I find the work of Mehdi Saeedi exquisite! He combines his experience in classical islamic calligraphy with a strong contemporary visual look. An internationally known artist based in Philadelphia, Saeedi was born in Tehran, Iran and trained in art & design. He is a typographer and calligrapher whose expertise is zoomorphic lettering design—shaping words into animals and other forms. He has received many awards and his works are to be found in museums around the world.
A selection of interesting links from the wonderful world of the internet!
Have a great weekend!
This looks amazing! The super talented calligrapher Seb Lester, shows us how he creates a doodle on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. This is actually an app called Amaziograph: it applies symmetry to everything you draw. Like this doily-looking doodle in the video.
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These are from the collection of Sunday Sketches from Christoph Niemann, one of my favorite illustrators and artists. Niemann who is based in Berlin, started posting weekly doodle sketches based around everyday objects on his Instagram page. He says. “The idea for the series happened organically: because I always have a messy desk there was all this stuff that shouldn’t be there, so I started drawing around that. Now I pick an object that doesn’t immediately invite any kind of connection – the weirder the better – and then I stare at it until some kind of image appears.”
Scott Albrecht is a graphic design trained artist from Brooklyn. I just love his abstract typography work, especially the colorful pieces from the collection titled New Translations. The works are largely based in typography, meaning they contain words which are not clearly legible. At first you just think it is patterns, but then you realize you can see parts of words.
The specific woodworks are the result of an extensive process that starts with a hand-rendered drawing and requires hours of precision production work. Each piece is made up of dozens, sometimes hundreds of individual pieces that are cut, sanded, painted and re-assembled, often in varied depths.
Albrecht’s work in general incorporates elements of woodworking, hand-drawn typography, geometric collage, using vintage printed ephemera and found objects.
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This is the work of Patrick Simons, a multi disciplinary graphic designer based in Netherlands, with a strong focus towards illustration and handmade typography. Three-dimensional, fluffy and colorful words, floating around like balloons!
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Contributions for the American elections taken from creative people in my Instagram feed.
You may also enjoy these:
Posters that will make you want to go vote
The US presidential election: the creative response to Clinton vs Trump
Momondo is a global travel search site. And they came up with this idea for an ad: They supposedly asked 67 people from all over the world to take a DNA test, and it turns out they have much more in common with other nationalities than they would ever have thought.
Although I suspect this film is using actors, nonetheless I think the message is so strong that it works. Brilliant!
thanks George!
I love this animated video by Parallel Studio. They explain the idea: “We created and directed a video about unsatisfying situations: the frustrating, annoying, disappointing little things of everyday life, that are so painful to live or even to watch.” Oh yes, I agree!!
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