Digging pretty hard on the unique and bizarre design style of Charles Williams. He’s at his best when he’s straddling some line between collage, illustration, editorial design, nonsense infographic lookin’ business and space age freak outs. And I’m only talking about the work on his personal site. He’s got another entire site dedicated to more straightforward design. Extracurricular.

Bonus points: amazing portrait of Draper below the fold. A man coming apart. Translates perfectly.

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I remember when I graduated design school (yes, a long time ago), we had a Portfolio review. Dutch design studio LUST created an app for the inaugural electronic version of  Items, titled Items Dutch Design Graduates 2011.

Included: 47 featured graduation projects from a dozen design schools of the area, plus opinions on the designers by some experts. Oh and there is also two essays on Dutch design education. The reader can filter by designer, school, discipline, medium, etc..

BRILLIANT. The future is here.

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Quite a nice selection of work from Paris’ Atelier Müesli. “Our work isn’t restricted to just using the computer, we developed home-made process : woodcut, silkscreen and try to combine them to enrich the project.” Whatever it is they’re doing, they’re doing it right.

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I really just can’t get enough of the stuff coming from French design studio Superscript. A refined typographic density seems to permeate all of their work, resulting in beautifully layered compositions. Inspiring.

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Look out, Raleigh! Big talent is dropping in the area very soon. Michael Steven Forrest got in touch to share his work, and to let us know he’s moving to the Raleigh area soon. His portfolio (while not extensive by any means) is a heady mixture of challenging aesthetics and beautiful compositions. I asked Michael about his work and he had this to say:

“I ask myself what is the most important or appropriate means of communicating the idea at hand. Should the content be delivered in a way that is didactic, direct, pure and simplified or socratic in that it presents the viewer/ user an opportunity to dialogue or wrestle with the imagery and its relationship to the content? I believe that our generation is gullible in a lot of ways and we base a lot of decisions on impulse. Perhaps its the educator in me, but I think that as designers it is important for us to encourage critical “seeing” to the same degree hopefully our writers are trying to promote critical thinking.”

No joke. Handmade type. Created by  Taiwanese designer and current Pratt student Tien-Min Liao.

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When I see work like that of Italy’s Think Work Observe, I wish that I had the patience (and know-how) to fully develop working fonts. But for now, I can rest easy knowing that all that hard work is being done by others so that we can all reap the benefits.

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Awesomely irreverent design + illustration by Rami Niemi, self-proclaimed designer to the stars. I buy it.

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Welcome to Craig & Karl, the home of big ass, bright colors. Craig is Craig Redman, a designer + illustrator living in NYC and Karl is Karl Maier, a designer and illustrator in Sydney, Australia. They work together across oceans and continents (WHOA, THE INTERNET TUBES) for clients like Nike SB, Vogue and the New York Times.

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And now for our brand-new-but-probably-not-going-to-happen-again feature, FRIDAY THREE.

Three creative works that caught my eye this week.

1. Kinetic Sculptures

2. Paris drawrings.

3. Ben Barry