Sam Weber
by Jane Lerner
In a pop-culture landscape dominated by the likes of Twilight, Harry Potter, and Avatar, the mythical monsters, heroes, and villains drawn by Sam Weber fit right in. Born in Alaska, raised in several different Canadian provinces, and currently settled in Brooklyn, Weber marks his obsession with science fiction, fantasy, and fairy tales without falling into the territory of 10-sided dice....
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Oliver Munday
by Peter Terzian
In Oliver Munday's designs and illustrations, things often morph into other things. As a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Munday created a typeface out of plastic soldiers that he strategically set on fire and melted, producing an alphabetical army of the wounded and maimed. An illustration on the cover of a poetry book by the young inmates of a prison in Washington, D.C.--Munday's hometown--shows the ridges of a pencil turning into the iron bars of a jail cell. And in a recent poster for PieLab, an Alabama dessert shop and community space created by the design collaborative Project M, a slice of pie inverts to form a beaker....
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Leslie David
by Perrin Drumm
Leslie David got her start in design as a college dropout. She left Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg just before her final term to take a job at the fashion-forward French ad agency Petronio Associates. There she had the opportunity to apply her background in design and illustration to the agency's biannual fashion and culture magazine, Self Service, as well as projects for clients like Colette, Chloe, Pucci, and Miu Miu....
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Tomi Um
by Jeremy Lehrer
Tomi Um's personal illustration projects have a decidedly Buddhist flavor. In the lusciously screen-printed foldout comic The Feast, images of the Buddha and other members of the sangha appear in a joyful riot of color, line, and ink. For an upcoming project, Um is illustrating a narrative called The Noodle Monk. "I've really liked the shape of those curly noodles my whole life, and they're fun to draw," she explains....
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The Sicksystems
by Charlotte West
When he was 18, the Russian graffiti writer and graphic designer known as "Aske" founded the Sicksystems, a graffiti crew that gradually--as is happening more and more frequently these days--evolved into a creative collective and began getting work from high-profile clients like Miller and Nike. Six years later, Aske is striking out on his own, hoping to eventually establish himself as "a graphic artist and not just as a graphic designer."...
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OK-RM
by Peter Terzian
Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath met while studying at the University of the West of England, where they were given a "very liberated" education that focused on "personal exploration," according to McGrath. Their apprenticeships at large design studios supplied the hands-on experience that led them to found OK-RM in late 2008....
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Nikolay Saveliev
by Marlow Riley
When Russian-born designer Nikolay Saveliev was still studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, he came to New York City and worked in an unlikely field: go-go dancing. "It was the worst way to start everything off," he says. "I made some good money; it was all in wadded-up dollar bills. I did it for a week. Then I got an internship at Landor and got to do that instead, which was a good thing."...
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Mikey Burton
by Colin Berry
A native of Canton, Ohio, Mikey Burton has already amassed a broad range of experiences as a graphic designer. As Kent State undergrads, Burton and two friends taught themselves screen-printing and started a company, Little Jacket, which scored logo, brand identity, and various other design jobs....
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Lotta Nieminen
by Jane Lerner
The Helsinki-based designer and illustrator Lotta Nieminen entered her first design competition when she was 12 years old; she won the grand prize--a hulking PC--by creating an entire issue of her very own fashion magazine. "My magazine featured self-staged fashion shoots modeled by friends, and epic stories about seals and Spice Girls," Nieminen says. "The whole layout was made by hand with pencil illustrations, hand-lettered type, and cut-and-pasted photographs. I guess they saw I really needed that computer."...
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Katrin Schacke
by Jude Stewart
Katrin Schacke's work arises via unusual means: She designs by stacking. Her 2008 thesis project at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany, was called "Stanley: The Open Question Magazine." The project visually represents the seven biggest questions in science, using things like white lamps, umbrellas, rubber boots, and an enigmatic sphere reminiscent of Albrecht Duerer's Melancolia I....
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Karim Charlebois-Zariffa
by Steve Dollar
Accomplished in multiple formats and technologies, Karim Charlebois-Zariffa has the spirit of a jazz improviser: By the time he becomes recognized for a particular signa- ture, he's already ripping it up to start again. "My favorite thing is experimenting," says the 26-year-old, Montreal-based designer, who has produced openers for Canadian television shows such as La Liste, and titles for film directors like Philippe Falardeau. "I like to say that I don't have any style."...
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Jonathan Puckey
by Edward Lovett
Jonathan Puckey doesn't design images so much as systems. He and his collaborators, an informal group called Conditional Design (including Luna Maurer, Edo Paulus, and Roel Wouters), build systems requiring human interaction that then sets logical systems into motion....
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