Happy Birthday Art Chantry

Today is the birthday of Tacoma/Tacoma based graphic designer Art Chantry
"Mr. Chantry is probably best known for expanding on the bristling low-tech aesthetic of punk music, in posters and album covers..."
"These works reflect an omnivorous talent for the incisive recycling of vintage images, usually with a handmade look that Mr. Chantry calls roughed up."
"Among his sources are 60's psychedelic posters, wholesome 50's advertising (including pages from tool catalogs and grocery store circulars) and Monty Python's gloss on Edwardian illustration -- usually presented with a sense of clashing social values. These are underscored by techniques like torn-edge collage, taped images, messy script, punch-printed lettering, startling juxtapositions and endless variations on the possibilities of photographic graininess achieved by repeated photocopying."
Read the whole review from The New york Times
Check his book: Some People Can't Surf

Vintage Illustrations by Kareem Rizk

Vintage Illustrations by Kareem Rizk - http://bit.ly/dnFOiL

Lego Table

22,742 pieces of Lego make a boardroom table for a new advertising agency (abgc)in Dublin"
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Lego Table - abgc from abgc-android on Vimeo.

Bill Douglas

The "Chip Kidd" in Canada, Bill Douglas' book cover design is outstanding. Beautiful juxtaposition of type and image. Visit his website: http://www.coupe-mag.com
also his blog

Airside_UK

See Airside from Apple.com/pro. Airside’s work often marries sound and visual in interesting ways. I love the animation piece they did for Relaunch Vitsœ’s website

Airside was born in 1998 when three freelancers who shared a studio space joined forces. Since then, they’ve grown into a multidisciplinary creative studio that produces fun and innovative work. Partner Fred Deakin is a musician in the band Lemon Jelly.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody has been named as the new Head of the Department of Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art, taking up the position on 1 January 2011. More

Edward Tufte

"Sometimes decorations can help editorialize about the substance of the graphic. But it's wrong to distort the data measures—the ink locating values of numbers—in order to make an editorial comment or fit a decorative scheme." Edward Tufte
His website: http://www.edwardtufte.com/

David Stack's notes from a seminar by Edward R. Tufte (8/17/9)

Book for infographic

Dona Wong: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics

"In today's data-driven world, professionals need to know how to express themselves in the language of graphics effectively and eloquently. Yet information graphics is rarely taught in schools or is the focus of on-the-job training. Now, for the first time, Dona M. Wong, a student of the information graphics pioneer Edward Tufte, makes this material available for all of us. "

Wong began her visual jouralism career at the New York Times in the 1990s as the business graphic editor and worked as a graphics director at the Wall Street Journal from 2001. Recently, She has been appointed the strategy director for information at Sigel+Gale.

The first time for a graphic designer

Milton Glaser received the 2009 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. The first time for a graphic designer. See full event here on White House video.

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages, a video looking back at the pictograms of Olympic games. To know the evolution and hear Steven Heller 's criticism about the design. Source form New York Times.

marian bantjes

Canadian graphic designer, illustrator Marian bantjes is a speaker at the TED conference in Long Beach today. I wish I was there. worked as a book typesetter for 10 years (1984–1994), marian bantjes had a deep understanding of typography. Her innovative hand work, patterning and highly ornamental style made her "one of the most innovative typographers working today,". Check her blog www.bantjes.com

Below is a lecture she did two years ago in Walker Art Center, Minnesota.

Alison Oliver

Alison Oliver’s work. She’s a designer and illustrator with an enviable portfolio full of projects for clients like Chronicle Books and Aerie. And in addition, she also has an etsy shop where she’s begun to sell her t-shirt designs.

Coöp

Coöp is an ongoing collaboration between Paul Fuog and Dan Honey. The design studio was established in 2004 with a shared vision of creating a space where creatives could fluidly and dynamically work together – sharing, inspiring and experimenting. The result is a communal and energetic studio environment where order and disorder converge as ideas are explored with freedom. http://www.co-oponline.net.au

Stavitsky Design + Airdesign

A birght and dynamic identity by Russian design firm Stavitsky Design + Airdesign.

jonathan yuen

Another Asia based designer: Jonathan Yuen. His beautiful portfolio website has caught our attention by being one of the Communication Arts Interactive Award winners last year. His new project: The_Cards, is also pretty interesting. Check it out.

imagination take over

Driv is a graphic designer. Born in Malaysia in 1983.
He is now work and live in Shanghai.
Posters for Play-Doh modeling clay. Special die-cut on it to allows the poster
closed on it's own, the wonderful imagination revealed when people pull it opened.
Agency : Kinetic Design and Advertising
Photographer : Jeremy Wong, Nemesis Pictures

Designer: 佐藤晃一（Sato Koichi）

佐藤晃一（Sato Koichi）is one of my favorite graphic designer in Japan. Even I can see his work frequently in American and European design magazines and books but when I search online there was no enogh english based information about him. I consided him a master in graphic design just like Tadao Ando in architechture. He was called "the magician of color".

Designer: Sean Adams

Some body calls Sean Adams "King of Neat". His work is clean, clear, colorful and effective. Sean is a partner at AdamsMorioka, Beverly Hills based design firm, and currently teaches at California Institute of the Arts.

A designer in Russia

I love those posters, even don't know who the designer is. check the site in Russian.