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JK Keller is a talented designer who combines technology and powerful ideas to create amazing works of art. He seems to be most famous for the project called "The adaption to my generation - a daily photo project". The project started in 1998 and starting from this time JK Keller was shooting a photo of himself and in this way he tried to observe the differences in his appearance throughout the days, weeks and months. And actually he has changed a lot- you can have a look at the whole collection of photos here. If you're impatient and don't want to spend all your life browsing through the thousands of photos you can watch the video "Living my life faster" which sums up 8 years of the daily photo project.

Actually browsing through the various projects of JK Keller I found many others which are also very original. "Spam abstractions" is the combination of 100 hundred spam emails with the text deleted and you can see the result below.

Spam abstractions


The last project I found extremely interesting (yeah, you can call me a geek). However, it might be too complicated for me to explain how those images were created so let me just paste the explanation that I found on the site of this project made by the author:

"(...)But to answer your first query: how it works. The app that I wrote visits a website and downloads the source text. It parses the text, looking for links to other web pages, links to itself, links to other file types, email addresses, etc. Based on how many links it finds, it creates a “star”. The number of links found equals the number of spines on the “star”. Thus, if it finds no links, it draws a circle.

It then goes to the first link on the page and does the same thing. Then it iterates over thousands of pages. E-mail addresses are drawn as a plus-sign, errors are an ‘x’, non-html files are squares, and a line follows the path the program took.

Another caveat: The first instance of a web page is a unique star. Anytime the app finds that same page linked to by another page, it draws a line back to the originating star instead of another star.(...)"

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Radim Malinic (aka Brand Nu) is the graphics designer based in UK.

I've found the works that you can see above extremely interesting so I decided to write a couple of lines about him. Radim has had his works published in books, magazines, posters, CDs' and DVDs' covers. His techniques combine layers of photography with colourful elements.

Labels: cd cover, colour, design, illustration, poster

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Photo by Daniel Cuthbert

Alberto Seveso is an Italian designer who has developed his own style of combining photography with vector illustrations with lots of colours and shapes. Bodies of the models are covered with the combinations of stripes, dots etc.

Original style, fresh concepts combining the photography with illustrations- amazing stuff.

Alberto's portfolio consists of the works made in this technique. And there are actually many of those there, try it out.

If you're interested you can also read the interview with Alberto Seveso here. He is explaining a little bit about his career in design, the inspirations, story behind "sperm shaping" (that's how he refers to the style he created).

Labels: design, photography

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Nik Ainley - ShinyBinary.com

Nicholas Ainley is a UK-based designer specialising in caring-for-details illustrations and graphics.

Nik Ainley's portfolio (shinybinary.com) is full of the really nice works. There is plenty more than what is presented above. Some are quite scary, for example the image presenting melted elderly woman's face.. Brrr, it's too horrifying and real to be put on my blog. ;)

Overall, the works are enjoyable. However, the website itself looks quite old fashioned and there is a big need for making it more pleasant for the viewers- I think Nik could get even more interest from people then if it looked more fancy. The other thing is that his portfolio looks to be quite popular- Nicholas is boasting of hundreds of thousands visitors. Congratulations, Mr Ainley and I look forward to seeing more cool works there.

Labels: design, graphics, illustration

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Changethethought.com has been founded by Christopher Cox as the place for his own art works. Now apart from working as Christopher's portfolio it has transformed into a kind of a community with other editors involved.

What is more interesting for me are the Christopher's works. The ones presented above is just a small fraction of the art works that can be found on his changethethought.com. The style of them seems to be very brave and original- there is a lot of experimenting with colours, shapes and combining many concepts. The artworks are divided into many categories: print, illustration, web, type and personal works. Many of these categories are filled with works of the best quality. I find the whole portfolio very inspiring, it's a shame that I couldn't put more of the images here. Check it yourself.

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crisvector.com

I found Cristiano Siqueira by chance. I was looking into using the 3D models into standard 2D illustrations and images. Then I just stumbled upon the image that you can see at the top. I was amazed and that is why I had to save Cristiano's portfolio in my bookmarks. Today I looked at it again and decided that his works are worth showing in my blog.

Many of works of Mr Siqueira are very comic-like- it seems very true and justified since this is how it all started for him. Cristiano (born in Sao Paulo, Brazil) started by redrawing comic books. Then he sunk deep into the world of design and illustration. He gained experience in professional work and he is working independently in his own studio.

Undoubtedly Cristiano Siqueira has developed his own style, visible especially in the illustrations and images of 3D models.

