The Puppet Show, the new artistic project by the photographers Winkler+Noah exhibited 5th to 10th May in Milan.

30 portraits of children from two to eight years old, taken very naturally and transformed into dolls by a subtle play of retouching.
The photo-symbol of the show, has already received two of the most important awards on the international photographic scene:
American Photography of New York and publication in the volume “200 Best Photographers Worldwide” by Luerzers Archive.

An exhibit which becomes a starting point for reflection, sociological research and introspection,
to better understand ourselves and the world around us. And to understand that the best present we can give
to children is to let them be children.

Design Event is pleased to be bringing Adrian Shaughnessy, the self taught graphic designer and author of How To Be A Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul, back to Newcastle after his sold out talk last June for an ‘in conversation with’ evening with Michael C. Place of Build on 25th March at 6pm. They will be discussing Michael’s background, his career, how he founded graphic design studio Build, and talking about the studios output of work.

Michael is no stranger to Newcastle after learning his trade at Newcastle College. He went on to work at The Designers Republic in Sheffield for several years, before founding Build in 2001. Build has since forged an international reputation as a forward-thinking studio, with an exceptional eye for detail and a unique sense of style, and is well-known for its passion for print, type and the craft of design. The studio produces a wide range of graphic work from illustration, brand identity, design and layout as well as art direction for print, websites and animation.

Build has shown its works in several exhibitions in the UK and abroad, most recently producing exclusive print artworks for display within The North Face stores in Japan.

Michael features in the 2007 film ‘Helvetica- A Documentary Film’, has spoken at numerous conferences worldwide, and has twice been a judge at the prestigious D&AD global awards. Clients include Getty Images, Nike, Design Museum London, D&AD, Sony Computer Entertainment and Faber&Faber publishing, amongst a host of smaller independents.

Moving Brands is an independent brand agency with offices in London, Tokyo, Zurich and San Francisco.
“At a time of rapid evolution across business, culture and technology, we help our clients to create, transform and refresh brands for a moving world.
Our approach provides brand and digital strategy, brand identity, and brand expression for an array of digital and print media. Clients work with us on global brand transformation programmes, individual digital and print projects and everything in between.”

The Norton & Sons project presents a very interesting work with the fonts, the vintage classical british font creates fineness and elegance: perfect harmony.

Presentation book “Hidden Design, Hidden Forms” by Franco Clivio, Thursday, February 19, 2009, in Munich, Germany (Pinakothek).

Franco Clivio – shaper, designer, lecturer and collector – shows the complexity of the design process, not by design objects, but on the basis of things of everyday life. Anonymous designed objects: simple, functional, yet elegant and astoundingly. Die Neue Sammlung.

Photos by Hans Hansen

Graphic design by Pierre Mendell

Via Marc Wathieu on Flickr.

Non-Format is the creative team of Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British).
They work on a range of projects including art direction, design and illustration for arts & culture, music industry and fashion and advertising clients.

Littlefury is a collaborative design studio created by Esther Mun and Tina Chang, based in New-York.

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We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence is the new project of Simon Høgsberg, photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Possibly the world’s longest photograph. I’ve spent the last 17 months making. The photograph is 100 meters long (100 m x 78 cm), and is about the uniqueness of ‘ordinary’ people.”

Tamir Sher, israeli contemporary photographer, presents new work in progress on his Blog and Creative And Live has asked him few questions about it and more generally about his work. For more than ten years, Tamir Sher exhibited all around the world, took part in exhibitions featuring many artists and we are very honored being able to interview him.

Creative And Live: What are your influences and in your mind, what are the main lines that you follow? (photographer, philosopher, painter, musician…)

Tamir Sher: I appreciate Artist that devoted also to contemporary times with consideration to the pass. Japanese photographers like Hiroshi Sugimoto and Yasumasa Morimura have impacted my work for their commitment and respect to their tradition. The Russian photographer Boris Michaelov for his doubtful humanism. The cinematographer Nikita Michlkov who is condense the history and culture of Russia throw the eyes of his little daughter Anna. It is very depressed but with hope. In literature Don Delillo is a good example of wide angle point of view with mixing layers of subjects to achieve an epic scene.

