I first came across Parra when reading through a cool Nike publication over at Arcade. His distinct illustration style is pretty hard to miss; the simplistic, pointy-faced, hand-drawn characters with bold, vibrant colours and superb typography are nothing short of awesome. He’s also another reason why I can’t wait to go to Amsterdam.
Rik Catlow, aka RIKCAT of North Carolina has a super nice graff-illustration style, I especially like his thick line work combined with collage, it looks great on squashed cans too. If you have a spare $100US or so, perhaps you might light to check out his shop on Etsy.
A small snippet of Dan McPharlin’s fantastic work. He does amazing things with paper, photography, and illustration. I’ve seen his work popping up all over the internet, in particular his paper vintage machines and instruments on flickr.
Interesting branding exploration for 1:1 Architects by COOP. I love that their logo/brand is a 3D object that’s used across multiple mediums:
“Collaboration was interpreted through the picture mark. The three-dimensional mark was based on the geometric principals of the tesseract (a four-dimensional cube) where imagination and varying inputs create many possible angles. Unique in its three-dimensional form the picture mark references the process of architecture. Not complete until constructed, the mark was imagined, sketched, planned, rendered and built.”
Beauty, elegance and grace are terms not usually associated with skateboarding but this HD video for Unkle’s Heaven changes everything. This was originally the intro clip to the Lakai Fully Flared film, shot by Spike Jonze.
