Soulseven is the very playful creative studio of Minneapolis based designer Sam Soulek. With smart thinking, clear speak and solid design, not to mention a beautiful eye for illustration, the award winning Soulseven studio is worth checking out.
Those Kiwis with a designers eye will have spotted these beauties in the supermarket; turns out the calligraphic gems were the work of Hook based down in Wanaka with help from Peter Gilderdale.
The King Series wines were designed to celebrate an ancestral link to pirates operating out of Lundy Island in the 12th and 13th centuries. This is coupled with a pretty swift nod to the family’s rocky relationship with English royalty. It’s always nice to find out the story behind a brand.
Hook does not have a website at present but you can contact Chris at: chris@hook.co.nz
Effective, appealing commercial design is a skill often overlooked. Iron Design, of New York, have a body of work that is a wealth of fun and efficiency built since ’93. Interesting type mixed with smart colour choices make for a fanstastically solid and consistent body of work.
Tw. @DesignIron / Fb. IronDesignInc
As a rule, we don’t tend to feature “full service” agencies, primarily because we’ve always found that good design is often secondary or even tertiary to other parts of their business and as a result devalues our fair craft. There are few companies that provide exception to this rule, however, and Manchester’s RAR recommended K2L might just be one of them.
They certainly talk a good game, and on inspection hold true to that. There is a consideration through their portfolio of goodies that suggests they’ve successfully bucked the one size fits all trend set out by many other nameless multi-faceted service providers.
Tw. @K2LMarketing
Jamie Hoyt-Vitale, a self confessed problem solver and all round top designer, showcases her wealth of experience on her portfolio site viixii. Working within the music business and now freelancing on her own, Jamie shows a real passion for type-driven design and printing techniques.
This week Cloud 9 has journeyed to an occasionally overlooked corner of Oz, Adelaide. And thank god we did because we have a new design crush, hello Parallex, I think you might be ‘the one’!
As a designer myself it is creative ideas that drive me so when I stumbled across the work of Parallax I knew I’d unearthed a gem. Beautifully executed, intelligent yet relevant ideas based design. Now that’s what I’m talking about!
Having picked up an UnderConsideration Brand New Award only last year, Foreign Policy do some incredible work. With branding at their core, where most draw the line and leave it at that with a simple Mark and stationery set, FP take a concept and literally leg it; only looking back to see the line as dot on the horizon, yonder. Their work has been published in all sorts of titles, both in print and online and it’s no surprise – it’s terrific stuff and we’re massive fans.
Tw. @foreignpolicydg / FB. foreignpolicydesign
Great work from Russian illustrator and artist Irina Troitskaya that’s she’s brought to life through a series of characterful Russian dolls. Her portfolio is full of charm and warmth with a twist of wit and cultural heritage. Her work has been commissioned by HP, BMW, Elle, Mamas & Papas among others. Personal favourite is the work for Lonely Elk.