C&L: Could you explain, your evolution and your different works stages?

T. Sher: Because I start taking photograph when I was 8-9 years old (seriously!!) somewhere in the mid 70s and develop and print my own black and white photos I was grew up with the medium and some of my changes were equivalent to the changes in the medium himself. The changes and developing in technology as well as the perception of the visual language.

From the black and white series of the “garbage mountain” and “openings” as well as in “objects” and "refills"  where I explore and take pictures of sites and things from my closet area and charge them with metaphysics meanings and emphasize the blacks area as indicator of the world underneath and unconscious. The same use of black can be seen again in later series “mars” and “after mars” I always discover theme that connect my works from different periods, which I was not aware of at the time.

C&L: About your work in progress, I’m interested in layered photos. You take two subjects which are very different and create something new, do you want to captivate and develop the public’s imagination?

 T. Sher:The new set “works in progress” are a collage works. I combined archaic illustrates pages from an Old Russian encyclopedia (which I found in the garbage close to my studio in Tel Aviv) with portraits from recently although the two different objects seems not to be linked with each other in fact they are deeply connected in that they belong to the same metaphoric and aesthetic order. It is precisely what forces me in a sense, to combine the two in the same woven work. But until I discover the theme there is a long process of searching in what I call “laboratory of images” that I feel I have in my studio.

C&L: In my opinion, the superimposed creations are dreams or unconscious representations but it’s my interpretation and maybe your first idea was just esthetic and formal?

T. Sher: At The foundation of each work there is the aesthetic and the formal consideration, but the building up of layers, the mixing up of themes and images achieved like stumbling of a blind man which is to say I submit to guidance from deep sources within. But I’m trying to orchestrate the all process.

C&L: In your set, I’m surprise by the textures (crystalline, matt, dusky, smooth, dark, diffused…) especially in “Objects” and “Mars”. Are textures and materials an important point of your search?

T. Sher: Of course textures are one of the important elements in my works. Not only by the meaning of the surface but more of the quality of the atmosphere.
For me the balance between the subject and the meaning of each piece established by the way I wrapped it up with the texture (color, smoothness…)

C&L: What are your next projects?

T. Sher: I’m always working parallel on different projects when I am stuck with one I continue with something else and push it a bit forward.
In the reproduction works I doing there is two different method of taking the pictures, sometimes I’m out of my studio taking pictures of things that maybe Ill use later in collage works and also looking for new source and method for the illustrated pages.

Thanks a lot Tamir, we have appreciate the easiness of our exchange.
Thanks Nat for your help.

Creative Review Blog has posted a very interesting article about MacDonald’s new packaging. Just read it.

MacDonald’s New Packaging – Lovin’ it?

Pie is a project of Alan Woo, designer based in Toronto, Canada.

“The outcome is a number of triptychs comparing various films of particular trilogies, directors or genres. A program written in processing captures each frame of each movie and essentially creates a ‘pie chart’ of the colours contained within each film producing a simplistic and abstracted representation. Each poster includes the film title, year, director, cinematographer, running time and occasionally, various surprising/unsurprising similarities.”

Just amazing! We Are Sleeping Giants’ pictures create a fantastic univers: light, darkness, color’s deep, skin’s reflects, expressions and many elements are simple and close to perfection. We are flying and dreaming, the time doesn’t exist anymore. This set tell a storie, tell your own storie and for me I imagine something like Paranoid Park, a Gus Van Sant film.

The photographer is Brooks Reynolds, young photographer from Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Some words about it:

“Summer nights encompass some of the most unforgettable times of our lives. There is a certain mystery contained in the darkness & tension. In 48 photographs, ‘WE ARE SLEEPING GIANTS” eludes to the stories of youth, isolation & nearly supernatural experiences during this annual epoch.”

