Janine Rewell is a freelancing graphic designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. Her awarded works have appeared in advertisements, product packaging, book covers, magazines and posters. Janine’s computer-based vector style combines basic geometrical forms with small decorative elements. The style is often described as absurd yet naive, with a modern Slavic touch.

Johan Prag is a Swedish Art Director living and working in Tokyo, Japan. Before coming to Tokyo, he was part of renowned design agency Stockholm Design Lab in Stockholm, Sweden. Check out his updated portfolio website to see more of his astonishing work in various fields including print, typography, photography, film and CG.

Have a look at the astonishing graphic and web design work of Darren Firth, Art director and Co-Founder of UK based studio ‘Six’. This portfolio shows his personal work under the name ‘Keepsmesane’.

“I try to capture the energy of a person who is being true to themselves. This I believe is the essence of a photograph.” – Michael Muller

A short biography…

Michael Muller was raised in Northern California. Due to his father’s business, he spent most of his time traveling with his parents. After seeing the joy of taking pictures with his father, he first picked up the art of photography.

When he returned to the US, he started out photographing snowboarders and saw his pictures exposed after only 1 year. With little experience he got accepted to Otis Parsons School of Design. But after a short semester he was to be considered an art school dropout.

He didn’t give up on photography. Running on talent alone, he started photographing the most prestigious names of fashion and entertainment.

His portfolio shows a decade of photography, traveling, and experiencing people. With his work shown on the covers of the most important magazines today.

In 2007, he published a gallery titled “Quiet” for The Art of Elysium, with water, or underwater-photography as his subject. You can check it out here

His website, mullerphoto.com, has an innovative system of user interaction.
It has been created by Jason Kristofer, (he too has an interesting site to say the least).

Check out the recently updated portfolio website of Roanne Adams. She runs a design studio located in New York and creates astonishing identity work for brands and non-profit organisations, including the famous (RED) product lines supporting the global fund and the fight against aids.

Sixty thousand miles in thirty-six weeks. Thats how far and how long this sketchbook has traveled before reaching completion. It was randomly sent through 4 artists: Mac Premo and Duke Riley from Brooklyn, Oliver and Rory Jeffers from Belfast. The result is an impressive work of art, a conversation through illustration.

Every graphic designer needs inspiration. Here’s our top 7 of the best websites for logo & identity design inspiration. From databases to blogs we covered it all. If you like we missed out on something, or you yourself run a logo related website or blog, feel free to post a comment with your link.

1. Logopond

Definately worth its number 1 spot, logopond delivers a wide variety of logo’s from their large userbase. Along with an active logo related forum and blog logopond allows you to upload your logo’s to show off your work or for critique. Their search function works really good if you are looking for something specific and they have a very high quality ‘Featured’ section.

2. Logo Faves

Unlike our number 1, Logo Faves offers logo’s on a ‘submit’ type basis. Out of these submissions they deliver a wide selection of high quality work. They have a handy rating system that does not require registration, and with those features deserve the number 2 spot in our list.

3. Logo From Dreams Awards

Every day a new logo gets awarded with a spot on the Logo From Dreams Awards website. Every month one of those wins the logo of the month award, and as you would expect all of those qualify for the logo of the year award. Definately a good, daily updated source of inspiration.

4. David Airey’s Blog

David Airey is a graphic designer with a vast website including a very informative blog with articles on graphic design which along with his own logo design portfolio earns him the 4th spot on our list. The link brings your directly to the logo design category on his blog.

5. Logo Design Love

As if one fantastic blog wasn’t enough, David Airey couldn’t help but create a whole different website devoted to nothing but logo design. Regularly updated logo design news, enough said…

6. Brand New

Brand new is a blog by underconsideration.com bringing you their opinions on everything related to logo’s and corporate identity work with daily news and active commenting.

7. Logo Lounge

Last on our list is Logolounge. They have a huge user created database and if you are lucky, your work can be selected to be in their anually published Logolounge book. The catch however is that it’s not free. Membership costs you an annual fee of $100 and because we are supporting free inspirational resources but do not want to leave logolounge out, they come in last on our list.

User Submitted Links

It’s inevitable that we are going to miss out on some quality sites, so feel free to post a comment with a link to your favorite logo inspiration source and i’ll post it here.

• http://webbyarts.com/280-best-of-best-inspirational-logos
• http://www.logosauce.com/
• http://logooftheday.com/
• http://faveup.com/
• http://www.lemonflip.sk/archnv/logos-all/
• http://www.logomoose.com

Nothing says “we rock” like a well designed poster.
Here are 10 selected posters you should see.

Let us know which one is your favorite !

Designer: F2 Design

Designer: Jonathan Schmitt

Designer: Lure Design Inc.

Designer: Andrio abero

Designer: The Small Stakes

Designer: Cody Fennell

Designer: Micah Smith

Designer: Spike Press

Designer: Strawberry Luna

Designer: Dave Conrey

Here’s another portfolio by a Moskow based design studio. I’d give you more info but their entire website seems to be in russian, so a link to their very impressive portfolio will have to do.

Charlotte Rivers explores the creative inspiration and practical considerations behind recent design work. An interesting read, Excerpted with permission from Book-Art: Innovation in Book Design.