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I Can’t Fly / David Mikula

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David Mikula

David Mikula has an obscene nerdy passion for all things Japanese, mopeds, Goonies and the Pacific Northwest. He sometimes has a neck beard, or feral neck bear depending on how well you know him. Follow David’s beard growth at his blog, Mikoola.

Pascal Habousha

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Pascal Habousha

Pascal Habousha is a master of digital retouching and 3D image manipulation. He is one of the most important advertising photographers internationally. We love his work!

Victor Sahate

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Victor Sahate

Victor Sahate is a creative art director from Brazil who specializes in interactive experiences, graphic design, branding and advertising. Check out his one page portfolio - it’s well worth a visit!

FontBook

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FontBook

FontBook is the largest type reference in the world. This long-awaited fourth edition of “The Font Bible” is the first revision in eight years.

  • Weight: 3kg (6.6 lb)
  • Height: 29.7 cm (11.7 in)
  • Width: 15.5 cm (6.1 in)
  • Pages: 1,760
  • Type Samples: 32,000
  • Type Foundries: 90

Ico Design

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ico design

Ico Design, a London based studio, is rocking out some extremely clean identity campaigns, print and installations that don’t leave any details untouched… except telling us what “ico” stands for.

Universal Everything

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Advanced Beauty

Some places are just worth visiting time and time again. One of those places is the Universal Everything studio, founded by Matt Pyke in 2004 and still going strong in 2008. After you’ve soaked up all you can on the site, head over to their videos page for more Youtubular action!

Incase

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Incase

Incase makes amazing accessories for all your Apple products—and more! We think the iPhone covers (above) are way hot and there’s more to come… so be sure to read the News to keep up with these guys.

NSSGRAPHICA

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nss graphica

NSSGRAPHICA is the work of Japanese designer, Munehiro Machida. Really beautiful blend of Japanese art with modern design aesthetics. Munehiro is also behind many of the interactive works produced for our friends at Uniqlo. Check it!

Xnografics

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Xnografics

Xnografics is a Spanish based design studio, advertising agency and centre for new media, founded by Salvador Regàs, Lluís Campmajó and Victor Lavega. They’ve been around for 10 years so their online portfolio has plenty to show. Well worth checking out.

Photolibrary

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Photolibrary

Photolibrary is a leading independent producer and distributor of contemporary stock photography with worldwide distribution specialized in high quality, creative imagery primarily orientated to advertising, business-to-business and the editorial and publishing markets.

AirMail

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AirMail
After watching Steve Jobs announce the release of the upcoming MacBook Air, Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans had an ‘ah-ha’ moment and made the AirMail, a faux manila envelope sleeve exclusively for Mac—talk about first to market!

Red Design

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Red Design

“Our big break came in 1997 when Mercury Records offered us our first major label album campaign.” One year later they created the artwork for Fatboy Slim’s album which sold over 7 million copies. The rest is history for Red Design.

Tim Lahan

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Tim Lahan

Tim Lahan is a graphic designer/illustrator with a great eye for typography. We especially love his demonstrated sense of humor and creativity! Make sure to check out his blog and take a look at his business cards.

Josh Rhode

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Josh Rhode

Some nice work all around for NY-based designer, Josh Rhode. Can’t wait to see the new site with updated pieces!

Visual Complexity

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Visual Complexity

Visual Complexity intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines. If you’re a Tufte fan, you’ll going to love this site.

Phillip Toledano

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Phillip Toledano

“I believe that everything should start with an idea, whether it be a single image, or a series. I also believe that photography should be like an unfinished sentence. There should be space for questions.”

Phillip Toledano received his first camera at the age of 11. He lives and works in New York City.

Dynamo

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Dynamo

Dynamo is a graphic design studio with Thibaud Tissot and Yassin Baggar. Both graduated from the School of Applied Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). Thibaud is currently working at Onlab in Berlin, and Yassin is at B&P Type Foundry. This find is a big hitter all around!

Akutou Loves You

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Akutou Loves You

Akutou Loves You is the work of French Graphic Designer, Thomas Pereira. It’s like a revived Warhol pop-art style but with modern icons and a fresh new palette. We’re waiting for the rest of the site content…

Andy Gugel is 32Round

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Andy Gugel

ThirtytwoRound is the online showcase of Minneapolis based Art Director and Designer Andy Gugel. This is by far one of the cleanest and most professional interactive portfolios we’ve ever seen.

Sam Glynn

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Sam Glynn

Sam Glynn is a 22 year old designer/illustrator bassed in London, England. We love his style. This is great!

Neubau Modul

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Neubau Modul

Neubau Modul is a practical tool that provides designers with over 2,000 editable and infinitely repeatable patterns. As with Neubau Welt, all of the work shown in this book can also be found as Adobe Illustrator and bitmap files on an included DVD that can be used on any platform.

TypeNeu

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TypeNeu

TypeNeu is a social platform and source of inspiration for all you typophiles out there. They report on the past, present and the future of typographic culture.

We look forward to sharing the love from all the FAIRspot users who submit their fontfolios to our Font Shop.

Santos&Karlovich

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Santos&Karlovich

We like what we see showcased over at Santos&Karlovich. Well worth a visit. Enjoy!