sinavil

move on?

2011-07-31T03:25:00.003+03:00

., originally uploaded by 3-rsj.

Sinavil has been inactive for a long time. One reason was that the last few months were full of changes as I moved to London and I almost had no free time. On the other hand I find blogger quite unfriendly so I have decided to stop this blog and give it a go somewhere else, with the same name...

So, this will be the last post at blogger. It is a wonderful photo by Robert Johnson.

Foss

2011-03-26T10:18:00.002+02:00

foss, originally uploaded by Aber es war..

Somewhere in Iceland Aber es war took this amazing shot.

Light

2011-03-26T10:05:00.002+02:00

Untitled, originally uploaded by JOLIE MA.

Photo by JOLIE MA from Miami.

Pure Summer II

2010-07-21T20:08:00.003+03:00

Another cool summer pic. By Bobby Doherty from Brooklyn.

Pure Summer

2010-07-21T19:55:00.002+03:00

A nice picture from Chlödia from Portugal!

A calm advice on difficult times

2010-07-05T16:15:00.002+03:00

By tind.

Releaf

2010-07-04T13:43:00.002+03:00

Photo by Ren Hang.

New start

2010-07-04T13:33:00.002+03:00

Zachary Ayotte is an image maker currently
living and working in Edmonton, Alberta.

Sometimes we all need a little luck

2010-05-09T11:54:00.000+03:00

A sign in Northeast Minneapolis, photographed by Sean Tubridy.

Public market

2010-05-08T18:47:00.002+03:00

Sign in Seattle, 2009. Photo by Kevin Balluff.
Kevin spends his free time sitting in traffic: "It's sport to me. With nowhere to go, I'll prowl the concrete arteries of the city, counting women doing their makeup in the rearview, men eating an artery-buster burger, kids throwing a tantrum in the backseat like chimpanzees in a shitfight. Ahh, I love Los Angeles."

Tom Chudley

2010-05-08T18:38:00.003+03:00

Photo by Tom Chudley.

Trapped in Suburbia

2010-04-22T10:30:00.001+03:00

Beautiful happy posters for beautiful happy festival, designed by Trapped in Suburbia, a design studio based in the Netherlands.

Dazed Revolter

2010-04-22T00:05:00.002+03:00

Poster by Dazed Revolter from Berlin.

Cut and Paste

2010-04-21T01:10:00.002+03:00

Illustration by George Tzavaras, a friend of mine and a great illustrator! This is his blog.

I'm in love with your brother

2010-04-12T23:09:00.003+03:00

Illustration by Lihie Jacob from Israel.

Elżbieta Chojna

2010-04-12T10:47:00.001+03:00

Elżbieta Chojna is a great graphic designer from Warsaw.

Brasil em cartaz

2010-04-11T18:51:00.002+03:00

Rico Lins is one of the most important Brazilian graphic designers. As I read in wikipedia "Designer, art director, illustrator and educator, Rico Lins has accumulated an extensive curriculum of professional and didactic activities in expressive institutions and companies both in Brazil and abroad". His site is under construction but you can see his studio work on flickr.

Ship of virtuous ladies II

2010-03-30T10:43:00.010+03:00

By Yin Ling from Taiwan.

Anthony Cudahy

2010-03-29T10:22:00.001+03:00

Anthony Cudahy is a communications design student with a focus on illustration at Pratt Institute. His website, his flickr.

Human Behaviour

2010-03-28T12:02:00.002+03:00

Jenny Mörtsell grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, and as a kid filled drawing pad after drawing pad with mostly horses, boys and shoes. Following high school she studied printmaking art, then graphic design and illustration taking a Masters degree in fine arts from Konstfack University in 2004. Since then Jenny has been balancing a busy roster of U.S. and European clients who have come to adore the style of her signature pencil drawings.

Jenny's artwork can be seen in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, NYLON, Elle, Bon, Cover and Lula. She is currently based in New York.

This is her website but you can see her work here.

