Kokoro & Moi — Agent Pekka Kokoro & Moi is a creative agency delivering progressive concepts and ideas for the future with a focus on brand identity, art direction and design. The agency creates authentic and innovative strategies and crafts unique and intelligent design solutions for print, digital, products and environments. Kokoro & Moi has a penchant for the curious and the extraordinary; they love asking questions, challenging accepted explanations and inferring possible new worlds. The company's international clientele represents a broad range of commercial players from multinationals to start-ups, as well as a variety of cultural and public institutions. Kokoro & Moi was founded in 2001 by designers Teemu Suviala and Antti Hinkula.
Could You Solutionize That For Me? When Clients' Dumbest Requests Become Art Ah, the relationship between creative professional and client. A give and take ballet as old as commerce. Caricatures abound on both sides. On one side you’ve got the "suit"--the sausage-fingered, short-sighted philistine whose imagination is as limited as his power to make meaningful decisions on the direction of a project. Aubrey Beardsley – part 1 This is an update, enlargement, and replacement of a much earlier blog post on the works of Aubrey Beardsley. Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was born in 1872 in Brighton, England. Beardsley’s health was always fragile - he had his first reported attack of tuberculosis at the age of nine - the disease which was to reduce him to an invalid several times and finally cause his death.
COMIQUES Latest Patreon #wip, this drawing is about how Tokyo is a city of potted plants (at Naka-Meguro,Tokyo) 2 weeks agoDecember 12, 2017 Cat Alley Black-and-white version (to see the color version check out my Patreon –> patreon.com/comiques) Dutch Uncle Gold medal book category - society of illustrators new york 51th Silver medal institutional category- society of illustrators new york 53th Silver medal advertising category- society of illustrators new york 53th Silver medal book category- society of illustrators new york 53th 25 Unusual Places to Get Design Inspiration Credit: photo by by Phantasy Photo on Flickr One of the most frustrating situations you can encounter as a freelance designer is when you’re all ready to go but the ideas just aren’t flowing! You struggle to retain focus but staunchly refuse to accept defeat, until your screensaver goes on. Over the last couple of years we’ve done our best to provide sources of inspiration for just this occasion, with articles on getting inspiration such as: One site that has been mentioned throughout is Creattica, a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery. It’s a great place to start with your search for ideas and has a wealth of outstanding design in almost every category imaginable!
Dutch Uncle - Noma Bar Images Noma Bar (born in 1973) is an Israel-born graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work has appeared in many media publications including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper*. Bar has illustrated over one hundred magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations and released three books of his work: Guess Who - The Many Faces of Noma Bar in 2008, Negative Space in 2009 and Bittersweet 2017, a 680 page 5 volume monograph produced in a Limited Edition of 1000 published by Thames & Hudson. Bar's work has become well known throughout the world, winning many industry awards; more recently a prestigious Gold Clio for his animation & direction work for the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, a campaign to highlight new frontiers in cancer treatments. He has also won a Yellow Pencil award at the D&AD Professional Awards and his London Design Festival exhibition 'Cut It Out', was selected as one of the highlights of the festival.
Actualités - tiphaine-illustration Monster's Party SKP Beijing Character design for the Monster's Party" event hold in SKP store in Beijing. Art direction: Publicis EtNous. A One Man Mobile Studio At Burning Man When acclaimed studio photographer Eric Schwabel goes to Burning Man he doesn’t leave his passion behind. In 2010 he took a clever hand built “light suit” to the massive festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and captured the plethora of beautiful, colorful revelers in engaging detail. Below we catch up with Schwabel for an exclusive interview about his experiences on the dusty playa.