At Magma, we are designers and Letterpress printers simultaneously. Our knowledge of the printing press, paper, ink and design we are able to make smart and unique designs to make that are great for Letter Press. Our enthusiasm for Letterpress, combined with our expertise and passion for design, typography and illustration makes we each project, large or small, work with heart and soul. We mix 16th century craftsmanship with modern technology, so we create work that makes an impression! — Magma Press

Artist, illustrator, bear hunter.
— Amy Dover

After graduating in 2002 I worked in a small design shop for a year before I opened my own business in 2003. In January 2009 I decided I needed something new and moved to NYC. I love typography, illustration, projecting and, in general, the process of idea generation. — Ana Gomez Bernaus

Lettering Noir

It’s All About Type

Symbiosis

Octave

AG - Corporate Identity

Ludo is a Paris based street artist.

The Gunflower | Resin / Spraypaint

The Cacktus | Polyamide / Resin / Wood/ Spraypaint

Bee with Protection Mask | Polyamide / Resin / Spraypaint

Tsing Tsing Fly | Polyamide / Resin / Spraypaint

Black Grapes of Wrath | Polyamide / Resin / Spraypaint

X_RAY photography by Nick Veasey

ARTIST  STATEMENT 
We live in a world obsessed with image. What we look like, what our clothes look like, houses, cars…  I like to counter this obsession with superficial appearance by using X-rays to strip back the layers and show what it is like under the surface. Often the integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar. We all make assumptions based on the external visual aspects of what surrounds us and we are attracted to people and forms that are aesthetically pleasing. I like to challenge this automatic way that we react to just physical appearance by highlighting the, often surprising, inner beauty. 

This society  of ours, consumed as it by image, is also becoming increasingly controlled by  security and surveillance. Take a flight, or go into a high profile courtroom and your belongings will be X-rayed. The post arriving in corporations and government departments has often been X-rayed. Security cameras track our every move. Mobile phone receptions place us at any given time. Information is key to the fight against whatever we are meant to be fighting against. To create art with equipment and technology designed to help big brother delve deeper, to use some of that fancy complicated gadgetry that helps remove the freedom and individuality in our lives, to use that apparatus to create beauty brings a smile to my face. 

To mix my  metaphors, we all know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, that beauty is more than skin deep. By revealing the inside, the quintessential element of my art speculates upon what the manufactured and natural world really consists of. — Nick Veasey 

Plant Life

Insects

Aquatic

Nick has also photographed various personal and household objects, toys, fashion, animals as well as humans and machines.
Visit Nick’s website to see more X-RAY photography.

Matei Apostolescu aka beaucoupzero, freelance illustrator digital artist, always freestyle.

Matei’s work, a fusion of different media: drawing, vector, photography, manipulation, even clay modelling … attracting constant attention and praise over the years, due largely to his ability to turn what at first glance may appear to be pure randomness and chaos into a revealing and strangely soothing visual experience.

His creations have been described as ‘incredibly dense, exploding with intricate detail and filled with swirling, wildly complex shapes that compete for attention.’ Yet his approach is simple: “I believe in freestyle. To me inspiration is having the courage to explore the world, and especially yourself and the processes that take place in your own mind. Magic stuff starts to happen by itself simply by translating your experience from a medium to another. I see style as something in a continuous evolution.”

Visit Matei’s website to see more work and grab some sweet downloads.

University of Arizona Project by Cast Iron Design Company 
Jack Sinclair Letterpress Studio — Identity and various print materials

When beginning this project we felt that in order to properly brand a letterpress studio, homage must be paid to the age-old discipline of letterpress printing. Letterpress has a very rich history, and the logo alludes to that history by referencing the union badges that letterpress printers were once a part of. To further supplement the logo’s authenticity, we restricted our type choices to those that physically exist as lead type in the studio’s type collection (we used Alternate Gothic, Clarendon Bold, and Hellenic Wide)…
— Cast Iron Design Company

Visit Cast Iron Design Company’s website for and in-depth look at this project.