Violeta Niebla

2010-03-27T20:55:00.002+02:00

Photo by Violeta Niebla from Spain.

Penguin Classics

2010-03-23T10:20:00.001+02:00

Coralie Bickford-Smith is a senior cover designer at Penguin Books,
where she has created several series designs. She studied typography
at Reading university and has recently been sharing her experience with
students at London College of Communication encouraging a sense
of play in the process of design. This is a spread of the Penguin Classics catalogue she designed.

Beetroot did it again

2010-03-22T10:06:00.000+02:00

Beetroot is a multi-awarded (eg. European Design Agency of the Year for 2008) Greek design agency based in Thessaloniki. This is one of their latest projects. Read more about Naked King on Lovely Package or check out their website.

9-9-09

2010-03-20T19:17:00.002+02:00

Paul Octavious likes to play with books and numbers.

Pearlfisher for Waitrose

2010-03-20T19:04:00.001+02:00

Excellent work for Waitrose products by Pearlfisher.

Ten Images for Ithaca 2010

2010-03-20T18:35:00.002+02:00

Ten images for Ithaca is an international poster competition that started nine years ago. It began as a small local event but now Ten Images for Ithaca is one of the most important poster design competitions worldwide. Last week it was announced this year's theme, prizes and deadline:

Theme: Labels
1st prize 1000 €, 2nd prize 600 €, 3rd prize 500 €
Deadline: 21 May 2010

"A label is any kind of tag attached to something so as to identify the object or its content. Labeling means naming. It is human instinct to group things with what they are most similar and name them as a whole. We live in a world filled with labels antagonising each other to win our preference. There are labels associated with consumer products and fashion. People voluntarily label themselves in order to have a sense of belonging to a group, but there also labels that people use to categorize others stemming from feelings of racism and xenophobia, political and religious discrimination, etc. What is the role of these labels in your life? How can a label describe the world you live in? Can a label give the infinite set of experiences, beliefs and desires that summarise each human being? All of the above are just a few of the many ways one can approach this year’s competition theme “Labels”."

The ten best entries will be printed into banners with dimensions 200 x 60 cm and will be hung along Ithaca’s promenade for the entire summer of 2010. Their creators will have free accommodation in Ithaca on the weekend of the exhibition’s opening (July 2010).

More info here.
Poster design by the design shop.

Alexandros Vasmoulakis in L.A.

2010-03-16T21:37:00.000+02:00

With the sarcastic title "is everybody happy?" the viewer is invited in a satirical play of chaos having the female figures as the central characters. Alexandros Vasmoulakis uses fragments from advertized models as a fundamental source in order to dismantle the "ideal" image of refinement. The collage-like women stare insistently towards the spectator, carrying these uncanny shiny smiles that express derision and irony in conjunction with confusion and anxiety. A jumble of narratives is created out of ink and acrylic, which brings into surface the relationship between the female nude and the male gaze.

The first solo exhibition of Alexandros Vasmoulakis in the U.S, is presented at the Lebasse Projects, on Saturday the 20th of March 2010.

(text: Elli Paxinou)

Voodoo Queens

2010-03-10T21:32:00.001+02:00

Series of interventionist doodles for I Want You Magazine, by Nina Chakrabarti.

"Nina was born and spent her early life in Calcutta, India. She moved to the UK in her teens carrying her stamp collection under her arm and little else. She studied illustration at Central St. Martins, and many years later, at The Royal College of Art.

Her work is often concerned with collections and the composition of objects. She works using Rotring pens, felt tips, biros, pencils, inks and the Apple Macintosh. She enjoys using different technologies and mediums and collaborating with others when the opportunity arises."

Steve Aoki Live

2010-03-10T21:14:00.002+02:00

By Páll Roe at Nitsa Club, Barcelona, Spain.

Photo Quest VII

2010-03-08T21:24:00.002+02:00

"My zombie is a body for you" by Violeta Niebla from Málaga, Spain.

