Anna Garforth

Anna Garforth is quite clearly green fingered! Describing herself as an urban land artist, guerilla gardner and green graffiti extrodinaire. Her work is pretty amazing but I especially like this project with leaves... Her website is pretty nice too.

Rethink

Change

Releaf

Aaron Miller

I came accross this dude while working at Jigsaw. In one of the articles that went to press it mentioned a little non-profit project called Alphabits. 26 designers illustrating the 26 letters of the alphabet. Arron Miller creates vector illustrations mainly of character designs. I like his style but in a way there are quite alot of illuatrators doing similar stuff with vector character designs. Saying that, I do like his creativity with getting personality into his characters. I especially like his Alphabits contribution.

 Alphabits contribution

 Scholastic characters

Appfreak designed for App Freak website as a character who writes about iPhone and iPad apps

Alison Carmichael

Why have I never DC'd this woman before! I love her work and have done for a while. I really enjoy the hand lettered approach, especially as it seems to have structure... as I have found with alot of hand illustrated font, I am not keen when there are no rules.

Her work really inspires me. The two conflicting messages between type and image in some of her works is brillaint and I hope to be able to creat a piece using this idea at some point as a personal project.

Hope
Don't Panic Poster

 Words look much nicer hand lettered

 Michelle is a slag

 Clean me

Rare Prints

I kept seeing this advertising campaign on the back of ASOS magazines but they never really grabbed me until I saw this little beauty (Matt W. Moore print) and had to find out more! Ray Ban have released a new collection of sunglasses under the ailias 'Never Hide'. These 'Rare Prints' are brilliantly marketed and already grasp at the Ray Ban followers by using their much loved Wayfarer frames. I think the designs are wicked and even though I am not a bit fan of using lots of colours in my own personal work, it looks great here.

Matt W. Moore
- I love this poster design, it is so eye catchng and wonderful how it uses no boundaries but lots of shapes to make up an image.

Ames Brothers
- This was the one I kept seeing on the back of ASOS. I'm not a fan of this but I suppose they have different styles and different posters to reach the biggest audience! Based on the posters alone I would buy the top design. 

 Vahalla Studios 
- They even have videos to go along with the print... Ray Ban have all sides covered!

Music Philosophy

Mico Toledo like music and typography. Put them together and you get this... Here are my favourites. I like them but think I would prefer it on some of them if the typography reflected the words a bit more. On some where the quotes are negative it somehow still magages to look positive, which I normally like, but i'm not all that keen on some designs. It feel a bit like marmite....a love hate thing.

The Beatles

Sondre Lerche

3D Typography

I am obsessed with this book... ordered it today and am so motherflipping excited! More to come in kater posts of my favourite designers...

Lisa Congdon

A collection a day

http://collectionaday2010.blogspot.com/

Stephen Doyle

Paper sculptures

http://www.sightunseen.com/2010/05/stephen-doyles-paper-sculptures/

Malika Favre

I saw this typeface a while back in Creative Review (back when it was good) I liked it but have only recently begun to admire it and look deeper into how the letterforms have been created. The colours work beautifully together aswell and make the typeface look classy in my eyes rather than slutty. Negative space is a massive highlight of this piece, really love the use of it to create the figures and strokes also. The style of illustration reminds me alot of Emily Forgot.

I've checked out some of her other work too and its all pretty impressive and she has a really clean and recognisable style of illustration which I like.

Sex typeface for Wallpaper. Malika Favre.

Alphabunnies typeface. Malika Favre.

Crosshatching