Our Creative Director, Michael Paul Young, has been invited to visit China this weekend and take part in Beijing Design Week. MPY will be composing a digital artwork live (Double Vision) during the Tiger Translate Battle of the Bands event. An open platform for creatives anywhere in the world, Double Vision calls for photographers to submit portraits of Asian cities, before illustrators add layers of perception-shifting artwork.
September 24th, 2011 / 20.30 – 2AM
Beijing, China @ Star Live
Sam Green lives in London and has a nice lineup of illustration works ranging from insane pencil & ink to rough color explosions and tons of tension filled black and white works that leave you begging for more. You’ve probably already seen his work out & about but it’s time to check out his new works along with an official add to bookmarks. File under #holy crap.
Stumbled across this portfolio today, which contains some interesting and well done illustration work by Gianmarco Magnani. There are also prints available for purchase on the site as well.
Part & Parcel is a new studio from Brooklyn heavy hitters, Damien Correll and Garrett Morin.
Name: Tim Lahan
Company: Trademark™
Website: Trademark-Trademark
About: I’m trained as a graphic designer but grew up illustrating and later drawing on bathroom walls. I run my own one-man studio in New York under the guise Trademark™, where I take on all kinds of work from branding, apparel, web stuff when I have to, and also use it as an umbrella for personal work.
Color: Pea green
Music: Descendents
Book: Factotum – Charles Bukowski
Designer: No one in particular
Animal: Goat
Favorite Website: Married to the Sea
Place: Pennsylvania
Shape: Triangle
Artist: Ed Ruscha
Typeface: Akzidenz Grotesk
Movie: Ghostbusters
Work: sucks
Word: Lexicon
Season: Fall
Magazine: Swank
Favorite Place: The woods
Guilty Pleasure: Cigarettes, cannolis, hamburgers
Distraction: Silly putty
Love: Everything
Hate: Everything
What are you working on right now? A pretty good balance of personal projects and branding stuff for some startups.
What career would you switch to if you had to stop your current profession? Full-time mountain man. Overgrown beard, straw hat, cabin in the woods, the creepy old dude that’s almost folklore to little kids in the town below. When I’d go out for good I’d leave behind all these wild phallic wood carvings and fancy corn cob pipes. I haven’t thought about it too much, really.
Silencio is the selected works of Átila Meireles.
Saiman Chow updates with some awesome new work.
Discovered some bizarre, Czech children’s illustrations here.
I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile now but perhaps you’ve already seen the work of AWH in Wallpaper, Monocle, or Men’s Health. No? Well go check these guys out, can’t get enough of the simple illustrations/icons and all things big juicy colorful maps and diagrams. Also check out Elsa’s work too, she’s 1/2 of the studio and has more tasty goodness to see.
I think I might have seen the work of Richard Perez first on ffffound and then traced it back to his site, but then immediately I started seeing him in a few other spots and was really impressed. He can do the fun 50′s illustration that we all love these days but he can also rock some modern type and then bring it back full circle with lovely ID work. I believe he may still be searching for work in the SF Bay Area so act now ’cause supplies like Richard are rare indeed!
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.
