Sunday, 20 December 2009

Monsieur Qui

Monsieur Qui

A French illustrator who loves cats, dogs, handmade works, brass bands and pastes up big posters among the streets of Paris.

Monsieur Qui's style has a hint of works I remember as a child; while pouring through my parent's collection of design magazines.

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Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Pablo Alfieri

Pablo Alfieri

A varied selection of new works to view - the strong abstract geometric pieces really stand out to me.

Pablo Alfieri previously posted here...

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Thursday, 25 June 2009

Serial Cut

Serial Cut

A new site design is up which forms an elegant backdrop to some nice new projects.

Serial Cut previously posted here...

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Sunday, 26 April 2009

Natzke

Natzke

Eric Natzke continues to push his generative art in an ever more unique direction and to blur the lines between design and technology.

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Saturday, 21 February 2009

Justine Ashbee

Justine Ashbee

Stunning undulating abstract compositions - especially as they are drawn by hand.

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Friday, 20 February 2009

Words Are Pictures

Words Are Pictures

Some really beautiful typographically led design work in this highly polished portfolio.

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Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Just My Type

Just My Type

A couple of really nice vector Illustrator fonts available for free download. Created by Jacob Nylund from Form Conspiracy.

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Thursday, 12 February 2009

Space

Space

A preview of part of one of Joshua Davis's presentations on the theme of 'Space' - some 'lovely to watch' generative experiments using bezier curves.

Think this has been around for a little while, although I have only just come across it.

Joshua Davis previously posted here...

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Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Chaotic Site

Chaotic Site

Long overdue update to the Chaotic site - including a re-skin, lots of new images and the addition of the brand new Projects Blog...

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Thursday, 15 January 2009

Ludo

Ludo

Natures Revenge - intriguing 3D paste-ups and exterior installations.

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Victor Timofeev

Victor Timofeev

Interesting hand-rendered abstract compositions - some display an elegant minimalism of line while others are bold and powerful.

With Limited Means - Victor's latest work, is on display at the Hannah Barry Gallery for the next few weeks...

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Friday, 12 December 2008

Sumeco

Sumeco

New 2007-2008 portfolio. I am especially loving the Study Reel - for first motion experiments it's very impressive :-)

Sumeco previously posted here...

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Thursday, 11 December 2008

Serial Cut

Serial Cut

New updates added to their portfolio - some lovely new work on show!

Serial Cut previously posted here...

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Monday, 8 December 2008

Carl Kleiner

Carl Kleiner

I love these vivid geometric paper collages - simple but so effective...

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Saturday, 6 December 2008

Joker Transcend Drawings

Joker Transcend Drawings

Some of the images in this Flickr set are so elegant in their construction, being comprised of only a few well-placed lines.

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Thursday, 4 December 2008

StolenSpace Group Show

StolenSpace Group Show

The StolenSpace Christmas group show will be literally filled to the brim with new works from over 30 represented artists, plus a few new faces as a small taster of what is to come in 2009. Doors open tonight until the 21st December.

I saw them setting up yesterday - looks like it'll be a good one.

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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Mutate Britain

Mutate Britain

Got a sneaky peak of the Mutate Britain show - seriously impressive line-up and some stunning work. Really looking forward to the private view tomorrow, opens from Friday...

Update - A quick Flickr search reveals plenty of photos from the show.

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Saturday, 15 November 2008

Insa Heels Hotel Shoot

Insa Heels Hotel Shoot

Brilliant photo shoot for Insa Heels by the talented Dead Dead Dead.

I can't deny that I'll always be 'slightly' biased towards pictures of cute girls in nice underwear and good high heels!

Insa Heels previously posted here...

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Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Ion Paper Collages

Ion Paper Collages

Amazing collages by Are Mokkelbost.

Although some of the more complex images are truly stunning in their depth, I am personally drawn to the more simplistic crystalline designs.

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Meggs

Meggs

Meggs has evolved his skills in painting, illustration and screen printing to further explore notions of good and evil in his street based characters and more conceptual and multi-layered gallery work.

