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Category Archives: Contemporary


Happy 50th, Museum of Modern Art Oxford

Happy 50th, Museum of Modern Art Oxford

In honor of their upcom­ing 50th anniver­sary, the Mod­ern Art Oxford is dis­play­ing 50 exhi­bi­tion posters from their archive to the pub­lic. Stuff like this makes me really appre­ci­ate the sim­plis­tic design sen­si­bil­i­ties of so many design­ers from the UK. Check …

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Feltron 2010 Annual Report

Feltron 2010 Annual Report

The mas­ter of info­graph­ics has struck again. Nicholas Fel­ton has released his Fel­tron 2010 Annual Report. As usual, the annual report is packed with great typog­ra­phy, flaw­less lay­outs and killer charts, graphs and what-have-yous. This issue stuck out to me …

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Excellent New Paintings from Oliver Jeffers

Excellent New Paintings from Oliver Jeffers

I really can’t stress enough how much I like the paint­ings of Oliver Jef­fers. His oil paint­ings are very true to life but they still con­tain a very unique char­ac­ter­is­tic. I am not sure if it is the brush­strokes, use …

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Eight Hour Day

Eight Hour Day

Eight Hour Day is a hus­band and wife design team that absolutely ranks high among my favorite design shops. Their work is a great mix of vin­tage and con­tem­po­rary with excel­lent type skills and illus­tra­tions. They have recently redesigned their …

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Tavis Coburn

Tavis Coburn

Tavis Coburn is an illus­tra­tor who’s work is inspired by vin­tage prints, comic books and Russ­ian avant-garde. His port­fo­lio has sev­eral strik­ing por­trait illus­tra­tions as well as nar­ra­tive and con­cep­tual pieces. His por­trai­ture is what really stands out to me. …

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