Context of Practice - 3 Graphic designers I have recently been introduced to.

Introduced to Matt Lyon aka C86. 

Website - www.c8six.com

Email - Matt@c8six.com

Tel- 07799191196

He is an Illustrator from the UK living in London. After getting a degree in fine art - then teaching Graphic Design to 16 - 18 year olds.

Most of his work is initially sketched and then put into illustrator where he colours the m using vectors.

He is inspired by "retro folk art, children’s illustration, abstraction, and other artistic styles and ideas".

He has done work for clients such as;

• Microsoft
• AOL
• AT&T
• Nike
• Red Bull
• Urban Outfitters
• Wired
• Design By Humans

and many more

Obviously, due to the fact he is an illustrator - he is instantly able to have a unique style, the shapes he uses to make hisdesigns are interesting and entirely individual in every single drawing - he sort of has a cartoony aspect to most of his work, but I am not sure if that is die to his fantastic and vibrant use of colours or if he just has a caricature style when drawing - but at the same time he goes on to do what deems to be massively complex illustrations which appear to be totally symmetrical.

I was Introduced to a design studio called The Decoder Ring

Website - www.thedecoderring.com

Email 1 - ask@thedecoderring.com

Email 2- newbiz@thedecoderring.com

Phone - 512 236 1610   

It is a Multidisciplinary design partnership based in Austin - Texas - USA. 
Founded in 2004 with mission statement 'Do work we love for clients we admire" 
The list of clients worked for;

• Toyota
• Sony
• Men's Health Magazine
• Facebook
• The Flaming Lips
• Levis Jeans
• Urban Outfitters
• Modest Mouse
• HBO

and many more

 After visiting these guys website I found quite a few designs that were based on patterns or shapes mixed with photography, they have some really nice designs - covering a very broad range of styles - when you look at their poster designs then you see some similarities in designs but still not as much as a lot of renowned designers.

I also got introduced to a 'design circus' called La Boca 

Website - www.laboca.co.uk 
Email - eatme@laboca.co.uk
Tel - +44 (0)207 792 9791 ext.3
Address - La Boca Ltd
231-233 Portobello Road
London W11 1LT - UK
 
A London based design studio specialising in art & design for the film, music and fashion industries 
Client include;

•  20th Century Fox
• AOL
• Capitol Films
• Casio
• DC Recordings
• Renault
• Sony
• GQ Magazine

and many more

Some very cool colourful designs found through this studio, it uses exciting typography to pull a lot of it's designs together as well as using lot's of bold colour in a very psychedelic fashion which I really like, again with the use of blocks of colour and contrasting colour they create some unique designs.