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Sean Freeman - Design

By Stoffb, January 19th, 2010

Categories: Calligraphy, Design, Digital Art, Image retouching, Miscellaneous, Photography

Tags: Design, Digital Art, Image retouching, inspiration, sean freeman, typography, UK

About a year ago I showcased the sublime work of UK based designer Sean Freeman. Randomly this week I found some of Sean’s recent designs and was amazed by his improvment! I didn’t think it would be possible to improve because he had such incredible skills already; but he managed it! The selection above is just a sample of his work showing how much details and efforts he can put in his creations. Sean Freeman really has an eye for typography, movement, and his constant search for perfection makes him a target of choice for big companies like Nike, The Guardian, The New York Times and many more to hire his services… For more examples of Sean’s work please visit his website thereis.co.uk.

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Si Scott Design

By Stoffb, December 22nd, 2009

Categories: Albums covers, Calligraphy, Design, Illustration

Tags: Art, Design, Illustration, inspiration, manchester, tattoo, typography, UK

Absolutely amazing, detailed, delicate and intricate illustrations by Manchester based illustrator and designer Si Scott. His work around typography is absolutely stunning! All the decorative curves and swirls somehow reminds me of tribal tattoo but with an extra level of control and finesse to insert them seamlessly in typographic elements. Outstanding!

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Ebon Heath - Graphic design

By Stoffb, December 7th, 2009

Categories: Calligraphy, Design, Illustration, Photography

Tags: Art, Design, graphic design, inspiration, Type, typography

Superb graphic design and typography work by Ebon Heath. The Stereo.type series is simply splendid, it includes really nice photographs of typographic jewelry, typographic posters and other installations!! All the letters are either hand cutted by Ebon Heath or laser cutted. Absolutely superb work! But horrible website to navigate, I mean really horrible… Photography by Mike Redfern.

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Pomme Chan - Illustration - Typography

By Stoffb, November 26th, 2009

Categories: Advertising, Calligraphy, Design, Illustration, Mark Making

Tags: Art, Illustration, inspiration, pomme, typography, UK

Superb illustrations by Pomme Chan aka Pomme Pomme originally from Bangkok but now living and working in London. Her illustrations are really fluid, organic and a good mix of different techniques from watercolour to vector graphics through acrylic paintings or pencil drawings. Not really surprising with such a unique style and varied skills to see Pomme Pomme having worked for GQ, La Perla, Southern Comfort, The Guardian, Nike…

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Street Art Barcelona

By Stoffb, November 19th, 2009

Categories: Calligraphy, Mark Making, Street Art - Graf

Tags: Barcelona, graf, Graffiti, inspiration, street art

A small selection of street art pieces and grafs I shot three weeks ago in Barcelona… The city is full of graffiti everywhere, I had my eyes wide open all the time nad couldn’t stop smiling at the work… It’s graf paradise land! The last is not really a graf but it really caught my eye as Prefab77 is a street artist from Newcastle and it was kind of weird to see his work in a random back street of Barcelona…

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Ill Studio - Graphic Design

By Stoffb, October 13th, 2009

Categories: Calligraphy, Design, Illustration, Photography

Tags: Art, Design, france, graphic design, Illustration, Photography, typography

Excellent skills by the members of Ill-studio, a French group of collaborators devoted to design and arts. Ill Studio regroups 10 different people with their own specific skills ranging from graphic design, photography and typography to illustration, video… Their aim is to contribute and stimulate each other to provide high end projects. It seems to work well!!

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Seb Lester - Typography

By Stoffb, September 22nd, 2009

Categories: Calligraphy, Design, Illustration

Tags: Calligraphy, inspiration, lettering, typography

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I wrote at the beginning of the month a post about Alison Carmichael and one of the poster she is selling on her website. In this post was also mentioned a similar work of another UK illustrator: Seb Lester. Well, that’s a sample of his work! Seb Lester is a London based graphic designer with a good deal of skills in typography and calligraphy and a strong passion for lettering. He’s been working on letterings for GQ Magazine, The New York Times and has been featured in different specialist mags like Computer Arts and Creative Review… I’m a bit gutted because Sebastian had an exhibition in Electrik Sheep (Newcastle art gallery) end of July and I didn’t go…

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Alison Carmichael - Hand lettering

By Stoffb, September 9th, 2009

Categories: Calligraphy, Illustration

Tags: Calligraphy, hand lettering, Illustration, inspiration, typorgaphy, UK

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Sugababes - Denial (Island) from Alison Carmichael on Vimeo.

Alison Carmichael is a UK based hand-lettering artist working for a large panel of massive clients like the BBC, Twinings, Cadbury, Becks, Shell, ITV, Ariel… I will stop there else it might take me all night to list them all. She’s got an impressive portfolio of hand-written typography/calligraphy works selected from press ads, book covers… As you can see above, Alison also did some work on videos for bands, films… I LOVE the poster Alison sells in her shop section. It works beautifully with the slogan underneath!

It reminds me of a poster I’ve seen recently based on the same principle but using another rude word (this one is on black and the lettering in golden tones, you’ve probably seen it and know what I’m on about).

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Kaalam - Julien Breton - Light Graf

By Stoffb, July 9th, 2009

Categories: Calligraphy, Digital Art, Light graf, Long Exposure Photography, Photography, Street Art - Graf, Videos

Tags: Art, Calligraphy, Design, france, graf, inspiration, Photography

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Found Julien Breton’s work years ago now when I was still at Uni. At the time, Julien aka Kaalam was mainly working on calligraphy on paper and his work was already astonishing. Last week end, I revisited his website and was completely amazed by his improvements and the new dimension he brought to his work. Light Graf. Light graf or light calligraphy is a mix of long exposure photography and traditional calligraphy (Hassan Massoudy).
See below a video of his work being don on paper. Visit Kaalam’s website for more pictures, videos and interviews (in French).

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Hassan Massoudy

By Stoffb, April 18th, 2009

Categories: Calligraphy, Mark Making, Miscellaneous

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I first heard about Hassan Massoudy in 2002 when in Lebanon for my studies. Found a book about his work in the uni library and totally loved his work… The colours are so vibrant and/or warm depending on the subject traited… The shapes, lines and curves are gorgeous and so controlled… Amazing. His work is splendid but his website isn’t really but go visit if you’d like. Or google it…

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Calligraphy

Sean Freeman - Design

Si Scott Design

Ebon Heath - Graphic design

Pomme Chan - Illustration - Typography

Street Art Barcelona

Ill Studio - Graphic Design

Seb Lester - Typography

Alison Carmichael - Hand lettering

Kaalam - Julien Breton - Light Graf

Hassan Massoudy