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More skate decks from Alien Workshop (1999-2003) set #2: pictures from http://elephont.com way way way back, designed by Don Pendleton

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Attik 

Attik was founded in 1986 by James Sommerville and Simon Needham, two young designers who started the studio in the attic of Sommerville’s grandmother’s house in Huddersfield, England. They grew it from a small setup into a globally recognized creative force, reaching a peak of more than two hundred employees across multiple offices and producing work for major clients including Coca‑Cola, Sony PlayStation, Adidas, Toyota, and MTV. They became known for an experimental visual language that mixed texture, type, and early digital tools, and the Noise series documented that process and the ideas behind it. Here are scans from the first few pages of Noise Four, published in 2001.

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Works from the UK based design studio Aeriform Viscom, including their website in 2003.

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DeRush - set 1

Derush started in 2001, by Pernille Christensen, Anders Hansen, and Jochem van der Spek. Their mission was to take cutting edge design from every discipline and bring it to a street level. They invited well known designers and upcoming talent to submit royalty based artwork, then turned those ideas into limited run t-shirts. Each design was capped at three hundred pieces worldwide, screen printed on blanks, and sold through their site and selected retailers.

They focused on the people behind the work. Every designer had a profile on the site with links to their other projects, so you could see what they were working on. Their designs earned royalties, and part of the profits went into the DeRush Fund, which supported creative projects and gave designers a share of the success.

Today you can explore the original site through the web archive at www.derush.net.

Here are some of the T shirt designs created by the artists who worked with Derush. The left and right images are likely interchangeable as the front and back of each shirt. Screen captures taken from 2002.

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CD covers from 1996

Mozart, Piano Concertos 9 & 20 - Mikhail Pletnev, Design by Lippa Pearce

Haydn, Piano Sonatas - Mikhail Pletnev, Design by Lippa Pearce

Infiniti Collection: Juan Atkins, Design by Mainartery

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JIM BOTRON portfolio site (2001)

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Illustrations from Jamie Hewlett 

Jamie Hewlett attended Worthing Art College, where he got to know Brett Ewins. When Hewlett left college, Ewins offered him and his friend Alan Martin the chance to do comics in a new magazine called Deadline. In 1988, the boys collaborated on a strip called “Tank Girl”. Soon “Tank Girl” became very popular. It was new comic territory - it was raw and edgy. In 1999, Jamie Hewlett was also responsible for creating the visual identity of the popular music group Gorillaz.

Gorillaz in Japan Alley.

Gorillaz in “Clint Eastwood”.

Jaime’s Illustration

Get the freebies

Born again

Illustration for NME magazine 

Untitled Illustration (1998)

Untitled Illustration

Kung Fu “Noodle”

Scans from The International Designers Network: IDN 10th Anniversary Issue 2002/2003 Asia/pacific edition

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Rodney Alan Greenblat - Parappa the rapper & Um Jammer Lammy

Rodney Alan Greenblat helped pioneer a more playful, human-centered approach to gaming. His collaborations with Sony PlayStation—most notably PaRappa the Rapper and its sister game Um Jammer Lammy—offered a refreshing alternative: games that celebrated rhythm, humor, and imagination.

Before stepping into video games, he was known for his whimsical children’s books (Uncle Wizzmo’s Used Car 1990)and interactive CD-ROMs (Dazzeloids 1994). His signature style came to life in PaRappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy, where players tapped out beats and freestyled their way to “rapping cool.” The characters Greenbalt created are wholesome and hip. Drawn in bold, flat colors and full of wide-eyed charm, Greenblat’s characters wear streetwise fits and move to a hip-hop beat. He also added just enough gothic elements to undercut the sweetness of his digital worlds.

And those worlds extended into physical objects, from keychains and plush toys to my personal favorite: the PaRappa the Rapper Official Space Age 1 Toaster (1997). A full-scale working appliance designed to burn Parappa’s face onto slices of bread. The toaster was created for sale in record stores across Japan.