Rami Niemi is an illustrator from Finland. His colorful and minimalist vector work is an illustration of “less is more”. And color is good — very good. Very detailed and narrative work inspired by interactive stuff and music. He has worked for clients like Nike, Stüssy or Wired. World representation by Agent Pekka (pekkafinland.fi).

Onur Senturk is a designer and director at Prologue Films, he lives in Los Angeles, California. He studied traditional painting and figure drawing followed by a traditional animation degree as his BFA. He took part in several international and national collaborative exhibitions both in print and time-based media. He designed and animated the famous motion design piece “Triangle” awarded twice by Vimeo as best motion graphics and “Nokta” which received honorary mention from Ars Electronica (Computer Animation/ Film /VFX category). He has been featured in many national and international magazines, newspapers, events, such as Onedotzero, Stash, Computer Arts, Freemote Born Digital and Motionographer with interviews, presentations, articles and showcases both online and published. He contributed to David Fincher version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opening titles with design animation and creative direction at Blur Studios.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, opening titles designed, animated and produced at Blur Studio.

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Epiclayers is graphic designer Karen To‘s portfolio. She is a young designer, illustrator and form-maker who recently graduated from CalArts BFA graphic design program and we’re proud to tell you she is available for free-lance work! I particularly love her combination of colors, her different styles of illustration and the work she did with type creation. So, have a look, there’s also some great layout for motion design and some experiment stuff. I think it is interesting to discover young (but mature) portfolios among those renowned artists…

Gaetan Billault is a French graphic designer and illustrator. Having lived between Paris and Dublin for the last six years (2006-2011), he is now based in London. Gaetan Billault has a very cool and unique personal style.

Lustix is Gabriel Pulecio’s portfolio. Motion designer and illustrator, Gabriel Pulecio. is based in New-York city.
justinkcase.tumblr.com is his personal blog also showing interesting drawings. Member of the KDU.

Adam Dedman is an illustrator and graphic designer from the south coast of England who has produced work for clients like Burton Snowboards, Nike 6.0 and The Washington Post. Adam Dedman’s style is something between ornate drawings and doodles, mixing hand drawing and photography with a really interesting personal touch.

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Cartoon Network – Madventure by Adam Dedman

Mr Oso is a new design studio based in Madrid, gathering people with multi-disciplined background. They focus on art direction and also creative programming and motion graphics.

Alexis Facca created Paper Donut collective with the help of a few versatile artists: Justine Ricaud, Fanette Guilloud, Benoît Brulbault, creating great colorful compositions… Alexis Facca just has joined our project « Paper Art trends » and is now featuring in the free iPhone and iPad app. Here is a short interview to learn a bit more about Paper Donut…

Who are you?

Alexis Facca, art director and web/dev at lost hours. I created Paper Donut in Septembre 2009, that quickly became a collective after the repeated help of Fanette Guilloud (for the photographs) or Justine Ricaud.

How did you come to work with paper ?

During my studies I had a subject about paper. Then I started to explore the possibilities offered by such a material. I was seduced and quickly started with little volumes that I tried to propose for commissionned posters or flyers that I did beside school.

Can you describe your work, your personal style?

Bright colors applied to geometric shapes. Very few curves (apart from the lamp Nebula). Contrary to what a few people may think: “No. We’re not obsessed with food!”

What qualifiers would you use talking about paper?

Ephemeral, infinitely colorful, delicate, adjustable at will.

What do you like best about what you do?

I really don’t have any preference. What I like is precisely the diversity offered by the paper. It leads us to work at different scales in different sectors for large sets, or small volumes, transmitting a strong message for an advertising campaign or finding ingenious solutions for packaging.

In your imagination, is paper hot or cold?

Hot and cold, it’s true that for many the paper is white, that means cold. But as I said it can be infinitely colorful, it offers dozens of combinations of warm colors.

Julien Servy is a motion/graphic designer and webmaster working to be more peaceful with himself. He likes to arrange pictures and mix it, slap it, scratch it, and give it a second life. A very personal style of mashup, collages and montage.

With offices in New York, Los Angeles and London, Brand New School is a vertically integrated production company and design studio that delivers extraordinary media on all platforms. Offering a new model for creative digital production, they are filmmakers, developers, designers, animators, editors, illustrators, and producers dedicated to driving communications to new heights.
Brand New School is very proud to announce the official launch of its new website, online now at www.BrandNewSchool.com. The site launched in beta mode during the recent holidays, and today, Brand New School (BNS) founder, executive creative director and director Jonathan Notaro and his colleagues are inviting everyone to please visit, provide feedback, and share in the fun. The site has also been nominated for a Favourite Website Award (FWA).
“We now have offices in New York, Los Angeles and London,” Notaro began, “and my goal with the new site was to creatively showcase the bonds between our people. We wanted the site to allow each of us and our friends and colleagues to learn about each other, and to share our work, our inspirations and our cultures.”
For this ambitious project, which so far showcases well over 130 BNS projects and lets anyone make and share their own versions of BNS reels by assembling and editing videos on the site, Notaro engaged New York-based Linked by Air (www.linkedbyair.net). The firm’s principals Dan Michaelson and Tamara Maletic focus on creating systems that mirror and support institutions and communities through their visual design, their functionality, and by evolving and growing over time.

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FUEL TV On-Air Brand Rethink, December 2010, Design & Production Company: Brand New School – Original Music: Tinie Tempah “Frisky”