IBM Smarter...

Designed by Avi Akalay these icons are used by IBM's a Smarter Planet campaign, which shows no matter whether you are in need of their products for education or for retail IBM has you covered. Their new logos take some elements from their older style of things and mixes it with a more updated one. I think they are all reminiscent of Paul Rand's work. I love the colors picked in each icon, some how they are connected even though the colors seem spastic. In particular I like the non-traditional take on each icon, they all seem to make sense perfectly but also have an abstract flare.

Optimistic Beverages

This logo designed by Helms Workshop made for a craft brewery in Austin. It was voted 2010 Logo of the Year on the Logo of the Day website. I like it because it is simple and clever. I also like the stylized glass that has an exaggerated dark shadow on the bottom. This is one of those logos that works fantastically on applications such as business cards to billboards. The name of the company is also attractive since it says we are positive people to do business with.

Infograph

The poster above is called an infograph and this one in particular I picked demonstrates how people think when talking about timelines of time very accurately. It just makes sense viewing the information quickly this way by showing a duration of time in a visual bar that wraps around an illustration of the persons face the information it pertains to. I enjoy the topic of this poster as well as it's illustrative content. It shows success is attainable no matter what age you start at. What seems to be popular these days are avatars made out of geometric shapes. Each plane is conveyed by using light and shadow planes and looks like a complete shape from a distance.

Proactiv Bottle

Proactiv face cleanser, toner, and treatment bottles that are gender neutral to make mostly teenagers comfortable to purchase the acne treatment system.  The design is created in a swiss style which makes the product more sophisticated and gives significance to the simple three step process. The negative space and orientation of the bottles connect each other together, showing one cannot work without the other. Designed by Kate Carmack

AMO ENO

I'm just going to say it. I am absolutely in love with this logo. Don't judge. Who would have thought of this? Bruce Mau Design did, and this design firm has some very talented people. This logo in particular was designed for a wine store/bar. Do you see it yet? It is two simplified wine bottle shapes crossed in an "X" and it creates a heart!!! Which is pretty admirable and makes sense because wine is usually referred to as a more romantic type of alcohol. If you check out their website: http://www.brucemaudesign.com/work you will find how they applied this motif in ways through out the store and on its gift bags. They also create the dots using lights and arranging them in this logo to hang from the ceiling. 

MoMA Revamp

Bruce Mau was approached in 2000 to recreate the logo for MoMa and their renovation and expansion of the building. What I found most interesting was his decision not to change anything too drastic but the design and orientation of the logo itself were the changes he made instead. The logo is in Franklin Gothic and stayed that way to keep its original feel preserved. He thought the new logo should represent the new building and is now on one vertical line, wherever it will work this way. In this image, it is shown on their building this way, which gives a wonderful reflection where the "M's" meet the glass.

Breaze

This is extreme luxury people. Reynolds and Reyner from Kiev, Ukraine designed a branding package for a new system of taxis in Hong Kong. The name of the service will be Breaze and their logo inspiration is a capital "B" fused with bird wings. I appreciate their design because it is simple, reads luxury, and can be viewed at any size and still make sense. What I also like about this image is it shows all the sketches he made and all the versions he made before he chose the final logo. 

Chair Design Quiz

The only reason this picture is so large is because I want everyone to truly appreciate how truly awesome each chair is on this chart. The concept is supposed to be a eye sight chart that is a mid century design quiz. What I am very interested in is how the designer of this poster created each iconic chair. He/she did not use simple, flat, lined illustrations but created shapes and planes with shadows to give each chair emphasis on its direction. Not one of these I am confused about. They are all very crisp illustrations of each iconic chair in the perfect way.

Geometrical Character

This piece was created by Miguel Angel from Barcelona, Spain. What is interesting to me about this piece is it looks exotic, which makes since because he is from Spain. Lately I have been intrigued by graphics created with geometric figures. Especially those created from triangles. And even more so within monochromatic color schemes. I am impressed with how the artist chose to represent the planes and colors to create this animated figure that also gives off a sort of mystical feeling. It is a challenge every artist/graphic designer needs to consider creating and would be a magnificent portfolio piece.

