Abducted By Design: It's got EVERYTHING

Prepare to be Abducted by Design. I found this site a while ago, and I keep going back. It's got everything: image bookmarks, designer interviews, tutorials, articles, and more. It's great because it showcases a variety of work from a variety of designers. There are so many styles and graphics which makes it accessible to a large demographic. The downside is sometimes you have to hunt for things you like (I've seen a lot of things on it I think are tacky, heck, I'm not even a big fan of the site's design). As a result of this, I've also seen many styles I haven't, and can appreciate it more. There are great examples of typography, drawings, photography, collages, design in general. The tutorials also seem to be pretty cool. It's a great site for inspiration, entertainment, or if you want to learn about styles.


My favourite thing is the daily inspiration. I've seen some great images (both shown on this post are from this section). It's also cool because you can not only follow this community, but join it. So check it out, you may be pleasently suprised.

Words Are Pictures

You may or may not have noticed my passion for typefaces (fonts, hand done, whatever) so I was happy to discover Craig Ward today. I've seen his stuff before on other design sites but never connected it.




















His work is centered around typography made by prints, cut outs, photography, found objects, anything really. It's very playful. I've found it very delightful. Here is a more complete portfolio.

Mike Perry

So... sometimes designers are so great I find myself frequenting their websites only to find nothing new because, well HECK, projects take a long time (that's why I like blogs, CONSTANT updates). One such designer is Mike Perry from Brooklyn NY. He is part of an art/design collective called YouWorkForThem . YouWorkForThem is "an award-winning group of artists that produce some of the most groundbreaking design work available today" featuring some of my other favourite designers.
Anyhow, I was recently very pleased to discover Mike Perry had redesigned his entire website and added new content. The website itself is now cleaner than before, but it is harder to see his work, you need to get PDF's to see properly. Regardless, his stuff is wicked so you should check it out.
I was shocked to find that there is no Wikipedia article on him (well, not one I could find) because he has done work with New York Times Magazine, Dwell Magazine, Microsoft Zune, Urban Outfitters, eMusic, and Zoo York. He has also published two books called Over and Over (a book of hand made designs and patterns and features Travis Stearns another designer I have posted about), Hand-Job (a book of hand drawn typefaces), and has started a magazine called Untitled. You can see he's a pretty busy guy, so the Wikipedia absence is still confusing me.

www-ilderness

So... I found this guy quite a while ago. I really like most of his stuff so I decided to post it here. He is Travis Stearns and he's done work for: Threadless, D&G, and Nylon magazine among a lot more companies etc.
HE experiments with different kinds of design which I think is really cool. I like his mixes of photos, drawings, fonts, and styles.

These are just a few of his images so check other ones out on the behance network.
He has some good typography, collaging, and seems to appreciate skateboarding. It's interesting how much you can tell about a person by their art. See if you can figure more out...