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AIGA Design Week 09: Christian Helms

Christian Helms (thedecoderring.com), gave a thorough presentation of his work last night, from the Adobe headquarters here in San Fran (A full-block warehouse conversion in SoMA).

His design style is rooted with that southern look - compressed type, locked-up neatly, but imbibed with a more graphic, and idea-based sensibility, perhaps mastered while being an intern with Michael Bierut.

His most recent work to note was for the Obama campaign, including a poster series, this has led to a meeting next week with the art director for the white house. As he said last night, ‘How f***ing cool would that business card be?’