With offices in Chicago and New York, Also serves up some work with a great slightly whimsical-illustrative style. It really gives their pieces a lot of depth, while maintaining the appropriateness of the message.
Craft Design Technology
A joint collaboration between Tyler Brûlé’s Winkreative and Japanese outfit Advertising Orchestra, Craft Design Technology offers a line of mundane office items with a super-lux twist. Try the embossed calfskin desk-mat to give your cube that corner-office-without-the-view feel.
Design Chapel
Rob Lindstrom, now of the scandanavian design powerhouse North Kingdom, has given a much overdue update to Design Chapel, showcasing some new works done at North Kingdom (the stunning Vodafone Journey site in particluar), as well as most of his older works that launched him to design stardom in the first place.
Edvard Scott
Edvard Scott presents some new age psychedelia for your viewing pleasure in his newly updated site.
Creative Box
Creative Box is a product design firm from Tokyo. Their site is one of the best Flash sites I’ve ever seen, and you must watch the videos about the Pivo project. Stunning work.
Atelier David Smith
Our first shop from Ireland, Atelier David Smith is a two man shop, obviously one of those fellows being David Smith, the other, Oran Day, both working out of Dublin. Beautiful finish on the printed pieces, wonderful use of type.
Albert Folch Studio
Albert’s living in beautiful Barcelona and putting out all sorts of high-end print pieces. Blind embossing and foil-stamping abound! Budgets be damned!
Akroe
Akroe is the portfolio of Étienne Bardelli from Paris. Some great work, and you don’t even need to know French (though it helps).
Hello Hello
Hello Hello is Stephen Crowhurst. Motion, fashion, illustation, packaging, textiles, ceramics, surfaces, toys, print. The man does it all. And he does it all well.
1 kilo
Didn’t have to dig too deep in the ol’ bookmarks for this one today. Only the products have descriptions in English.