features a YouWorkForThem typeface Augustus designed by Karl Frankowski. Buy a print at the show this evening.
Laurent Fétis is a busy guy. Fortunately, he had a few moments to answer some simple questions. We will be posting more exclusive, short interviews in this format soon , so please keep following. (Above Image: Dirty French Psychedelics, Artwork by Elisabeth Arkhipoff & Laurent Fétis)
Name: Laurent Fetis
Website: http://www.laurentfetis.com
Color: all colors
Music: “U Can Dance” DJ Hell Feat Brian Ferry
Book: “Maximes” la Rochefoucault
Designer: Lucas Ossendrijver
Animals: Smilodon and platypus
Website: http://www.newscientist.com/
Place: a nice one
Shape: fat un-timid shapes
Artist: Elisabeth Arkhipoff
Typeface: a nice one
Movie: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer directed by Werner Klingler
Work: Drawing
Word: Super
Season: Spring
Magazine: Fantastic Man
Guilty Pleasure: Drawing
Love: Anastasia Constantinescu
Hate: ?
What are you working on right now?
Books, Magazines and global identity design
What career would you switch to if you had to stop your current profession?
I don’t know
Thanks to Laurent for his answers. If you readers enjoy features like this, please comment and if you have anyone you’d like to see featured in this manner, let us know.
My latest side project for Graphic Designers and creatives is called Buamai. The project is only few months old but we already have 3000 images blogged. As of today, we now gave a great new iPhone application to bring this content to you while you are mobile. The application was created to grab random images from our server to cure your boredom as well as inspire. Images found on our site are mainly of Graphic Design, Art and Architecture interest but with some random, strange images thrown in for variety. Use our website to cure boredom, find talented artists or for gathering inspiration.
Available on iTunes | Application Website
Four brand new IDEA Magazines just arrived in stock with some of the best content we’ve seen. For sure one of the greatest graphic design magazines around, grab the newest issues 329, 330, 332 and 333 today!