Labels: 3D, design, illustration

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hejz.com

Another Polish designer, I won't count how many of them already got their own post in my blog. Is it my fault that they create amazing works and that they are popular in the designers' world? I hope you will agree with me that the works presented above are worth looking at and presenting here in my decent blastyle blog.

Vivid colours, amazing shapes and lines and care for details- in short about his style.

In his portfolio you can find advertising and branding works that he made for international companies. He did many works for Nokia and Nike, but other companies and organisations include Fanta, Unicef, Oakley, British Airways. He also designed a some music album covers (in portfolio you can find the cover for the album of Polish hip-hop artist, Pezet).

Peter Jaworowski works currently in Ars Thanea, creative studio based in Warsaw.

Labels: album cover, cd cover, design, graphics, illustration, poster

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Jimmy Turrell is a graphic designer based in London. The clients he worked for include Nike, Channel 4, MTV, The Guardian, New York Times, Universal Records, XL Recordings, Lexus.

The portfolio of selected works as well as the archives present the massive amount of illustrations and pictures.

The works of Jimmy Turrel keep to be simple and not too detailed but they look great - it proves that quite often the simplicity is the key.

Labels: design, illustration

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Ok, after quite a long break it's time for promotion of Polish design- it's really nice to see that many of my Polish fellows are well known and respected designers.

Pawel Nolbert worked for many worldwide known clients including Citroen, Coca Cola, McDonald's, Unilever... The pieces of work that you can see on hellocolor.com give you clear vision of the skills and talent of Pawel. I would definitely observe his work and check out all the new works coming up.

Labels: advertisement, branding, design, illustration

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Wow, I just love such playing with typography! That is really amazing that with traditional text or fonts you are able to do such amazing things. If you're interested in finding some other works related to typographic design and illustrations by Craig Ward please visit the wordsarepictures.co.uk. I'm sure you'll enjoy that.

Labels: design, illustration, typo, typography

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Two works that you can see above presented on dysplasii.com really amazed me- that's why I decided to present them here. Let's say that it's also a kind of promotion for Emmanuel- he is looking for a job as a designer, maybe you need someone with this profile?

The overall look of portfolio of Emmanuel Prissette doesn't appeal to me- the website is built on ancient html frames and it all looks not that attractive, probably it was done very quickly only for the purpose of presenting the works somewhere. Anyway, it's worth looking at some of his works.

Labels: design, logo, typo, typography

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aeiko.net

Pete Harrison is a British designer residing in London. In his client list there are many big names such as: Intel, Peugeot, Microsoft, BMW- impressive, isn't it?

His works show the very big spectrum of abilities and skills of this young designer- the typography, 3D-like art works, illustrations of all sorts.

Apart from freelance designing Pete is also developing his own clothing brand funkrush.com

Labels: design, t-shirt, typo, typography

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Pablo is a 30-year old Brazilian designer with some nice ideas. In his portfolio I liked his illustrations most but you can also find there examples of typo works, web designs. Check pablolobo.com

Labels: illustration, logo, typo, typography, web design

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German designers keep surprising me- I've found many recommendable works recently. In the previous posts you can find dontclick.it (extremely interesting project) and the posters by Scholz & Friends Advertising Agency.

Now it's time for Alex Forster and his 3-D graffiti-styled portfolio.
vegaone.de

Some of the works are really interesting, take a look yourself.

The style that Alex has reminds me of graphical masterpieces made by Maciej Mizer (mosk.pl )-I wrote about him some time ago..

The portfolio of Alex Forster looks like that:


Nice, isn't it?

Labels: 3D, art, illustration

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Not much to tell you about these posters. The simplicity of colours and nicely contrasting white shapes made of music notes and lines creates amazing effects.

The authors of these works work for the Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends based in Berlin.

I digged that design out from adsoftheworld.com

Labels: design, event, music, poster

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Have you ever thought of a website that is navigated without clicking the mouse button? hmm, you think that it's impossible?

Take a tour on the dontclick.it

The website is a project made by Alex Frank as a work for the diploma in Communication Design at the University Essen-Duisburg.(lxfx.de)

The idea of the website is that the fictional Research Institute that makes research on the new ways of web navigation. The whole concept and the way it is created gives much fun and pleasure.

Try it yourself and remember - DON'T CLICK IT!

Labels: flash, project, web design

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It's the second time I am writing about Mikis Raoul. Last time I have made a mistake and put Alex Trochut's works instead of Mikis'.