Fred Muram made me smile with his set “Kissing the Celling”, great shots and great idea. He’s influenced by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha and Chris Burden and he explain precisely his work on his site, a piece of it:

“I want my audience to experience images and video that can be understood within the context of similar experiences that might have occurred within their own lives. As individuals we share so much in common with other people, but we are isolated within our own minds. There is a disconnectedness created between every individual and their surrounding universe that is fundamentally integrated through that person’s ability to accept sensory information and respond with language.”

Aldo Sperber ’s exhibition during November 3rd to 30th in La Maison des Photographes, Paris.

Neon Gray is a multidisciplinary art/design kinship from Baltimore, MD and San Francisco, CA.

Advertising Agency: Turkel Advertising, Miami, USA

Creative Director: Soren Thielemann

Art Directors: Soren Thielemann, Hugo La Torre

Copywriters: David Rosenberg, Mark Trueblood

Photographer: Pete Barrett

Miami Expressions

Some works of Swear Words, studio based in Australia.

Fashion photographer, Bruno Dayan uses amazing lighting, we can find it in a Caravage’s piece (“Calling of St Matthieu” for example). His works reminds me pieces of the Italian Renaissance because there is something supernal and relating to Christ in colors and lights.

Louiza Becquelin is a young swiss illustrator (dessinatrice in french) based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She draws with elegance and delicacy, a daily humor through his blog. She will exhibit its works the November, 15 at La Bossette, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Lou Mora is a photographer based in California specializes in portraits and lifestyle for advertising, editorial and stock. He replies to Creative And Live in spite of his busy schedule, thank you Lou.

1. It appears to me that the bokeh you used in your last set contributes to bringing out the personality as well as the identity of each person, did you make it on purpose?

Yes, I did do this on purpose. By using different materials I was able to create shapes both behind and in front of the subject in order to portray a feeling to the viewer of the image.

2. One can feel the instant as well as the particular exchange you have with the person you take a picture of, but do you grant any importance to the production?

Production in the sense of clothing and makeup, yes it is important but only to enhance what they already have. I don’t do much retouching when it comes to my photography. I try to keep things as real as possible. The clothing is always their own and the makeup is only to cover blemishes and smooth out the skin tones.

3. You say having discovered your passion for photography while in Sweden, what were the elements that made this passion bloom?

I moved to Sweden in my early 20’s and decided to buy a camera to document my stay there. The home where I lived had a darkroom in the basement which hadn’t been used in sometime. I took it as an opportunity to learn more about photography. After researching how to process film, it only took one attempt at printing for me to fall in love with photography. And it was at that moment that I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

4. Further on, will you keep on working on portraits or do you have any other project?

I love shooting portraits and you never know where things will take you but I am open to it all.

At this time, he hasn’t any shows scheduled but his work is available on his very great website.

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Konstfack Film for Konstfack university Arts, Crafts and Design is produced by RGB6
Based in Sweden.

Marc Gouby, french photographer, works for advertising and press: BAT, Création Magazine, Photo Revue, Zoom, Photographie Magazine, Libération. Amazing black and white personal work.

Originally from Jura, center of France, Akroe lives and works in Paris. He designed records and identities for majors and small underground labels alike. He has been the art director for electro/hip hop label Institubes. He drew logos and motifs for clothing brands, such as Sixpack who he colaborates closely with.
He was given carte blanche for a month by the Galeries Lafayette department store, designing the windows of the flagship store in Paris, and creating interior decoration for the whole chain. His personal work is frequently exhibited, in France and abroad.
His work proudly enters the graphic collection of musée de la publicité (Musée des Arts décoratifs – Musée du Louvre).

After several years of research, Akroe has finished his “self-analysis through art” and now wants to gather all the elements he encountered in order to create a clear and panoramic view of the graffiti movement. He’s also working on a major project that will directly use tools and processes inherent to mechanical mass production. The results of this “industrial graffiti” work won’t be publicly shown before 2009/2010.

