So as 2010 draws to a close the Stylesight graphic team thought it would be good to highlight a street artist who has been pushed to the forefront of the media after scooping the 2011 Ted Prize.
Although we reported his Ted win we felt it was worthy of another mention on the Warning! Graphic Content blog. JR is a
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Seasonal greeting cards are getting more innovative and experimental with every year that goes by. Stylesight’s graphics team have selected some of the strongest and creatively inspiring holiday season cards in the market at the moment.
The fun element seems to be a big focus for many of the cards this year with hand-sketched doodle visuals and crafted fonts featuring strongly.
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New contemporary illustrators' and artists' work can be great inspiration for color, styling and print direction. Stylesight’s Graphics team recently stumbled across the beautifully dreamy works of Betsy Walton, a contemporary folk artist from Portland, Oregon.
Working on a mixture of personal and gallery projects, Betsy Walton's artworks explore and are inspired by human nature, American folk, geometric patterns and Byzantine
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A current exhibition that grabbed the graphics team’s eye recently was ‘Never Judge…?’. In this inspiring art show, 100 artists were given free range to design their reinterpretation of a collection of classic book titles.
Think of the classic covers that grace the jackets of thousands of books and the names of the truly great artists that have
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Pencil illustration can be a beautiful way to express a visual. This subtle but eye-catching packaging for milk cartons is by Depot WPF, an innovative Russian-based branding agency.
The clever use of penciled illustration creates impact against competitors where the milk is usually branded in greens, reds and blues to differentiate types. The hand-rendered illustrations have been inspired by the compelling
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Animation can be a very stimulating area for new graphical directions and visual trends. The Stylesight graphics team has been tracking this awe-inspiring animator over the last year or so.
Cyriak began spreading his surreal animations across the Internet in 2004 and has now built up a respectable following in the animation industry.
Working from Worthing, England, he divides his
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T-shirt graphics can take many forms and are inspired by a mass of graphic subject matter. An interesting new take on the world of vintage graphics is from label Out of print, celebrating iconic and out of print book cover designs in a new fresh way.
We’ve been seeing a lot of vintage film poster graphics translated onto T-shirts and with
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New forms of illustration are an important area to keep an eye on for innovative techniques and stylized subject matter. Two female illustrators that caught the Stylesight’s graphic team's eye over the last few months are Sara Blake and Marion Bolognesi. Both are from New York and starting to cut a groove in the illustration and graphic design world.
Marion Bolognesi
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An artist whose work has been gaining global attention this year is Canadian Kevin Cyr. The Stylesight Graphic team loves his creative exploration of old New York vans and delivery trucks.
Here he focuses on the vehicles' heavily graffitied side panels to create some stunningly beautifully artworks. In our eyes Cyr is an artist who is really bridging the gap
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Vintage airline graphics are an amazing visual source for color usage, font styling and graphical layout. The Stylesight graphics team recently stumbled across a huge back catalogue of authentic vintage design gems. The site in question was an incredibly researched fan site of Swiss Air and its graphic design archives.
The collection shows a great visual display of 60s and 70s
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Picking the correct style of typeface is a crucial part of creating a successful advert or piece of graphic design. New fonts are designed and created on a daily basis, meaning there are thousands of fonts for the design community to select from.
A new font that caught our eye recently was an ultra modern typeface called Faith created by
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Street art is usually not known for its bright color use and frequently is limited to one or two shades for high contrast visual statements. Enter Stinkfish - an upcoming South American street artist with added color.
Based in Bogota, Colombia, Stinkfish’s unique color-amplified art is beginning to turn heads in the fast-paced world of street art.
The artworks are mainly depictions
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Graphic imagery takes many different forms and the Stylesight graphic team is always sniffing out new visual effects and graphic technologies in this ever changing graphic world.
A new inspiring technology that caught our eye a couple of months back was from Dentsu London, a hot creative communications agency. Dentsu has been working with Berg, another inspirational London design consultancy to
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Authentic vintage poster graphics are great inspiration for color use, typography and visual layout. This batch of original sailing posters is from the archive of the German boating show Kieler Woche, which dates back to 1948.
Every year, a contest is held to design the official poster for the sailing event; only five designers are invited to participate each year to
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An inspiring artist popping up on many blogs over the last couple of days is Paul Morstad. His latest works use old forgotten maps as backdrops for some beautiful studies and drawings of local birdlife.
Morstad hails from Vancouver, British Columbia where the landscapes, people, flora and fauna influence his work greatly. His obsessions with maps, zoology and the
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