Author: DJ

Cheltenham Design Festival 2012

02/04/2012
by DJ
News

Get ’em while they’re hot… tickets for the 2012 Cheltenham Design Festival are out now and selling like hot potatoes. Taking place over three days in April 2012 (20th–22nd), the festival will showcase some of the most innovative and creative thinkers operating on a global level today, providing a unique opportunity to engage with innovators from the world’s creative community who influence our lives through original thought… STEFAN SAGMEISTER: AN AUDIENCE WITH…: 21 April, 11.45am […]

Neue {Oslo}

28/03/2012
by DJ
Awesome agencies

After last weeks trip to Stockholm Design Lab we’ve been bitten by the scandinavian bug, so we’re taking you to Norway where we’re all gooey eyed and weak at the knee’s over Oslo’s Neue. Neue encompass that typically scandinavian chic body of work and none finer than their recently D&AD Best of Year book shortlisted brand work for Visit Nordkyn.

Free Agency Creative {Vancouver}

26/03/2012
by DJ
Awesome agencies

If one of your founders has won a Enrique Salazaar Award, by the Graphic Designers of Canada, for Best Young Designer in British Columbia ’02, you know you’re onto a reasonably good start. Skip forward to today and those bright eyed creatives Don Williams and Tak Yukawa’s Free Agency Creative have assembled what they describe as a process driven studio which emphasises creativity as being the result of solid strategy and diligent developmental phases. A […]

Trozo Studio {Los Angeles, CA}

21/03/2012
by DJ
Illustrators

LA based Itallian Eduardo Valdivieso’s Trozo Studio produces stunning mutli-layered wok that is a symphony of colour, texture and complexly constructed commentary. He seemlessly jumps between the conceptual and commercial realisation with unbelievable versatility and detail well worth studying.  

Stephen McCarthy {Dublin / London}

19/03/2012
by DJ
Outstanding individuals

Saturday’s St Patrick’s knees up made us take a good long hard look at ourselves ~ there was a distinct lack of presence from the Emerald Isle on our dear Journal. Enter Dubliner (though London-based) Stephen McCarthy and his delicious brand of goodies. And goodies they are indeed from the über talented chap. Just five years out of university and currently earning his crust working for Imagination, of his work McCarthy says he; “employs a reductive […]

Büro North unveil imaginative wayfinding for RCH

14/03/2012
by DJ
News

The culmination of four years work, design & wayfinding specialists Büro North have unveiled distinctive new wayfinding for The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH), which can only be described as nothing short of delightful and enchanting. Based on the evidence-based approach to wayfinding and design, Buro North commissioned and collaborated with local illustrator Jane Reiseger on the development of illustrations for the wayfinding signage to create an environment where as patients move through different floors of […]

Stockholm Design Lab {Stockholm}

14/03/2012
by DJ
Awesome agencies

A treasure trove of treats… that’s Stockholm Design Lab… über scandinavian cool with a collection of effortless Marks and identity systems that just leave you wanting more, more, more. Their award, exhibition and publication credit roll call has been getting longer consistently since 1996. SDL say; “We experiment, build, think and rebuild. We are organized to never compromise with the end result of our work. Quality in every component is what creates the experience of the brands […]

Tractorbeam {Dallas, Tx}

07/03/2012
by DJ
Awesome agencies

When your office doubles neatly as a gallery for local artists, it’s probably no surprise that Dallas’ TractorBeam (great name) have an eclectic but satisfying display of delights of their own… Founded back in 1997, they say “…collaboration is king. We are a collection of ordinary people who believe in doing extraordinary work. It’s really that simple. Talented? Yes. Driven? Quite. But the bottom line is that we’ve learned how to conspire effectively, disagree productively, and […]