report it...

All artwork © Hyperakt

Who said annual reports are boring? This is just brilliant. The White House Project Annual Report designed by Hyperakt, shows just what you can do if a client is brave enough to move away from the standard annual report format.

Those info graphics, those colours, that format. One day I will do something like this.




All artwork © Hyperakt

quote, unquote...

All artwork © Wayne Dorrington

This awesome piece of infographics is just up my street. Big bold blocks of colour, quirky typography and it's actually illustrating some pretty interesting facts. The 50 highest grossing films of all time are illustrated in quotes. The larger the quote, the bigger the amount of cash it racked in. To see a larger version, click here. You'll need to zoom in to read the key at the bottom.

Check out more of digital designer Wayne Dorrington's work here.

stars of the silk screen...

All artwork © Brainstorm Print & Design

Check out these gorgeous five colour silkscreen prints by Brainstorm Print & Design collaborators Jason Snyder and Briana Feola. Such a simple idea executed in such a brilliant way. I love the blocks of bold colour, and the fact that I wish I had thought of this idea myself. Check out the rest of their portfolio here.

block party

Imagery © Siggi Eggertsson

Siggi Eggertsson is an Icelandic born graphic designer. He has worked in London and Iceland but currently calls Berlin home. From his portfolio it is obvious he clearly loves to experiment with typography and illustration, see for yourself here.

One of my favourite pieces is this set for a pitch to the V&A museum in London. I remember playing with similar blocks as a kid, and I love how he has decided to use them to create typography. Its bold, its fun and it perfectly captures the sense of fun and creativity of a 'free art fair'. Love it.


All imagery © Siggi Eggertsson

lovely bit of stuff...

One last bit of illustration, I have just been finding some really interesting artists recently - I promise to move onto other things for a while now! " )

Rodrigo Francisco is graphic designer from Brazil. He is only 19 but has already worked with a whole host of great companies.

I have picked four examples of his work here, in my opinion the best from his portfolio. Love the colours and the way they have a dreamy watercolour feel to them. A very talented designer, I'm looking forward to seeing what he works on next, definitely one to watch I think.




All images © Rodrigo Francisco

many hands make great work...

All images © Orgut Cayli

I love clever and witty illustration, and the ones shown here are a great example. I found this guy Orgut Cayli's design and illustration work on Flickr. Cayli is an art director at Publicis Yorum, a design agency in Istanbul.

The pieces shown here are from a nifty little notebook he has designed. Aren't the illustrations fantastic? I admire how has taken an animal to represent each of the human characteristics and then woven in different shaped hands to make up the outline of the animal, inspired.








For more of Orgut Cayli's design and illustration portfolio click here.

black, white and red...

Vertical Limit is a race up the 42 floors of the Tower 42 building in London. Sounds like my kind of nightmare. But then it is in aid of a good cause; all proceeds go to housing charity Shelter. Here's some pics from the 2009 race.

But it was the design of the poster itself that caught my eye, I couldn't miss it really – the strong use of white, black and red, vertical lines, perspective, diagonal type. All of it reminded me of some of the early Constructivist and Bauhaus designs (shown below) I studied at university. Great to see that these graphic methods are being put to use to create some great modern visual graphics.


Clockwise from top left: Lissitzky, 1920; Zwart, 1924; Kassak, 1924; Schuitema, 1926; Schmidt 1923