I miss this guy a whole lot.

Zak Kyes is a Swiss-American designer living and working in London. He runs his own studio and is Art Director of the Architectural Association (AA Print Studio), London.

“Perhaps the most innovative American photographer of the past 50 years whose unique style has transformed the way we look at the world. His influence on our visually led contemporary popular culture is now so pervasive that it goes unnoticed. In fashion shoots and films, advertising and art photography, Eggleston’s everyday view of things, initially dismissed by critics in the mid-Seventies, is now the prevalent aesthetic. Put simply, it would be difficult to imagine the world according to David Lynch or Gus Van Sant or Juergen Teller or Sofia Coppola without the world according to William Eggleston.”

Sean O’Hagan

Oh so great!

I found Lina’s Flickr via FFFFOUND!, which lead me into her portfolio site. Can’t decide which one’s the nicest, but her photos are top notch!

Working in the fields of fashion, art and advertisement, the Dutch photographer Maurice Scheltens creates still-lifes that are both hyper realistic and completely artificial. Objects taken from the worlds of commerce, fashion and design are removed from their natural habitats and placed in a new environment, often exposing them to uneasy conditions. Remote controls, haute couture dresses and cut-out pictures of fruits, vegetables and plants are dangling on cords, balancing on other objects or left all alone, lost in a monochrome background.

1991–1995
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading: A place known for ‘design for reading’, with a unique approach to the study of design theory and history. While there John co-designed Typography Papers.

1995–2000
Omnific, assisting Derek Birdsall RDI. In a converted Islington factory with the Birdsalls (Derek, Shirley, Elsa) where design and life mixed and lunch was central: A memorable sunday lunch and layout discussion with Frank Auerbach, Bruce Bernard and Lucian Freud while working on Freud’s catalogue raisonné. Learning about book production under the guidance of Omnific partner Martin Lee. Designs for, among others, Arts Council of England, Channel 4 Television, Marlborough Fine Art, Yale University Press, National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) and Thames and Hudson.

2000–
In 2000, John established a freelance design studio of his own. Though while still collaborating with Derek on Common Worship, a new prayer book for the Church of England. In 2001, he co-founded Workplace Co-operative 115, a new building in Kentish Town built for designers and makers. Alongside the studio work, teaching jobs included: 3rd year tutor BA Graphic Design at Central St Martins, 2003; visiting tutor University of Reading 2001–2003, British Council book design workshop leader, Calcutta 2004. Took on Michael Evidon, a ex-student from St Martins and moved studio to Long Street, London E2 in April 2004. John and Michael work with wide range of collaborators: designers, photographers, artists, writers, illustrators, editors, printers, architects etc. depending on the job in hand. For an approach to work see the studio profile by Jonathan Bell.

Founded in 2007 by Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Burns, Part of It works with artists to create products for causes they are passionate about. Sales from products benefit charities chosen by the artists.

Our man Ryan made the Museum shirt shown above.

“Invisible wealth is to be found in open form. It radiates a compressed concentration of highly-charged power that is transformed with suggestive radiant force into infinite space in strong dynamics and unknown dimensions. Art at its most sublime is a hymn of praise to creation, an invisible but ever-present force.A sense of the infinite, a flight to an invisible destination. A positive change of man’s inner life, a realization of his world of ideas. An intellectualization, a visualization of the positive source of creative power, a visualization of its ethereal beauty.”

Olle Bærtling

Hey friends,

After some major trouble with the site (not even gonna start and try to explain everything) we are back in business. We’d love it if you could start spreading the word and keep emailing us your portfolios, tips and criticism.

The new site is about done and will be released in the near future. We’ll let you know.

Join our Facebook group, if you haven’t already.

Love,
Team

London agency Saturday has a new site up. Make sure to check out their updated portfolio section. Great work!

I just stumbled upon one of the nicest portfolio pieces I’ve seen in a long time. Peter was a partner in Grundy & Northedge from 1980 to 2006, now working as Peter Grundy art & design. Have a look!

Lovely illustrations by Stockholm based Stina Persson. Thanks for your e-mail!

Some pretty sweet fall updates.

Excellent work from Copenhagen, Denmark.