See more images that aren't on the site on Meggs's Flickr set.

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Monday, 3 November 2008

Aaron Noble

Aaron Noble

Inspired by comic book imagery, Aaron Noble's paintings incorporate superhero body parts morphed, stretched, and free floating in a 'negative space' landscape.

Always wondered who had done the amazing mural next to the Red Lion on Hoxton Street - guess now I know :-)

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Friday, 31 October 2008

Concept Ships

Insa Heels

Massive resource of high quality concept art, focused primarily on spaceships and experimental aircraft. A fantastic selection of artistic styles and hundreds of links to artist sites.

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Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Insa Heels

Insa Heels

Well-known graffiti artist Insa has just gone into production with a delectable range of ladies high heels. These were first seen as hand-customised originals displayed at some of his earlier shows.

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Monday, 15 September 2008

Homeworld 2 Concept Art

Homeworld 2 Concept Art

Stumbled across this collection of concept illustrations for the old game Homeworld 2 (heavily inspired by the legendary Chris Foss). How some of the marker renders convey so loosely the structure and texture of the ships is amazing.

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Monday, 8 September 2008

Rubens LP

Rubens LP

Vivid colours and a beautiful illustrative style make Ruben's work really stand out.

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Terratag

Terratag

Updates at Terratag include these Supa Mega Pop Terra A2 posters and a T-shirt collaboration with Duster 132 (unfortunately due to the structure of the site I can't link directly to the content).

Terratag previously posted here and Duster 132 previously posted here.

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Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Delaunay Raster

Delaunay Raster

Jonathan Puckeye and Jürg Lehni's stunning image treatment that utilises image vectorisation and colour averaging. Amazing output considering its simplicity.

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Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Hajime Sorayama

Hajime Sorayama

For me, this man defined 80's airbrush chic and holds the title 'Creator of the Sexy Robot'. The quality of his work is truly outstanding - especially when you consider that everything was done by hand.

There's a lot of other beautiful artwork on display, but be aware that most of it is far from 'work safe' ;-).

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Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Ndeur

Ndeur

There's some really nice illustration work in here, but I particularly love Ndeur's gorgeously customised high heels. If you're tempted to surprise the lady in your life, have a look in his Etsy shop.

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Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Qube Konstrukt

Qube Konstrukt

Great portfolio, especially some of the motion graphics - which can be viewed in their current showreel. I particularly like this bit of model making for the Next Wave Festival, it's nice to see people successfully combining traditional and digital skills.

They also have a self-published book called Consort that is available here - I have ordered myself a copy =)

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Monday, 21 July 2008

Pablo Alfieri

Pablo Alfieri

Nice site with some great new work. I originally posted Pablo's Flickr set back in February and it looks like he's been pretty busy since then.

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Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Jordi Ferreiro

Jordi Ferreiro

Unusual illustrations and installations, comprised of vividly coloured geometric shapes.

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Matei Apostolescu

Matei Apostolescu

A very diverse portfolio... there are some beautiful illustrations in there, have a dig around.

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Curt Blog

Curt Blog

Discovered this blog - I hope they add to it regularly.

I posted their showreel some time ago, but they've updated their site and it's well worth another look.

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Friday, 20 June 2008

Ronzo

Ronzo

My friend Ronzo is having his first UK solo show at Stolen Space from June 19th - July 6th. He's a very talented man and it should be well worth a visit.

Update - The show was a great success and is now open to the public. All the work on display can also be viewed on the StolenSpace website.

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Friday, 13 June 2008

Terratag

Terratag

Haven't been here in ages - great Manga-style illustrations, canvasses and t-shirts. Terratag's comprehensive Flickr sets are well worth a look through too.

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Thursday, 12 June 2008

Julien Valleé

Julien Valleé

Awesome handmade graphic sculptures and stylish motion graphics. The site is full of lovely work, especially the Globo Logos and Black & White projects.

