Logo of the year 2011

The LogoMoose is a logo design inspiration gallery and community. Their community members have again selected a logo of the year.

The winner this year is Gert van Duinen with his Storm Foundry logo:

Storm Foundry by Gert van Duinen

Gert is a Dutch illustrator and brand identity designer. He’s been into graphic design since the mid 90′s but has been scribbling signs & symbols before he could walk. He’s always been intrigued and passionate about iconic design and logos, trademarks and anything distinguishable by either brandmark or impression.

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The works of Nancy Kers

Nancy Kers is a very talented illustrator from Schiedam, The Netherlands. She studied at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam between 1998 and 2002 and graduated as an illustrator. After graduating she started working as a freelance illustrator and she still does.

Opa in Zeeland by Nancy Kers

Her style of drawing is very special but also very typical for children’s drawings. As most of her work exists of educational illustrations aimed to kids this kind of style fits perfectly.

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twitjewelry

The Twitjewelry collection is a creation of Charissa Dubos, a Dutch jewelry lover by heart from Amsterdam. Charissa is, besides working on Twitjewelry, starting the jewelry brand “Andrews & Jones”. This brand focuses on today’s fashionable, creative women who are looking to wear modern and high quality jewelry.

Charissa Dubos

Twitter is hot! The entire world is tweeting. Now you can create your own custom made twitterjewelry on twitjewelry.com. Twitjewelry combines the online and offline world by allowing you to create custom made jewelry with your twitter username. Give your outfit a personal touch and wear your twitjewelry to work as a fashionable business card, or when you’re going out to see who will follow you…

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The works of Mark Beernink

Mark Beernink is a 22 year old graphic designer from Ootmarsum, The Netherlands. His interest in graphic design started during elementary school where he was drawing cartoon characters. Last year he graduated from the Applied Arts & Technology Academy in Enschede.

Fashion by Mark Beernink

Mark is familiar with the entire Adobe suite, but his work tells us that he prefers Photoshop. He uses his Wacom Graphics Tablet a lot and has his own made sets of brushes, textures and stock photos. Mark also creates websites, logos and layouts for various magazines.

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Wim Crouwel at the Design Museum

The Design Museum in London celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel. As one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s.

Wim Crouwel by Michael Levy

Spanning over 60 years, the exhibition covers Crouwel’s rigorous design approach and key moments in his career including his work for design practice Total Design, the identity for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, as well as his iconic poster, print, typography and lesser known exhibition design. The exhibition will explore Crouwel’s innovative use of grid-based layouts and typographic systems to produce consistently striking asymmetric visuals.

Read more: http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2011/wim-crouwel

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The works of Jorrit van Rijt

Jorrit van Rijt is a 30 year old graphic designer from Utrecht, the Netherlands. His works feature a lot of abstract design and some great use of colours.

Black Swan by Jorrit van Rijt

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