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Pantone Calendar 2011To start the year in color, here is a super visual calendar designed by British graphic designer Derek Bowers, for the 2011 Pantone calendar. The color wheel contains a mosaic of 1440 graphic images with visual and cultural references.
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Scent Stories by Ah&Oh StudioHow amazing are these perfume packages?! Inspired by dark literature and distinctive, strong characters, the Scent Stories by Polish Studio Ah&Oh is unfortunately only a concept, but definitely a great one! “Never judge a book by its cover” or “Never judge a perfume by its bottle”.
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Neil Kellerhouse Movie PostersProfession: Graphic Designer, specialty: Movie posters. And he’s good at it! The talented Los Angeles based designer Neil Kellerhouse has been responsible for these crispy clean movie posters with moody desaturated imagery, especially the latest Social Network and I’m still here.
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New Arn0 IllustrationsWe introduced you to French illustrator Arn0 a while back, here are some of his latest works. Still love his illustration style, very pop/80s like his roller skate pin-ups (below)
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Gabbani Brand IdentityWe love food branding & identity. For this post we are focusing on Gabbani, one of the most famous Italian Delicatessen. An old family business that survived and flourished until becoming the state-of-the-art reference in the food industry. The 2010 new identity was created by
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96k Illustrations96k is a graphic design studio based in Beijing that was started by Liu Zheng. I saw his collaborative work with photographer LuoHuo in the photograph below and looked up his studio to see what else they had done. I love the integration of graphic elements and illustration on top of photographs.
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Marble Typeface by Tiana VasilijevInspired by a visit to a museum in Southern Vietnam graphic designer Tiana Vasilijev created and photographed this beautifully handmade typeface using marbling ink, water and a tray. What is fantastic about the result of this project is that it maintains legibility while achieving just enough abstraction.
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Matija Drozdek IllustrationsThese incredible vintage feeling, mixed media illustrations are from the talented Croatian graphic design student Matija Drozdek. A number of his illustrations and designs were published, and he is currently working on different freelance jobs, doing magazine layouts, graphic design, web collaborations and photography.
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New YSL Fragrance Packaging Design by Axel PeemoellerI am loving the fresh new packaging design for YSL’s fragrance created by German graphic designer Axel Peemoeller. The perfume feels extremely contemporary and edgy, nice contrast to the uber simple and sleek bottle. UPDATE: The images has been removed due to copyright infringement – Axel Peemoeller broke an NDA agreement by posting them [...]
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Hairtime GraphParsons student Miho Ishizuka was given a design assignment to create an autobiographical timeline. Looking back into her history she decided to use her own hair she had saved and separate the major events of her life into 6 different categories, each represented by a different color rubber bands. 4 years of her life are [...]
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Lobulo Design : Paper-Cut IllustrationsAs I was surfing around I found this cover for Rocket Magazine, of an amazing paper-cut illustration of Lady Gaga made by Lobulo Design. The Barcelona based graphic design studio had a few other illustrations of the same style, which were equally brilliant.
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Julien Mercier Identity DesignerJulmeme is Julien Mercier, a Swiss Graphic Designer living and working in Tokyo since 2006. After studying Graphic Design Communication in Geneva, he moved to Japan in order to explore a new design and mix Swiss typography with Japanese kanjis.