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Friday, 6 June 2008

Solar System

Solar System

I've just discover that my old friends over at Your Majesty have created this stunning iGoogle theme. I am currently using it ;-)

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Duster 132

Duster 132

Inspiring Flickr set of 'Mech style' character designs, paste-ups and graffiti. Many of the illustrations portray lighting and texture beautifully...

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Friday, 2 May 2008

Engrave Your Book

Engrave Your Book

Laser engraved moleskins - great for personalising your own ideas book or as a gift for that creative friend of yours. There are some lovely designs already available, but if they're not to your taste you can always create your own (which I might well have a go at).

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Monday, 28 April 2008

The Cans Festival

The Cans Festival

A street party of stencil art. Many famous names taking part on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of May - exact location to be confirmed. If you are in London I imagine this will be well worth a look.

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Ascend

Ascend

Some elegantly composed abstracts in the portfolio of Ari Weinkle.

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Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Inck

Inck

Gorgeous mixed media canvasses and sketches with an interesting 3D and graffiti slant...

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Saturday, 19 April 2008

Sean Freeman

Sean Freeman

Dynamic portfolio with some outstanding semi-photographic type treatments.

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Thursday, 3 April 2008

Damian Czarnota

Damian Czarnota

There are a couple of really impressive illustrations in this straight forward portfolio site.

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Wednesday, 2 April 2008

Maxim Zhestkov

Maxim Zhestkov

Amazingly detailed and highly emotive monochrome 3D work. Maxim's Flickr photos are well worth a look too.

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Friday, 14 March 2008

Welcome To Cloud

Welcome To Cloud

The portfolio of Pierre Nguyen. Some striking 80's inspired abstract illustration and font design.

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Wednesday, 12 March 2008

I Love Dust

I Love Dust

Extensive portfolio with some lovely work. I just love watching their animated logo build on the start page!

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Silencio

Silencio

Átila Meireles's elegant portfolio site has a refreshingly humorous start page and contains some compelling abstract images.

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Wednesday, 6 February 2008

Patrick Nagel

Patrick Nagel

One of the greats, who encapsulated 80's chic through his stylistic illustration. The site is not impressive (I look forward to them completing the redesign of the gallery section), but there's some good examples of his work to be found.

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Nodebox

Nodebox

2D generative art program for OS X, that outputs to PDF. There are a few nice scripting examples in the gallery to get started with.

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Friday, 25 January 2008

The Royal Magazine

The Royal Magazine

The Royal Magazine is the private journal of The KDU. The publication focuses on collisions, culture and capitalism and is packed with fantastic imagery.

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Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Xtrabold - Nelson Balaban

Xtrabold

Strikingly detailed abstract illustration and experiments, demonstrating a deep understanding of colour and composition.

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Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Théo Gènnitsakis

Théo Gènnitsakis

Solid portfolio with some great illustration, I believe he used to work with my old business partner Anthony Kyriazis (Onyro).

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Okadada

Okadada

Fluid, script-driven, illustrative abstractions... quite mesmerising.

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Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Glam - Adrien Donot

Glam

Diverse portfolio with some stunning imagery and detailed illustration.

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Sunday, 13 January 2008

iLK - Ludovic Prigent

iLK

Great illustration, web design and some really nice graffiti too...

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Thursday, 10 January 2008

Serious Situations

Serious Situations

Some lovely abstract illustrations, especially the ones with the strong 80's theme.

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Delta

Delta

The grand master of constructivist graffiti has updated his site with some lovely new work and photos.

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Mato Atom

Mato Atom

Visually stunning and stylistically varied examples from the portfolio of Mato Atom.

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Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis

My old friend and work colleague has a newer lo-fi site up, full of Flash-driven abstract loveliness.

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Sunday, 6 January 2008

Other - Jozias Dawson

Other - Jozias Dawson

Lovely randomly generated 80's inspired graphics form the backdrop for this slick, elegant and fun to use portfolio site.

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Friday, 4 January 2008

Victor Taba

Victor Taba

Music and animation mix randomly on a stage of visual and aural stimulation.

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Sunday, 30 December 2007

Sumeco

Sumeco

Some lovely abstract experiments, illustrations and typographical treatments.

