Made Above The Fog

Stranda Ski Resort Visual identity / Branding

artcode — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:25:43 +0000

Stranda Ski resort has been a popular destination for ski enthusiasts ever since its opening in 1957. Recently its image has been revamped with a new logo and visual identity, with the intention to make this haven for skiers even more exposed and popular, both nationally and globally. The idea was to make a presentation that would capture the beauty and majesty of this resort and its surroundings.

Tom Emil Olsen is a recognized graphic designer, creative director and art director who has been honing his skills and developing his talents in this job for more than 12 years. He is running his business from Aalesund, Norway, finishing a number of projects and design solutions for Norwegian and international clients alike. He is a creative director in one of the foremost Western Norway’s advertising agencies – Havnevik. http://www.havnevik.no

Handmade fonts – unique, nontraditional fonts

artcode — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:50:27 +0000

These fonts are made by an Estonian design studio that specializes in creating interesting font solutions fueled by the inspiration that is within all of us. This duo of designers, Vladimir and Maksim Loginov, manages to present fonts in a new light.

Every font that this font factory produces is made in accordance with all of the current standards and can be used in all print applications, as well as in motion design, seeing that each of their collections offers animated fonts suitable for users that are dealing with video editing software such as: Adobe After Effect, Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas etc

Be sure to visit http://www.handmadefont.com and enjoy their incredible diversity, because the examples we displayed are but a fraction of their entire portfolio.

Jazz Onze + – print design, editorials, cultural happenings

artcode — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:23:50 +0000

Enzed graphic design based in Lausanne, Switzerland specializes in print design, editorials, cultural happenings and corporate design. This amazing series of posters for Jazz Festival Lausanne that was made by Nicolas Zentner will leave you breathless. You’ll first notice great photographs that combine mundane scenes and objects with Jazz elements and instruments. After that, you’ll be taken by the simple but incredibly appropriate typography on each of the posters.

You can view more projects of this studio on www.enzed.ch

Liverpool English Pub – visual identity

artcode — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:39:43 +0000

Kiev based Reynolds and Reyner agency found their work for the Ukrainian first traditional pub “Liverpool”, to be quite a challenge. In order to get things going, they began their work on creating the visual identity by analyzing the city of Liverpool, its history and historically significant landmarks.

The base colors of the identity are brown and beige, while gold and red details add to its strength and beauty.

Extraordinarily fine details and shapes of everything from glass coasters to menus were obviously made by inspired minds. It’s a pity that I wasn’t able to find any images of the pub’s interior.

Ruadh DeLone – Photographer

artcode — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:03:46 +0000

Ruadh DeLone a great photographer and photo manipulator from Rheden Netherlands , works on freelance bases for people, companies and publishers.

His incredible portraits are marked by great color, lights and background composition. Different emotions that never fail to make the observer stop and think are evident in his work. His photographs are very diverse in nature and you can see a lot of different aspects in them as well as some famous faces such as Salvador Dali, Charlie Chaplin and Stalin.

This wizard of photography and Photoshop has really provided us with a veritable feast for the eyes.

You can visit his page at http://www.delonefotografie.nl

Personal visual identity for sommelier Markov Anatoly

artcode — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:10:33 +0000

Markov Anatoly, a member of the Russian Sommelier Association, had an incredible visual identity made for him by the Eskimo Design Studio from Murmansk, Russia.

This visual contains a monogram with the M and V letters that are skillfully combined and that represent Markov Vinery. This combination, complemented with other elements, gives a rustic and natural look to the wooden box that is fashioned in such a way that it resembles a vine box. What makes this visual identity special is the set of stamps that can be used to make personal calling cards. The rough paper, on which you can clearly discern the dry mark, and the wooden calling cards casing, give this great project an added level of excellence.

Work team: design, manufacture — Emelyanov Pavel. photography — Pleshkov Andrey.

Look full size images (1600 px width) at: http://revision.ru/work/55893/

CA Collection Typeface

artcode — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:26:01 +0000

Sawdust is an award winning partnership of two independent graphic designers Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton with the headquarters in London, UK.

Their specific disciplines include identity creation, illustrations and design in the areas of music, art, culture, fashion, corporate visuals and advertising. This approach and their work on visually remarkable projects made them well known all over the world.

The thing that I would specifically like to mention is their CA Collection typeface, a truly modern and special typeface designed exclusively for Computer Arts Collection. The whole process of the making of this typeface is recorded on 48 pages of descriptive text, and its application on a music album is pure fiction intended to show one of the ways in which this typeface can be used.

Jean-Yves Lemoigne photographer

artcode — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:11:57 +0000

Jean-Yves has been in advertising photography since 2004, he has worked for a great number of well-known creative agencies from all over the world, which is not surprising when you consider the quality of his work and the fact that each of his photographs is a truly unique work of art. You can visit his website and see all of his selected projects, each of them tells its own story and they are all captivating in their own special way. The list of awards he has won is equally impressive: CannesLions Festival, New-York Festival, Clio, EPICA, Eurobest, French Art Director Club…
PDN Photo District News Annual 2006, 2007/2008/2009 advertising photographer of the year CB news magazine, 200 best advertising photographers worldwide, lürzers archive – 2009 / 2012

Visit http://www.jeanyveslemoigne.com/and enjoy.

J.Hilburn Branding & Print Design for Custom luxury men’s clothier

artcode — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:02:21 +0000

J.Hilburn Custom luxury men’s clothier had a problem with their promotional material as it didn’t reflect an image of a luxury clothes manufacturing company. Dallas, Texas based agency Tractorbeam® took it upon themselves to solve this problem and they did a great job at it. They made a custom fit workbook/booklet with great photos of products and beautiful illustrations that fit in perfectly with the rest of the design. The booklet is held together by spiral binding that is hidden by covers until the booklet is opened, all in all, it’s a brilliantly made promotional material.

All they work you can find on http://tractorbeam.com/

The Kabel Typeface

artcode — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:35:06 +0000

This great typeface comes from Germany and was made by a graphic designer and art director Mathias Nösel. Typeface of this quality can find many uses, as you will see from the images bellow. It is really extremely modern and universally applicable, it can be used both in vector and 3D graphics where its characteristics really get to shine. This typeface is free for commercial use.

You can find this pearl of typography at goo.gl/LubkC

The Kabel Font – Time Lapse from mnoesel on Vimeo.