Sara Kiesling {Minneapolis, Mn}

01/12/2011
by DJ
Photographers

Absolutely love the work of Minneapolis photographer Sara Kiesling. Her bio states she began her work in the music industry in 2004 as a graphic/web designer, and started with photography in 2007. Sara has been doing photography professionally since July of 2008. In addition to music, her current primary focus is fashion photography, but she also specialises in headshots and senior portraits.

There’s almost a magic to her absorbing images, the capture of her subject’s beauty is as enchanting as the light, vivid colours, stunning depth and thoughtful composition

Tw. @sarakiesling

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Hello Christmas!

29/11/2011
by STY
News

The incredibly talented folk at Hello Monday are continuing their mission of spreading some Christmas cheer for another year with their December Monday Give-Away! On each of the 4 Mondays in December (6th, 13th, 20th & 27th) Hello Monday will give away a unique gift to one of their beloved Facebook friends.

Join in and win uber call stuff over on Facebook.

Lora Zombie {St. Petersburg}

25/11/2011
by DJ
Illustrators

Taste the partly macabre, wholey glorious world of Russian grunge artist Lora Zombie. Having mainly plied her trade on the interweb to date, recent times have seen her break through onto the gallery scene (as far afield as Toronto and Chicago), and in doing so introduce a whole new audience to her work. Check out the great video [at the bottom of this page] to the see girl herself in action.

Tw. @LoraZombie  /  FB. /LoraZombie

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10,000 lakes / 10,000 logos

24/11/2011
by DJ
News

Nicole Meyer awoke from her slumber and gazed upon an overcast Tuesday in Minneapolis with an epiphany* – lake logos have a tendency to be, well, fairly ugly, let’s brand the crap out of them! Yes a true lightbulb moment if ever there was one. Anyhoo, she set about an epic life adventure to rethink what they could be. One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Every day… Genius, spectacular and thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyable.

Says Meyer, “Should only take a little over 27 years to hit ’em all. Stay tuned and enjoy.” So, to recap – 10,000 Minnesota lakes, 10,000 logos. Strap in, because there are some really beautiful logos, Marks and type already in the collection. When it’s done, this will be quite some amazing catalogue, an incredible commitment but no doubt and surely remarkably rewarding if Meyer can stick with it. We’ll stay tuned with interest.

Tw. @nicole_meyer / Facebook / Store

*I speculate, these are unconfirmed reports and quite frankly, shoddy journalism.

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Young Jerks {Brooklyn, NY}

23/11/2011
by DJ
Outstanding individuals

Sweet type from Brooklyn designer Dan Cassaro, known to some (but probably not his Mum) as Young Jerks. Nicely put; he puts words on paper so that they might be accountable for themselves. His handy work is available in poster, logo, book and even font form and his blog isn’t too shabby neither, and while you’re there, he’s involved in the rather eye catching 50and50 Project.

Cassaro spoke at this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Conference in Cleveland and has been published in titles including Los Logos Compass and 1,000 Ideas by 100 Graphic Designers. Handsome stuff…

Tw. @youngjerks

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