PHILLENNIUM BLOG - Philipp Zurmoehle’s Design Blog

Gyakushu is a rather bloody manga by Dan Hipp.

To me Parra is one of the most inspiring illustrators these days. Look at his Rockwell Clothing range, his funky MySpace page or his portfolio on Big Active’s site.

Chinese Zhou Fan is making filigree illustrations which are definitely worth to take a look at. Seen on Picked By Six.

Josh Vanover alias Spaceknuckle’s graphics are pretty stylish.

Tim Simmons amazingly plays with light in his photographs.

Oh, how I love experimental architecture drawings. Check out Viktor Timofeev from Latvia, living and working in Berlin. Seen on but does it float.

Michael Cina is one of the founding members of YouWorkForThem and to me an excellent designer. There’s a lot to find out about him on the web. On his True is True website for example he mainly shows experimental abstract stuff. In his design portfolio you’ll find beautiful record covers and more. You might as well check his flickr photostream or his shop.

Brooklyn based photographer Jake Dobkin documents the urban landscape (primarily New York’s) in his photo blog.

Xavier Encinas is a french art director living in Vancouver and he has a lot of remarkable graphic design work on his site.

Argentinian designer Pablo Alfieri has a new glossy and shiny Playful portfolio website.

UK collective Miss Bugs are doing their thing on the streets and on canvas. Read an interview with them on Juxtapoz Magazine’s site.

Looking at Vincent Fournier’s superb high end photographs one could think that we’re already living in the future… like 2010 or something.

German photographer Jürgen Bergbauer creates aesthetic minimal images of nature and man-made structures. Seen on but does it float.

You probably might have recognized that I’m a huge fan of animal illustrations. American painter Ryan McLennan definitely has an exciting approach to that topic. Seen on FFF.

Antony Micallef is painting painfully amazing dark pieces of art.

See interesting surrealistic paintings by Ryan Browning.

Suck in some cool animal illustrations by Nicholas Di Genova: Mediumphobic

Look at my favourite graffiti king Futura doing his thing in this little flick called Art Of Facts (feat. Futura) by 13th Witness. Who has by the way more beautiful films and photos on his website.

My lovely friend and superb Product Designer Wilma Pingel just graduated from university and put up her portfolio site. Grab her before somebody else employs her!

Two years ago I started this little blog. I just wanted to try out what this blogging thing is, that everybody was talking about. I expected that nobody would ever read my stuff or click on any links I post, but since I launched it in January 2008 the traffic on my website increased by about 1000 visitors per month in the first year to level off at around 20.000 per month in the second year. That’s a great success and I think it’s time to thank you readers and clickers for your support!

Being sceptical about the whole blogging thing at first, I really saw the use of blogging apart from the fun to share cool design stuff. The blog also serves very well as an archive that makes inspiration more organized and accessible. Personally I guess, being more clear in what I like even kind of helped me building my personal creative character. I don’t want to get too philosophical here though. In the end it’s just a useful and inspiring site to look at and I hope you’ll pay my site some visits in the upcoming years as well, even if I just post from time to time, which by the way I think is a way to ensure quality.

As you might have already seen I have worked on the catgorization. Now you can browse the posts in a more detailed way in the right menu (like the categories Branding or Comic-ish) and look at them by the countries they represent in their tags (see Japan, for example).

This year I’m planning to take the blog a little bit further by including some special feature posts with more information about the artists and inspiring interviews in which I would like to ask unusual questions. Yep, big plans for 2010… I would love to get some comments with thoughts from you about this and what you would like to see improved. And keep on sending your cool links!

Thanks again for your great support.
Philipp

Look at Laurie Lipton’s amazing morbid drawings.

Hjärta Smärta do graphic design in Stockholm.

Broken Bells is a collaboration between producer Danger Mouse and The Shins’ singer James Mercer. Sounds promising! I kind of like the planets on the teaser website.

Ball-Nogues Studio makes cool architecture related art installations.

Idiots create artworks with stuffed animals.