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Ukrainian graphic designer Vladimir Zholud recently presented his conceptual exhibition "Design Sphere" were he created an awesome set of visual commemorations made for key persons of design history.
Харьковский графический дизайнер Владимир Жолудь совсем недавно открыл проект "Design Sphere", который будет представлен на нескольких выставках и биеннале. Суть проекта - визуальное посвящение ключевым персонам истории дизайна.
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Awesome Lyon based artist talent juxtapose two disciplines of paper art and visual design leaving the kicking results with great colour and composition.
Потрясающий дизайнер из Лиона соединяет в своих работах бумагопластику и графический дизайн, достигая первоклассных результатов.
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We ♥ Hi Studio for kicking off the Designcollector sponsorship.
Prague based Hi Studio performing well on visual communications releasing very bright illustrative solutions for advertising needs. Along with commercial illustration Hi Studio creates identities and print and online solutions for their customers.
Наш новый спонсор - пражская дизайн студия Hi Studio достойна пристального внимания публики за свои красочные визуальные решения, основанные на иллюстрациях талантливых художников и дизайнеров. Hi Studio, как и любая уважающая себя студия, разрабатывает айдентику, печатные материалы и веб-сайты, как для российских, так и для европейских клиентов.
Nike Video from Sergey Senchik on Vimeo.
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We have also posted about the Brasilia 50th anniversary a few weeks ago but just to give you a little background: In 1956, Juscelino Kubitschek - the president back then - started a plan to build a new city for Brazil's government. With the goal to plan and execute the construction were Oscar Niemeyer, the mind who would give forms and curves to official buildings, and Lucio Costa, the man with the 'airplane shape' urbanist plan. And incredibly, in only 4 years, the city was inaugurated. Many buildings were only skeletons, but the candangos (name of the first inhabitants of the new city), were celebrating the new political city in Brazil.
Now let's take a look at some posters from the "Brasilia Dice 50. Poster Design !". For more information and to see all the posters visit http://www.brasiliaprima.com.ar/brasiliadice50.html
Via Brasilia Prima.
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Gui Borchert is currently a Creative Director at at Syrup New York where he has been for the past year and a half. Before landing there he worked at Mother New York for two years and also did a 4 year stint at R/GA. I remember a very very long time ago when I occasionally blogged for Design is Kinky, Gui came on board and also posted a link or two from time to time. He has come a long way since and his recent campaign for Puma got me really excited for the upcoming 2010 World Cup.
I have been shopping lately for a new Brazilian jersey and haven’t purchased one yet (my wife is Brazilian and not rooting for Brazil would mean a beheading at the hands of her and my inlaws). I get one during every World Cup but keep forgetting it is only a few weeks off. My DVR is gonna be full up here soon and I will be putting on at least 5 pounds of beer weight at a minimum.
So Gui, next time I finally get up to New York (hopefully for project work) I am buying you a Harp and we can rock our jerseys together. Joga bonito!
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“Born in Tokyo in 1931. After graduation from Tokyo University of Education, joined Ajinomoto in 1956. Went freelance in 1961. In addition to engaging in the full spectrum of graphic design, served as art director of the Japan World Exposition in Osaka (1970), International Ocean Exposition in Okinawa (1975), and International Exposition of Science and Technology in Tsukuba (1985). Also created the symbol for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka (1990). Pioneered new forms of communicative expression enabled by new technologies. Professor Emeritus at Musashino Art University and Director of Chameleon Project. Member of Board of Directors of JAGDA and of Japan Display Association. Member of Tokyo ADC and AGI. Recipient of numerous awards, including: Tokyo ADC Members Award, Mainichi Design Award, Kodansha Publishing Cultural Award, Katzumie Masaru Award, Minister of Education Art Incentive Award, Japanese Government Medal with Purple Ribbon, N.Y. ADC Gold Prize, Gold Prize at Lahti International Poster Biennial, Gold Prize at Brno Biennial of Book Design, Grand Prix at Poster Biennial of Mexico, and Gold Prize at Warsaw International Poster Biennial.”
Mitsuo Katsui was a true master of graphic design. His entire body of work is incredibly inspiring. I suggest taking your time while combing through his site.
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Finnish designer Johannes Ekholm presents his portfolio in a super simple no BS kind of way and in a simple no BS kind of way he is a very good graphic designer and art director. He’s represented by Pekka Finland.
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Talented graphic designer based in Moscow showcases nice set of identities and artworks.
Талантливый мистер Голев работает графическим дизайнером и создает очень четкие образы для айдентики, и приятные визуальные решения для корпоративных клиентов.
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I recently watched a video clip of the Oasis guitarist, Noel Gallagher, talking about "his favourite world cup moments", writes Michael Johnson. Somewhat surprisingly, his first thoughts about the 1978 tournament were about the logo...
Having admitted that he could barely remember 1974's tournament, he then proceeded to analyse, in forensic detail, the Argentinian finals four years later. Now you might have expected chatter about great goals, flowing hair, the tightness of Mario Kempes' shorts, military juntas, ticker tape celebrations, sinking the Belgrano, and all that. And they all came up (well, maybe not all of them). But before any of that, his first comment about this world cup? He really loved the logo.
I looked it up. There it is, above. It does have a sort of clear, simple charm. You can see how it would leave an impression on a football mad 11 year old Mancunian (although the colour match to the strip of his beloved Manchester City is a bit of a give away). But seeing the compelling, clunky logic of a design from 30 years ago compels you to Google-image a few more.
So what do we get? Well, we're about to see a lot more of this one – straight out of brushstroke central, to be parked straight back there once its lease has expired. But at least you could say it's marginally better than this shocker from the last tournament.
If you look back, it's amazing how few you remember. Mexico has had two goes at it and neither fare so well. For the older of the pair, they obviously had some Letraset left over from Lance Wyman's Olympics scheme of two years earlier.
The 1966 date might be ingrained on English memories (the one and only victory) but few will remember this badge.
Parked over in a pile marked ‘completely generic and instantly forgettable' are ones like these – Germany '74 and France '98. That's WM for ‘weltmeisterschaft', in case you were wondering.
I always quite liked Woody Pirtle's mark for USA ‘94 (clever mix of balls, stars and stripes)...
...but always suspected someone else put this type on when Woody went out to lunch, or when he wasn't looking.
Perhaps grudging respect should go to Spain's offering from 1982. Movement? Flag? Ball? It could have been worse.
Oddly, and again perhaps because of relative English success/tragedy (semi-finals, Gazza, tears, penalities, more tears, etc) the Italia '90 mark and its mascot feel as though someone cared, a least a little.
I can only presume that the 2002 design for Korea and Japan is meant to be some sort of vague reference to the re-designed Jules Rimet trophy, since this motif crops up again in the last German and now South African marks as well...
...hence exacerbating the recent whole less-is-a-bore, I'll-go-for-more aesthetic that pervades the designs for most modern sports tournaments and Olympiads.
But now for the good news. The weird wiggly person plus ball thing? It's been dropped for the next tournament. 1-0. And the tournament is in Brazil. 2-0. You know, five-time winners and everyone's second favourite team. Game over.
The bad news? The logo looks like this.
Sigh.
How is it that ‘the beautiful game' never gets a beautiful logo?
This article originally appeared on Michael Johnson's Thought for the Week blog. Reposted with permission.
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