Photo Quest VI

2010-03-04T13:54:00.002+02:00

Steve Zeidler from Germany (personal site, flickr).

Photo Quest V

2010-03-03T16:11:00.002+02:00

David Montes from Andalucía.

Photo Quest IV

2010-03-03T09:27:00.001+02:00

Yağız Yılmaz from Turkey

Photo Quest III

2010-03-02T10:15:00.001+02:00

Simone Myers from USA.

Photo Quest II

2010-03-01T09:58:00.001+02:00

Hirotsugu Hori was born in Shizuoka in Japan in 1982. He know lives in Kyoto. (Personal site, flickr)

Photo Quest I

2010-02-28T23:35:00.003+02:00

I've been looking for new photographers lately and I decided to post some of my "findings" here.

I don't know the name of this photographer. I know that she is from Bucharest and that she has a flickr page full of great images under the name TrashFlash.

Face

2010-02-28T23:05:00.002+02:00

Illustration by Lefteris Koulonis.

Oded Ezer Typo

2010-02-24T11:23:00.002+02:00

“Ezer's work is emotional and powerful... his typographies are as exceptional in this field as they are outstanding, to say the least” Die Gestalten Verlag

This photo (by Casper Chan) is from a recent lecture that Oded Ezer gave at the London College of Communication. See more here.

Weekend dust

2010-02-22T11:56:00.002+02:00

Rio bridge in Patras, Greece last weekend. Photo by Spyros Bouboukas.

Conquinete

2010-02-21T21:36:00.002+02:00

I just bumped into Ana Cabaleiro's page on flickr... Amazing photography!

The letter e

2010-02-20T11:48:00.000+02:00

Amazing work by Amanda Alessandrine. I quote from her website:
"This is an experiment on wearable lettering. It started as a series of three day-glow and black tee-shirts, each with a slightly different pattern that becomes different highly visible letters when seen from a distance, providing that the wearer places his arms and body in a specific way. When wearing these tee shirts, a group of people can form a word, a sentence or a statement. Because a single person can mimic a whole set of letters, the message can change, from one movement to another."

I am living

2010-02-19T10:55:00.000+02:00

Part of the “I am living” poster series by Pazu Lee Ka Ling from China. Silver Medal at the 1st Chicago International Poster Biennial in 2008.

Indian girl

2010-02-18T23:50:00.002+02:00

A collaboration between supermodel Joni Harbeck and photographer Neil Krug for PULP art book (2009).

Adad Hannah's Eros and Aphrodite

2010-02-18T10:39:00.000+02:00

A detail of Adad Hannah's Eros and Aphrodite, one of the images displayed around Vancouver as part of "Endlessly Traversed Landscapes" a public poster project curated by Natalie Doonan, featuring works by Canadian artists placed in various locations throughout the city, during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Eros and Aphrodite is part of the "Prado Project".

223

2010-02-17T10:48:00.000+02:00

Lin Zhipeng (aka 223) is a photographer, curator and freelance writer based in Beijing. This photo is from the project Pet Conspiracy, for City Pictorial magazine, May '09. More of Lin's work here.

The Gigantic Robot

2010-02-16T17:46:00.002+02:00

By cartoonist, illustrator and Londoner Tom Gauld.

Are Friends Electric

2010-02-14T17:25:00.002+02:00

Pau Roig takes pictures of his close friends.

The right to free assembly & association

2010-02-13T23:48:00.000+02:00

Peter Crnokrak has studied quantitative genetics at the University of Toronto but now, his primary focus is data visualisation, with a particular interest in the intersection of visual semiotics and data analysis. I strongly recommend you to visit his website and have a look at his amazing work!

This poster is part of a "five poster series that addresses articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights dealing directly with rights of protest and free speech. Elemental circles are used to express the essence of each article through the contrast of a single graphite pencil coloured dot and standard black dots. The graphite dot represents different ideas for each poster: eg. freedom of personal expression for 'the right to free thought…' variant."

