Season's Greetings!

Original-Linkage is shutting shop for the festive period! Hooray!
It's probably been a long and eventful year for everyone, myself included. 2009 has seen a ton of super creative work from all around the globe, and I can see 2010 will be no different in that respect.
A big thank you to all those who have submitted work, and seasonal regards to my fellow design bloggers.
I'm looking forward to 2010's challenges and hope everyone in the creative community has a relaxing festive period and, more importantly, a fantastic new year!

Cheers!
Bob

Sanna Annukka

Sanna Annukka has updated her site since I last featured her.

Abdul Basit Khan

Some clean work from Singapore based designer, Abdul Basit Khan.

League

The guys at design group, League, got in touch, and I'm glad they did, as they have a portfolio stuffed with some super Swiss design!

North Kingdom: Reel

Via Ventilate

Embrace Your Element

Embrace Your Element branding by Saizen Media

Via Cpluv

FWA: Website of the Year 09

The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) is looking for your vote to determine website of the year. >Vote here<

Jamie Mitchell

Nice work in Jamie Mitchell's portfolio...

Via Visuelle

IY A: 12th Man Photography Project

Matt Cottis from IY A Studios emailed in to show us their latest self initiated London based photography project called 'Twelfth Man - Sport City London' which documents people and their connection to sport. The project is ongoing and they hope to continue photographing many more interesting characters and venues that make up London's diverse sporting communities. More info here.

Jobs@Parent

Well it has to be said that I don't normally post job offers up on the O-L, but seeing as it's almost Christmas, and the fact that Parent produce some lovely work, here is an opportunity for you creative peeps out there. Parent are on the hunt for a:

—Designer
Ideas focused, passionate designer, with a strong attention to detail and experience across print, brand and online design. Must be fluent in Adobe CS and well versed in providing creative solutions for real businesses.

—Designer/Developer
Must have a strong understanding of design, be creative with a ridiculously fine attention to detail and smug as a bug in Flash Actionscript, CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery etc.

Please send examples of your work to jobs@parentdesign.co.uk

Quincy from The Jailbreak want to let all the O-L readers know that they are giving away a bunch of free prints over the next couple of days. They have collaborated with artist Karen O'Leary (the lady who did those crazy map cuts) on the Manhattan Barcode Print. She hand drew the map of manhattan in thousands of tiny lines and then removed various segment to reveal a barcode. More here.

Matt Needle

Cardiff based graphic designer & illustrator, Matt Needle emailed in, he wanted to let us know about his latest work in the form of these Alfred Hitchcock posters.

Research Studios

New work from Research Studios including their latest project for the D&AD 2010 Student Awards campaign.

Via Grafikcache

Tree:Mix

If you are finding yourself with not much to do over the Christmas period, James Robert Fox has a suggestion - get involved with his collaborative project called Tree:Mix...

Brand RMX: The Power of Dream

Paul Rojanathara from Brand RMX tells us of the release of the 2nd part of "The Power of Dream" film, featuring Thibaut de Longeville. Check it out!

Invisible Creature

New site along with cool new work from Invisible Creature

Via FFF

Gerry Villareal

Elegant simplicity from art director Gerry Villareal.

Via QBN

Edouard Pecher

Edouard Pecher, a recent graduated from London College of Communication, has sent in his portfolio of work including his major course project which he says focuses on developing a generative identity stystem which uses rules based on oppositions... take a look!

Made Thought: Established & Sons

Made Thought have just completed their latest website redesign project for Established & Sons. See what you think.

Via Grafikcache/ It’s Nice That

A Journey to Zero

Must agree with the chaps over at No Legacy in that A Journey to Zero, with Richard Saul Wurman of TED, is indeed a good idea that is not only very well crafted but of noble effort too. Investigate here.

Kent Lyons: Xmas Past/Present/Future

Mark Diggins from Kent Lyons, sent in their Christmas effort, which involves a 12 pointed Moravian star, hand carved from ice, a bunch of Polaroids and a recorded 15 hour stop-frame film. You can see it all here

Color of the Year: PANTONE 15-5519

According to Pantone the colour of the year for 2010 will be 'Pantone 15-5519 Turquoise'.

"Turquoise transports us to an exciting, tropical paradise while offering a sense of protection and healing in stressful times"

Hmmm... I wonder what 2009's colour was?!

Universal Everything: AOL

A series of idents for AOL by Universal Everything

Via FFF

The Glue Society

Quite an explosive video for Lithuanian DJ outift 'Metal On Metal', created by The Glue Society.

Via CR Blog

Peter Menich: Fast Fourier Transform

Via No Legacy

Objects of Desire

Diana de Nobrega of Dan Pearlman design wanted to show us their playground called 'Objects of Desire', whereby they rethink everyday objects into 'ironically fancy design items'.

Jordan Blood

Jordan Blood is currently studying for an MA in Graphic Branding & Identity at the LCC, and has sent in one of his most recent projects; an identity and a series of posters for the Leatherhead Theatre, which are inspired by the internal Brutalist architecture, which predates the National Theatre and the Barbican Estate.You can see more of his work here

Happycentro

Some interesting projects by Italian based Happycentro. You can also checkout their Kropfolio here.

