Print Magazine

This image is from Print Magazine's 2012 Illustration Competition. This one caught my eye because of the bright and saturated colors against a beautiful dark background which really makes the text and images pop. It's such a clever idea, and I love the typography. It has a very organic feel to it that I love, and the arrangement of the text on the bottom is framed nicely by the art on top.

Tattly Designs

This is from How Magazine. I thought this was fresh and fun. It's a design company called "Tattly" that strives to make temporary tattoos cool again. They design really cool and fun temp tattoos for kids of all ages. They were saying that they were tired of the really bad temporary ones you see in grocery stores or gas stations, so they created this line where you can buy some really cool ones! I love this idea, and some of their designs are really cool that I may just get some!

Tad Carpenter - Communication Arts

Tad Carpenter is one of the "fresh" talent on Communication Arts Magazine. I absolutely love his work, and I absolutely love Radiohead so of course I needed to blog about this. His illustrations are original and creative and modern, and grasp your attention and intrigues you to want to see more. This is a great poster for Radiohead, knowing the nature of the band and what kind of music they produce. I will be looking to Tad as inspiration from now on!

Homework 11 Design Firm

Since our homework this week was to research design firms, I loved the one I got to research and was very inspired because they have all kinds of awesome and funky posters. Since we are getting ready to work on our own posters, this design firm gave me a lot of inspiration. This particular poster combines realistic photographs as well as modern and funky graphics and type. I love how fun it is and how it makes your eye move around the page like a dance. I will definitely be referring to them more often. Thanks homework 11!

Homework 10

Since we were exploring CMYK Magazine this week, I went and found this little beauty. It's a poster created for people to enter a design contest that was from July. I love the in-your-face bold colors and how they pop on a black background. The typography is also very whimsical and creative and all the swirly lines leads my eye around the balloons and discovering new illustrations as it takes my eye around. It's so much fun and it would definitely entice me to want to enter this contest!

Fun Packaging

This is from Print magazine and I couldn't pass this one up. A design firm in California designed these earbud packages for Audiobox Accessories. What a cute and clever idea. It just makes you smile. I bet all the art directors and designers had a really fun time with this one. I particularly like the one with the blue hat and the white glasses. It's simple but very effective in what they were trying to do. Makes me want to go get some Audiobox earbuds!

October 10th

This is from CMYK Magazine and this portrait is a watercolor by graphic designer Marta Spendowska. I love it when a graphic designer also has roots in painting or illustration. I myself am an avid painter and it is where I first got started into art and wanting to put my painting skills onto the computer. This image of Cate Blanchett is so beautiful, it has an abstract quality to it that I love, yet you can still recognize the actress.