I wouldn't even realize that if Mikis didn't tell me that himself. Now it's time for you Michael and a couple of your works. In the previous post I just edited text and put Alex Trochute's name. Enjoy the works of Mikis on his portfolio mikisraoul.com

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Jeremie Werner, a French designer located in Strasbourg has caught my attention by some of his designs. The ones presented are the most attractive ones (in my opinion of course). Visit his portfolio , that's all from me about Jeremie

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Andrio Abero (33rmpdesign.com) has got some really nice works in his collection- for more check out his website 33rpmdesign.com. He was collaborating with some musicians and in his portfolio you can find his posters and album covers.
His studio 33rpm was started in 2000, currently Andrio is working in in Brooklyn, New York (real gangsta, huh)

Labels: album cover, cd cover, design, poster, web design

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Erik Natzke keeps amazing me while I browsed through his collection of works in his portfolio. Every work aims to attract and suprise the viewer- his playing with shapes, colours, combinations of different patterns in every single piece of his work are just incredibly good.

The techniques Erik Natzke is using are also quite original. He is playing with the photos using Flash with Actionscript generating the deformations and patterns. You could see how transformed the original scene is in the two pictures below: (1) is the image Erik Natzke was playing with and (2) is the final result.

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Labels: design, flash

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Lisa Rienermann - www.lisarienermann.com

What a superb idea Lisa Rienermann had.. she made the new typo out of the images of sky and buildings. It looks surprisingly well, at the same time quite funny. In her portfolio you can actually see the whole alphabet made out of the pictures with building-and-sky motive. Inspiring, isn´t it?

Labels: font, idea, typography

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Andreas Banderas' flickr

I haven't found much about this artist- he is Norwegian and makes really crazy designs which is the most important. Check out his flickr page, his website andreasbanderas.com seems to be under construction.

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edvardscott.com

What I find really astonishing about this artist is the combination of extremely powerful abstract colourful world with the style that is recognizable after first look on the work. "This is Edvard Scott", after you see his works you can actually feel it seeing something new made by him.

Amazing imagination of this talented illustrator / designer has been appreciated by many major companies including Nokia, L' Oreal, Mini Cooper, K-SWISS.

Labels: design, illustration

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alextrochut.com

Alex Trochut is a talented Spanish designer specializing in illustration combining with extremely original typography.

Two of the works presented above is just an example- to gain the full view on his artworks please check his website. You won't regret it- you can find there many examples of illustrations, posters and other works.

Labels: illustration, poster, typography

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maciekblazniak.com
maciekblazniak.blogspot.com

Just by chance I read that Maciek lives in my home city Lodz. I didn't know that we have so many talented artists in our city, it's the second guy who appears in this blog and that's just the beginning, haha!

Maciek Blazniak specializes in children illustration. I never realized I could so impatiently look through the kids-like pictures. The selection is quite impressing- there are so many nice works to admire.

Labels: illustration

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siscottstudio.com

British artist Si Scott combines beautiful classical illustration with typography. He has got many creative ideas as for the working with swirling, ornamental lines overlapped with other images. His imagination seems endless as every work is an original and individual masterpiece.

Among all the companies that Si Scott was working for the most significant are Casio, Nike, Orange, Samsung, BBC.

Labels: advertisement, illustration, typography

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mosk.pl

Maciej Mizer is a 2D and 3D graphic designer from Poland living in my home city, city of Lodz. The works he is doing are so vivid and colourful which stands in big contrast with overall quite grey and sad look of the city he lives in. Probably the passion of colours has something to do with another passion of Maciej, graffiti. On his website you can also see some examples of his graffiti arts.

Anyway, I have spent much time admiring some of his works and I really cannot exactly say what techniques and methods were used to achieve such astonishing effects.

Keep up good work, Maciej!

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jonathanyuen.com

The way his portfolio website looks is really impressive- check out the way it is supposed to be navigated. The composition, animations and care for details- it really makes me love this site.

Jonathan Yuen is especially into typography and illustrations but he also present some nice posters, too.
100% blastyle design.

Labels: illustration, poster, typography

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iso50.com/iso50.html

Scott Hansen is an American designer from California. His works resemble the "retro style" of the 70's- big patches of colours, very often faded colours and what is important- the style. I recommend especially some of the cd covers and posters- you can buy a print out of many of his works on the webpage.

Scott Hansen is also a musician under moniker Tycho- check his music on tychomusic.com

Labels: cd cover, poster, retro

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www.beksinski.pl

Zdzislaw Beksinski was a very prolific artist from Poland. He is recognized for his surrealistic and extremely detailed paintings. Most of them are quite sad which resembles his life. His son comitted suicide and after 6 years in 2005 Zdzislaw Beksinski was brutally murdered in his own flat.

That's a very brief story of one of the most original Polish artists. As for the design of a web page- I find it beautiful; the Penderecki's music also plays important role in this project.

Rest in peace, Mr Beksinski...

Labels: painting

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