El Observante

2010-02-11T11:32:00.002+02:00

Photo by Elias de la Guardia from Spain (his site, his flickr)

Matthew Brindle

2010-02-04T00:47:00.002+02:00

Matthew Brindle shoots himself with lots of jam. Visit his flickr page to see more exiting portraits.

Look both ways

2010-02-04T00:30:00.002+02:00

Photo by Brazilian photographer André Bernardo.

Paper Record Player

2010-02-04T00:05:00.001+02:00

Fully working, manual record player made entirely of paper. To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a clockwise direction at a steady 33^1/3rpm. The paper cone then acts as a pickup, amplifying the sound enough to make it audible. (Record shown, The Sound of Music 1965). By Simon Elvins.

Beauty vs. Ugliness

2010-02-01T02:16:00.002+02:00

Beauty versus Ugliness is the title of g's exhibition for the Design Walk 2010 / Poles Apart. G is an Athens based creative studio by Michalis Georgiou and Alexandros Gavrilakis. See the work of g here or read more about the Design Walk here.

Brotherhood is a two way street

2010-01-31T15:04:00.002+02:00

Aix-en-Provence

2010-01-29T14:29:00.002+02:00

Photo by Stefano Marchionini (his site, his flickr).

Thousands of years old

2010-01-28T18:32:00.002+02:00

Nick Howard is an artist based in Minneapolis U.S.A. For his work he uses pens and ink, creating dark figures without a face, alien creatures with hairy tentacles, landscapes smothered in grass and portraits of ancient men. The vulnerability, darkness, beauty and humor that is entailed in being human, are the main concerns in Nick Howard’s art. The portrait Thousands of Years Old focuses on a detail of the human face, in order to comment on the importance of the passing of time and our obsession with beauty.

This work is going to be exhibited in Anarchy vs. Order, an exhibition curated by the design shop, part of the Design Walk 2010 / Poles Apart.

Design Walk 2010 / Poles Apart

2010-01-26T10:21:00.001+02:00

Since 2007 there has been a distinctive reason to come to Athens in February and wander around the historic center of the city: the Design Walk. Each year, graphic design studios open their doors to visitors, inviting them to follow a trail that brings them closer to the most functional and everyday applied art.

The walk takes place in the most vibrant area of the city next to the Acropolis, leading the visitors between cult shops and hip bars to discover works by award-winning graphic designers. For the 2010 walk, double-decker, the London-based curating agency, is challenging 13 Graphic Design Studios to create a piece of work inspired by the contradictions / oppositions with which every designer has to deal, and which arise from fundamental questions in design methodology. The resulting exhibition, POLES APART, will give a unique visual insight into the creative process – as well as its curious contradictions.

Participants: 3 in a Box, Bios, The Design Shop, Designpark, G, Geometry, I AM Design etc., Indyvisuals, Mums Design, Pi6, Poor Designers, Sereal Designers, The Switch Place Identity.

For more information visit the official Design Walk site of the Facebook Design Walk group.

Picture by Alexandros Gavrilakis during the press conference in Bios.

Richard Roche is trying to humanize graphic design

2010-01-25T11:07:00.001+02:00

Richard Roche is a graphic design student in Minnesota. As he admits, he is obsessed with design and anything related to it.

Jan Jablunka

2010-01-24T14:39:00.002+02:00

Photo of a snow-covered Europe by Czech photographer Jan Jablunka.

Berlin pixorama by Eboy

2010-01-21T10:36:00.011+02:00

Berlin pixorama by Eboy, found at Eye magazine's flickr page.

hey - étapes

2010-01-20T10:23:00.001+02:00

Hey is a graphic design studio in Barcelona. This is the cover they designed for the French/international design magazine étapes.

Tetris

2010-01-19T10:05:00.001+02:00

Tetris was (and is) my favourite game! Central Saint Martins MA student Matthew Nicholson has recreated it with post-it's. See the whole set here and his personal website here.

NYC November 2009

2010-01-18T10:24:00.001+02:00

Photo by Daniel Van Flymen.

