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[Self Promo→ thisisgrey.com/case-studies/…] — We build a brand exploration for @immunefi with my friends Fab Soldano, Dan Schriër, @Lauracsc_ , and @robably__ . Super proud of this big, fun, and generative crypto brand and the friends we made along the way.
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Any style executed by excellent people with rich people as clients will be fantastic. The test for a style is how it works when is developed by average designers for the masses and sold at an affordable price.
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buff.ly/464jGsO — ErrorError studio is good with type but that photography... whtat a unique flavour for food art direction. Super good.
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You already know Vasilis Marmatakis and his posters but let me point attention to his website and the insane flex on not showing projects but google searchers for his own work. Amazing.
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buff.ly/3Nclzwj — Atio Studio is sleek. Big type, all black, hard grid, all good signs. All good results. All good music.
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Taiwanese Houth Studio are print lovers and they have that talent for layouts with non chalance raw shapes that flow. Big but supple and soft. Beatiful. [Link in reply]
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mattneedle.co.uk — Matt Needle is an star illustrator creating movie posters for a better timeline.
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principal.studio — Principal Studio is very post french and they are good good, specially when they mix their own photo and graphics. Super nice.
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buff.ly/3L2Aoh4 — Smith & Diction is a studio with lots of experience and solid output. Not flashy but it always works. Specially
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samcorijn.com — Sam Corijin is a graphic designers with original ideas and I hope to see more stuff from him. The car logo posters are fun.
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erichu.info — Eric Hu (@_EricHu) has a new website and it is pitch perfect with the amazing legendary quality you and I expect. Legend graphic work, of course.
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works.studio/ — Works Studio have created a very subtle gradient brand that made me go into gradient mode. This should be a trend.
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buff.ly/3MLHp9t — Josu Larrea, fellow spaniard and paramount confident cool designer is one to follow.
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buff.ly/2VWgmMC — You know when the contrarian impulse kicks in and you want to say no to a trend but then you see a guy like Jason Combs creating timeless pieces with it and you realise you are very wrong. Well, that happened.
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foundry.abbrprojects.com/ — Wait a minute, why nobody told me about Abbr Foundry and their very well done typefaces? Saved into my "bests for next project" folder.
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typeverything.com — The sheer quantity and quality of typographic work Typeverything strikes like a train. That's what top talent do.
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buff.ly/3YHvxJm — Un Barco is an argentinian studio that is growing into a new level. I like that. Good looking lastest work.
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SMLXL are master of the NYTimes diorama as illustration, oblique colour pairings and more esoteric graphic design generes. From Bacerlona to NY to world domination. Fantastic.
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buff.ly/3Ef4U6j — Back to Wedge Studio. One of my favourites. Real brands, smart ideas and true to their clients.
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itsbombom.com/ — Maybe I have been focusing too much on brand and not enough on hard working UI. Bom Bom have been doing good UI and it deserves some love.
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buff.ly/3DXrlKr — Victorie Douy (@victoiredouy) illustration feels super soft but also psychodelic. Are psychodelic pillows a thing? Becuase it feels like that. Excellent.
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rachelquan.us — Rachel Quan is just great. She did work for Apple she cannot show but I think her other stuff is much better. Her folio is a good reminder that great talent can only flourish in freedom.
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lovework.studio/ — LoveWork Studio is a very comfy remote branding studio and they have the best millenial vibes. Happy.
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alex-creq.com/ — Alexandre Créquer exudes graphic youth. Right retro, right energy. Great presentation.
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buff.ly/3Y4OlRE — Peregrin's studio Denton is a fantastic typeface superfamily. Although they only have one. Can't wait for the next one.
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Thought — The only goals worth pursuing permanently in your design career are:
1. Pay rent with your design work.
2. Pay a mortgage with your design work.
3. Raise a family with your design work.
4. Keep designing at 65 as happily and diligently as this man is.
ALT Architect Peter Cohen photographed for Dwell Magazine
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Mark O'Neill is still on hardcore focus on super sharp technical graphics and the results are getting better and better. Perfections.
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carlosmayo.info/ — Carlos Mayo is keeping the right unnaproachable stance from Madrid. And yes, being unapproachable is good.
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meat.studio — Meat Studio (great name) has one foot in Canada and another one in Beijin but I think in reality both are firmly planted in big design award territory. High level design.
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buff.ly/3bKSTpL — Oddity are really good with two projects that are just legendary. That perfume bottle is mythical. So beautiful.
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buff.ly/3Ef4U6j — Wedge elevates their brands so well. The art direction is fantastic and the brands are simple good typogrpahy. Well done. The Vacation stuff is soso good.
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buff.ly/3YyeZUs — Alex Hunting (@AlexHunting1) is a paper superstar. That be best type of superstar. Magazines are cooler than movies.
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stephenlurvey.com/ — Stephen Lurvey (@swurv_swurv) is an ex-Apple man of perfect taste in posters, hand-written type and beautiful excess. It all looks so so good.
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and-atelier.com — And Atelier (confusing and good name) are fantastic at breaking up with grids in a style that feels like perfect order. Flawless.
