Viktor Hertz - Designer & Photographer

Viktor Hertz is a freelance design artist and photographer currently based in Uppsala, Sweden. His work aims to make people aware of the effects that social media can have on people, but his work does it in a hilarious, fun way through the recreation of logos. The "procrastination" piece is one of his many funny work pieces but this piece of work is definitely one of his work pieces that i could personally relate to, as I use Facebook to procrastinate all the time instead of actually getting on with my work. So by simply changing the logo to show the real reason people use Facebook creates awareness in a playful way. Viktor Hertz is an expert in designing posters, he's currently a bit obsessed with custom art movie posters, but tries to stretch his creative muscles as wide as possible.

Melanie Daveid - Art Director

Melanie Daveid originates from Austria but is based in Berlin. Her step into the creative industry were through her artworks and illustrations. Her work are beautifully formed detailed pieces of genius. She has worked with brands as big as myComfort, Puma and Redbull, working on apps that associate with the brands, she definitely has one of the best freelance portfolios that I have seen in 2016, it will be interesting to see what work she does in the future. 

Andrew Fairclough - Graphic designers

Andrew Fairclough is a self-taught illustrator, designer and art director working in Sydney, Andrew Fairclough started out designing skate and snowboard graphics and has moved on to work with top clients including GQ, American Express, Jack Daniels and Penguin Books. I love his work as I love the idea of creating an idea or a story in the mind, and through his work he tells a story through imagination. By creating a design within the silhouette of a head it creates the idea that what you are seeing inside is what the person is thinking about which I think is really clever. His work is inspired by mid-century spot illustrations with a dash of vintage sci-fi and comic art, and he enjoys working with a limited palette to evoke the nostalgia and tactility of found art. I would definitely suggest checking his work out on behance. 

Smirnoff Caipiroska peelable bottle - Packaging

J Walter Thompson created this effective peel away package design for Smirnoff Vodka. With the release of the apple flavoured vodka, the brand wanted a new inventive packaging design that interacts the customers in a creative way. I think the idea of peeling an apple is a genius way of interacting the customers with the package design and it successfully shows the flavour of the vodka. This design would be a brilliant gift idea, you would need to have amazing wrapping skills you can just simply give them the bottle and they can peel away at the packaging themselves. So if you need a Christmas gift idea and they like vodka then this could be the perfect gift.

CS Light Bulbs - Packaging

The new packaging for these light bulbs are full of bright ideas, borrowed from the natural world. The design and art direction was by Angelina Pischikova and the detailed illustrations were designed by Anna Orlovskaya, the clever designs use the light bulb shapes to really capture the shapes of different insects. The inspiration behind all these designs were the idea of a firefly, I love these designs as I thinks it's really invented to use the product as part of the packaging design. Decorated with detailed drawings of insects, these boxes use clever openings to show off the lightbulbs. The bulbs themselves are paired with certain bugs depending on their shape and size. Long, thin bulbs are stored in dragonfly boxes, while the coiled stripes of an energy saving bulb become the abdomen of a bumble bee. You can explore the full range of bulbs and boxes in the gallery of photographs by Yury Rumovski. 

LOVEFIELD (Short Film by Mathieu Ratthe) - Entertainment

Lovefield is a short film that combines elements of horror, suspense and drama to create a story that takes the audience on a roller coaster ride of emotions. The short film cleverly builds up suspension to get the audience on the edge of there seats to then completely surprise the audience with a complete plot twist that changes the mood and emotion of the short film. The short film is very misleading as it starts by making you believe the film is going down an evil, insidious root of murder, but takes a pleasant surprise by changing the plot to the birth of a child. This is a classic case of not judging a book by its cover, Its definitely worth checking out and taking on the ride of emotions.   

The Mummy movie poster - Entertainment

All action, fantasy and adventure movie fans cant get excited as tom cruise is staring in a new movie called "The Mummy" that is gonna bring all three genres into play. The movie is about an ancient princess that awakens from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension. The movie poster was released and already I'm excited, The old meets modern look of the poster creates intriguing questions about the history that will be involved in the new movie. "welcome to the new world of god and monsters" this statement alone is enough to spike anyone's interest, I just hope the movie lives up to the hype that its creating. Role of summer 2017 for the release of this movie, I know I'm going to be first in line to see this movie.

Make me (cry) music video - Entertainment

Noah Cyrus premiered her debut single “Make Me Cry” Following in her sister, Miley Cyrus, footsteps she trying her hand in a music career. The collaboration with Labrinth is a gut-wrenching power-ballad that will resonate with anyone who has ever suffered a broken heart. I thought the song was very clever in the way it replaces words with an iconic noise for the word, for example how in the song the word cry is replaced with a drop of water, it was a creative and different approach. Taking their collaboration one step further, the duo created an official music video for there song. The music video shows the struggles of a bad relationship and lack of interest of affection, it is truly a relatable and simplistic video that I believe fits perfectly with the song. It’s a wonderful start for Noah as a music artist, I think she's going to definitely be hitting the charts by storm.

Danny Jones - Designer

Currently a Design Lead at Dropbox, formerly Facebook. Specialising in 3D tinkering and will someday finally build his own app. Danny Jones’ work musically inspired photo-realism to visually engaging objects, his creations are as diverse as they are beautiful. Perhaps the secret to this talented designer’s creativity lies in his dedication to learning new tools, techniques, and mediums for design work, or his embrace of multiple disciplines, or his willingness to make mistakes. He finds his inspiration from Ceramicists, rare objects, fashion, music, Japanese oddities, industrial design and VFX artists. Danny Jones has worked with big brands from New Balance to Nike, all the way to Facebook.I like how he takes the colour combinations into consideration and creates work that all follow a certain theme and mood. Danny Jones really pays attention to detail, making some truly stunning work, He is definitely worth keeping an eye on to see what amazing work he come out with next.

Mark Bennett - Illustrator

Mark Bennett is an Illustrator, Composer, Instrumental Improvisor and College Lecturer. He does all hand drawn illustrations. His work shows the true horrors of world war one. His work shows still drawings of descriptions from poems from world war one like Wilfred Owen.

I love this drawing as it shows emotion and horror. The top drawing really captures the devastation that war cased, the image really capture the fear and panic war caused. The image really portrays the soldiers of world war one. I think this image shows the true sight of world war one, the images looks to show clips of a sequin of events that a soldier would have gone through in the world war. The image shows enemies in a demonic and frightening way indicating that this was a matter of life and death. The enemies in the tunnel looks like the grim reaper or devilish, the figure could represent death implying that death is at the end of the tunnel not light.

I noticed that in most or Mark Bennetts work he draws a sequin of event for most of his images. This helps tell a story through his work, it also helps to visually see the soldiers expression and see there fear to really get to understand how war really was and to see the true horror of the war.

For mark Bennett’s work he gained inspiration from Wilfred Owens poems, his main inspiration came from Dulce et decorum est. Mark Bennett said in an interview with me“ Majority of my images are black and white for a photographic look”. This signifies that he wanted his work to be as realistic as they could be, so that they could look like a photograph like they are real life. Mark Bennett is definitely worth checking out if you love in depth illustrative work

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