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Hotbox Designs

Hotbox Designs

Beautiful, big-eyed, manga-inspired paintings and sculpture by Sas and Colin Christian.

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Monday, 12 November 2007

Yeah! Reel

Yeah! Reel

New Serial Cut showreel, and it's extremely slick! Motion graphics by the ultra talented Tavo.

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Superdeux

Monaux

Long standing portfolio with a bold cartoon style and some really 'cute' character designs...

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Tuesday, 6 November 2007

Monaux

Monaux

Lovely, highly detailed portfolio from artist/illustrator/designer Karl Kwasny.

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Nathan Flood

Nathan Flood

Good to see this portfolio back online, extremely high quality work and Nathan's been around for about as long as I have - one of the original digital abstractionists!

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Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Colin Lee

Colin Lee

Some lovely illustrations, the filigree on the Dolce & Gabbana work is stunning (I prefer the pre-inked, hand drawn version) and the stark elegance of the paper abstractions makes me think I should do some of those myself.

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Monday, 8 October 2007

Rmax and Marconi for MTV

Guilherme Marconi

Nice spot for MTV, utilising the combined skills of Rmax Studio and Guilherme Marconi.

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Alan Watts vs Southpark

Alan Watts

Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of Southpark notoriety), bring to life a couple of examples of the teachings of Alan Watts, the comparative religion expert and philosopher.

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Friday, 5 October 2007

Mulheres Barbadas

Mulheres Barbadas

Crazy, detailed, freaky illustrations...

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Peeta

Peeta

Lovely examples of wildstyle abstraction and convincing pseudo-3D.

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Guilherme Marconi

Guilherme Marconi

Intricately detailed illustrations from the portfolio of Guilherme Marconi.

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Thursday, 27 September 2007

The Box Doodle Project

The Box Doodle Project

The rules are quite simple: rearrange a box to make any kind of figure or object. Make the most of least ;)

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Friday, 21 September 2007

The Leftovers

Christian Jehle

The combined portfolios of Eric Sin and David Garvin. Nice!

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Christian Jehle

Christian Jehle

Stylish portfolio with some lovely abstract images. Great use of colour and texture helps to enhance and compliment the compositions.

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Thursday, 20 September 2007

Aeform

Aeform

There are some nice images in here, but what I really love are the glowing molecular forms on the homepage, they're randomly generated and totally mesmerising - would make a lovely screensaver.

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Tuesday, 18 September 2007

Mr. Gorman 2007 Reel

Mr. Gorman

Nice snappy reel with some good hybrid 2D/3D compositions.

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Friday, 14 September 2007

Serious Situations

Serious Situations

Interesting portfolio covering many diverse design styles. The newly added work is well worth a look.

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Wednesday, 12 September 2007

Love Everyday

Love Everyday

Very elegant print portfolio, I particularly like the 'No Lemon, No Melon' font and the filigree on the Be Events identity.

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V2KD Issue 04

V2KD Issue 04

Clean site with a nice selection of vector and pixel based abstracts. The previous three issues are worth a quick look too, but it's a shame you can't enlarge the images.

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Area 105

Area 105

Unusually beautiful fire effect, there's a mini-tutorial explaining the technique too!

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Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Alex Trochut

Alex Trochut

Great minimal portfolio site, which comprises a varied portfolio with some stunning examples of illustrative typography. I particularly like the way the navigation works once a few of the entries are open, it's so simple and intuitive.

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Coke Side of Life Remix

Coke Side Of Life Remix

An exhibition gathering loads of posters made online by artists everywhere. Have a look, or make your own...

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Computational Drawings

Computational Drawings

David Lu writes software to help create drawings. Not purely generative, but requiring some gestural human input, some of the finished pieces are very delicate and well balanced.

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Laser Etched Macbook Pro

Laser Etched Macbook Pro

I want to do something like this to mine!

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Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Tomasz Miazga

Tomasz Miazga

Nice simple portfolio site with some lovely cartoon illustrations. Not 100% work safe ;-)

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