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bleed.com/ — Bleed studio (good name) is a digital studio that is unexpectedly good on graphics and that is a rare gift. Keep it up gentlemen.
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buff.ly/3VA8f7z — Biliktu type foundry only does psychodelic typefaces becuase why not and I think it works.
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buff.ly/47r53R5 — Javier Jaén is an old school art director creating legendary covers of superb quality for NY Times and big big magazines. Super star.
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Keya Vadgama (@keyavadgama) is super fine and she the absolute perfect positive vibes to crush it in big brands. Also, they way she presents her work is perfect. Rich but clear and fast.
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There are not enough days in the week to re-post ActualSource. These couple are absolute top in creative direction, client selection, and absolute taste.
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sulki-min.com — Sulki-Min is so minimal it's more art than design but precisely for that reason, great design. Approved.
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nizarkazan.ch/ — The art of doing the right thing with the fewest elements possible always looks future, unapproachable (in a good way) and expensive. Nizar Kazan does a lot of that and it looks as expensive as you can expect. Very.
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buff.ly/3CH0B38 — Marina Veziko is so good at making even sans typefaces feel organic. Those colours. Need to learn from her.
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littletroop.com — Little Troop are graphic super stars and I am filing them in under "elite graphics". There you go, filed. Now moving on with the learning. Sooo much to learn.
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Mass Driver is a froundry with a talent for clear, potent, typefaces. Solidity, clarity, and grotesque muscle to the max.
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cecile-roger.com — Cécile + Roger is a Geneva based design team working hard. Quantity leads to quality. Always. Top Swiss vectors.
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buff.ly/3NdoZ1S — Caroline Bagley has the taste and it's good good but can we also take a minute to appreciate that scroll bar? So nice.
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fonts.studiofeixen.ch — I think Studio Feixen (@StudioFeixen) might have released the final sans to rule all sans. It has a lot of variable properties and the site looks good good good... can't wait to try it out.
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atio.studio — Atio Studio is addicted to black and I understand because it really works. Great text excess layouts too. Very modern.
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buff.ly/3V4BDkf — Pocca are a Chinese studio and they are at the top. Super clear with a particular style on colour and shape. Always rich.
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Harodl Bennet is a designer and writer. He writes for the best designers and designs for the best foundries and his style is immaculate and so pitch perfect, we should put it in a museum with a plaque that reads "London 2023". This is it.
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tomi.work — Tomi Um is a megastar illustrator and yes, we don't have enough budget to pay for her services but we can always dream. NewYorker regular. Wow.
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sunyoungoh.com — Sun Young Oh is fully commited to raw experimental graphic design as art and it works. This is the internet that I hope survives the current automated era.
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y-u-k-i-k-o.com — Studio Yukiko is producing next aesthetics for elite connosieurs. Pay attention, the future is hidden in what they do. New new new.
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buff.ly/3nLnIEL — Democracia Studio do great work in Valencia and they deserve to have more national and even international clients, so clean. I love that clean happy style.
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sometimes-always.com — Sometimes Always are super hard work, zero mockups design team releasing authentic graphic design without filters. This is the way to do it. Huge fan.
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eliottgrunewald.xyz — Eliott Grunewald's typefaces can jump from fun to classics and he remains the master every single time. Top class.
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karlofrancis.co — Karlo Francis is a man of taste and he is dropping hardcore sans at Apple. Well deserved Karlo.
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I don't think the Turkish have been educated enough to understand that the overeducated precariat lifestyle is not simple poverty but quaint, bohemian asceticism.
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buff.ly/3MLmthL — Skala Studio is a Swiss studio doing real design in modern Switzerland. One of the few.
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buff.ly/3v3HUC0 — Aaron Poe's work for SquareSpace is fantastic. Presentation, storytelling, presence... super good. This one I have to study in detail. Lessons.
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robclarke.com — Have you seen the absoultely perfect BrandNew new wordmark? Rob Clarke (@RobClarkeType) did it and no surprises, he is the absolute master of hand lettering wordmarks. Wow.
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tristanhuschke.com — Tristan Huschke is doing so much and so perfect ugly-pretty fantastic visual work it is overwhelming. Weird and free and lots of it. Flawless.
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ahora-studio.com — Most studios these days are better at presenting design than they are pure graphic design but Ahora Studio is precisely the opposite. Good graphic design for detailed designers to discover.
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lareugonzalez.com/ — Laureau Gonzalez is a studio doing something very unique against time and all trends. The end result is very very luxurious and elitist in the best way possible. I don't think I love their stuff but boy do I admire what they are doing. Bravery demands respect.
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buff.ly/3vSaaba — Hueso is an insanely good Argentinian studio and they have created one of the latest WhatsApp campaigns and a lot of other projects that are insanely powerful. This is quality.
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chantaljahchan.work — Chantal Jahchan (@chantaljahchan) has defined the look of The New York Times and The Atlantic with her collages and with that an epoch in visual history. Extra-planetary talent.