Jody Rogac lives and works in Vancouver BC, where she obtained her BFA in photography from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2006. Since then, Jody has been shooting professionally—some of her recent clients include Rolling Stone and Monocle magazine.

Annabel Mehran is photographer who creates a peaceful and calm world.

Now acting as art director of fashion, art, & lifestyle magazine Anthem, Forest took on the task of a complete design overhaul, as Anthem transitions into a much larger, thicker, and quarterly format.

Forest is a multi-purpose design agency based in Los Angeles.

Currently works at General Project, Ben Pieratt creates brands identities, usa.

Carlo Vand de Roer presents works about emptiness of life and loneliness, the space is the main subject.

Take a break from your computer! Download, print and build your own pinhole camera. Follow the instructions and enjoy! Ready Mech serie are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build.

If You Could is the self initiated project of London design studio HudsonBec. Working with established designers and illustrators as well as exciting emerging talent we produce work for publishing, exhibitions and events. If You Could has been featured in international design and style press including Creative Review, Grafik, Design Week, Computer Arts, Wonderland.

This month We are build and Andreas Samuelsson create the Print Serie , this serie is available one month.

Aldo Sperber is a french photographer based in Paris. He presents four amazing sets playing with size and perspective, I wait for next exhibition.

Michael C. Place promotes “MyStyle” for Pritt in France. He is founder of BUILD: Established in 2001, Build has since forged an international reputation as a forward-thinking Graphic Design studiowith an exceptional eye for detail and a unique sense of style.

See advert on Youtube

Ad agencies – DDB Paris/DDB Entertainment

Creative Director – Tashi Bharucha

Client – Henkel

Movie Director – Yoann Lemoine

Production – Wanda

Guilherme Marconi update new works in his “My Schizophrenic Brain” project.

We show Kokeshi, Blowing Down: “Freedom is to let the wind give the direction of your life…” and Planet, using beautiful colors as usual.
Guilherme creates illustrations for advertising, brands and motion using colorful elements.

Previous Guilherme Marconi’s work on this post: Guilherme Marconi.

When a client comes to you with with a product named after the height of the bottle it’s been packaged in, you know you have to do something a little different.

The answer – a label that is also 12 inches long, printed onto packaging tape that can also be used as signage and merchandising.

Credit: War Design Studios

Andy Gilmore is an illustrator, a designer and musician based in Rochester. His geometrical work is particularly interesting. He plays with geometric patterns and colors and the results is… beautiful! So you can see the mathematics in an artistic view!

BVD is a design and branding bureau that works with the physical formation of branding, independently of format or media. Brand development is above all about relevance – the brand expression has to be relevant to your target group. In order to successfully make relevant design you need not only exceptionally creative and professional designers, you also need business insight, experience from the customer’s side, and marketing professionals, economists and market analysts. BVD has them all.

Henry Hadlow and Ed Cornish denounce photographers who manipulate their work photographs to tell something else, different story. They give the example of Lui Weiglang who used photoshop to overlay an antelope and a rail in Tibet.
So they made funny pictures about this subject to protest against faked photographers. But they also used photoshop to make them, so it is a vicious circle…!

Daniel D. Fell is an american photographer, based in Georgia, USA. Step into his universe and explore North and South Album, amazing atmosphere.

Si Scott is a graphic design studio who’s works are about drawing, design and types. “All illustrations hand drawn”, he creates unique pieces.

To see more, a film is also available on Youtube: The Secret of Drawing and he will be showing at the Threadless gallery August 1st to September 2nd.

After a residence in Issue Galery, Ghislain Garlin exhibits his work until the 26th september. On the occasion the book “Grain de Beauté” will be published and sold on the site.

Ghislain Garlin creates his world full of characters between normality and abnormality. A work very meticulous with many details and very greats ideas.