Alberto “Sting” Russo A.K.A. AreaDesign Creative Communications is both a Graphic Designer and Graffiti artist working out of Lausanne, Switzerland. Russo founded his studio back in 2000 and has quite a portfolio to show for it. The main drive is graphic design mixed with illustration, type treatments, and photography. Russo works with a wide range of industries and medias, from street art to corporations, and does it in a way that sets him way apart from the rest.
28-year-old American artist Cody Hoyt works and plays out of the South. Sarasota, Florida to be exact. Hoyt favors the use of silk screening, but also uses gouache, colored pencil, etching, acrylic, enamel, and photo lithograph and anything else he can think of. He has a wonderful collection chock full of album art, prints, drawings, posters and T-Shirts. His prints and drawings remind us of explosions coming to life on a simple piece of paper. Many of these works have already been on display at exhibitions in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. We’re sure they’ll make it to many more. Read the rest of this entry »
German visual artist Sebastian Onufszak focuses mainly on vibrant print projects, engaging interactive media and swirling motion graphics. Since 2002 he has been working as an art director and freelancer for an international range of high-end clients, such as, SonyEricsson, Mercedes, Congstar, Red Bull, & Jeep. His own creation/portfolio, In Graphics We Trust, is true display of this man’s talent. Many projects include different type styles dancing along side an immense amount of photographs and repeated graphics in an array of gorgeous colors that bounce at your face. Much of this work is featured in numerous publications and exhibitions worldwide. Currently he is living in Duesseldorf, Germany and working for Parasol Island, an animation and design studio.
Elaborately staged photographs and breathtaking panoramic portraits are the specialty of Spanish photographer of Eugenio Recuenco. The elaborate set work in his work references golden era film making and classical painting, but has the high quality production value of modern image making. Be sure to dig through this ginormous collection, you will be happy that you had a look at every last picture. Read the rest of this entry »
Vault49 is a collaboration between Jonathan Kenyon and John Glasgow that they launched during their final year at the London College of Printing in 2002. They quickly emerged as one of the UK’s leading and most innovative design teams with a broad portfolio of typography, illustration, photography, and art direction. After their relocation to New York City in 2004, the vault team continued to rack up their list of international clients including Samsung, Pepsi, MTV, Virgin Atlantic, and the New York Times. This multi-award-winning studio regularly exhibits their unique brand of design in solo and joint exhibitions between New York and London. Their 2006 exhibition entitled the “Greatest Show On Earth” was widely acclaimed in the international design press and also received on-air by BBC radio.
Acidtwist is a showcase for works by Tavish. He currently goes back and forth between San Francisco and Montreal, but grew up and spent much time in Central Canada. His cultural background includes both Scotland and Taiwan, an unusual combo that may explain edgy exploration of not quite asian yet not quite european characters that feel vaguely related to anime and ride that NSFW line straight to the edge without quite going over. This has garnered him recognition from The Art Directors Club and Print Magazine, among others (apparently japanese school girls have a global appeal, whoda thunk?). Tavish was also profiled in Illustration Now published by Taschen.
Several of his recent paintings feature a green-haired heroine named Lichen. She was invented specifically for an ongoing series exploring the modern concept of the character, a product of our overtly commercial times. Read the rest of this entry »
JPG Magazine (pronounced jay-peg) is a magazine, website, and community all in one beautiful, 6 issue a year package. This is definitely something for people who are into taking pictures on the whim with amazing, haphazard results. Anyone can join and upload photos and stories to their own member page or submit your work for a chance to be printed up in the next issue. How exactly do you get chosen? By a winning vote, of course, and yes, you can vote for yourself, but only once, please!
Check out their Where to Buy page for a US store in your area that carries this awesome mag. If you’d rather just have it sent to your home Click here and get your subscription.
As the official start of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, kicks into gear what better way to celebrate than taking a journey through a wonderful interactive display of the evolution of the dear Olympic torch, thanks to the The New York Times. Scroll over the handy little torch timeline to learn a few things about materials used and what city each one was a part of. Click here for the timeline.
Back when we discovered Psdtuts.com, we knew this was an idea that had legs. They’ve been so successful in fact, that they’ve started sister site Vectortuts.com for Illustrator (vector based) Tutorials. Vectortuts.com offers the same straight-forward and easy to understand directions to achieve a variety professional effects. If you’re ready to make the leap from casual computer artist to creative pro, or you’re an old hat that likes to learn new tricks, this is definitely something you want to check out.
We [blink] is a system to design patterns on store front windows that react to people passing by and then transmits their graphical representation to other windows around the world. This is an interesting and futuristic idea that could add interactivity to store fronts. Click here to check out the official site of the we [blink]’s creators: Sigma6. Read the rest of this entry »
28-year-old American artist 