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pedrodesousa.org — Pedro De Sousa is a designer who can create a type space between futuristic and grungy that I just love. These textures and details work so well.
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buff.ly/3XpV60X — Design Sake (great name) are good designers with a lot of art direction and little type but the type that's there, it's good. I like their logo. What type is that?
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monga.design — Monga looks maybe too trendy but I like trends. Trends in the digital era are emergent crystallisations of the cultural world... and they look nice. Let's enjoy graphic trends.
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tobiasbolliger.ch — Studio Bollo (great name) is not argentinian but swiss and he designs like he operates from Berlin. It all works. Very dance.
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noplan.studio — NoPlan Studio practice two very much appreciated arts. Number one: no fluff site, all there quick to see, no wall texts and little friction. Number two, good old hipster graphics where everything feels just so lovely.
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everyday-practice.com — Everyday Practice is one of the best best and I love everything they do. Website, works, quantity, tone. This is the mode.
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mavallone.com — A lot of environmental deisgn from Matt Avallone and eventhough spaces are not my specialty, the talent and big projects are too obvious too ignore. Space taste and art direction craft.
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nuevo.tokyo/ — The Nuevo Tokyo (@nuevo_tokyo) team build an amazingly real, truly new, and beautiful camera. I didn't believe they could do it but they did. I was so wrong. Incredible perseverance and outcome.
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snehasanks.com — Sneha Sankar did the CMF brand for Nothing and there is not much else that needs to be said. Top quality. Also you can see her fast evolution in her folio but I don’t think she’s stopping here. More amazing in the future.
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lychkovskiy.com/ — Mikhail Lychkovskiy is doing everything swiss (well) and he's also a poster master. Quantity leads to quality which leads to next level layouts. That's the iron law of design.
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anti.as/ — Anti studio is not very anti but very much for proper brands like Remarkable and many others. Top quality taste.
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buff.ly/3Vg1Psv — The best for a great week, WorkByWorks. Megastart from another graphic planet. If you don't decide to become a graphic designer after looking at this, you might like trying becoming an accountant.
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angellotorres.com — Angello Torres is pure graphic excess and I like it. More is always more, specially in this new world of max information. More more, good good.
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Non-Objective are absolutley amazing. I love their stark super emblematic and mega clean way of designing and presenting. Everything project feels like a legend and I think it is. One of those designers with a unique touch that always always feels super new.
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crystalzapata.com — Crystal Zapata has taste and attitude to be the protagonist in her work. Good good. Nice memorable graphics and that flower that is so iconic.
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stahl-r.com — We are still in Berlin and now at the house of Stahl R and of course it is still extra and super good. Raw and brave identities here.
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buff.ly/3EfTAWZ — Jiayi Li is a superstar illustrator with a retro manga style that feels like it is not serious but it is and that is the whole point. It shines.
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both.nyc — Both NYC is a design couple creating wedding invitations and I know the snob in you is thinking "omg low class" but get down off your high horse, these look great. Good is good.
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buff.ly/3zcQVdS — Noah Baker has good taste and that is what matters in 2023. Good material.
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vacafranske.com — I really like the style of this man (@franskeej) when he creates and presents logos. Feels like a scifi movie and since we live in a scifi movie, yes.
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hugoblanzat.com — Studio Hugo Blazat is big fashion, big brands and big quality. Bimba&Lola, Kenzo, V&A, Issey Miyake, and more. So big and good.
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buff.ly/3iFUi8R — It is great to see what young people like Corinne Ang are doing. It is not perfect but the wrong has a purpose and it is new.
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buff.ly/3VN01Yr — TypographicallyYours are fun typographers and I love their stuff. Not only typefaces though, look at that interaction for About and Contact.
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herrpeter.ch/ — Studio DP is a swiss studio producing honest graphics and beautiful posters you should absolutely purchase, I know I am. The right honest attitude is just good.
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buff.ly/3Q8Mmbq — Very cool typefaces or may I dare to say, frosty cool. Yep, good stuff from FrostType.
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buff.ly/3ZbQBIU — Twist is doing big brand with nice wordmarks and sharp colours. Australian but feels London.
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studioairport.nl — Studio Airport (good name) has an incredible wealth of work and they really know how to place and layout subtle type. Super talent.
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buff.ly/3QSsehj — Catherine Potvin is a nice designer but her illustration style is what you will remember. Only lines but so lovely and memorable. Perfect.
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dianeboivinatelier.cargo.sit… — Wow Diane Boivin is a next level master of graphic art. Perfect curves, colours and layouts. She flies high just on graphics. Amazing.
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simonsweeney.me — Simon Sweeney (@simon_sweeney) is the creative director of Kepler Interactive and he is making big video games with great aesthetics. Big approve.
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bureau-independant.fr — Bureau Indépendant is a young studio, and young studios are where the new is happening. Look at these cutout cards. Very nice.
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buff.ly/3o5nE34 — Ania et Lucie is a fantastic studio with fantastic super clean typography and sleek art direction.
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buff.ly/3oG6161 — Back to Studio Freight (@studiofreight) good looking thick and dark cyber sans. Good looking.
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