4everDesign: Inspiration

Welcome

4everDesign is a happy graphic & web design studio based in Leeds, UK and São Paulo, BR with new and loyal clients around the world.

We are about visual communication and as such we specialise in ensuring that whatever graphic design you require, it will visually talk to your expected audience, instantly communicating your message and projecting a very professional image.

Here we share our taste and admiration about related subjects as art, photography, illustration, many design disciplines & creative thinking.

Enjoy your visit.

Highlights: Ben Frost is Dead

'Australian artist Ben Frost is known for his kaleidoscopic Pop Art, mash-up paintings that take inspiration from areas as diverse as graffiti, collage, photorealism and sign-writing. Subverting mainstream iconography from the worlds of advertising, entertainment and politics, he creates a visual framework that is bold, confrontational and often controversial. With a blatant disrespect for the signifiers of our visual culture, Ben Frost creates multi-layered surfaces of refreshing intensity.'

Highlights: Alberto Cerriteño

Alberto Cerriteño is a Mexican illustrator & designer who has lived in America; Portland for nearly four years now. Strongly inspired by urban vinyl toys, alternative cartoons, and the pop surrealism movement, Alberto Cerriteño has developed his own very personal technique and style, having always present a delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns. These contrast strikingly with the blending of desaturated colors and ink, sometimes featuring a vintage coffee finish. Alberto Cerriteño illustrations have been recognized by progressive art institutions such as Juxtapoz, Create, Drawn!, The Little Chimp Society, Computer Arts, Communication Arts and IDN among others. He has also been invited to participate in collaborative art projects all around the world and diverse solo and groupal gallery shows. With more than ten years of experience as Art Director in several agencies doing advertising, print, interactive, installations and educational work. Now is working as independent artist to collaborate with talented people with kurky and creative ideas focusing in anything where he can apply his illustrative creations.

Highlights: Shepard Fairey

Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign. His work became more widely known in the 2008 United States Presidential Election, specifically his Barack Obama "HOPE" poster. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists. He usually omits his first name. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Highlights: Nate Williams

"In the pursuit of money, fame and petrified hot chicks I studied Anthropology, quickly changing my major to something less respectable “Inter-Media Sculpture”. My hobby in design and technology lead me to web design which is where I spent 9 years working as a web designer and an art director .. 7 of them for Microsoft Games and Xbox. A few years ago .. I made the decision to pursue my passion for having absolutely no money and eating unhealthy amounts of rice .. I wondered “How does one achieve such a goal?” Become an artist/illustrator full time.. I can’t think of a better way to accomplish it."

Thoughts

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary"

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life: happiness, freedom, and peace of mind, are always attained by giving them to someone else."

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."Emo Philips

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. " Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

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