Stories, thoughts, and our
perspectives on typography
and visual communication
Los Angeles-based artist (who just recently moved to Austin), Angela Southern earned her advertising degree from Michigan State University and graduated from a small portfolio school afterwards. She learned her craft as a lettering artist and illustrator on the job as a sign artist at Trader Joe's from other professional lettering artists at the company and became good at cranking out lots of artwork under deadline.
Turkish/Canadian-designer Emrah Gonulkirmaz studied classical animation and figure drawing and eventually found himself working in graphic and motion design. His fascination with generative forms extended into this pitch for the Iron Man III movie for motion design studio yU+co in Los Angeles.
Davide Vismara remembers when he first discovered Photoshop. He was so enamoured with the tool, he almost failed his high school Math class. Fortunately, he found the right teachers to guide him through his design career ending up at a desk at Saatchi Milan. He transferred to Los Angeles this year to Team One for the Lexus USA account after working on Lexus in Italy for Saatchi & Saatchi. Davide art directed the LIVE HAPPilly cross-media global positioning campaign for illy caffe.
Alphas is a science fiction TV series about a group of people with superhuman abilities who work to prevent crimes committed by other Alphas. Ozan Karakoç, a Senior Art Director, was subsequently born into his own family of creative superpowers. He is the son of an illustrator father and a graphic designer mother, the nephew of a 3D animator, the grandchild of an interior designer and the brother of a successful young photographer.
Wreck-It Ralph is a wildly popular Walt Disney animated film about a villain who's tired of being the ‘bad guy’ after 30 years inside an aging coin-operated video game called “Fix-It Felix Jr.” The film chronicles how Ralph goes off to explore other games in the arcade to heroically win a medal and earn the respect from the other game characters. Letterform artist Michael Doret designed the arcade-styled title treatment which helped to fuel the success of the movie.
