The ever impressive interactive agency North Kingdom have finally seen the light and have opted for a non-flash heavy website in favour of a clean, uncluttered and focused solution.
As they say, less is more and content is king.
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North Kingdom: New Site
The ever impressive interactive agency North Kingdom have finally seen the light and have opted for a non-flash heavy website in favour of a clean, uncluttered and focused solution.
As they say, less is more and content is king.
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Value and Service: Update
I haven't posted these guys for a while, and seeing as they have a few new projects, let's take a another look at Value and Service
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Kimberley Chan
Kimberley Chan is a 3rd year graphic design student at the University of Lincoln, and has sent in her portfolio.
Studios AKA: BBC Winter Olympics
Quite like the latest spot for the BBC winter Olympics, created by Studios AKA's Marc Craste and Jon Klassen.
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Life in 2050
Stuart Tolley from Transmission Studios informed us of a forthcoming exhibition project that they are currently working on for the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival called Life in 2050.
21 leading designers, photographers, illustrators and artists will create an original piece of work depicting their vision of what life will be like in 2050. Exhibitors will include Universal Everything, Build, Mario Hugo, Alex Trochut, Jason Tozer, Graham Carter, Will Sweeney and Hort amongst others.
All work will be on display at the Chapter One Gallery, 33 Marshall Street, London from 15th April - 8th May.
There is also 1 space free for a public submission.
All you have to do is send your ideas on the theme 'Life in 2050.' All entries will be submitted on the gallery section of the Life in 2050 website (coming soon) and a winner will be chosen, whose work will be printed and displayed at the final exhibition.
All the entry details and the 1st March deadline date can be found here.
DSL: The winner's final product.
Just a quick note to say that the two Original-Linkage entrants from the Designer Sole Competition, and went on to win the national competition have now had their designs actually produced. More info here.
Sean Freeman
We were given a heads up that Sean Freeman has an updated
site with some lovely new work of course, go take a peek!
Thanks to Xavier Bourdil
Commercial Type
Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, who have collaborated since 2004 on various typeface projects, most notably the award winning Guardian Egyptian.
Their type is super, and their site is actually quite novel.
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Blue River
Anthony Cantwell, creative director at Blue River, said hello recently,
and gave me a heads up on some of their work, which is definitely worth taking a look at.
Non-Format: Updates
Always worth a quick look around Non-Format's site - there you will see their latest work for Delphic.
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UK Job> Alight > Senior Digital Designer
Well every now and then I like to keep the economy going, so a quick heads up if you fancy working full time in Nottingham City Center for creative agency, Alight. You must be pure design through and through, with a love of the web and digital. Minimum 3 years design agency experience. Salary: Massively dependent on portfolio and experience.
Interested? Then get in contact here.
Submitted by Samantha Cohen
Interested? Then get in contact here.
Submitted by Samantha Cohen
Matthew Lyons
While snooping around on ffffound I came across the illustration work of 21 year old student, Matthew Lyons, take a look!
Dracula Studio
Not a drop of blood to be found anywhere, but there are a few nice projects from Dracula Studio.
Measure Design
These prints ended up on my door step last week, from Iowa based design group, Measure Design. Having had a look around their site I can say they have some good work to check out.
Thanks to Chris Malven
Simon Cassels: Nike Wyang
Simon Cassels wanted to show us all this spec spot for Nike that he directed with his partner Justin Blampied. The concept champions the idea that love, perseverance and passion shall win over evil, and as you will see, is executed in the style of Indonesian shadow puppet theatre.
Mash Creative
Mark Bloom, who was previously at Socio Design, emailed in to tell us that he has recently set up his own graphic design business under the name of Mash Creative.
Blue Collar Interactive
Jami Beaton Eidsvold emailed in to let us know about newly launched Blue Collar Interactive. Take a peek.
Muggie Ramadani
An accomplished, clean and professional portfolio from Copenhagen based design director Muggie Ramadani
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L&K Global Special Projects Team
They say 2010 will be the year of smart thinking. In short, collaborative working, and I am inclined to agree, so I will be interested to see the progress of a new collaboration between L&K Creative, GHAVA (Graphic Havoc) and Ian Anderson of TDR.
Together they will form what they are calling The Global Special Projects Team. The 3 entities will continue to work as independent agencies but will be brought together only for their specialist projects. More here
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Build: New bits 'n' bobs
I notice Build Studio has been up to a few things lately, including these cool woodland creature pins, that of course spell out 'Build', and a new site for photographer Jason Tozer.
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Robert Hodgin
More great generative art and technology from Robert Hodgin aka Flight404.
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Roger Willems
Solid typographic design work from Roger Willems, a self-employed designer in Amsterdam, working in the field of book design for publishing houses and cultural institutions.
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Andy Cooke
Andy Cooke, a 3rd year graphic student at Staffordshire University, emailed in a little while ago, he has a new portfolio up, which has some nice letterpress pieces to take a peek at.
2010 Output Awards - For students in design and architecture
A quick heads up for the 2010 Output Awards. More info here.
• The works selected by the jury will be published in the yearbook :output.
• :output Grand Prix: 3.000 Euro
• Deadline for submissions: February 15 2010
JURY: Juliette Bellocq (graphic design | USA), Elio Caccavale (product design | I/UK), Kate Moross (graphic design | UK), Florian Pfeffer (:output foundation | NL/GER), N.N. (architecture)
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Prologue: Sherlock Holmes
Can't help but be impressed with everything that comes out of Prologue's doors, including their latest for Sherlock Holmes...
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Break and Assemble
Brighton based Josh White a.k.a.Break & Assemble emailed in some of his work - go take a look!
We Are Academy
I am quite liking the minimal and clean nature of We Are Academy's website (A Suprb & Subdisc collaboration) , not to mention some of the work of course.
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James Warfield
James Warfield, creative director at Un.titled, has sent in his portfolio, lots of good work, take a peek!
Grafik Design Awards 2010
Well, I think we all want 2010 to be an award winning year, and so it could not be more apt way to start than to let you all know about Grafik Magazine's first award scheme.
A few differences from other awards I suppose, in that they are no categories, and that these awards are making a conscious effort to rid them of their sometimes elitist nature by introducing low fees for entry, making it far more accessible to everyone.
Also the judging panel consists of some rather notable people in the world of design including:
Angharad Lewis, Wim Crouwel, Nick Roope, Emily King, Eva Rucki, Peter Saville, Caroline Roberts, Ben Parker, Kate Moross, Sara De Bondt, Phil Baines and Marina Willer.
May be a good way to start the year, non?
The awards are now open for entries at with a closing date of 31 January 2010. The awards event itself will take place 29 April 2010.
More info here
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