Trident Gum

Trident Gum is known for making good for your teeth sugar-free gum. The teeth are represented as teeth within the package to visually relate the whiteness of their gum to how white their teeth could be by chewing it. The designer made the packaging fun and a series so they aren't marketed to just a woman's or man's mouth. You pull out the gum and put it in your mouth and ironically the gum becomes your teeth, metaphorically speaking. The concept was designed by Hani Douaji, in the United Kingdom.

Moet & Chandon

Clearly this is a package designed for champagne. But the concept behind it is so impressive to me I am on the hunt for it! The product itself is called Moet and Chandon Champagne, the concept is called Message on a bottle. It was designed around Valentine's Day for lovers to make gift giving easy with a hint of personalization, which is the most important part of it all. The gift set comes with a gold marker and two wine glasses. The idea is to mark up the bottle and the package as you are enjoying the bubbly!

Zen Perfume

These lovely bottles are designed by Igor Mitin at GOOD, in Kazakhtan. When developing this design he wanted to visually show his consumers what kind of zen they were to expect to smell in each bottle. He combines medias such as glass and plastic to create zen like shapes. Each are using some sort of cylindrical shape to contain the bottle itself and the bottom of each bottle is grounded with a glass platform so each design is unified and looks like they stem from the same brand- Zen. My favorite out of these is the seashell. It just seems to make sense and is quite inspirational.

Animal Illustration

What attracts my eye in design is simple lines that convey negative space more so than the positive space in the piece. I enjoy the couple of whales together, almost resembling a mother whale and her child. They amaze me because where they overlap it doesn't get cluttered or confusing for the viewer. The artist, Andrea Minini, has multiple other art pieces using this same style also specializing in animals. 

Animal Alphabet

If you can't tell, this is an animal alphabet. And not your average animal alphabet. It is much more sophisticated and doesn't look like it is made for your baby to first learn the letters. I adore the way the animals were arranged to convey each letter and makes since. Not only do the animals spell out letters by their position, but the letter is each represented by the first letter of the animals name. This series was semi completed by Marcus Reed. Don't ask me why he didn't do the letter "Y" and "Z".

Fashion Magazine Doodles

As you all may know, I am very interested in fashion. When I found this fabulous collection of covers I geeked. It blends together illustration and the obvious, fashion magazine covers. They were brilliantly designed by interior designer, Ana Strumpf. She exaggerates the look and feel of each cover with random doodles that stands out from your regular Cosmopolitan magazine. More of her work can be found on http://www.anastrumpf.com.br. In addition her website particularly represents her style as shown in these magazines in such a way that is repetitive shapes/patterns.

Ian Fleming's James Bond Collection

This is a series of book covers remade in the theme of James Bond collection. I am not usually a fan of women being used as a "art form" but this is an exception. I really like the artists view on how the women are posed and mixed a art nouveau design with psychedelic colors. I am also attracted to how the women each have small details that make them unique from each other. Such as the "Moon Raker" has a mirror and you can see her reflection in it. Also all the female models are diverse. Which is something the artist most likely paid close attention to. Designed by Michael Gillette, published by Penguin UK, 2008. I found this piece at http://flavorwire.com/238996/15-gorgeous-book-cover-redesigns/view-all

Go Green by Galia Bernstein

From London Transport Museum's competition

What I love about this piece is its so illustrative and all the spaces are filled in with drawings of the capitol, environment, bikes, and is fun. The look and feel of the art showcases wonderful textures in foliage and contrasted with the simplistic lines for the ferris wheel and bikes. The implied lines are very chaotic in the sense that riders are biking every direction and off the branches of trees. This gives off a playful feeling to the audience and looks friendly. What I also adore about this poster is the go green is not in the color green which is overdone and makes this piece original and visually interesting.

This came from 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2010/jul/08/london-transport-museum-cycling-illustration-competition#/?picture=364655066&index=14

Economical Publication

There is something about the monochromatic greens the designer used here that really captures my attention. I like how the colors he/she used were very conscious decisions to take the form of shadows and highlights. The use of the triangles here imitates something of a window through the triangles you can peep into the images shown here. If I were to guess what this publication were representing it conveys to me the sense of economical driving or something of that sort.