Archive for 2009
Featured: Carolina Torres
Digital illustration from Carolina Torres in Buenos Aires – a beautiful and playful mix of vectors, patterns, textures and tones. I dig those clouds! More illustration (+other design/ad work) on display at:
Image Corruption + Collaboration
So after months of occasionally digging around for this imagery on Google, I finally captured my own snapshots (iPhone). These are the amazing and elaborate visual effects that come through on a corrupted digital cable signal. This stuff fascinates me—the TV ‘fuzz’ of the new millennium. If only I knew what to do with it now that I have it. Have some thoughts? Some collaborative inklings? Let me know here @GabeRuane.
Featured: Amy Sol
Beautiful, intricate work from Amy Sol in Las Vegas. Stunning. Seriously. Lots more of this acrylic on wood panel technique/style to see at www.amysol.com.
iPhone Wallpapers 01
Just posted a couple sets of iPhone wallpapers, including some stuff from the never-published Phase04 Habitat PDF mag. Also threw in some Midei City stuff, and some work from my in-progress side project called ‘Upload’. Head over to the link below for downloads, and enjoy:
And shoot us an email if you have some freebies that you’d like to share.
Featured: Rosemarie Fiore
All I have to say is: “Firework Drawings”.
Lots of other cool work from NYC-based Rosemarie Fiore, including “Waffle Iron Paintings”, are here:
Featured: EMPK
Cool stuff from this Art Direction/Design/Photography duo in Brazil. Lots of other work – commercial and experimental alike – on display at:
Featured: Identity Archives Project
A side project of Gabe Ruane that is rolling through its 3rd year in (mostly under the radar) existence. This is a keyword-based database of logo designs, searchable by visual and conceptual tags. It’s a great tool, it’s free and open to the public for research and review, and there’s never any need to register. No frills, amigos. No excessive web 2.0. Just a solid, simple tool for identity designers.
Featured: Lucia Fischer
Some grainy and gritty slices of the Sydney cityscape by photographer Lucia Fischer. Check out more from her ‘Holga Diaries’ series at:
Check the ’2008: Portrait of a Postcode’ set as well while you’re at it. Beautiful work in the muted color palette of Chippendale in central Sydney.
Featured: Zero per Zero
Zero per Zero is a design, infographics and illustration studio in Seoul, South Korea. We came across some beautiful transit system infographic work from these guys (Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol ), and figured we’d pass it along. Check out more work, along with details and descriptions of the images below, at:
Georgia 11pt
Another experiment from Gabe – zooming way in on the pixelated character set of Georgia at 11 points on screen. So the pixels were scaled up, then rebuilt as circles in a blue/black/gray palette to match the anti-aliasing you get in your browser. Small sizes read a lot like regular on-screen type, but you get some interesting abstractions when the characters are presented at larger sizes.
This is one of many side projects that has come together off of earlier projects and experiments. One element from wherever (in this case Phase 02 | Community), revisited and enhanced, then served back up in a place like the Phase blog for the hell of it. Maybe this comes out at some point on client work, but for now, its innocence is intact.
![Phase 01 Brainstorm [pdf]](http://www.phasecollective.com/images/phase01_thumb.jpg "Issue 01")
![Phase 02 Community [pdf]](http://www.phasecollective.com/images/phase02_thumb.jpg "Issue 02")
![Phase 03 Play [pdf]](http://www.phasecollective.com/images/phase03_thumb.jpg "Issue 03")