A-Side Studio is a print, identity and illustration firm whose focus is on creating dynamic branding communication. They design everything from t-shirts, to advertisements, web sites, posters, and even pencil cases for their growing international client base. They also art direct Stranger and September magazines. They have been acclaimed, but also claim to do clean, clear and concise. Then they turn around and produce something gritty and belligerent. Who says they have to make up their minds?... More
ADearFriend is the design studio of Chris Ro, a recent grad of the graduate graphic design program at Rhode Island School of Design. With prior posts at Attik, Fork Unstable Media, and Fluid, Chris looks to continue both commercial and investigative research in typography, photography, graphic and interactive design through ADearFriend.... More
Hailing from the Czech Republic, but also based in London, England, Positive Zero is a corporate identity and web design firm with some nice talent. We really loved how their portfolio took the large format presentation to the next level with sorting and categorization. The very minimal portfolio presentation made the experience completely seamless and even a little bit sticky.... More
Originally established in 2001 by Michael C. Place, Build is a print design studio focused on the creative process... And sticking to their creative guns, they have forged an international reputation as a forward-thinking graphic studio. They have an exceptional eye for detail, typography, and high quality printing techniques. Their inspirational sense of style transcends popular trends, taking us beyond graphic design, and into the realm of artistry.... More
Studio Grafik is the home of Serbian graphic designer Vladimir Mijatovic, who – while working in agency teams – has created some outstanding corporate identity projects. This portfolio has a very minimal, yet large presentation format... And we loved discovering that you can "mouse wheel" up and down through projects. Logos and visual branding are certainly his strong points, and this website showcases his talents beautifully.... More
A pretty dark, and baroque feeling site for this Flash specialty group. Their work, starting from 2004, centers around interactive design and exploring new technologies. So, when it comes to the latest Flash techniques, like Papervision3D, these guys try to squeeze out all the possibilities, to provide the ultimate user experience.... More
The excellent portfolio of Ivan Pashenko, a young art director with seven years of successful experience in visual branding and interactive design. We loved his unique take on the one-page scrolling portfolio – it's a simple and very effective solution. But we are especially impressed with his logo and identity design work. Check out the Mister Wong identity... it's a killer... in a room full of capital offenders! Great.... More
Brendan James Ward is a graphic designer and art director from Durham, North Carolina... And we liked this site for a couple reasons besides the nice logo, identity, and print work. First was the cycling color logo. Second was the portfolio navigation U.I. that you can actually play like a xylophone, but without that annoying xylophone-toned sound. Simple, but sweet.... More
Lifesupp is the online portfolio of Sebastian Tudor, an art director, designer and occasional copywriter with experience in advertising and branding. More specifically he excels at corporate id, typography & packaging. Based in Bucharest, Romania, his work is mainly driven by print design, as can be seen by his site containing almost no HTML copy... which in this case didn't bother us because we were distracted by the high quality of his identity and design work.... More
Sisu is a small boutique-style firm, but wields a mighty stick when it comes to technology solutions for the web and mobile markets. Sisu serves a variety of industries including entertainment, media and emerging technologies such as mobile and social networking; one large project being the creation of the MySpace Mobile application. Nice site, and some impressive clients (did we forget to mention... Sony.com?) and work from this small, but efficient team.... More
