Secret Still

This week I’m gonna shine the spotlight on design exclusively, and to make things easier on you, I’ll only be talking about one designer a day. You might have heard of these designers, and you might not, but they’re work speaks volumes. For example, today’s designer, Paul Torres, has some great logo/identity work as well as a solid web design sampling. You don’t usually find those two disciplines together in one person, and even if you do they are almost never both well done. If you love identity, things like web design tend to atrophy. Torres is definitely the exception to the rule. His work is classy, simple, clever and very well executed. And he takes identity a lot further than most, even straying into packaging design. His site says that he’s looking for full-time employment, which baffles me, because someone should’ve snapped him up by now. But it seems like he could make a killing in the freelance world; a designer who can create your identity and a website to go along with it is worth his/her weight in gold. That’s a fact.

Paul Torres

The best part of waking up.

Sigur Ros live in 1999

Deadline

CPH Pro 09 Finals

Operation Midnight Climax

Helluva illustrator. Helluva photographer. Helluva site design. Hot people. Hot fashion. If it weren’t for the ocean between us, I might propose.

Kelly Thompson

Jacko fade to blacko.

HunterGatherer

Creating Art with McLaren F1

Zoom into a Tooth

Fluid Sculpture

Please Say Something

I know absolutely nothing about this comic, except that it’s fantastic and weird and blew my mind down my spine and out my behind. The Japanese just keep being better than everyone else at things. Head nod to Matt for showing me the comic in the first place. You’re a giant poose*, Matt, but you keep me entertained.

*moose pussy

Abstraction

Brooklyn artist Sarah Bedford kind of took me by surprise the other day. Not like she jumped out from behind a door or something like that, that would be kinda fucked up, but more that I was just cruising along, not expecting to see anything interesting, and then I ran headlong into her work. I don’t know why, but it reminds me of Doze Green’s work, even though the visual similarities are few. I can also see ties with Erika Somogyi (previously mentioned) and her naturescapes gone psychedelic. But where Somogyi leans more toward the Impressionist, Bedford uses more of the abstract in her compositions. We can sit here and talk about it all day, but art wasn’t made for talk, it was made for looking at. Go look at it.

Sarah Bedford

For once in my life I came up with a perfect description of an artist’s work, and the lucky artist is Katogi Mari, a Japanese illustrator of many fine things. The work itself is (are you ready for the perfect description?) like a precious moments painting meets an anthropologie/urban outfitters catalog. At first I thought that would sound a little insulting, but if you look at these storybook illustrations, the gouache especially, you’ll see that the description is apt and complimentary. I couldn’t insult work this good if I tried. All of you hipster chicks out there looking for your next girly tattoo to impress your friends, this is a good place to start. At least it proves you have good taste.

Katogi Mari

Keeping things light with very little discourse, let me introduce you to the work of Cristobal Schmal also known as Nomono also known as that Spanish guy in Germany. Germish. Spaman. Either way, you’re gonna love his Saul Bass-ian style of simple shapes and colors with a maximum impact. *

*The writer does not guarantee love for either the artist or his work, expressed or implied, unless the post is read on an alternate Thursday during a Lunar Eclipse around about 3:15 EST.

Nomono

I’m back from vacation (pictured), so let’s ease into it slowly. That’s what she said.

This One Time…

Free Beats

Dead Pirates - Wood

Gobelins: Annecy 2009

Red Rabbit

One of the most important things you learn as a writer is when to shut the hell up. Now is that time. There is nothing that I can say about Connon Willumsen’s comics that is equivalent to their goodness. Mums the word.

Connor Willumsen