Party with Madonna

2010-01-17T15:20:00.000+02:00

Photo of Madonna by New York photographer and illustrator Miguel Villalobos.

Face

2010-01-11T01:03:00.002+02:00

By Eamonn Harnett.

Victoria Tomaschko

2010-01-11T00:57:00.002+02:00

Photo by Victoria Tomaschko from Berlin.

Feliç 2010

2010-01-08T11:38:00.002+02:00

Happy new year from Jose Téllez.

Konsept83

2010-01-07T10:34:00.001+02:00

Cd cover for the music of Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, a play directed by Martha Frintzila. Designed by the Greek design studio Konsept83.

Tiny... bubbles.

2010-01-06T23:17:00.002+02:00

Ken tells his new BoyToy Toby that it's time to play 'Find the soap'...
Mariel Shannon plays with toys and she gives them new opportunities! More of her Toy Story here.

Talk less and scribble more

2010-01-06T23:00:00.002+02:00

It sounds like a new year's resolution. By Marc Johns.

This is a Jazz thing

2009-12-22T10:48:00.003+02:00

Joan Ventura is an art director that hates advertising but loves well done music!

First things first

2009-12-21T12:08:00.003+02:00

The First Things First, a 1964 designers' manifesto, was the inspiration for this poser by Brazilian designer Ana Paula Caldas.

Paul Smith - Hand Knitted Checked Tea Cosy

2009-12-19T11:34:00.000+02:00

It is a bit late to order your Christmas gifts but I just found this hand knitted tea cosy from Paul Smith on-line store.

"Blue and pink knitted checked tea cosy with a blue pom-pom made in Ireland, especially for Paul Smith. Each individual knitted item is unique as they are all knitted in different ways. Each tea cosy comes with a tag and is signed by the individual, it has been knitted by. 100% wool. Dry clean only."

Self critical poster

2009-12-18T17:53:00.002+02:00

By Jaclyne.

Past Life

2009-12-18T14:09:00.002+02:00

Illustration by Brett Manning from Chicago. Check out her beautiful work here (flickr) of here (website)

D

2009-12-17T16:26:00.002+02:00

It is my name day today and I'll celebrate it with a nice letter D from 1882. Found at {javi.

Astrid Stavro

2009-12-16T16:10:00.000+02:00

Spines of the Backlist classics collection, designed by Astrid Stavro, from Barcelona.

Reed + Rader for Spiral.

2009-12-13T10:52:00.000+02:00

I have posted work by Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader before. This is one of the new Augmented Reality Avatars gifs, they created for Spiral Mag. Seen on Today and Tomorrow.

End of the year kind of mood IV

2009-12-12T17:12:00.002+02:00

Photo by Alexandra Mowbray (flickr, blog).

End of the year kind of mood III

2009-12-11T11:03:00.001+02:00

Photo by Quinnford + Scout from Ireland.

End of the year kind of mood II

2009-12-10T19:46:00.002+02:00

Photo by Vanessa Devine from Brooklyn.

End of the year kind of mood I

2009-12-10T19:43:00.002+02:00

Photo by gotz.aleksei.

Who Shot Rock & Roll

2009-12-08T10:27:00.022+02:00

This picture of Mick Jagger was taken in Philadelphia in 1982 by the British photographer Michael Putland, and is part of the exhibition "Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present", curated by Gail Buckland, currently at the Brooklyn Museum.

"Michael Putland was the official photographer on some of the Rolling Stones’ U.S. and European tours. He had access granted no other photographer and was able to stay in the 'pit' for entire concerts while the other photographers were asked to leave after the first three songs. Putland laments the lack of discrimination in the press today when it comes to celebrity portraiture. 'There is no premium for quality,' he says. 'I love photography, not the nonsense'."

Vicky Stevenson

2009-12-07T10:18:00.001+02:00

Vicky Stevenson is an illustrator and photographer from England. You can see her beautiful work on flickr or buy the stuff she makes on Etsy.

