It seems our main Birmingham boy with the illustration skills Sweaty Eskimo has been busy lately with some tasty commissions from the likes of Twitter, Nandos and Cadbury.
Sawdust are a studio that need no introduction. They have just updated their site with a heap of new work. I love their illustration concept for BBH.
I received a fabulous bit of post this week courtesy of Design by Dave. It led me to take a look at his site and I was blown away by the work. The attention to detail and the use of great raw materials make his work a pleasure to look at and to touch. Go and take...
Also as part of Eye Candy is Birmingham Zine festival. BZF have a whole host of treats spanning from the 12th to the 15th of October. They have a Comic Art Exhibition, Screen priting workshop, badge making, live drawing and a party on Saturday night where Misty’s Big Adventure will be playing. The last time I saw them they...
November 19th this year celebrates 20 years since the incorporation of Fedrigoni UK. Fedrigoni are offering you the chance to win a beautiful set of 6 china coffee cups by Highgrove. Beautifully presented in Fedrigoni Sirio Color Celeste and Vino packaging, this wonderful set can be yours! Simply tweet: #happy20thanniversary with a message stating what...
This week sees the launch of Eye Candy Festival. Taking place over Friday, Saturday and Sunday it sees a whole plethora of creative things taking place across the Southside district of Birmingham. I’ll be posting more about the event over the next few days but for now I’ll concentrate on the speakers event on Friday...
Sixth Story are a Birmingham based digital and creative agency nestled in the creative hub that is the Jewellery Quarter. They have a nice little portfolio of work. I’m sure some really great work will start to spring out of this little studio in the future.
Present Perfect is a London based design practice formed in 2011 by Ivan Markovic and Povilas Utovka. Slick layout and bespoke typefaces are the order of the day here. Enjoy. www.presentperfect.co
I first became intrigued with how places of worship could be integrated into modern spaces when I came across Le Corbusiers Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut. Previously I’d associated religious buildings with the ecclesiastical architecture we come across in towns, cities and villages across the country on an everyday basis. Seeing how Le Corbusiers...
Column Five Media have the info graphics and data visualisation nailed down. On their site they have hundreds of beautiful infographics and also dabble with a bit of motion. Well worth checking out. How to Generate Good Ideas from Column Five on Vimeo.
Some really well executed illustration straight up from the portfolio of Riley Cran.
The Penguin Pool is Arup’s global creative events series designed to inform, inspire and entertain. It takes its name from Arup’s first project – the Penguin Pool at London Zoo. The next Penguin Pool event in the series has the theme of – Design you can’t see, but can feel, perceive and interact with. Lead...
Dublin based Conor & David have a really healthy body of work for cultural institutions and organisations. Formed by Conor Nolan and David Wall, they work across print, interactive and identity projects. Design that has a mild flirtation with art really hit the mark when finished to the standard of their work.
Occasionally I come across a body of work that really takes my breath away. This morning I found Stockholm based BVD and their work did just that to me. Their portfolio is effortless in both its execution and presentation. From designing the identity for popular brands such as H&M to their brutally minimal packaging for Electrolux,...
383 Project, a creative agency based in Birmingham, announces details of Canvas. A new affordable single day web developer conference focused on new technologies and tools for building the next generation of the web. Speakers from well-known organistations such as Twitter, BBC R&D, Opera and BSKYB will deliver talks on responsive design, realtime web and...
London based Rory Pickering who is currently working as a freelance designer for The Times, as well as his own clients has a really varied portfolio with some great work in.
Ever since I discovered his Hubble Bubble series of photographs in Walpaper magazine I’ve been in awe of Dan Tobin Smith. A nice site update from Studio Output with lots of fresh work that is still as awe inspiring as ever.
I’m a stickler for geometric photography, so when Munich based Jie Liu sent me her stark images of angular buildings I just had to post them up.
Birmingham based Claire Hartley has a new site up with some rather tasty bits of illustration and design work. Loving the Wolverhampton art map and Papergirl identity.
When he’s not doing his thing at Creative Review, Simon Ford produces some pretty tight work.
Mat Dolphin are a London based design agency. Not only do they have an amazing body of work, their input into the wider design scene is invaluable. Taking time out of their busy schedules to do things like How Lo can you Go to give us further insights into the value of design, Mat Dolphin...
The Work of Asger Carlsen is so delightfully wrong that it makes my spine tingle with pleasure. The harsh tones of the black and white imagery give the work a reportage feel whilst still making you feel like your on a VICE shoot on acid. Top stuff! Via Mat Dolphin
So it seems the Birmingham/Leeds based publication has celebrated its 1st birthday with a lovely looking 5th edition of the magazine. In it you’ll find everything from fashion to photography to illustration. A must for Midlands based creatives.
Rob Ricketts is Birmingham based designer with a portfolio of crisp and minimal design. I’ve got a sneaky feeling Rob may like a little electronic music with typefaces such as Belleville that he has created in homage to the originators of Detroit techno. His 808 series inspired by some of the greatest tracks ever to...
James Isbell is a recent graduate with a portfolio heaving with amazing digital work. The generative poster concept for Ministry of Sound are well worth a deeper look.
Got an email yesterday from Rutger Paulusse AKA Gwer informing me he has a new site up. It would appear Rutger is a bit of a typographic genius. I look forward to seeing more of his work in the future. Love the covers for Dutch record label Lowend.
Danny from SEA got in touch to tell me about this awesome new project they have just completed for Fedrigoni. I bet it looks even better in the flesh. Anyone who knows SEA will know from the extensive collaborations with GF Smith that they really know how to handle raw materials and turn them into...
