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Monday Motivation: Gemma Correll

Anastasia — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:45 +0000

Gemma Correll creates some of the cutest illustrations, but I am especially into these letters. They are too much! The cuteness and colors are so good. You definitely need to take a look at her Flickr stream. In addition to a portfolio of her work, she also gives a tour of her studio space & it’s always fun to see another creative person’s work space.

You can view her adorable etsy shop here & her official website.

Monday Motivation: Greno

Anastasia — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:08:30 +0000

I love these paintings by Minjae Lee (aka Greno), an artist based in South Korea. I think what makes these is the collage look combined with hand drawn details. I didn’t realize they were all paintings until I read more about them. Lovely work! It definitely motivates me to try out some hand drawn/collage styles in my designs at work.

You can download quite a few of his pieces in larger formats here at wallpaperart.org to use as your desktop background.

Designer Spotlight: Elizaveta & Ekaterina

Anastasia — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:20:21 +0000

How great are these spreads by Elizaveta & Ekaterina Solomeina? The colors, layout & type are lookin’ sharp and make me want to read everything on the page. This is a perfect example of effective information design. Check out more photos of this project at http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Break-fast-news/276436.

Designer Spotlight: Chris Brett

Anastasia — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:48:19 +0000

I found these super cool painted spray paint cans by Chris Brett while bumming around one morning on Behance. I love his style, the colors and the presentation. Everything about these are great & think they’d look amazing all lined up on a shelf just hanging out.

Designer Spotlight: Alberto Cerriteño

Anastasia — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:55:43 +0000

Alberto Cerriteño is an extremely talented designer, illustrator & painter living in Portland. I came across his work while doing random searches on Flickr and I was blown away. The color combination he uses is amazing and his style is like nothing I’ve seen before.

I love that a lot of his work is created just by using coffee & ink, like these two above. I had a hard time choosing which pieces of his work to use in this post because they were all so nice. I suggest visitng his Flickr page & Esty shop, which has some very reasonably priced prints, just to check out all his work.

Designer Spotlight: Illustrator Andy Smith

Anastasia — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:52:43 +0000

This silk screened book by Andy Smith is so great. I love his style which is just so extremely fun and bright! You can buy the book on his website here.

Chip Kidd & Artbreak

Anastasia — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:38 +0000

I found these Chip Kidd videos over at pikaland & I had to share. I was first introduced to Chip Kidd by one of my design professors, Todd Duren.

He passed around Chip’s book, The Cheese Monkeys and put some of his book covers up on the projection screen and I was instantly into them. It was neat because I had seen a lot of his cover designs at bookstores and was always drawn to them, but didn’t realize they were all by the same guy.

Anyway, apparently Chip has started a band and that’s what these videos are about. I think the song is pretty good, I love his voice and I couldn’t help but smile while watching him bounce around in the video. The first video will introduce you to Chip Kidd the designer & the second video is his song “Asymmetrical Girl”.