Posts Tagged ‘graphic design’

mr. yen

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

To round out the post day, I’ve decided to write about another cut paper artist. Mr. Yen (real name Jonathan Chap­man) is a graphic design stu­dent out of the UK and already mak­ing a name for him­self (aside from call­ing him­self Mr. Yen)!

Mr. Yen’s aes­thetic is clean, crisp, and and gen­er­ally mono­chro­matic. It is evi­dent that he’s a graphic designer at heart, as his hand cut type is impec­ca­ble. He has an active Etsy store that sells cards, wall hang­ings, and other orig­i­nal cut outs. I espe­cially love his Spiro­graph cards!

All images via his Etsy. His blog is also a good read.

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rachel wilson

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Rachel Wil­son stud­ied Eng­lish in col­lege. After hav­ing worked in the pub­lish­ing indus­try for awhile, she even­tu­ally returned to her love of mak­ing things. I think that Rachel’s time spent study­ing lit­er­a­ture shines through in her work.

Upon view­ing her work, I was instantly reminded of the Art Nou­veau move­ment. Her draw­ings, like that the art move­ment pre­ced­ing them, uses a hier­ar­chy in design and shapes. Empha­siz­ing line weight and scale, she has her sub­ject con­tain dif­fer­ent pat­terns with accent color. This results in some lovely, mul­ti­fac­eted draw­ings — the viewer can enjoy both indi­vid­ual pat­terns and how they all work together.

Her work is con­trolled, orga­nized, and mixes clar­ity with ambi­gu­ity. It is like a well-crafted story; its voice orig­i­nal, ideas unique yet not lost on its reader.

All images via her web­site.

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tom edwards

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Tom Edwards is an illustrator/graphic designer liv­ing in Brighton. While his port­fo­lio is all-around impres­sive, his drawings/collages are what I have really spent some time with.

Tom’s draw­ing style is some­what naive, but that is not meant to be an insult. His work is charm­ing, engag­ing, and very inter­est­ing in its sim­plic­ity. I have included images of sketches and sim­pler draw­ings, but he also has col­lages that com­bine both his draw­ing sen­si­bil­i­ties with color and shape design. Pho­to­graphic images that are used in his col­lage are nicely paired with his san­guine hand.

There are a num­ber of dif­fer­ent projects fea­tured on Tom’s web­site, but one I par­tic­u­larly enjoy is If Draw­ings Were Pho­tographs. It is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between him­self and Rob Matthews — Pho­tographs are styled around Tom’s orig­i­nal draw­ings. Usu­ally, it’s the other way around, and a very wel­come change.

All images via his web­site and Flickr.

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djg

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

DJG Design (aka Danny Gib­son) is an artist/designer I’ve been admir­ing since I was in high school. He was the artist doing the show posters and local album cov­ers in my home­town and has since expanded his pop­u­lar­ity to more than just the mid-west United States.

DJG’s media of choice really varies. He uses col­lage, draw­ing, paint­ing, and also plays around with typog­ra­phy to cre­ate his images. There is a lot of con­sid­ered hap-haphazardness in his work; some pieces look chaotic, but they are always eye-catching and make sense. He holds back at the appro­pri­ate time to make sure a mes­sage is communicated.

DJG’s work is full of non-sequiturs and the pair­ing of images that don’t nec­es­sar­ily go together. It is very rem­i­nis­cent of a lot of local show-poster cul­tures I’ve seen, but I think that his work is smart enough to go beyond just that, to some­thing that’s a work of art.

All images via his web­site.

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nepomuk

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Nepo­muk is a small design and illus­tra­tion group from Berlin, Ger­many. With three mem­bers, they do a vari­ety of design and illus­tra­tive projects, includ­ing books, posters, and even col­or­ing books!

Nepo­muk has some great vari­ety in their work.They do a lot of pieces deal­ing with typog­ra­phy and book design, but also draw­ing a print­mak­ing, involv­ing less cal­cu­la­tion. Nepo­muk has such a nice, strong vari­ety of work in their port­fo­lio. Each piece stands by itself well but also feels cohe­sive in an effort by the three members.

It’s hard to pin­point exactly what my favorite part of their work is — I think it’s some of their poster pieces that are heav­ily geo­met­ric and remind me of cross-stitch sewing (pieces were designed for a show titled, Astrono­mia Nova).

All images via their web­site.

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thereza rowe

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Thereza Rowe is a London-based illus­tra­tor and graphic designer. She enjoys draw­ing a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent ani­mals and often employs them in her work.

Also preva­lent in her work is a sense of whimsy (in the best sense of the word) and imag­i­nary lands. I love her sense of color and the char­ac­ter­i­za­tion she’s given to her worlds. They are inter­est­ing, not only in the pro­por­tion of the objects in her draw­ings, but also due to the mate­ri­als she chooses to work with. There is a nice push and pull of col­lage and plain ole’ drawing’.

All images via her web­site.

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