1)Mid-Century Danish/Scandinavian furniture – picked up two great chairs this morning from an import sale 2)100% Process Colours – spot colours for free, especially 100% magentan or cyan 3) Hot Chocolate – on a wet rainy day can’t beat it 4) Kids – they are the future and such an inspiration/motivation 5) 3am ideas – wake up pitch black and store that great idea for the morning
Clean Up The World, an initiative of Clean Up Australia have discovered that over 80% of all office paper printouts end up in the bin. Disturbed by the statistic they have taken action with this simple downloadable desktop image produced by DDB Sydney. Though a very simple and somewhat ‘old school’ device it makes total [...]
1)The Serif – a daily source of intelligence.
2)Google Reader – follow our stream here.
3) Rain – this is for anyone in Australia, but this week has seen some much needed rain in Victoria and other states and coming from the UK it’s nice to be reminded of the old country.
4)Logo by Michael Evamy – great branding and identity research, and lovely book design by Spin (UK).
5) Design Posters – we already posted about our love of posters this week, but they deserve another mention and a place in this weeks top5.
It would appear that while Iran is testing it’s missile capabilities someone is also out there testing their Photoshop capabilities, and failing to hit the target – read more here
Having recently embarked on the design of some promotional posters for the studio (see above), it seemed timely to reflect on the recent rise of popularity is this format. It would be fair to say the poster has never really gone away, from gig posters to general fly postering public spaces are generally adorned with [...]
F/F stumbled across this interesting project while checking our google reader feeds this morning. Essentially Cameron Adams, curious about how typographers communicate themselves, decided to ask a number of eminent typographers to send him scans of their handwriting. The results can be seen by clicking here.
It is a growing trend that Function/Form is a part of and one that it embraces. In both North America and Europe it has become common place for small studios (1-3 peoples) and solo practitioners to bind together to establish a larger commercial offering without losing their agility and ownership. Here in Australia there is [...]
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