Max Dalton

Meet Max Dalton! I'll let him do his own introduction, since I don't think I could do it justice:

In order to stop being a stranger to you I will tell you some things about me. I'm Maxim Dalton, an illustrator living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've been illustrating since I was two or three, just like any other kid, and began to take it seriously at the age of thirteen. In the lats twenty years I've been involved in several projects like drawing humor strips for a local magazine, creating animations for the TV and doing some editorial illustration. I'm very open-minded and my interests are very dissimilar, but I'm not going to enumerate them all because I don't want to bore you. I just may say that I like to write, oil paint, take photographs, play music and read about animal behavior. I speak five languages and lived in Barcelona and Paris. I also spent some time in New York. I feel comfortable when I find myself surrounded by mid century objects and imagery, and they all inspire me to do the best thing I know: to draw. Now, you can call me Max.

He sounds pretty rad to me. His illustrations are totally legit and it was hard to select only a few for here. I highly recommend looking through his illustrations and then checking out his blog. Personally, I'd love to have his Cocktail Party Cut Out Set. Brilliant ;)

GVA studio

Cool

via Grain Edit

Chris Larson

I've been meaning to talk about my favorite local graphic designer Chris Larson (he doesn't appear to have a website at the moment) and now that I've come across this gorgeous piece on LOL/OMG, I figured it was the right time. Chris does fabulous work time and time again, and every time I see something from him, I'm impressed (the couple times I've met him, I've been kind of a blathering idiot, just telling him how rad he is).

See the SCENEaSOTA lookbook HERE.

Also, I urge you to check out the [OUTSTANDING] lookbook he created for Voltage: Fashion Amplified HERE.

Olimpia Zagnoli

How rad is Olimpia Zagnoli? She's got such a great eye for color and illustration, and has had some wicked pieces in various publications such as the NY Times, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone (Italy). And she's only 26 years old! Not that that's terribly young, though to me somehow it does seem that way. She's obviously got a bright future ahead of her.

(Via SWISSMISS)

Ering Jang of The Indigo Bunting

I'm convinced that Erin Jang has the coolest job ever. She designs incredibly immaculate and personalized wedding invitations for couples (who have them letter pressed to perfection), and used to do awesome spreads for Esquire magazine (she now works for Martha Stewart Living). I'm constantly inspired by her use of type and fun, simple graphics. When designing my sister's wedding invitations recently, I mostly thought about Erin Jang and what she would've done. I'd love to just sit down with her and talk.

This invitation suite above hits me more than anything else she's done so far mostly because of the awesome mid-century graphics and fun colors and patterns. Oh, to be her!

Kellerhouse Inc.

Kellerhouse Inc is behind recent movie posters such as I'm Still Here and The Social Network. They've done a ton of work one would definitely recognize. I love the theme with the type on top of the simple image of the face (see also the special edition DVD packaging for The Man Who Fell To Earth. They're very simple, striking designs. And really memorable. Take a look through their work, it's well worth it.

Rifle Paper Co.

Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. creates absolute beautiful pieces (hand-painted with care) for her shop. Everything is absolutely flawless and gorgeous and charming and whimsical. Seeing her beautiful work, and realizing I couldn't do it if I tried, makes me want to cry. It's great that she makes such awesome work and makes a living off of it! I totally want to be her.

Christopher David Ryan

I've apparently been seeing this guy's work for years (and, unbeknownst to me, blogged about him already. [don't even bother to follow that link--the image has been taken offline]), but this is the first time I've put a name on it. CDR (which is like, the same initials as my design name-- Caroline Royce Design), does absolutely smashing illustrations in that awesome retro style that I love so very much. I dig it big time. His blog is simple and to the point, and also features a lot of work from other designers.

I encourage you to Check him out.

I love Aaron Draplin

Allan Peters

Allan Peters is a Senior Art Director from Minneapolis with over eight years of experience. His work has been recognized by Effie, AdFed, AIGA, Print, How, Davey and Rockport.

He's currently making stuff for BBDO Minneapolis.

It's always great to learn about MPLS designers. This guy has some seriously fantastic stuff.

ALLAN PETERS <--check him out. now.

Need to Want Less

Saw this popping up around FFFFound, which eventually brought me to the flickr page. There are tons of these things! Some profound, some just silly.

Recovering Lazyholic. <--This lady has a terrific and thorough portfolio besides!

And she also has a SHOP!!!

Wim Crouwel

From Grain Edit:

Wim Crouwel fans rejoice!

The Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) is a dutch website that contains an extensive collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making. They have an impressive archive of work by Wim Crouwel. Over 500 original designs by Wim and his partners at Total Design lay in wait for your perusing pleasure. Enjoy!

Map

I just saw that the Walker is featuring Eddie Opara as part of their Design Lecture Series on Tuesday. His company, MAP, has some wonderfully minimalist and striking designs. I may have to check this guy out. I knew I joined AIGA for a reason.

Sonnenzimmer

Wow, what an insanely beautiful collection of work! Please, check out their POSTER SHOP for more lovelies.

Google graphics

Loving the Olympics theme from Google's award winning design team. (How awesome would it be to have that job??)

(click for larger view)

I still love Olly Moss

The Wolfman, originally uploaded by Olly Moss.

Design Boyfriend

(Flickr and Blogger are collectively being bitches, so I can't scale down the photo. Just head to the original design!)

Seven Days

I don't know why this took me so long, but I have to talk about "Seven Days", which is the work of Christina Couceiro. She's got a fantastic, consistent style. It's well suited to a wide variety of subject matter. Very smart indeed. I'm certainly a fan.

SETE DIAS

Hello! Lucky

I have to gush about this group that does letterpress. Not only is their work beautiful, but their site is fantastic! They have a full section dedicated to their inspiration as designers. And on top of it all it's stylish and cute and whimsical and romantic. If I wasn't planning on doing my own wedding invitations, I would be giving these guys a call.

HELLO! LUCKY

KLAS ERNFLO

oh, fffound, do you ever NOT live up to your name?
I found this amazing website by this fabulous designer/illustrator just now and HAD to share his work.





KLAS ERNFLO

Adam R. Garcia of The Pressure

Here is a GREAT flier that had me dead in my tracks by a local designer for a local club. Through a little investigative research I found him so I could feature him on my blog. Surprisingly, his resume is quite large and impressive, and I'm even more disappointed that I hadn't heard of him until now! Anyway, I very much recommend to you all to check out his work. More love to Minneapolis designers.

THE PRESSURE