Secret Still

I’ve been needing to look for more design inspiration lately, so that pays off for you in the form of more links to designers. Things were getting a little art heavy around here anyway. I know you were thinking it, sitting over there, silently judging in your big chair by the fire, slowly petting your Dieter Rams designed Braun radio. Cool your seething, designers, with the refreshing flavors of Ptarmak. Smooth, stylish, and low-calorie identity work/package design/print design to quench your thirst. Goes down smooth.

Ptarmak

When I was looking around for inspiration for a menu design I’m working on , I came across the work of Trish Papadakos, whose work is even better than her name is fun to say. And she seriously hits all the bases with web and print design, photography, branding, and much more. Damn, woman, save some for the rest of us.

Trish Papadakos

Let’s keep the good design theme going with the work of Megan Cummins. All of her work is well thought out with the end user experience in mind, and I especially love her packaging design. You people and your good designs are making me itch to blow the dust of my wacom.

Megan Cummins

Some good, clean design for your Friday flavor. This should keep you classy well into your 5th drink after work.

Michael Freimuth

Right on, Mario Hugo, you slick bastard. It’s like staring down the barrel of German design only to have a flag that says BANG pop out and smack you in the nose. No wonder Beck likes him. No wonder I like him. Gotta respect those tasty graphite and acrylic pieces, Tuesday morning breakfast of champions.

Mario Hugo

Not only a talented illustrator, but a helluva designer. And, apparently a grillmaster. Triple threat. Put that in your Thursday and smoke it.

Jay Fletcher

Damn, them some good logos. He good.

Yeah, I know I’ve mentioned him before, but it’s too good to not mention again.

Ben Pieratt

Designer Mikey Burton rounds out design week with a solid portfolio of seriously unserious work. Great use of type, great use of color, and most of all a good eye for overall effect. I’m sorry to tell most of you in school for design degrees out there, but the latter talent is innate, not taught. You got it or you don’t. Mikey’s got it, and he’s making good use of it. Dude even did the identity for 20×200. I’ve got a couple of those cards attached to prints that I bought from 20×200, so I’ve now got work by some of my favorite artists, and one of my new favorite designers. Score.

Mikey Burton

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

I’m crushing hard on the delicate design work of Honey and Bloom this morning, from the wedding invitations to the personal print work. And wouldn’t you know it, Becky Hui Chan, the brilliant mind behind it, is just over the bridge in San Francisco. I could literally give a shout out to her, and there is a chance that she would hear me. Yeah, man, I can yell pretty loud. My only question is: where can I get these prints? Ok, it’s not my only question by a long shot, but this isn’t an interview. It could be, I guess. Becky, you want to do an interview? I can even take photos of your studio for once, because you don’t live prohibitively far away. As long as I’ve been writing these posts, you’d think I’d be better at it.

Honey and Bloom