So, here we go again, namely another big launch sewn up from the trigger happy gun slingers at SomeOne. This time they’ve turned their hand to a spot of telecoms branding, what with it being all the rage this week. Enter Weve (exit the apostrophe autocorrect insists on slapping in). Weve is the big joint venture, bringing together the UK’s three big hitting mobile network operators, namely EE, Telefonica UK and Vodafone UK. It bills itself as […]
Really love the work by Michael Freimuth ~ art director, designer, illustrator and former ADC Young Gun and winner of ’08 Print Magazine New Visual Artist Award, based in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked as art director at the design agency Tender, in Manhattan, and is currently freelancing for a range of clients. He’s also CD at large for both Chicago-based Proximity Magazine, and the design journal Matériel. Check him out… Tw. @michaelfreimuth
Glorious work from Rotterdam based Studio Dumbar who’s work, incredibly includes the visual identity of the Dutch police, back in the early 90’s. Their recently relaunched site houses a body of work that amounts to a menagerie of amazing aesthetics each as inspiring and challenging as the last. As well as having Dutch roots, you can more recently find their offices in Shanghai and Seoul with the studio having originally being founded back in 1977. Tw. @studiodumbar
London-based creative studio Tamsin Allen provides art direction, design & branding for fashionable clients. With roots primarily in the fashion and beauty industries, she believes any brand should and can look modern, beautiful and visually-arresting in all its design & marketing materials, with solid strategic thinking as the backbone of all creativity. Clients have included John Lewis, Rimmel London, Body Shop, Jigsaw, Toni & Guy, Gap, Thomas Pink and Magaschoni. Tw. @tamsinallen / Fb. /TamsinAllenCreative
Scottish-born Milan-educated illustrator come graphic designer Emily Isles began to work as graphic designer for a small publishing house called No Mad, designing city cultural guides for the creative community. That’s where she learned more about typography and grid systems, having started out with a degree in Interior Architecture. “I dug out the typewriter from the back of a cupboard at my partner’s parent’s house in Sicily, the Lettera 22 was used by the great Italian […]
If you’re of a digital persuasion, and in Melbourne on 8–11 November then we’ve got news that could be right up your street; Pause Digital Festival Melbourne 2012 is here, having received a whole new look and brand by FutureBrand, and has just announced the program and the release of early bird tickets. PauseStage is an exclusive one-day event aimed as professional development for the creative industries in a moderated Q&A session by Mark Simpson from Sydney’s Sixty40 […]
Originally conceived as Design Symposium North back in 2008 by Liverpool creative agencies Smiling Wolf, Black & Ginger and Uniform (in themselves awesome studios) 2012 sees it relaunched under the new name, Designival – dubbed the largest design festival in the north of England – to reflect its larger, broader events. Taking place on November 22nd across Liverpool and on the 23rd at Camp and Furnace, Designival will feature keynote sessions as well as a design-themed breakfast with guest speaker, masterclasses from Apposing, Milky […]
More great work from SomeOne, this time it’s 40% proof. You might be forgiven for thinking that in the last week DJ had become some sort of an unofficial media outlet for SomeOne… pause to think what that world might be like… but the truth is they’re just spitting out great stuff at the moment, like it’s going out of fashion. Five eclectic projects have vaulted out of the their door in a matter of days, […]