PHILLENNIUM BLOG - Philipp Zurmoehle’s Design Blog

I drew a scene in Gion, when I went to Japan two weeks ago. A coloured gallery quality giclée print is now available for sale: Night Falls In Gion on Society6.

Two of my original artworks are now available on Arcademi. You can either get the monkey drawing “Big Pride” or “I Think I Love You” from the Snyrt series. Or you can get both.

A new era of shameless self-promotion has begun. Feel free to follow me on my fancy Facebook page!

My Seven Monkeys poster is now available as a gallery quality Giclée print on Society6. You can get it in 3 different sizes.

Some of my designs are now available as gallery quality giclée prints on Society6. The poster sized images are printed on natural white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson K3 archival inks. Nice…

Yes, dutch illustrator Zeptonn and I are giving it another go. Vote for our wicked collaborative shirt Kinda Sick on Design By Humans!

Leonardo is the German market leader in gift items and glasses and one of the most popular glassware brands in Europe.

Together with the Leonardo team I worked on their identity which includes a new logo using their known cloud image to become an iconic symbol for dynamics, inspiration and lightness. Check it out on my portfolio website.

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I just finished my submission to the 7 Deadly Sins Contest. See the poster design with hand-drawn monkey portraits on my portfolio website or on my Flickr or on Behance.

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

Here’s a website I designed for german photographer Morten Strauch, who specializes on maritime photography. This guy takes beautiful pictures!

I flipped through my black books and dug out some old graffiti sketches from the years 1999 to 2001.

Yippie! I’m very happy to announce, that I’ve been nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany (Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) as a newcomer.

The Intergalactic Incest T-Shirt I designed for Dauerfeuer’s artist line is now available at their web shop. There’s a grey version and a light pink version for girls. Take a look at them on my flickr.

I contributed a piece to the RVLVR project organized by Marek Haiduk. Check out my collage “Oozing Mountain” on Flickr.

If you happen to visit Nürnberg in these days, you can see one of my drawings in the group exhibition “Out of Office” at the gallery “Das Artelier”. 20 creatives who work at “the 3-stripes company” are showing their artworks from 5th to 13th of september 2009. View my contributed drawing on Flickr.

I teamed up with dutch designer Zeptonn to design a shirt for the Threadless competition. We named our collaboration project “Zepphiltonnium”, which is “kinda sick” I think… Vote for it here!

Today I had my first day at my new workplace adidas where I’m now employed as a graphic designer for apparel. Yey!

I added an illustration series called Oozing Landscapes to my web portfolio playing around with distorting landscape photographs. You can view them in large sizes on my flickr.

I’ll present my works this friday at the YDMI Days 2009 in Frankfurt. The event held by the German Design Council will determine the “Young Professional 09″ from 20 designers presenting. Would be great to see you there!

I recently posted some new drawings on my Flickr photostream.

I just uploaded my new portfolio website including some new works. I hope you like it… The blog will get a new dress soon as well.

I will participate in the Threesome group show at Nice/Nice Exhibition Space in Hannover, Germany. The opening is on april 18th and the exhibition is on show until june 3rd. The event is presented by Art Bastard and will feature street inspired works by international artists.

I uploaded some new drawings to my flickr page. Enjoy!

I just customized some Converse All Star Light for my friend Flora in Austria. Take a look at them on my flickr!

The band Omega Code will release a book with poster designs together with their album. I just finished my submission for the connected contest. 20 posters will be picked to be featured in the book. Check out my design in full size on my flickr or see all the submissions in the Omega Code Flickr set.