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The mixed media art of Greg Gossel

Jared — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:36:04 +0000

Love the mixed media style of Greg Gossel. Creating eye catching colorful merges of images and newspaper clippings.

Designer spotlight: Dan Cassaro aka Young Jerks

Jared — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:51:33 +0000

Dan Cassaro is a Brooklyn design, illustrator and animator. Working with some of the top magazine companies like Fast Times and the NewYorker.

I’m jealous at his ability to take words and make them look like art… Young Jerk.

Jovo ve – Painted Numbers illustrations

Jared — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:09:22 +0000

Classy illustrations by Swedish artist Jovo ve – Check out more

Branding 10,000 lakes project

Jared — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:02:47 +0000

Cool project by Nicole Meyer branding everyone of the 10,000 lakes in Minnesota…. pretty big task

check out more

Susan Kare probably designed half the stuff you never noticed

Jared — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:39:04 +0000

A lot of people probably don’t think about the person that sat there and designed every aspect of the program you are looking at. Who created those icons on your dock? who decided to make the Photoshop Pan tool look like an actual hand? A lot of that is to the credit of Susan Kare. She created some of the most iconic icons known to date.

Check out her work at kare.com

Silence Television: unbelievable illustration posters

Jared — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Came across these last week. I love the simplicity, clean lines and detail. Each catches your eye and leaves you gandering in it’s beauty. Check em out over yonder

HP Global Rebrand Process

Jared — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:14:55 +0000

Amazing write up (plus videos) of the branding process for HP. A once iconic company turned stale. Their new brand mark hinting at their past. Made me laugh to see by 2021 they want to own the slant as their image.

Check out the full story here.

Friday Inspiration 80 x 80

Jared — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:19:00 +0000

wow.. can’t believe it’s been a solid 80 weeks of posting these. In celebration I went all out and captured a full 80 images to showcase some awesome design inspiration.

Artist spotlight James Gilleard illustrations

Jared — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:14:09 +0000

Awesome illustrations from James Gilleard, classic.

Nick Smasal redesigns my burger restaurant

Jared — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:37:04 +0000

awesome branding for a local burger joint. Reminds me of Yah burger here in Atlanta. My favorite part is the street names above the tables.. I want to park my butt on 26th st. Check out more photos and info over at allan peters blog