
This week we’ve got a couple of world class designers whose blog you undoubtedly read. Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio are the founders and publishers of UnderConsideration and all of the blogs it encompasses. We heard them give a presentation at Pecha Kucha night a month or two back and reached out about having them sitting for a portrait. Thankfully they agreed. I photographed them in front of many of the books they used to research their highly acclaimed Graphic Design, Referenced book.
Armin’s and Bryony’s background include well reputed positions at Pentagram and Addison design respectively. Now they run UnderConsideration LLC where they blog about things such as the good and evil of identity design alongside the not-quite-dead-yet print world. Personally, I have always enjoyed their rather blunt opinions on Brand New. At our studio we joke that the two most polarizing topics in this country are Health Care Reform and naming the Aol. rebranding job the #1 Best Redesign of 2009. At the center of the latter fight is Armin and his stance on that new identity.
Of course along with being distinguished designers, they’re also a family. I asked them what brought them to Austin from New York and they said that growing up in Mexico City has given them an inclination towards a warmer climate, so ultimately it was the warm weather. They also mentioned that kids and big cities don’t always mix well. With one daughter and another about a month away I can’t blame them for moving to our great city.
You can see larger versions of the images after the jump. Also, many thanks to Armin and Bryony for letting me come by on that rainy Wednesday and track dirt in to their nice clean new home.
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