This is a cool series by South Carolinian designer Marco Suarez. Great colors and composition, and the circle canvas gives them that little something extra. It might ruin it, but I’d love to see a little bit of type sprinkled in the outskirts. Nothing crazy, maybe just some cool looking numbers.
Marco Suarez
01.21.2011
I Agree Alex, defintely something small though. What I’d personally love to see is maybe more of a cream colour rather than a true white. But then again, maybe it’s the contrast between the pure white and the nostalgic feel and lushness of the pictures that makes it so striking.
I love the circle canvas, but it certainly looked better in google reader, where the white border wouldn’t really show. But since this is meant to be printed, I guess he had to put the white borders instead of making a transparent .png…
Nice find anyway 🙂
^ no
I really like these. They remind me of the mid 1970’s ecology posters.
This very much excites me. It’s awesome to see such cool work coming from a designer based in my hometown, Greenville, SC.
Needs more Helvetica.
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Amen to that
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Amen to that…
Haha, sarcasm guys.
I do like these quite a bit though. Reminds me of Bob Ross whenever he used a circle canvas…”alright, today we’re gonna use something a little different…”
I don’t know about the addition of type, if the goal is to show off the subject in an interesting viewport, what would type add to that? In my opinion, it would serve to further narrow the vocabulary associated with the picture, which is a very easy thing to do. Why does everything need to look as though it was part of a textbook or info-graphic or abstract? Can’t we disassociate the two and just appreciate the picture we’re looking at and the form in which it’s presented? Just my thoughts.
These pics would work really well as record-sleeves. In fact, I assumed they were on first glance…
reminds me of Cut Copy’s new album cover.
Yeah, I wouldn’t add type to this at all. I think it looks great the way it is. It would put it into the design realm, right… but maybe that’s not what this is supposed to be.
I saw them on etsy the other day
http://www.etsy.com/shop/MarcoSuarez?section_id=7359491
Really nice series
In all honesty to me these seems like your typical hipster nature-picture-that-looks-retro work that plagues tumblr (along with the equally boring cute-girl-with-an-animal-mask).
In all honesty to me these seems like your typical hipster nature-picture-that-looks-retro work that plagues tumblr (along with the equally boring cute-girl-with-an-animal-mask).
Sorry for the double comment.
I love this . Gives me a very good feeling.:-)
what happened to raw photos. All this post-process takes away from the true elegance. Real life is elegant. Photo manipulation is hit or miss.
Looks like they were put through your standard camera phone stylizer.
Typical hipster nonsense. All style, no substance.