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A vast number of designers influence me. Or should I say a vast number of designs influence me as it is usually one particular design that I come across which makes me want to find the creator behind it. This seems to happen to me a lot, at the bus stop, on the way to the shops, leafing through a magazine, if I spot a design I like I can’t stop thinking about it till I get on the internet and “google” it to find the person behind it and see more of their work. The following posts detail some of the designers and illustrators that i find inspirational. I hope you do to.
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Alan Fletcher
Stefan Sagmeister
Alexey Brodovitch
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“A conversation between nature and culture. I pick a subject by falling in love with it. Every new idea needs to go through the fire of time, and that applies for technology aswell. It is the balance between tradition and innovation that gives me a thrill”
This is Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny’s design philosophy and if his Honeycomb Vase is anything to go by I’d say he was sticking to it well, the design is widely regarded as one of the design innovation of the year and will be at the Design Miami fair in December.
“Things too precious to be touched.” A line seen in a poem is what gave the 28-year-old Slovak designer the idea of making an everyday using precious matter. 40,000 bees were needed to create such a design. They were placed in a vase shape made of bees wax and over the space of a week created the honeycomb vase.
You can take a closer look at this, or look at some of his other work Here.
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“Stuart Haygarth has a magpie’s eye”, as quoted by The Independent, and after looking at some of his work I can see why they might think this. Haygarth can take just about any element and turn it into something beautiful. Whether it be spectacles, vintage glassware or simple washing up liquid bottles.
Party Popper Chandelier.
“Lots of everyday objects that people don’t really look at are beautiful in their own right,
I like giving objects that have no intrinsic meaning a new life.”
Stuart Haygarth.
Recyle Chandelier.
Haygarth worked as a photographer and a photographic illustrator before reinventing himself as a product designer two years ago, as far as I can tell he made the right choice.
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I came across Philippe D’Amours work though Illustration Quebec. I find his designs extremely appealing. They have a raw edgy feeling which is lacking in many of the other designs I have looked at.
His illustrations have a feel of collage about them in the way different elements are placed together. Such as the image below entitled Military paradox number 3.
