RSOW -- Mike Klay

Mike Klay, this week's Reader Submission Of the week--originally from the South Bay area in CA, now based out of Seattle.  Music is a huge part of his work process and lifestyle, as he designed gigposters for local venues.

The first poster is a limited edition poster of the enviornmental sci-fi thriller Vivarium that takes place in a virtual reality where all plant life is extinct and people pay to experience the virtual reality of how Earth once was.

Reader submissions, get at us!

The 10 Morisawa Posters by John Maeda

John Maeda is has a proven academic record (S.M & S.B in electrical engineering and computer science) as a Japanese-American graphic-designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author.  He was named one of the 21 most influential people in the 21st century by Esquire in 1999, and is the current president of the Rhode Island School of Design.  His work focuses on digital design using technology, where this set that he created, "The 10 Morisawa Posters" demonstrates a digital typography experiment to improve the legibility and quality of typographic documents.  

Via TDC Tokyo

Stereographic Illustration by Dain Fagerholm

 

Dain Fagerholm is an artist and illustrator who works for Getty Images up in Seattle, Washington.  He's exceptionally talented at making weird monsters in strange environment settings that loop endlessly in GIF form.  This alternative perspective that he creates for the viewer adds huge artistic value, where if I had to put a nail on his style, I would say its a cross between the characters from Puzzle Bobble and Where the Wild Things Are.  

Type Design and Poster Art by Michael Deal (Brooklyn)

  

You might look at some of the fantastic lettering and type work above and say to yourself, "Wow, whoever did this up must be a really talented, hard-working individual who's no ordinary human being."  And, you'd be right, because Micheal Deal is a Seattle-bred man raised by wild orcas.  If that wasn't enough street cred, he currently operates as a designer at Google Creative Lab and is an alumni of Pentagram in New York.  Not sure if he was involved with the Google Chrome Fastball project, but it's cool enough to feature here either way.

Poster Art of For Young Moderns by Jesse Codling

Being a personal fan of the music and art blog, For Young Moderns, I couldn't help but admire the gorgeous poster designs created for their posts, created masterfully by art director Jesse Codling.  Working out of Seattle, he's a decorated and Addy-award-winning designer who is raising the bar for blog post art, with his designs surpassing the aesthetic quality of many gig posters and flyers floating around.  His broad style range as a designer is evident from his clean, minimalistic vector designs to his more complex, layered, and vintage-inspired graphics.  I look forward to FYM's new post art all the time, and it's truly inspiring to see an artist put out such a great amount of quality work consistently for a cool blog.  Definitely check out the site, I personally have discovered more than a few favorite musicians and songs from their eclectic highlights.