Let's dance

2009-12-06T12:12:00.010+02:00

Posters by Quim Marin from Barcelona.

Morning, sunshine.

2009-12-05T12:36:00.002+02:00

Photo by Jenna Carver from Portland, Oregon.

Michelle Kathleen Anderson

2009-12-05T12:10:00.002+02:00

Photo by American photographer Michelle Kathleen Anderson.

Tom Hoops

2009-12-03T01:27:00.002+02:00

M, originally uploaded by tom.hoops.

Photo by Tom Hoops.

Diary 2010

2009-12-02T12:46:00.005+02:00

The Athens based design agency "the design shop" has just released a diary for 2010 with the title "Journeys in Time". For every month, a different destination is suggested. From Turkey to New Zealand and from Brazil to Cape Verde. The diary is designed by "the design shop" in collaboration with Konstantinos Trichas. Design wise, the diary is purely typographic. The typeface used is called Neutraface in its Greek edition by Cannibal Fonts. If you want to order the diary you can send an email here.

The white rabbit

2009-12-01T10:06:00.002+02:00

I was reading PAN-DAN, a very nice blog about contemporary design, and I found this rabbit, designed by Studio-Re-Creation.

"'The White (Jack) Rabbit ' is not 'cute', it is all knowing naughty, courageous and tricky. The enlarged hare represents an alternative Alice in Wonderland 'follow the white rabbit' journey. Materials: Pieces of old wooden furniture connected together by screws (baby beds and chairs)."

Studio-Re-Creation, run by Nikola Nikolov in the Netherlands, is a studio that does more than re-cycle or re-use materials, but it helps to preserve belongings and memories that would otherwise be neglected or thrown away.

La chambre de Katharina.

2009-12-01T00:10:00.002+02:00

Photo by Alejandro Sotobosques from Santiago de Chile.

I married an archaeologist

2009-11-30T15:22:00.003+02:00

Part of a very interesting posters series by Stéphane Massa-Bidal.

Olly Moss

2009-11-30T10:27:00.000+02:00

Illustration for t-shirt by Olly Moss.

Donatien Veismann

2009-11-29T21:01:00.002+02:00

Photo by French photographer Donatien Veismann.

Nollywood

2009-11-27T10:12:00.000+02:00

"Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976; lives in Cape Town) is one of the most representative photographers of his generation. With great capacity of penetration, his works explore the most striking contradictions of African societies, together with certain peripheral aspects which are nonetheless dense in meaning. For the production of his Nollywood series, with its large size pictures, the artist frequented in 2008 and 2009 the sets of the Nigerian film industry. With an eye that is at once detached from but in dialogue with the subjects of his portraits – with whom he always builds up relationships of mutual awareness – Hugo is fascinated by the borderline situations he identifies on his trips throughout Africa.

Nollywood is said to be the third largest film industry in the world, releasing onto the home video market approximately 1 000 movies each year. Such abundance is possible since films are realized in conditions that would make most of the western independent directors cringe. Movies are produced and marketed in the space of a week: low cost equipment, very basic scripts, actors cast the day of the shooting, 'real life' locations. Despite the improvised production process, they continue to fascinate audiences."

Hugo exhibits at the e x t r a s p a z i o gallery, Rome, from 25th Nov 2009 to 9th Jan 2010.

This image: Obechukwu Nwoye. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008

Indian summer

2009-11-26T20:59:00.002+02:00

Photo by Alba Yruela Xifró, a Spanish photographer in London.

Domestic Poetry

2009-11-26T10:12:00.001+02:00

By +fatman+ from Tokyo.

Dormido

2009-11-25T23:35:00.002+02:00

Constanza Giuliani is an Argentinian artist. Her work is expressive and global.

Two headbands at once

2009-11-25T08:58:00.002+02:00

A new illustration by Canadian Marc Johns. See more here and there.

Nick Howard

2009-11-24T13:20:00.002+02:00

Illustration by Nick Howard.