Really love the work of Mika Mäkinen (Art Director at the Great Apes Ltd) – At times feeling both digital and handcrafted textured (absolutely love the creased paper in “Lake”), and with a feel of both graphic design and illustration through fantastic, quirky collages and textures, and considered colour, compositions and typography. Especially love the surreal mixture of collaged photography (from modern to quite vintage-looking images) and digitised images. Definitely worth checking out his portfolio here.
Very interesting!
Love these — fascinating work. On my way to check out more of the portfolio now…
u r fascinating too.
I love these!
Very iconic. I like the rather muted colors.
Very interesting style, bit reminiscent of 60s sci-fi book covers. Thanks for telling us about this work.
very inspiring, thank you!
These are stunning. Just the sort of unique beauty I love seeing in graphic design. I am really into combining photography with graphic elements. Mika Mäkinen does this brilliantly! Thanks for sharing this designer’s work!
Emily
http://www.BeautifulHelloBlog.com
Very cool!
very inspiring and special!
These are so different in a very refreshing and vintage (but not….?) kind of way.
Thank’s for sharing ‘ futuristic past’ great images.
really very creative and inspiring ones….
That’s some tricky camera work.
Very good!
Dan
Like how you use colors
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some of this stuff has given me media inspiration..
Great work!
Beautiful work!
Definitely not my style, keep trying.
Love the crossroads of style — vintage, but futuristic.
oh my goodness, i’m such a fan of your work! gorgeous.
LOVE the Ipad one!
wow. absolutely amazing pieces!
Holy shit. I love the second one.
Also CONGRATS ON BEING FRESH PRESSED WOOOOO
Just awesome. And yes, an inspiration.
lovely!
Love the collage with the tree and horse. Very simple… nice!
I like these! I love the sharpness specific nature of the graphics against the wide open backgrounds.
Absolutely love collages
mantap, gambar yang indah…
someone special to share .
As a young man I attended the School of Art and Design in New York in the mid 50′s. This blog brought to me a new vision, I never had before in the appreciation of the Graphic Arts. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Great stuff.
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Deviner Art
They look great! Especially love the 4 and 5.
lovely……amazing…..
If Pink Floyd were still performing and releasing albums like some 40 years ago, I bet they would pick stuff from this guy for their covers .. Same with Massive Attack .. Thumb up for the lake. In a perfect world, people with the impulse of writing “I love that” or “simply amazing” would refrain from posting their pointless comments. I like Grumpa Joe’s honest one ..
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I love it!
love these! amazing work!
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beautiful
WOW!! you are seriously really talented!! I love the pictures!! Even though I own a blog about writing, I like to see what people are doing in photography and other art stuff.
Thanks for posting this – it has really given us inspiration – particularly the use of ‘new’ old technology. Ive recently seen some graphic work which used alphabets re processed through an old VHS player which has a similar feeling to this work. We mIght even think about accessorising some of our artist bears with Super8 cameras and old style computers!
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I like these kind of things. ♥ ♥
Those are pretty slick, I’m liking your blogs style. Keep up the good work, Ill be checking up on you
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Check me out whenever your bored
70s meet 2012. Intelligent, creative, a slam dunk.
i’m always failed to drawing anything..
gogogo….
But, i’m happy to look my friend creation.. ^_^
although i can’t drawing like you.. but,,,,
Nice picture,….
Really dig the art, very creative!
It’s so nice, very creative, I love it, great inspiration!
Reblogged this on Alda Silva and commented:
Nice works here, please check them out!
I really like the style of these! Also the textures in some of these look very appealing. Mika has some nice designs!
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wonderfull art and i think have creating people behind them
wonderful article !
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Citrus drink on a grey day. Great blog post!
this is fantastic!
I would appreciate your opinion on my photo blog,
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great post! very inspiring
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Amazing designs! check it out you guys
Aha nice. made me one inspiration. Thanks. Love them all !
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The LAKE,,, ~.~!!!
super. freaking. cool
So cool! Thanks for sharing… great inspiration
/Linda
http://www.lindalind.com/blog
You rock.
It’s very creative, i like this kind of art
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Just stumbled across this guys work. Insanely talented. Enjoy!
creative! brilliant!
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Very cool design!
Good
Really cool work, I love the color schemes in these.
Utopistisen upeita! Gorgeous and full of imagination!
These are wonderful: the imagination, composition, and clear message through image. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for featuring me in this blog and for all the nice comments.
The Designs are awesome !! Cheers
I saw some of her work on Pinterest. So in love with it!
Beautiful work!
I’m glad to have found it. Hitting the “reblog” tab for the first time.
You might also enjoy the work of Matthew Billington, who has a similiar approach and aesthetic;
http://matthewbillington.com
Thank you! Just checked out his work, and I agree – I love the aesthetic. Especially with the whole more modern, motion element. Cheers for sharing that link!
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cool
Beautiful~
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wonderful!
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it’s a very amazing blog, keep up your good works
All of these are very creative, fun to look at and think about. Good job
It remembers me Scott Hansen aka Iso 50 style. And I prefer him, sorry
Nina
xx
Thank you for introducing me to Scott Hansen! Just checked out his work (well, certain I’ve seen a fair few pieces before), and I agree it’s fantastic!
You’re welcome
He is a classical in sold style design. I’m glad you like it!
Nina
xx
Refreshing, simply wonderful.
Very original work, thanks for sharing this artist with us …
Absolutely fabulous!
Love it!
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