This weeks must see, is the portfolio of French design studio Creaktif, the works of Casura, Jocker, Karl and Deus. Their work varies from streetart and website to 3d and printmedia. Go ahead and be inspired by Creaktif.

Studio469 - Inspiration to your doorstep

Looking at the sophisticated fashion design style of such sleek, sensuous and beautiful women, who would have thought, that it is a man who created this signature style that became a renowned brand design - Jordi Labanda.

A high-end fashion illustrator born in Uruguay in 1968, who now lives in Barcelona, Spain. Jordi Labanda obtained his degree in Industrial Design, and then started his work as a commercial illustrator in 1993. Working exclusively in gouache on paper, his designs depict a very unique upclass style - featuring classic contemporary feminine characters and settings in a lavish style, which reflects a new concept of modernity. From his graphics, he married his graphic design skills with his industrial design training to produce new product lines that transform his signature designs to a wide range of sensuous design accessories -notebooks, folders, address books, mouse pads, metal cd cases, high quality vinyl handbags, makeup cases, and sunglass cases.

A very strategic move he ventured into to brand his own style of graphic product designs, his product range was a huge success. Jordi Labanda’s products are one of the hottest accessory product lines in Europe, and a growing craze in America and Asia. His graphic and product designs are featured in many women’s magazines (Seventeen, Marie Claire, Wallpaper, Allure, Elle, Vogue, CosmoGIRL, Details, Abercrombie & Fitch, Covergirl). Compiling his graphic and product design works, Jordi has also published a collection of them in his first book, called “Hey day”.

A truly modern designer of today that understands the beauty of women, fashion and class, that I admire from a woman’s point of view.

Studio 469 - Art, Fashion & Design

This weeks must see is the artwork of Nik Ainley, his graphic portfolio is stuffed with impressive photoshop works. So go ahead an check out the works of Nik Ainley a.k.a. Shinybinary!

Studio469 - For your creativity

This weeks must see to keep your creative hearts beating is the work of the Fat Man Collective, these guys do all the good stuff, from Web to Motion and 3D. So go ahead and feed your hungry brains!

Studio469 - Your design diet

This weeks must see is the mixed media work by Nick Delaney a.k.a. Vandal. He has worked for brands such as: Coke, Infiniti and Heineken. Check out his impressive flash portfolio and graphic works!

Studio469 - For your creativity

Today the most important creative and designer’s software tool in the world is shipping: Adobe Creative Suite 3. And this is not just simply another renewed version Creative Suite 2. This time around you can expect not only fresh versions of core-applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, but also new applications such as Soundbooth. More importantly, seamless integration of applications from Adobe’s latest purchase: Macromedia. Which means Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and all those other components are now part of everybody’s favorite package.

Studio469 is here to inform you about this latest release, and add some additional views on what can be seen as one of the most important software releases this decade. So read on and get to know the different versions of Creative Suite, with plenty of visuals to match.
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This weeks must see is the impressive audio visual portfolio of iam studios, the guys from this Dutch Studio are specialised in audio post production, music composition and sound design. Check out their website for some fingerlickin good visuals and even better audio.

Studio469 - We turn up your speakers

The formshape takes you on a surreal journey through the mind of graphical designer, illustrator and motion-designer Hampus H. A lot is hidden in the leaves of this site, so go and explore!

Studio469 - diggin’ up the good stuff

This weeks must see takes us to Australia, to the studio of Büro North. A multidisciplinary design firm, these highly creative folks go from brand identities to shape studies, from signage design to industrial design. They come up with very fresh and colourful designs, and still look professional. So stop drooling, go and have a look!

Studio469 - Colour into your world

Some time has passed since our last post on the Optimus Concepts from one of Russia’s best design studio’s: Art. Lebedev. This time we will provide you with the full process of how the idea came to be the product. Designers: it is time to start drooling!

About 15 years ago Artemy Lebedev was sitting in front of his computer, most likely working on something cool, continuously irritated by the dead feedback from his keyboard (we admit; it is just a thought. Artemy; correct us if we were wrong). He asked himself why a keyboard could not have multiple functions for each key, and be able to show these functionalities. Enter the Optimus Concept: a keyboard with displays in each key, being able to show not only a single character or image, but any character or image corresponding with the function you wish that key to have.

For more than 10 years this concept remained a concept until one day Artemy decided it was time to stun the world with his ideas on the keyboards of the future. Although “reliable sources” (Artemy was not the only one at CeBit, we were there too) claimed that if he didn’t start this publicity stunt other competitors would have taken over. It was the mass (geek-) appeal that started the fame. And thus the fire began to spread.

Read on for all the details on the work that went on behind the (iron) curtain in developing what is now known as Optimus Maximus. And please; prepare yourself for some serious visual material!

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