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Michal Sycz is a young Polish designer currently based in Cracow where he is studying and working. He is specializing in illustration, visual identity, interactive media and web design. Click here to see works of other talented Polish designers.

Illustrations by Michal Sycz:

Adidas advertisement

Collaborative work of Michal Sycz and Wojciech Magierski (m4gik)

Poster design based on shapes:

Interactive works and websites:

Website designed for Comarch

Beautiful 3D Flash game created for Sointeractive.pl

Electric Heat is a commercial portfolio of Nigel Evan Dennis, young graphic designer from Chicago.

His style combines different artistic techniques (photography, standard illustration, typography) to create his advertising works. The list of his clients is long and it includes the following: Converse, Adobe, Lipton, MTV, Toyota, Microsoft, Fanta, Sony BMG, Coca-Cola, Absolut Vodka.. He has also created works for the American hip-hop artists, namely Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common.

Cherry Coke campaign:

Converse’s product campaign:

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Believe me or not- I really do not read any Polish design magazines/blogs. It’s not my fault that there are many good designers living in this beautiful country and they are present in the international design blogs and websites.

I don’t remember exactly where I first encountered the works made by Kacper Spala. However, I remember that it was this beautiful black and white photo manipulation that you can see in the picture number 1. The amount of details and the perfection of this image is stunning and I couldn’t take my eyes away from it.

kacperspala.com is a neat portfolio where you can find more works related to the photo manipulation, abstract art, posters and corporate id. Enjoy!

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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.(…)”

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).