Graphic Design & Art Photography Inspiration

A Bigger World of Design and Design Ideas out There

Articles, Posters | May 18, 2012

Design Workshops inspire students, give them the opportunity to meet significant designers, empower them to take their design forward, identify opportunities for design improvement, understand the needs, get out of the class and see a bigger world of design out there. University of Texas at El Paso and teacher...

Editorial Mosaic Illustrations by Charis Tsevis

Collages, Illustrations | May 17, 2012

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Charis Tsevis is a visual designer living and working in Greece. Has a Diploma of Graphic Design from the Akademie fur das Grafishe Gewerbe, Munchen and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano. He has been awarded in ED Awards (Europe), Epica Awards (Europe),...

Poster Design in Poland | 1890 – 1970

Posters | May 16, 2012

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Before the era of globalized entertainment made movie posters look the same in every country, Polish artists were creating their own versions for the internal market. What resulted was a whole school of artists trained in the art of the poster. This article presents a short historical look at...

20 Posters for Disney Classics by re:design

Posters | May 15, 2012

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re:design team designed those 20 posters based on our favorite classic Disney movies, using the most prominent elements of each cartoon. All strong minimalist designs, some easy to understand without their names and some others need their title accompany them. re:design is Eurydyka Kata & Rafał Szczawiński, a couple...

Branding Renault

Logotype / Brand | May 14, 2012

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Renault branding designed by Sylvain Boyer. Sylvain Boyer has a degree from ECV in Paris and an honourable mention at the Adobe Design Awards in 2007, now Working as an Art Director at Royalies Agency and he is responsible for creative innovative concepts and designs for some Royalties biggest...

Awesome Packaging Design by Steve Simpson

Packaging | May 10, 2012

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Award winning illustrator, Steve Simpson‘s work covers everything from children’s books to postage stamps. Steve Simpson has been creating award winning illustration for major ad & design companies for the last 20 years. His characters have appeared on everything from postage stamps to billboards, snack packaging to chilli bottles....

Gabor Palotai Design | Inspirational Portfolio [48]

Inspirational Portfolio | May 9, 2012

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Gabor Palotai Design, graphic design studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. Type, shapes and geometry are their tools to design minimal but bold book covers, poster art or logotypes. Their creativity goes far more to a broad range of design projects in the field of visual communication such as corporate...

Golden Ratio in logo designs

Articles, Logotypes | May 8, 2012

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Beauty and aesthetics have been praised from time immemorial. But little did people know that the most effective, perfectly balanced, and visually compelling creations followed the tid-bits of mathematics. At least not until 1860, when German physicist and psychologist Gustav Theodor Fechner proposed that a simple ratio, an irrational...

25 Amazing Street Art Paintings by Alice Pasquini

Street Art | May 7, 2012

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AliCè: Alice Pasquini, principally a visual artist, works as an illustrator, set designer and painter. Based in Rome, she has lived and worked in U.K., France and Spain. AliCè has travelled the world bringing her art to the streets of many countries. She has collaborated on illustration, graphic and...

Interview with Artist George Milonas

Interviews | May 4, 2012

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Recently, I stumbled upon a magnificent portfolio in earthy colors, strong characters, and very expressively. This portfolio belongs to an upcoming art star, George Milonas aka Jnk2007 artworks. I had the honor to interview him and learn a little bit more about his creativity. George, your artworks are...

Dark Mood Series | Photoshop Manipulations Create Wonderful Artworks

Art, Graphic Design / Miscellaneous, Photography | May 3, 2012

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The artistic expression of the Dark Mood series were created between 1999 and 2004 by artist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee, since then some of the prints have been in both personal collections and exhibitions in Easton PA and New York galleries. This set of digital art or what he...

Beyond the Camera, Beyond the Fantasy by Tommy Ingberg | Inspirational Portfolio [47]

Inspirational Portfolio, Photography | May 2, 2012

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Sweden photographer Tommy Ingberg, has been preoccupied with photography since he was 15 years old when he got his first system camera, a Praktika with two lenses. What followed were several years of intensive photography. With an insatiable curiosity Tommy was soon familiar with several areas of photography, portraits,...

Inspiring Artworks for the 4nd Persian Gulf Poster Festival

Posters | May 1, 2012

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4nd Persian Gulf Poster Festival (Design By Mohammad Ardalani)

On 30th April 2006, “National Geography” magazine, published a map with distortion that wrote the spurious name “Arabic Gulf” instead of “Persian Gulf”. Of course the magazine was apologized to Iranians for this contempt, but according to that, April 30th was registered by Iranians to their calendar as the...

Photographs Like Paintings VS Paintings Like Photographs!

Photography | April 30, 2012

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In the 1960’s and 1970’s emerged a movement that countered both minimalism and abstract expressionism, the Photorealism. In a photorealist painting, the artist paints from a photograph with a perfect detail that can be easily mistaken for photographs. On the other hand, technology grows and creates a contrary movement,...

A World, Darkly Humorous, Dryly Satirical, Fanciful by Illustrator Britt Spencer

Illustrations | April 27, 2012

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Britt uses ink and line to create a world that is darkly humorous, dryly satirical, and all a bit fanciful!!! Britt Spenscer‘s illustrations use fanciful imagery often playing with exaggeration to add an element of joviality and an allusion to older satirical pen and ink artist. Accordingly the direction...

Takashi Akiyama | Inspirational Portfolio [46]

Inspirational Portfolio | April 26, 2012

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Professor Takashi Akiyama teaches design at Tama Art University, and he is the director of the Takashi Akiyama Poster Museum in Nagaoka, Japan. Born in Nagaoka-shi, Niigata, Japan in 1952. His signature style is recognized worldwide as a powerful blend of energy, humor and social commentary. For decades, his work...

Beautiful New Identity for Mohawk by Pentagram

Business Card, Logotype / Brand | April 25, 2012

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Pentagram designed the new identity of Mohawk, a family business founded in 1931, North America’s largest privately owned manufacturer of fine papers and envelopes. The paper business has changed enormously in recent years, with revolutions in digital technology transforming the ways people use paper. To meet this challenge, Mohawk is...

Do You Remember Armenian Genocide?

Posters | April 25, 2012

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The following poster was designed by Benyamin Mohammadi Amlashi a graphic designer from Iran. A contribute to the Armenian genocide for the 97th Anniversary. What is the Armenian Genocide? The atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during WWI are defined as the Armenian Genocide. Those...

Graphic Designers in Latin America | Part 2

Articles, Posters | April 24, 2012

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Latin America, has a long historical tradition producing a unique form of graphic expression for decades. Art is everywhere in the streets, with street and stencil art that cover buildings in Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina. Powerful strong like it’s people. Colorful, tantalizing, expressional. The second part of “Graphic Designers in...

Gamma Jam Jam, A Lover Of Vintage Design

Posters | April 23, 2012

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Gamma, a.k.a. Jam Jam is a graphic designer, amateur photographer, illustrator, and screen printer who lives in the tourist city of Oaxaca, México. He is a 30 year old, skinhead; a lover of vintage design. Gamma Jam Jam career as an illustrator began three years ago with a project...