_words by Seek and Peak: “I’m Brandon Schaefer, a 25 year old graphic designer. I make things, and am available for freelance and commissions. Please, no crimefighting requests”.
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_going down the rabbit hole is easy with Talita Hoffmann.
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_something in the way between UFO’s and Szymon Roginski.
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_Jessica Walsh is a Scorpio, likes sushi and is a multidisciplinary designer. We dig.
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_we’ve never featured a booking agency, but we just felt for the name of this one: Approaching Serpents, hey the even book Eliot Lipp!
Sneak Peek: Lay Flat 02
_Our dear friends at Lay Flat, an incredible magazine about photography, are releasing their second edition titled Meta. The concept? We’ll just give it to you straight from the horse’s mouth “Meta brings together the works of contemporary photographers whose images are conceptually engaged with the history, process and conventions of the medium itself.” The roster of photographers is insane: Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles Benton, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, Jessica Eaton, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Gill, Daniel [...]
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_color coding meets AWESOME, courtesy of Michael Johansson.
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_this is Good William and the Eye of the Dead by Andy Kehoe [ makes us think in some bearded Bowie lurking in a wood ] [ can Bowie grow a beard? ].
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_Dave Miko is privy to buzz. He is not, however, the proud owner of a website. Hello there!
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_today we’ve got a bad case of the nerds: we’re effing loving the obssesive Photographic Periodic Table of Elements.
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_Jesse Corinella is a dynamo. Check out his illustration/ design/ photography/ retouching work HERE.
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_looking trough the window, enjoying vodka with some friends and wondering how Sauerbruch Hutton‘s building of the Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt is going? this is the last thing we heard about it.
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Freddie Stevenson will make your heart explode. I usually can’t get through the day without a fix. Don’t tell him I said that.
Stream his music on MySpace, or alternatively, listen and download here.
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_Karel Martens creates layouts, we think. Do you know where we can find her?
_today, a detail from the painting Blood Oranges and Apple Cores by Max Key.
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_don’t know much about Choi Nam Yang other than she’s Korean and she has some pretty good work to her name.
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_present and correct we like.
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_we’re almost sure this is an indexing website by someone named Harsh Patel. Or whatever, we’re uncool, but his “drawer” is not.
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_Scott Jarvie “believes that the solution to any design problem can be assimilated by creative interrogation, research and thought.” Take, for instance, this chair made of straws.
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Did you know we tweet? Well we do! twitter.com/gophermagazine
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_how is it possible that we spent the whole 2009 without making a single post about Pietari Posti‘s work?
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_we thought that Barry Anderson was a sculptor but he’s actually a photographer.
Kickstarter is feeling the love (or doesn’t hang up!)
Full disclosure here: We love Kickstarter. Through their website we’ve been fundraising to print the first, fabulous, tricked-out print issue of The Gopher Illustrated. We got in touch with the Kickstarter team, and they were like “Ummm. sure, why not!” so we got excited and coordinated an international phone call through internet phone jacks and a recording device stuck to the earpiece and a pencil and paper in case the recording device didn’t record. The site’s co-founder, Yancey Strickler, picked up the phone [...]
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_where is Gastón Caba? in Asia or in South America?
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_Antje Herzog loves to draw in the Zoo. And she’s awfully good at drawing other things too. Also, adorable website.
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_what type are you? video test made by the people of Pentagram, apparently we are Universal [ via Gopher friend Siera ].
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_continuing with this bookish theme we seem to have going, Andersen M studios makes fantastic paper stop motion animation. Also check out this work for the New Zealand Book Council,
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_cutest.ameisenbär.ever! by Stephan Lomp.
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_some of you have asked about Matt Kish’s inspiration. Here it is: Zak Smith’s illustrations for Gravity’s Rainbow.
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_that thing about following blogs in languages we don’t understand, this week: Janine Viveka does photographs and general linkage.
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_inspired by a similar project on Gravity’s Rainboy, Matt Kish set out to illustrate every page of Moby Dick.
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_we begin the year with a nod to our beloved [ and snowy ] London: the creative agency Airside is one of our favorites out there.
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_peruvian born, Oregon dwelling Santiago Uceda is a lot friendlier than he appears on his bio picture. He also makes beautiful posters.
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_this nice Line_A font (and a couple of other fonts) are available for free at Rodrigo Fuenzalida‘s website! Also: Today is Gopher Editor Lope’s Birthday. Be sure to drop him some birthday love.