Check out more work from Cast Iron Design Company

Coffee Duck by Gaslight type foundry

Gaslight-type-foundry is collaboration between two type designers - Valery Zaveryaev and Roman Shchyukin, founded in summer 2011 year. Type design is our hobby. Hobby, that carry us completely… almost. Our purpose is design quality typefaces with supporting Latin and Cyrillic characters, for using in various kinds of design. 

This is logo for small shop, which trades coffee. Logo and concept are inspirited by small shop at the beginning of 19 century, where quiet and comfort valued much more than bazaar. In this shop we tried to build up domestic comfort with peace and silence.
We love coffee. We love typography. We love design.
— Gaslight type foundry

Steve Wilson takes the spirit of 80s New York, combines rock imagery from the 70s, and squeezes it through a brain full of circuses and tribal body art. Steve’s techniques are as eclectic as his influences, harnessing the spontaneity of pen, pencil, collage, and play-doh, with the endless possibilities of tools like Photoshop and Illustrator. — Breed London

Studio Ampersand (Dimis Giannakoulias) is located in Patras, Greece.

Posters

Tram Tearoom

Skulls by Markus Linnenbrink
life size painted teaching skull 
epoxy resin pigments

In the most general sense, my work is about landscape. I grew up with the desert southwest as a backdrop and was visually taken by its sculpted topography; how the layered strata of the rock formations came to be exposed by erosion from wind and water, and how the incremental and chaotic effects of time and climate could conspire to create something more orderly than I could with my hands … — Shane McAdams

Synthetic Landscapes by Shane McAdams

Visit Shane’s website for more Synthetic Landscapes

Revenge is Sweet is a collaboration between Angelique Piliere (Lyon France) and Lee Owens (Melbourne Australia). The pair met while studying graphic design and began working together after moving to London in 2006. 

Their work sits on the edge between typography, illustration and design, creating mixed media, custom typefaces and illustration to produce bold, striking imagery.

Caetano Calomino is from Rio de Janeiro and currently living in São Paulo, Brasil.

Caetano Calomino on tumblr.

The Cast Iron Design Company is co-owned by founders Richard Roche and Jonathan Black. … a straight-talking, hard-working, environmentally responsible design studio.

POSTERS

Daniel James Diggle is an illustrator and multidisciplinary designer based in London, United Kingdom.

With a love for type, structures and organic forms, I work from pencil to pen creating my pieces. Part inspired by traditional woodcuts and Victorian era engraving, I strive to develop a level of craft in my illustrations.
— Daniel James Diggle

Visit Daniel James Diggle’s website and photostream on Flickr for more work and an in depth look into his illustration process.

Kaspar Hamacher loves wood and his chain saw.

Die Chaise-longue (The Chaise-lounge), 2009

Das Brett (The Board), 2007 - 2008

Der K-Tisch (The K-Table), 2009

Die Baumbank (The Tree Bank), 2009

Ausgebrannt (Burned), 2010

Marcos Calamato is a designer, type aficionado and a caffeinated thriving human being. He spends his days thinking about design and wrestling his feline companion. He is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina but living in the San Francisco bay area.

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Ptarmak is an Austin-based designery that collaborates intensively with a handful of clients each year. We’re a collection of behavioral analysts & cultural contributors. We craft brands, design packaging, move graphics, and make things-with al our heads, hands, & hearts. — Ptarmak

Honest Don’s & The Chop Shop
kansas city, missouri, usa

Ursa Major
Vermont, USA 

Old Faithful Shop 
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 

Army Men by Good Art HLYWD

Technically these guys aren’t all Army men, some are Soldiers and Marines. But they are all true to the original Vietnam era Louis Marx & Co. toys you grew up with … with just a couple differences. These GOOD ART HLYWD versions have had their heads substituted for a Jack Skull #1, and these suckers are solid Sterling Silver … A drop of crazy glue on the base and you can keep your own security force perched atop your monitor and looking over your shoulder.