A good strategy for design and maybe even for life is to be more weird than the guy next to you. Tokyo/Osaka’s It’s Our Thing is accomplishing this one t-shirt at a time.
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.
Eric Carlson (formerly YWFT) and H/H crew were interviewed by the Walker for an upcoming gallery project here.
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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
Earth Day is tomorrow, be sure to get outside and appreciate our wonderful planet.
Lee Douglas Self Portrait
Monsieur L’Agent is a creative agency, which brings together some of the most talented art directors, illustrators and graphic designers out there. Started by Alexis Le-Tan and Romauld Stivine.
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
Check out some great titles just marked down in price. Deals & Steals. And look out for this new font, Memoriam, from Canada Type.
As mentioned in our last post, it is the Thai new year here in Bangkok, known here as Songkran. We had a rough new year this time around, but the chaos has moved along and peace is with us now. In honor of the new year and an end to the chaos, we are happy to present our latest freebie. One super hot file of various botanical and flourish like elements. This file is a little different than our usual products, because it contains illustrator transparencies and we saved as CS3. Typically our stock vector products are saved as EPS version 8, so basically anyone can open them with any major image/vector editing application (you would be surprised at the amount of Corel draw users out there).
We hope you enjoy this free set of beautiful vectors!
We are coming back early from the Thai new year here at the Bangkok studio. Last week and today we posted a handful of new stock vector collections. A few classic themes like flourishes and frames in there, along with new topics and elements many of you might find useful.
On the topic of us being in Bangkok, some of you might have seen the news of some mad craziness going on here. Luckily our studio is in intense traffic jams the past 2 weeks, everyone in our studio was unaffected directly by any of the violence. Unfortunately for the people living here, no matter what side you support, the violence that went down this week does not help anyone here, especially the struggling local economy which survives a lot on the tourism industry. But the good news is, for now, the protesters have left and the leaders arrested for various crimes.
That being said, Thailand is Thailand and this not something really new as far as wanting the government to change, but violence is NOT typical. These violent protests were really restricted to a specific part of the city as well, an area most tourists are never in. So if you had plans to come here for travel, holiday, fun times, it is still the fun loving and good Thailand, no worries, you will be OK. I am still here typing this, so it must be ok! haha…
