574 Flashback: Retro Design in Contemporary Graphics
First time I saw this book in Melbourne, I just want to buy it straight away. But since I dont want to add more weight to my bag pack, and having thought that book stores in Sydney would have it was just a big mistake. Well, Published Art in Surry Hills got it but its $30 dollar more expensive from some reason. Kinokuniya in city for some reason just sent an order form to the publisher and will be available around June ?!? But thankfully, a friend had plan to visit Melbourne over the weekend. The Geometry section is truly inspirational, familiar names are featured in the book, such as Mario Hugo, iLL Studio, Emily Forgot, Playful etc. A really recommended design book !!
531 Online Cred
Sometimes, you just need that extra inspirations to push you more when designing. If you like those collage, spacey and absurd stuff like me, check this blog out. Its such a trippy full on blog. And I just found out that the dude who run the blog posted my stuff there, thanks !
529 Sacred Mtn.
Check this dude website. Full of wicked collages and illustrations.
481 Self Promo
Bought the new issue of IDN couple days ago and its all about self promotion. Quite like this particular self promo stuff by Michael Fryers, a fold out poster. Kinda remind me of Effektive fold out portfolio.
444 And Studio
And studio is a graphic design studio based in Melbourne. They often collaborates with designers, artists, photographers, and writers to develop a more universal comprehension of ideas and outcomes. Check their website and blog for works and news.
400 Nicolas Malinowsky
You might remember one of my post about a French based design collective called iLL Studio. Well Nicolas Malinowsky is one of the member and the very talented one ! Too bad there’s not much we can see from his own website. Head to ill studio website for his collective works.
361 Burn Cottage by Mash Design
An entirely biodynamic winery in New Zealand. Mash wanted to create a unique brand that communicated the ‘hands on’ characteristics with the sometimes mystical methods of biodynamics. The founding father of biodynamics agriculture, Rudolf Steiner was heavily influenced by the writings of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. ‘The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily’ is a fairy tale by Goethe published in 1795. This is a story about the combining the ‘ideal human being’ in everyone with ‘outer life experiences’, the two working in harmony. If this can be achieved then the human being would be a truly worthy existence. This was an inspirational story for Steiner and forms the basis of biodynamics.
‘The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily’ was the inspiration Mash needed. The various parts of the story have been put together to create an illustrated collage that forms the basis of the Burn Cottage brand imagery used in packaging, promotion and stationery. The images shown here depict a poster that can also be broken down to individual business cards. The full sheets were printed with perforations that could then be torn apart.
More from Mash Design.
325 Hugo & Marie
Hugo & Marie is an art collective based in New York. Consist of several talented illustrators and designers, they also have their in house studio called NewWork. They have this really cool mailer that they will give for free (but we have to pay for the shipping, which I think is fair !) and I’m one of the people that asked for one. Check their site here, and if you’re interested to get one as well visit their Behance page.
314 Nikolay Saveliev
Nikolay Saveliev was born in Laningrad, Russia and performs live in New York on a daily basis. An artist, designer and art director, Nikolay has worked extensively freelance on brands as diverse as Cloak, Brown University and the Bank of Russia. He’s also worked at various agencies including Syrup, Wolff Olins and Landor, where he’s had experience working on brands such as Citigroup, Calvin Klein, Tiger Woords, FedEx and GE, among others. He is currently preparing for his first sole fine art exhibition.
Nikolay is part of a collective called Hugo & Marie
305 Another Words of Wisdom
