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Peter Guthrie

Shelby White — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:49:31 +0000

Yes, that’s right. These are all 3D renders. Peter Guthrie is a freelance visualization artist based in Falun, Sweden. From 1995-2000 he studied Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, then worked for a number of Architect’s Practices including RMJM Ltd. and Richard Murphy Architects in Scotland. His work is among some of most realistic I’ve ever seen in this field. So good in fact that I only found out that the Allandale House images were 3D by digging deeper and coming across Peter’s site.

I often wonder where visualization/3D artists should draw the line when creating super realistic environments or if they should at all. The only reason I say this is because Peter’s work is almost unidentifiable as 3D work.

Can you tell these are renderings?

You can see more of his process by rumbling through his blog.

Oxford Metrics Group Annual Report

Shelby White — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:21:31 +0000

Z3—a design studio out of the United Kingdom—designed this beautiful annual report for their client Oxford Metrics Group. The report was hardbound with a pullout glued onto the cover.

Artiva Design

Shelby White — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:09:46 +0000

Artiva Design is a creative studio located in Genoa, Italy and have been around since 2003. Their work is based on the interests of two designers, Daniele De Batté and Davide Sossi, in visual art, graphic design, illustration and multimedia. The thing about Artiva’s work that I just love—same goes for most of the international style works—is that it is pure and the message clear.

Apple Announces the Beautiful New iPhone 4

Shelby White — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:28:45 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

The first time I saw the new iPhone via Gizmodo I was very skeptical about the design simply because of the square-ish feel. On top of that I really just wasn’t to accept the change. All of the previous products had these beautiful rounded edges and just felt fluid in your hand. I now see this design as giving the phone more substance. The design to me just feels more modern. I would love to get my hands on this phone and also this house—what a perfect, modern fit.

See the key features.

Mid Century Flip Clocks

Shelby White — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:18:59 +0000

Prior to seeing the Mid Century Modernist’s post about flip clocks, I hadn’t the slightest interest in these type of clocks. However, I’m now very interested and am trying to find a clock like the first image of the 3D rendered Ricoh Clock. I particularly love the reversed type on all of thse and the beautiful number flip that happens as the time changes.

Hexagonal Spaghetti Packaging

Shelby White — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:28:52 +0000

Neal Fletcher designed this intriguing spaghetti package while in his second year at the University of Central Lancashire. I find this packaging particularly interesting in the sense that it divides up serving size. I find this helpful as I constantly over do the serving size every time when I make spaghetti.

Sustainable Typography by Autobahn

Shelby White — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:13:06 +0000

Autobahn is a Netherlands-based graphic design agency. This project that they created was for a festival of performances to be held, triggered by twenty-five works of art. To help navigate people around the works of art, Autobahn created this typographic way-finding system.

Each of these forms were laser cut from sustainable polystyrene. After the event was over, the objects were rounded up and recycled. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the designers got their hands back on these beautiful foam pieces when the event was over.

V-One Jet Charter Branding

Shelby White — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:41:14 +0000

It’s been nearly a year and a half since I completed this project in school. The project was a self-initiated re-branding of V1 Private Jet charter. The reason for tackling this particular company was that their branding was loose. It looked as if the aspect of design throughout their brand had been lost sight of. Being that V1 is a jet charter service that offers their luxury-minded clientele on-demand private jet charter services for both domestic and international travel, I tackled this design in a whole new way than their previous mark.

The initial reaction when beginning the logo process was that the previous V-One was in resemblance of something too close to military and science (periodic table of elements). The new logo utilized a powerful mark in addition to hand-drawn type. The new logo represents aspects of their clients: luxury and exclusiveness. The logo’s “V” shape also incorporates a slice that enables the shape to be interpreted as a bird flying high, or a jet taking off up and to the left.

New Bohemian Signs

Shelby White — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:23:05 +0000

Stumbled across these awesome sign peices by New Bohemian Signs, a San Francisco based business. Their work is in hand-painted signs and have been doing it since 1993. Be sure to pay a visit to their website to see more of their stunning works.

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Two Thousand Ten Calendar by AisleOne

Shelby White — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:52:09 +0000

This is a gorgeous limited edition 2010 calendar by Aisle One. The calendar size is 16.5″ x 23.5″ (A2) and is printed on Crane Lettra Fluorescent White 110 lb paper. This is the same brand of paper as this other calendar I posted. I would love to have this hanging on my wall but it looks like they are sold out.

One Man’s Pantone Past

Shelby White — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:54:43 +0000

I came across this set of ridiculously cool, used-looking Pantone chips a while back and had to share them. I’m led to believe that David Hyde is the owner of these chips. The aged color and tears are really cool to reference, but other than that, there really isn’t that much to them.

Check out all of them on My Pantone Past.

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Serif + Sans Serif Classification

Shelby White — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:30:58 +0000

It’s a beautiful thing to see typefaces classified and grouped for us to quickly look at from day to day. Particularly I’ve found the Periodic Table of Typefaces to be most helpful. For nearly a year I had it as my desktop background. Every time I looked at my desktop I was looking at type and studying. You can grab the full desktop version here.

These next posters by Martin Plonka are all about Serif and Sans-serif classification. Besides being a beautiful set, I could see them being very useful in classrooms to help students understand the categories of type as well as seeing examples of the type in application. These posters are somewhat small but Martin covers these categories:

• Slab Serif
• Serif Old Style
• Serif Transitional
• Serif Modern
• Sans Humanist
• Sans (Neo)Grotesque
• Sans Geometric

Helly Hansen Ad Campaign

Shelby White — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:12:16 +0000

Helly Hansen–as you may have already noticed by my Annual Report project–is a major manufacturer of special gear for sports and outdoor work. The HH headquarters is in Moss, Norway which as it seems, would explain the style that comes across through the brands’ design.

The particular agency that created these ads was Swiss Publicis Zurich in 2005. Some other information that I found about concluded that Markus Gut was the creative director, Isabelle Hauser was the art director and Roy Spring was the copywriter for this campaign. These don’t quite fall into the normal range of my posts but this campaign appeared to have a strong driving concept. With that said, my favorite ad is the penquin ad.

FRAME BY FRAME: The Helly Hansen Annual Report

Mid-Century Modern Inspiration Pt 2

Shelby White — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:58:29 +0000

More inspiration from the Mid-Century Modern Art & Design Flickr pool. I would love to find out what cameras were used to take these images–if you know anything, please share.

The Colors of Mid-Century Modern

Shelby White — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:43:12 +0000

There is always something stunning about coming gems like these. While they may not be the most attractive images, they certainly have helped me nail down that ever-so-unique mid-century vibe. I’m most drawn to the Siliconized High Gloss and Color Varnish sets.

You can see some other examples of these colors in use here and here.

Images via Modative.