Via QBN

Why Not Smile

Why Not Smile is an independent graphic design workshop based in New York City and established by Hoon Kim (Jeong-Hoon Kim). Check.

Via But does it float

Untitled 004: The Art Book

Alex Witjas from Mike Perry Studio has written in to let us know about 'Untitled 004: The Art Book'. Take a look!

Established NYC

Some good work from NY based Established NYC, who incidentally are designing the Dieline's first ever Dieline Award. You can check out their concepts for the awards here.

Edwin Tofslie

Edwin Tofslie has a cargofolio stuffed with good interactive web work.

Sifon DG

Sifon DG tell us about two of their projects that have recently received the silver medal for their 'NATGEO' spots and reaching the world gold finalist in the category "Art Direction & Design - INTERSTITIAL CAMPAIGN" for SCI FOX brand pack in the Promax BDA awards 2009.

Submitted by Nicolas Ortiz

50X70

50X70 is the title of a new limited edition large format book,created by Tim Fishlock and exclusive to Habitat - which features 20 removable art prints (50x70cm) by well known artists. Artists include:
Patrick Hughes, Denis Darzacq, Julian House, Basso & Brooke, Shepard Fairey, Sroop Sunar, Zeloot, FLAG, :phunk, Tsang Kinwah, Tim Fishlock, Kevin Cummins, Adrian Johnson, Aaron Johnson, Anthony Burrill, Merijn Hos, John Offenbach, Stephan Zirwes, Alex Trochut and Jorge Chamorro.

Via CR Blog

CPLUV

It's been a while, but today sees the new, cleaner, white infested CPLUV. Check!

W+K

A brand new site for Wieden Kennedy...

Carefully Considered

Some Carefully Considered work by Matthew Schneider.
(Loving the bike work!)

Via QBN

Richard Sarson

Richard Sarson informs us of his latest work for winter.

The KELD

Some cool illustrations from The Keld

Submitted by The Keld

Unit Editions: Pop-up Shop

Quick heads up, Unit Editions is hosting a Pop-Up shop next Wednesday 9th Dec at 'To Hell With Books'.
No Jeremy Clarkson books. No Jordan autobiographies. Instead, books and records with soul and wit from Fuel Publishing, Unit Editions and Trunk Records – all at special prices. There will be signed copies, bottles of beer and Jake Chapman signing his latest novel. More details here.

Submitted by Natasha Day

Izaias

Some very cool interactive projects from Izaias.

Submitted by Izaias.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations

Sennep and Yoke have developed a Digital Dandelion for the forthcoming exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A (Opening 8th December). The interactive instalation allows user to blow away the seeds of a 3D Dandelion with an electric hairdryer and includes ambient and adaptive sound.

Lovely!

Thanks to Marit Kile

HelloVon: Updates

New updates over at HelloVon

Submitted by HelloVon

Extracts of local distance

Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer. More here.

Submitted by Torsten Posselt

Digital Temple: 8

More online reading for you, in the form of Digital Temple. Read on!

Submitted by Digital Temple

Magnetica Magazine: December Issue

Not forgetting Magnética Magazine of course!

Submitted by Magnetica Magazine

Bak Magazine: 15

The 15th issue of Bak Magazine is now online with 9 special interviews and 368 pages of art content, check!

Submitted by Ozan Karakoc

HippieHouse: Vh1

The guys at HippieHouse just sent there latest spot for Vh1.

Anton Repponen

Some cool and quirky work by Anton Repponen. Check out his cargofolio.

Urban Abstract

More here...

Via DYT

Cleaning up the grid

Antonio Carusone from AisleOne Blog, defends the Grid and dispels the myths & misconceptions that are festering within the design community...

Colagene

"Fresh from celebrating it's eighth birthday, it is with great fanfare that Colagene, illustration clinic, announces its continuing expansion — and a facelift — in response to steadily growing demand in the world of illustration. On the program: the agency is launching a new website, combining products and services (illustration and graphic design clinic), introducing six new illustrators and two motion designers, and opening a third clinic. After success in Montreal and Paris, the Clinic now has a third home in vibrant London, headed by new associate Mélissa Brisson." More here.

Submitted by Vincent Sillard

Nexus

London based Nexus productions have a newly updated site, with lots of good motion work.

Dvein 2009 Reel

More on Dvein's site.

Ciara Phelan

Meet Ciara Phelan, a young Illustrator working in London, who recently popped her site over to Original-Linkage.
She is now with YCN agency, so go take a look at her work.

PandaYoghurt

PandaYoghurt Studios sent us their link to their website, take a trip over there for an eyeful of cool design & illustration work.

Supernatural Studios

Recently I had the great pleasure of meeting a certain Zissou of Supernatural Studios, a charming, not to mention intelligent chap who creates some amazing concept product designs including 'Together’ – a reworking of Renato Bertelli’s classic sculpture, except this blends two profiles into one, and ‘Rockin’ – a fresh look at the rocking chair, all of which can be found on his site. Keep an eye on this guy.

Mike Abbink

No doubt, solid work for solid clients by a solid design director.
Meet Mike Abbink.

Michæl Paukner

Some pretty cool work to be found in Michæl.Paukner's flickr set.

Via Surfstation