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SGPD | Trit House
Award-winning graphic design and visual studio based in Melbourne, Australia. SPGD offers full services online and offline, from branding to interiors, copywriting to fashion shoots always working close with their clients. Research, conceptual development and collaboration, whatever the scale of the brief is. Full project here <<<
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Lorenzo Ballarini | Atelier Xystos
Lorenzo Ballarini is a freelance graphic designer who lives in Verona, Italy. In 2015 he graduated in Graphic and Multimedia Communication and in 2018 he completed his master’s studies in Creativity and Design of Visual Communication in Venice. He founded Mezzopieno Studio, with Elena Caricasole. a graphic and visual communication studio based in Verona. Lorenzo mainly deals with Brand Design, Visual Design and Packaging Design. Its philosophy is based on clarity and readability, proposing effective communication through the use of a few simple graphic signs. Full project Atelier Xystos here <<<
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Lamm & Kirch | Disobedience / Stean Hurtig – Cam
Lamm & Kirch is a graphic design studio focusing on the creation of books, visual identities, and exhibitions in the broad field of the cultural sector. Their approach is defined by continuous cooperations in shifting constellations. Attrached by old and the new, the obvious and the hidden. The studio functions as a research facility to explore various ways of visual language with a defined idea of by working “with” instead of “for” somebody.
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Pizza Typefaces Type Foundry | Kern Basic & Standard
Pizza Typefaces is a Type Foundry by Adrien Midzic and Luc Borho founded in 2018. Since then, they produce variable-font and custom type or retail type design, the daily life of the Paris-based studio. Watch the full project here <<<
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Gradient Type Foundry | PolySans Typeface
Gradient is an independent type foundry and type consultancy based in Bergen, Norway. PolySans is a fresh take on mid 20th century classics, visually distinct from its predecessors by a subtle soft-edge inktrap feature. Full project by Milos Mitrovic, founder of Gradient here <<<
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Displaay Type Foundry | Reckless Typeface
Displaay is a small independent Type Foundry and Design Studio founded by Martin Vácha based in Prague, Czech Republic. Martin is a graphic designer who mainly focuses on graphics, typography, type design, art-direction, editorial, book and magazine design, logo and visual identity creation. He admires simplicity, strong ideas & heavy typography. Full project Reckless Typeface <<<
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Two Times Elliott | Lick Home
London based, award winning, design consultancy founded in 2010. Balancing strategy and design, all of our outcomes are underpinned by a worldly concept; whether social, environmental, psychological, historical, cultural or purely symbolic. Full project here <<<
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Margot Lévêque | Romie Regular
Margot Lévêque is a French Graphic and Type Designer currently based in Paris. She specialized in Type Design, Branding, Web & Editorial Design. After gaining experiences in Paris and Amsterdam, she spent a few months working at Pentagram in New-York with Paula Scher. She’s currently an independent graphic designer working with clients like Hermès Paris, Vogue, Maserati, Actual Source, &Walsh, studio Nari, etc. across the fields of fashion, music, art and more. Romie Regular typeface here <<<
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Kurppa Hosk | Dustin
International brand agency, Kurppa Hosk is a diverse team of thinkers and doers.Based in Stockholm, Sweden, the team uses strategy, brand design and experience design to transform brands and organizations. A strong believe that magic happens on the interface between the linear and non-linear, the rational and irrational, realism and intuition. Dustin full project here <<<
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G Design Studio | Art Athina 2019
G Design Studio is an award-winning design consultancy based in Athens, Greece. The team works across many disciplines from brand identity, to packaging and strategic design, to multimedia campaigns and digital experiences. Art Athina 2019 project here <<<
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Fatih Hardal | Giselle Display™
Fatih Hardal, Graphic Designer, Type Designer and Researcher. He graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts in 2019. In the same year, he founded Hardal Studio in Istanbul, Turkey. He works independently for services and consultancy in typography, type design and branding, with brands such as Adidas, Adobe, Airbnb, GQ, Jessica Walsh and Sony Music. Giselle Display here <<<
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Sebastian Pren | Sundance Tipografia
Sebastian Pren is a graphic designer and Illustrator currently based in Bucharest, Romania. He had worked for clients sush &Walsh, United Coloers of Benetton, Google and Levi’s. Full project here <<<
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Alexis Mark | Chart Art fair 2019
Alexis Mark is the shared pseudonym of Marie Grønkær, Kristoffer Li & Martin Bek, and an office for graphic design, creative direction and communication strategies located in Copenhagen. With an emphasis on identity the office helps artists, institutions and companies communicate who they are by developing and visualising their core narratives. Full project here <<<
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Quatrième Étage | Visual Identity – Atelier
Quatrième Étage is an independent, Toulouse-based, graphic design studio. Founded by Ophélie Raynaud & Valentin Porte. The studio is specialized in Art direction & Graphic design covering works in all areas of print design, for clients in many different fields from large to small scale. Full project Visual Identity – Atelier here <<<
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Koln Studio | IE Foundation Prizes Book
Madrid based, Koln Studio Since its creation in 2014 it has approached different areas –campaigns, visual identity, editorial, digital and web development– with the aim of reaching innovative solutions, always adapted to the needs of each project. An eclectic visual language throws a different light on classic and avant-garde design. IE Foundation Prizes Book Full projects here <<<
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Nizar Kazan | Lausanne Typeface
Nizar Kazan is a creative studio based in Orbe, Switzerland. Type Foundry and graphic design studio, Nizar Kazan has a rich portfolio with many interesting works. See the full Lausanne typeface here <<<
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Regular Practice | Orris Paris
London based studio, Regular Practice is led by Tom Finn and Kristoffer Soelling. The office and its way of working was initially approximated when the two met during their studies at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2019, the studio was named as Ones to Watch by Its Nice That. Orris Paris Project here <<<
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Fons Hickmann | RIAS Chamberchoir – Seasonbrochure
Fons Hickmann studied photography and communication design. He has taught at several universities, held lectures and workshops around the world and is a professor at Berlin University of the Arts. He is a member of the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club New York and the Alliance Graphique Internationale. Founder of Fons Hickmann M23, design studio in Berlin run by him and Bjoern Wolf. Full project RIAS Chamberchoir – Seasonbrochure here <<<
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Quim Marin | Poster Collection March/May 2019
Barcelona-based, Quim Marin is a designer and art director with a strong visual sensibility. His portfolio is load of impressive poster and other prints. A look to his website is really recommended. Full project here <<<
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Soft Machine | Maxeville Typeface
Soft Machine is a part of Open Studio, a Graphic design office. They design retail and custom typefaces. Open Studio is located in Deventer, The Netherlands. Maxeville Typeface full project here <<<
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