Nick Agin
Illustrations and sketches based off of common figures of speech by NYC graphic designer Nick Agin. Check out more of his shots on Dribbble.
Dr No Effects
Dutch illustrator specializing custom lettering, Eric van der Boom was recently commissioned by the vintage-sound guitar pedal manufacturer Dr. No Effects to create a new logo, packaging and product styling for all their pedals. The visual styles for each of the pedals pair amazing well with the rich tone and sounds (demo the sounds on the Dr. No site).
Other projects by Eric van der Boom worth checking out - Ray Ban Rare Prints, Baetulona, and Def P & Beatbusters.
Follow along with this week’s curated posts featuring some of my favorites from the Behance Network - tagged: behance.
Explosions in the Sky - Poster Process
A few weeks ago I started noticing DKNG’s shots on Dribbble for “Mystery Project 11”, and yesterday they finally posted the full poster for the band Explosions in the Sky. Similar to their Black Key’s poster process they screen captured the entire design process and put together this amazing process video.
Watching this video makes me want to teach myself how to sketch. Right now I struggle with writing barely legible letters.
Final Poster
Studio Sweet Studio
Several months ago I stumbled on the original Studio Sweet Studio blog created and currated by Meg Lewis and Tuesday Bassen. The duo created Studio Sweet Studio to feature the workspace and process of artists, illustrators and designers. After discovering their blog I reached out to Meg to see if she was interested in creating a theme for Style Hatch, and a few weeks later Juuvy was born.
Last week I was thrilled to get an email from Meg letting us know that they were in the process of moving Studio Sweet Studio over to Tumblr. They both did a fantastic job customizing and hacking our Atlantic Noir theme.
Go follow Studio Sweet Studio on Tumblr. You will not regret it.
Inkling By Wacom
Wacom introduces Inkling, a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper.
I can’t wait to see the Inkling in action. The process of going from sketches on paper to clean digital, vector lines has always been a challenge.
Xenology : Of Gods and Monsters
I’m loving this series of illustrations that LA based artist Jesse Tise inspired by Japanese kaiju. Jesse describes his work in three words as “colorful, bizarre, playful. Slippery, slimy, and squishy works too, though.” in an interview with 10 Answers.
Found on The Fox Is Black
Poster Process - The Black Keys
Design studio DKNG recently screen captured the entire design process that went into creating a tour poster for The Black Keys. The time-lapsed video shows their steps from sketching to details to the actual silkscreening all set to “Black Bug” a mashup of The Black Keys and Big Boi.
X Games 2011 Brand Illustration
South African illustrator and graphic designer Jordan Metcalf was recently commissioned by X Games to create a series of youth marketing illustrations and key art for the upcoming summer and winter X Games. Overall I feel like it’s a nice change from the gritty or tech heavy branding typically used for the X Games. Check out more of the characters and treatments in his Behance portfolio.
Thank Me Later by Maxime Quoilin
Belgian digital artist Maxime Quoilin beautifully combines multiple exposures, illustration and graphic design in this series of posters Thank Me Later.
Paper Record Player
Kelli Anderson just pulled off what might be the coolest wedding invite ever created with a paper record player included that plays a song written by the groom and bride. With a bit of paper folding the invite booklet reveals a needle that plays a flexi disc record. If I ever received an invite even close to this one I would feel obligated to buy them an amazing wedding present.
Get inspired looking at all of Kelli’s amazing work.
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We’re All in this Together | Method on Virgin
Three Legged Legs joined forces with agency Droga5 to create this animated spot for Method Cleaners to air on Virgin flights. The characters and animations are incredibly well done, but the most impressive fact is that the piece wasn’t created in After Effects or Flash but all the animation was done in Photoshop.
Here are a few images from the “making of” post on Three Legged Legs site:
Found on Jack on Adobe
Bucharest by Hand
The illustration above created by the insanely talented Noper as a part of a series created for a Grolsch beer campaign Bucharest by Hand. As artist reinterpreted places in Bucharest, Noper chose to take photos of the city and insert his fantasy illustrated creature into the scenes.
Some of the other highlights in Noper’s portfolio is his work on Burn AirPark, Esquire magazine, and Redbull Music Academy. Catch him occasionally posting on Tumblr at dailynoper.tumblr.com.
Thanks Bobby at The Fox Is Black for the link
Hand Painted Bottles
Four and a half feet tall bottles painted on laser cut oak by Jeremy Pettis as a part of an upcoming art show. Also, check out Jeremy’s previous installation “26 Types of Animals—Typography, channeling the essence of the beast”.
Studio Sweet Studio
Studio Sweet Studio is a website and yearly publication that features artists, their work, and their workspace as an interesting dialogue about how environment affects creative work and what it means to have a studio as an extension of your “visual brand” as an artist.
I recently stumbled on Studio Sweet Studio after the founders Meg Lewis & Tuesday Bassen started following Style Hatch on twitter last week. That evening I stayed up going through virtually every post (almost 40) that they have on their two week old site. The studio tours, posts on process, and designer interviews are beautifully done and quite inspiring.
Make sure you bookmark this site and add it to your RSS readers. It’s already made it into the list of sites that I check on a daily basis.
Famous Objects from Classic Movies
Which movie does the object come from? Addicting game with great design from Google Creative Lab’s creative director Ji Lee (concept and illustrations), Daniele Codega (site design), and Cory Forsyth (coding).
