Category Archives: Design

Robert Beatty is an artist and designer who comes up with some with some pretty unique and eclectic album art. He uses a lot of gradients and brights colors to evoke a sort of retro space age vibe that . Most of his art takes a surrealistic approach and is rather fun to look at. Check out some of our favorites below, or you can check out the whole enchilada here.

Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer best known for his iconic artwork for rock artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Europe, The Mars Volta, Muse, and Ween. Check out some of his timeless classics below.

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping that take design cues from black holes and fractals. The garden is not abundant with plants, but rather sets mathematical formulas and scientific phenomenas in a setting that elegantly combine natural features, artificial symmetry, and curves. The garden is private but usually opens on one day each year for a charity event in honor of Charles Jencks late wife who died of cancer.

Keiichi Tanaami was born in 1936 in Tokyo, and is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan. He has been active as a multi-genre artist since the 1960s as a graphic designer, illustrator, video artist, and fine artist. His career really started taking off during the 1960s during the hippie movement where he designed album covers for bands such as The Monkees and Jefferson Airplane. Later he went on to become the first art director for the Japanese edition of Playboy in 1975. He then suffered from a pulmonary edema where he hovered in a fragile state between life and death and suffered frequent hallucinations. During this time in the 80s and 90s is where a lot of his really twisted and crazier work came into light. Now at 77 he is still going as strong as ever with his very graphic and psychedelic aesthetic that has won him worldwide notoriety. This year he collaborated with Stüssy and designed some killer tees and last year he was honored at the world renown Art Basel in Miami. Good on you Keiichi, may you keep on keeping on for many more years to come brother.

Eye catching, colorful, bold, fantastic, surreal and psychedelic, are all words that come to mind when examining the work of American artist Oliver Hibert. His bright palette and magical scenes caught the attention of MTV for a music video at the ripe age of eighteen. Since then his clients include Disney, MTV, Nike, Adidas, The Flaming Lips, Diesel, Fender, BBC, GQ Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Proctor&Gamble, Salomon Snowboards and Yellow Book. Check out some of his colorful and psychedelic treats below.

Andres Guzman is a Peruvian artist based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota  specializing in illustration. He is also 1/3 of the art and music collective STEAKMOB, who gets their kicks providing people with both visual and audible pleasantries. This loose crew of creative individuals do everything from design to music making to illustration. Andre is a very skilled illustrator and creates awesome sketches, my favorites being the ones straight out his sketch book. He is currently working on music video illustrations for Tame Impala which should be quite the sight to see. Check out his blog and tumblr for more illustrious wonders.