F61’s Mental Activity Visual Identity
F61, the St Petersburg print studio, built the identity for Mental Activity on minimalism and analogue printing rather than a logo.
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So Blue Magazine Design by Pablo Abad
So Blue is Pablo Abad's biannual magazine on fashion, beauty and healthy living: a white cover, a blue serif masthead and yellow page edges.
Film posters by La Boca
La Boca, a Notting Hill studio, makes film posters. Two Black Swan designs: a striped red and black profile, and a circle of wings around a ballerina.
Dually Sinister and Playful Solarplate Etchings by Jaco Putker
Jaco Putker's solarplate etchings: a boy on a rope-lashed boulder in mid-air, and a girl facing a horned figure across an empty room.
Individual Union Branding by Parámetro Studio
Parámetro Studio sets Individual Union in white on black, then adds bright blue and magenta cards to carry the colour.
Killexir Poison Packaging by Shao Long Bald
Shao Long Bald's Killexir Poison concept puts a red-and-white identity on a hand-blown black glass skull bottle in a white sleeve.
David Doran’s Illustration
Recent illustration work from UK-based David Doran.
‘The Dance of Angels who Burning Their Wings’ Theater Poster
A 1970 Japanese theatre poster by Kouga Hirano, Oyobe Katsuhito and Mitsuhiro Kushida.
Angelica Alzona’s Illustration
Selected illustration work from New York's Angelica Alzona.
Fallen Furniture’s 737 Cowling Chair
Fallen Furniture turned a genuine Boeing 737 engine cowling into a chair: nearly 6.5 feet square, spun aluminium base, unapologetically industrial.
Sara Enríquez’s Typographic Wes Anderson Project
Madrid designer Sara Enríquez turns Wes Anderson's filmography into typographic illustration — letters built from the architecture of his films.
Max Pirsky’s Branding for Yitzhak Peretz
Max Pirsky's identity for Yitzhak Peretz: a seal drawn from the initials, olive-branch illustrations, and stationery in blind emboss and copper foil.
Branding for Eleni Debo by Dogma
Dogma built Eleni Debo's identity around her grainy black-and-white drawings and a business card that is mostly white space.
Garbett Design
A green poster builds a raised fist from black and red blocks and names Nelson Mandela, while a white sheet carries interlocking red loops.
10 inspiring Japanese posters
Ten Japanese posters, from a blurred white glow for a theatre season to a single brush-stroke ring on black.
Top 6 Japanese Food Photographers to Know
Six Japanese food photographers whose work runs from playful miniature worlds to documentary portraits of the people behind the plate.
Gengo Yamaguchi’s ‘Hidarimuki no Jidai’ Poster
Gengo Yamaguchi's 2014 poster 'Hidarimuki no Jidai' — Japanese poster design at its most decisive.
A Dire Evolutionary Timeline by ‘Blu’ on the Streets of Italy
Blu's Italian mural spirals from hunter-gatherers and dinosaurs down to a single white cell, under a scroll of pyramids, factories and falling ruins.
Daikoku Design Institute’s ‘Block’ Typeface
A typeface cut from stacked paper sheets by Japan's Daikoku Design Institute.
New Portraits Drawn on Maps and Star Charts by Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn cross-hatches portraits directly onto vintage road maps and star charts, letting forest, border and constellation become the face.
Claudio Parentela Collages
Claudio Parentela cuts photographs of faces into collages, covering them with patterned paper, black wheels, leopard spots and pink scribbles.
Seita Kobayashi’s ‘News Paper’ Poster
Seita Kobayashi's 2015 poster 'News Paper' — typography doing the work of a headline.
Japan Animated in GIFs by 1041uuu
Tumblr user 1041uuu turns everyday Japanese scenes into looping GIFs with a soft, nostalgic palette.
Nils Völker’s ‘Bits and Pieces’: 108 Kinetic Spheres
Nils Völker hung 108 toy Hoberman spheres in a Berlin gallery and wired them to move in coordinated, organism-like rhythms.