As a tribute to songwriters everywhere, EMI Music Publishing and branding agency Love & War developed a work of original art to appear as a poster in Billboard magazine, and as a large scale mural on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The illustrations were created by designers Minh Anh Vo & Victor Schuft. The mural went [...]
Awesome illustrations from London-based artist Lynnie Zulu. According to a recent interview she did with Paper, she’s greatly influenced by African culture and uses it as an important influence on her work. She’s also a huge fan of Grace Jones as you can see in the last image above. Lynnie also had a recent collaboration [...]
Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design has been all the rage since its release late last year and I’ve finally broken down to get in on all the action. Designed by Bass’s daughter, Jennifer, the 428-page volume features more than 1,400 of Bass’s illustrations, many revealed for the first time, that offer a [...]
As the part of its “Tribute to Fashion” charity project, Coca Cola paired with leading Italian designers to put their take on the iconic bottle with as part of a limited edition collection. Designers who participated included Moschino, Donatella Versace, Angela Missoni, Alberto Ferreti, Consuelo Castiglioni and Etro. The collection was showcased at the Milano [...]
I’m a huge fan of Jon Contino’s work (see past post here). He’s made some updates to his site that I thought would be fantastic to share here. I’ve been wanting to do more sketching (especially with letterforms) to keep my mind going away from the computer, so his work is super inspiring to me. [...]
Today marks the 15-year anniversary of Christopher Wallace’s (a.k.a. Notorious B.I.G.) death. I remember breaking down and sobbing at the news…R.I.P. Big Poppa. Image by my favorite designer/illustrator Max Vogel (Razuano).
Great texture on these collages by San Francisco based artist Rex Ray. These were created as a collaboration with Brooklyn wallpaper company Flavor Paper. I’m enjoying the bold use of color and shapes on these. See these and much more wallpapers on the Flavor Paper site here.
Sade and Black Thought illustrations by Brooklyn based illustrator Ron Ackins. Peruse through the archives of his blog to see other work as well as keep up with his daily musings.
I’ve been seriously busy for the past week moving into my new apartment. My internet service is spotty too, so forgive me for the limited posts. I’ll try to get a few things up as I bum off my friends’ wifi connections. I’m working on a really cool package design project at school. Designing a [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I love typography so I see no better way to celebrate today than to celebrate it in today’s post. Check out these lovely V-day inspired designsI found on Typeinspire. Hope you enjoy the day! XOXO!
