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By tind.

Trapped in Suburbia

 

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

Dazed Revolter

Poster by Dazed Revolter from Berlin.

Elżbieta Chojna

Elżbieta Chojna is a great graphic designer from Warsaw.

Brasil em cartaz

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.

Beetroot did it again

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.

Pearlfisher for Waitrose

 

Excellent work for Waitrose products by Pearlfisher.

Ten Images for Ithaca 2010

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.

Oded Ezer Typo

“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.

The letter e

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

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.

The right to free assembly & association

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."

Beauty vs. Ugliness

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

Designed by Lucas Lima from Brazil.

Design Walk 2010 / Poles Apart

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

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

hey - étapes

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

Tetris

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.

Feliç 2010

Happy new year from Jose Téllez.

Konsept83

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