Graphic Design

This competition is now closed, congrats to the winner; Panther Ice-cream.

Issue 07 of BLOW photography magazine is now available and I have a copy to give away. This edition focuses on the art of portrait photography, featuring the likes of Albrecht TÜbke, Hein-Kuhn Oh Wayne Lawrence, Lydia Panas and Jessica Hilltout. To enter all you have to do is tell us what your favorite portrait is, whether photography, painting, sculpture etc. Leave your entry on this post or on the surface & surface Facebook page. I’ll announce the winner during the last week of April. Below are some spreads from this great looking new issue.

www.blowphotomagazine.com

Dan Mather

March 8, 2013

Art, Graphic Design, London, Screen Printing, UK

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I was in Look Mum No Hands on Old Street in London today for a coffee and saw the work of Dan Mather pasted all over the bathroom (that’s not me in the photo, just and image from Dan’s site) You can buy his velocipede influenced prints through LMNH and see loads more of his graphic design and screen printing work on his site below.

www.danmatherscreenprint.tumblr.com

Mat Maitland / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

February 25, 2013

Design, Graphic Design, Hand-made, Music, photography

Paul Willoughby

February 12, 2013

Film, Graphic Design, Hand-made, Illustration, Printing, UK

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I saw a video on the making of Little White Lies ‘Black Swan edition’ last year and since then I was hooked on the film magazine with the unique ever-changing aesthetic. Paul Willoughby is the creative director of Little White Lies and here is some of his personal and commercial work. The process shots of the Lawless wood cut above for Little White Lies can be seen here.

www.paulwilloughby.com

Andrew Groves

February 6, 2013

Craft, Graphic Design, Illustration, UK

We Heart/SB Studio – Create GB Volume 1

January 28, 2013

Art, Collaboration, Design, Graphic Design, UK

Thomas Heatherwick – Christmas Cards

December 24, 2012

Art, Design, Graphic Design, Hand-made, London, UK

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For the time of year that’s in it, here are some of Thomas Heatherwick Studio Christmas cards they send out each year. You’ll have seen their work during the London Olympics (they designed the cauldron this year) and another two great designer’s ideas here and here you’ll wish you had thought of!

www.heatherwick.com

Dave Comiskey

December 14, 2012

Design, Dublin, Graphic Design, Illustration, Ireland

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Dave Comiskey is a freelance Graphic Designer and Illustrator based in Dublin. I’ve seen his work around town in the Irish Design Shop at the RHA and love the logo for the Loft Bookshop in Twisted Pepper. One of his prints is on sale at Damn Fine Print and check out his tumblr for loads more of his witty minimalist work.

www.davecomiskey.com

Tom Clohosy Cole – Space Race

November 20, 2012

Children's Books, Collaboration, England, Graphic Design, Illustration, UK

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Coming a mere half century after the worlds two largest superpowers jockeyed for the bragging rights over ‘the first man on the moon’ is the wonderfully illustrated concertina book ‘Space Race’ by Tom Clohosy Cole published by Nobrow Press. Tom Clohosy Cole is a London-based Illustrator, Designer & Animator and is represented by The Artworks Agency. Space Race is available to buy through NoBrow where you’ll find crater loads of other great looking publications here.

www.tomclohosycole.co.uk

Sharp Suits – Mark and Paddy

November 16, 2012

Collaboration, Design, Dublin, Exhibition, Graphic Design, Illustration

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From the great bunch of lads that brought us the brilliant Anti Graffiti campaign for Dublin; here’s Sharp Suits, an open submission exhibition which called on creatives to illustrate the bizarre and ridiculous blurb that can (in hopefully rare occasions) come from the clients mouth.