This week’s surf was a lot of fun. We got Kraft of craft and Murphy’s law! We met designers who make movies and veteran skateboarding designers! So when we say “Roll” with the 20th Annual Designing Women edition — that could be very literal :
- Verena Michelitsch : New Twist, Old design problems
- Murphy’s Law : if it can be fabulous, Kelly does it
- Martina : an eye for color, shape, style and space
- Eugenia Loli motion in collage… and film
- Nomoco : watercolor magician
- The true craft of Kraft
- Hire a Skate Mom!
- and more to come!
This week’s surf was a lot of fun. We got Kraft of craft and Murphy’s law! We met designers who make movies and veteran skateboarding designers! So when we say “Roll” with the 20th Annual Designing Women edition — that could be very literal :
- Verena Michelitsch : New Twist, Old design problems
- Murphy’s Law : if it can be fabulous, Kelly does it
- Martina : an eye for color, shape, style and space
- Eugenia Loli motion in collage… and film
- Nomoco : watercolor magician
- The true craft of Kraft
- Hire a Skate Mom!
- and more to come!
Hire a Skate Mom!
Hey … don’t let those skateboarding graphics mislead you … Judi Oyama is a west coast graphic designer and illustrator — even after 26 years in the design biz, her concepts and graphics are blowing me away! 
She founded “Maximum Impact Design” in 1987 in Santa Cruz, CA. If you’ve ever been there, you know it’s a surf and art community that encourages play — and Judi certainly gets the energy and excitement of an active lifestyle into her creative designs from food packaging, web design, bold product prints and graphics and fresh identities. Her foundation comes from airbrushing surfboards, making 3D window displays, silk screening skate decks to producing, styling and art directing video and photo shoots. Judi says her studio is passionate about creating great design work. As if it didn’t show! 
Here’s your escape: Judi Oyama and maximumimpactdesign.com Great production on the Eton Rugged rukus Video, and here’s the whole story on Eton Rugged rukus
Verena Michelitsch : New Twist, Old design problems
Here is clean, unique, thoughtful graphic design … Verena creates elegant solutions across all kinds of client needs!
Verena Michelitsch an Austrian graphic designer and illustrator, living and working in NYC. After being an Art Director and founding member of En Garde, a design studio based in Graz, Austria, she moved to NYC to work for Sagmeister & Walsh, Pentagram Design and RoAndCo. She loves to do branding, illustration and art direction projects and is currently Design! Verena Michelitsch designer / illustrator Also see her Behance installation Here is her Promo Sampler
The true craft of Kraft
Marcy Kraft is a fiber artist! I think this is the first ever ‘fiber artist’ we’ve ever had in DTG. But her works are very exciting — because she expresses her design in crochet!
Marcy’s art transforms public objects into whimsical, nostalgic and nerdy designs to make us question and interact with our surroundings. Full story : Marcy Kraft: fiber artist Here is a Another sample…
NEXT: Nomoco, Murphy’s Law and some very cool videos
Martina : an eye for color, shape, style and space
Here’s rare talent … such control, such taste and such mastery of space is very difficult to find. Martina Flor does it all and does it with style. You can bet we’ll be back next fall for the Fall Fonts Fest!
Martina Flor combines her talents as both a designer and an illustrator in the drawing of letters. Based in Berlin, she works with a focus on type, lettering and illustration for clients all over the world. She is also co-founder of the project Lettering vs Calligraphy and the creator of the series of workshops goodtype.co. Her work has been featured in many publications and she teaches and lectures extensively.
Don’t miss : Martina’s Promo Video Whatch as she
shapes up this piece of hand lettering
Check out her Good Type Lettering Workshops
Now take a full tour of : Martina Flor Studio Berlin
Nomoco : watercolor magician
Nomoco has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in London, Milan, Tokyo, Singapore, New York and Mexico City. While not necessarily a “graphic” designer, she certainly applies her graphic design eye to her illustration creations!
Nomoco was born in Fukuoka, Japan and currently lives in London. She graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Japan, subsequently graduating from London College of Communication, UK, with a BA in Graphic Design. Full story : www.kazukonomoto.com Here is a Another sample…
Murphy’s Law : if it can be fabulous, Kelly does it
Book covers really illustrate Kelly’s magic. She is notably the illustrator of Secrets At Sea, the E.B. White Award winner Masterpiece and the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency book series.
Kelly Murphy is a New York Times Bestselling illustrator. She works predominantly with traditional and mixed media and is active in the fields of editorial illustration, children’s literature and art for the film, theater and toy industries. See her Books page , and Her bio page at risd.edu Full story : www.kelmurphy.com Here is a sample montage…
Eugenia Loli motion in collage… and film
Eugenia Loli is the first really exciting collage artist since we introduced Amy Wasserman nearly two decades ago.
Eugenia is a filmmaker and a modern vintage collage artist. You see the cinematographers’ eye in almost all of her collage work. She’s originally from Greece, but lives and plies her art in California. Let me quote Eugenia
It’s important for me to “say” something with my artwork, so for the vast majority of my work there’s a meaning behind them. I usually do this via presenting a “narrative” scene in my collages, like there’s something bigger going on than what’s merely depicted. Sometimes the scene is witty or sarcastic, some times it’s horrific with a sense of danger or urgency, some times it’s chill. I leave it to the viewer’s imagination to fill-in the blanks of the story plot.
It’s important for me to “say” something with my artwork, so for the vast majority of my work there’s a meaning behind them. I usually do this via presenting a “narrative” scene in my collages, like there’s something bigger going on than what’s merely depicted. Sometimes the scene is witty or sarcastic, some times it’s horrific with a sense of danger or urgency, some times it’s chill. I leave it to the viewer’s imagination to fill-in the blanks of the story plot. 
Full story : cargocollective.com/eugenialoli Here is a Another sample…
Stay tuned as we continue the 20th Annual Designing Women celebration for 2015!
More and more new entries will be added all month long . . . and will continue into April! Remember, if you would like to suggest a Designing Woman for this series, there’s still time. Just check it out here: Register or Nominate your favorite Designing Woman
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