Author: DJ

5 minute 12,000 mile American roadtrip

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Brian DeFrees set about an epic 12,225 mile roadtrip around the U S of A, capturing each day in photos on Picframe and Instagram. But that’s not all, using a camer mounted in his car, he took shots every 5 seconds to create these great timelapsed videos.

Trebleseven’s TwentyTwelve sets the date

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Trebleseven have added to their already typographically opulent collection of prints with the release of a TwentyTwelve calendar. Double sided, the A1 print’s date side is constructed using a tidy 15 column grid, the reverse features selected favourite Trebleseven branding and design projects. Handily, the calendar also folds into a more handleable five concertina fold (A1 length, shown below) mailer. Printed on GF Smith ColorPlan and available in a handful of colours, this is a really nice […]

Kurppa Hosk {Stockholm}

Awesome agencies

Stunning work from Swedish agency Kurppa Hosk. Gloriously crafted and stripped back type, understated colour and minimal image and iconography all conspire to create a beautifully balanced body of work. Lovely, lovely, lovely… Tw. @kurppahosk RUN-00 from suprb on Vimeo.  

Fluonoir {Paris}

Awesome agencies

I’d never been to Paris until earlier this year. It’s beautiful. A merry meander down the Champs-Élysées hand in hand with my betroved, what could be more pleasant? Snap-happy tourists filled Louis Vuitton whilst I eat my body weight in crepés and inadvertently skipped the mammouth queues by finding a side entrance to the Louvre, before later ogling the stunningly bizarre Centre Pompidou. Good trip. Ah Paris… but I digress. However, speaking of Parisian allures, et […]

Get Lucky in style

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Regular viewers of the ol’ D to tha J will already be aware of South African graphic swashbuckler Luke Ritchie. You may then recall his enterprise with @simonalander, LuckyFella Clothing Co., which was in the pipeline. True to his word, hey presto – he’s only gone and launched it! Says Ritchie; “LuckyFella Clothing Co was born out of a desire for clean and custom type-centric clothing. As a graphic designer and typographer, I wanted to […]

Mytton Williams {Bath}

Awesome agencies

D&AD, DBA Design Effectiveness, Graphis Design, Clio Awards, Roses… the list goes on. It’s an embarrassment of riches for Bath-based consultancy Mytton Williams. But don’t hate the player hate the game. It’s founders (with previous experience in Pentagram & Interbrand (née Newell & Sorrell)), have been trading in sumptuous creative solutions that simply fit the bill since 1996. Nice work. Nice ethos. Tw. @myttonwilliams / Facebook  

Matthew Lyons {UK}

Illustrators

Stunning illustration from UK based illustrator and man of the moment Matthew Lyons. His work is highly imaginative and full of stunning depth and subtley of colour. He also curates a nice blog of things he finds inspiring here which provides a great insight to where the nuances and style of his work is born.