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Joshua Prince aka Dust La Rock is a graphic designer, illustrator, and savant, based in Brooklyn, NY.

ReubenMiller : Designer Packing Tape Review (over 20 designs).
I found this one via Core77 and it’s all related to our own fitacola (means ‘adhesive tape’), where a good collection of tape designs and the respective designers are showcased. I want some!!!

My Friends at VASAVA have just loaded some cool new works.
Also don’t miss their Store/Gallery: Vallery, showing works by previously featured on FitaCola, MARIO HUGO.

A very nice selection of Record Envelopes.

A few weeks ago, I was surprised while visiting my local news stand, to look at the price of a PRINT MAG, it was about 40€!! no lie! No I wonder where retailers and distributors get such percentage.
Today I was reading the regular newsletter from amazon, they are now offering a 6 issue subscription for only $37. I can save ± 80% if ordering through amazon. This is not easy advertising, a serious recommendation! Click the image to access the promotion (time limited).

Demo is Justin Fines.

Design / Art Direction / Broadcast Design
Brooklyn, NY 11215 © 1997-2007 Justin Fines

Hellovon has some fresh portraits ans watercolors, plus typography. A bookmark.

Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design

Superuse.org is an online community of designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in inventive ways of recycling.
Superuse is initiated by 2012 Architects and Suite75

Found him a year ago and he made such a progress that it’s hard to beat. Clients include magazines like Wallpaper, NY Times Mag, Wired and Flaunt. Way to go, dude!!

www.loveworn.com/

Veer Patterns collection.




Copyright © 2002-2007 Veer Incorporated

Dino dos Santos is one of the best designers in the contemporary Typographic scene making some beautiful typefaces. He has graduated in Graphic Design at ESAD - Escola Superior de Artes e Design - Matosinhos, Portugal.

In 2002 he was awarded the Mphil in Multimedia Arts with a thesis about digital typography and its relevance in new media systems (Monox was designed for Master Graduation purposes).

Since 1994 has designed typefaces for several magazines and corporations.
He joined Design Atpt in 2001, and created the digital type foundry DSType within Design Atpt.

.: ROJO®daily :.
Next March 21st 2007 will be ROJO®’s sixth aniversary! We will celebrate it with a special printed all color 320pg issue, featuring 58 artists and four different covers by north-american artist MWM.

MASA’s work has a srong emphasis in the research of Latin-American pop and worldwide contemporary street culture. The result is a crossover where urban and folklore references get blended together to produce fresh ideas and strong brand identities in every work.

I met these guys over at placeproject and they have been developing some very good work in design, illustration and motion graphics. Very pleased to now their work gets better and better.

Quality Graphic design is always welcome at fitacola.

Dear you, my name is Timo Gaessner and I am running this independent Graphic Design Studio called 123buero™; consulting, developing and realizing contemporary projects.

My work is based on typographical solutions – in addition, I design or modify fonts
that I apply to my jobs. Sometimes I even finish fonts so they can be purchased and used by
other designers.

Julian Montague presents The Stray Shopping Cart Project.

Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and suburban landscapes of the industrialized world. To the average person, the stray shopping cart is most often thought of as a signifier of urban blight or as an indicator of a consumer society gone too far. Unfortunately, the acceptance of these oversimplified designations has discouraged any serious examination of the stray shopping cart phenomenon.

Until now, the major obstacle that has prevented people from thinking critically about stray shopping carts has been that we have not had any formalized language to differentiate one shopping cart from another.

Besides making good graphic design, Julian also has this interesting project consisting in insect drawings, amongst other stuff.

Steven Harrington makes some beautiful prints.
Read his interview at Heavy-Backpack.

Mouneer Al-Shaarani’s works are surely an inspiring source for graphic designers and typography lovers.

Click thumbanils to browse some of his magnificent works:

Mouneer Al-Shaarani’s arabic lettering experince is different and he is unlike many calligraphers who present and repeat traditional calligraphy in an upgraded from Al Shaarani’s research focuses upon introducing innovative works that respond to modern aesthetic requirments and, at the same time, keep intouch with, and form an extension of our calligraphic heritage. Al Shaarani has not taken our tradition as untochable sacred heritage. nor as an integrated on ewith no room to add or omit. He shapes his work according to graphic requirment of latest formations. Al Shaarani strictly adheres to the spirit of calligraphy in his omissions and additions.
He trends to transform arabic calligraphy into modern piece of art that is liberalised from old sanctities, he refrains from using stretched statments o rekiance on others, which remind us of the old days of laziness and depression, rather, he selects statments that convey meaningful messages and stimulating potentials and innovations. To consolidate his penetration of traditional sanctities, he resorts to using various colors with the intention of emphasising his departure from the closed circle of earlier artists.

Yousef Abdelki, Artist

Joe Kral’s Collection of Penguin Books. Click the image to access his collection, starting from this great cover.

Pelican - Islam by joe_kral_tpc on Flickr.

Off topic: We are also in process of compiling and archiving a collection of our acquired retro magazines, books, postcards and pamphlets… Must remember to scan before cutting into pieces for our assemblages.

A good resource for Printed patterns and decoration tips. Fabric, wallpapers, gift wraps, stationery, ceramics… suggestions and trends for a better living. maintained by Bowie Style, United Kingdom, who’s a designer and trend forecaster with a passion for pattern in all its forms.

Print & Pattern

The wait is over. 54 Yellow Pencils and 2 Black Pencils have been awarded from over 24,500 pieces of work. These winners can truly be said to represent the very best in design and advertising from around the world in 2006.

D&AD Awards 2006

Images courtesy D&AD

Stumbled upon this great Blue Note Covers archive. Over 1000 covers (mentioned) some of them graphically awesome.
Click on the images to see more at Amazon.com

This is a very uncommon way to have a Web presence. The agency Mother knows how to make a difference and in their website, a quicktime VR tour shows and informs about every single detail as if a monastery guide to the dullest tourist should be. I couldn’t find pieces of their work, company info or client stuff - (…maybe it’s there somewhere, maybe they have it somewhere else) but everything and more about their awarded studio physical architecture, people, decor, etc… even the windows are documented and explained to the scientific detail… A tour to appreciate on your spare time along with a very well executed and detailed 4D views…. Tell me it’s humor or not. I like it (company, site and sight) for being different and I hope it’s just temporary because I’m damn curious about what they do. Anyone?

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MOTHER BUT WERE TOO AFRAID TO ASK

Joseph of Bookdesignreview (Nytimesbooks.blogspot.com) shares his favorite cover designs from 2006.

Eline van Dam (zeloot.nl) from The Hague in The Netherlands creates illustrations that are hard to describe. Attempts at classifying her work has included language like Gaudy Colored Psychedelics; Hybrid Polychromatic Creatures and Amorphous Hallucinatory Monsters.
Via Newstoday.com