One of my favourite design publications at the moment (obviously discounting the beauties I write for) has to be Process Journal. Beautiful crafting goes hand in hand with engaging content, wandering happily down the track of design critique. The credit for this piece of greatness goes to Hunt Studio based over in Melbourne. In addition to their work on the journal they also find the time to craft considered pieces of bespoke design across a […]
How to summise Liverpool’s Mercy? Getting to know them a little makes it clear they’re not cut from a cloth of norm. Not your average run of the mill graphic show ponies, these chaps and chapettes have more than a trick or two in their stable immersing themselves in a broad world or workshops, performance, arts events, exhibition and, intriguingly, a venture where they set up their interns last year (but that’s a story for another […]
They have a blog dedicated to bikes, they brand their own pencils, they review tasty restaurants and new beers, they blog about typography and create their own software AND they design beautifully effective web, print and packaging… phew… take a breath will you. Swearwords are based over in Melbourne and recently did me the honour of filling my inbox with juicy new design work hot off their press. If the above isn’t enough to shower […]
If your work is considered good enough to be published in Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman’s Symbol book, clearly, you’re doing something right. If you’ve got three marks sitting pretty in that bad boy then it’s probably safe to give yourself a nice pat on the back. Dublin’s Creative Inc are in such a covetous position, and with a menagerie of design treats on view in their portfolio, they live by the mantra “great design is […]
Here on Cloud 9 we love the not-so-large fish, especially when we see them swimming briskly past the so called big boys with a confident fishy smile on their chirpy faces. Meet Nicknack, who operate from Australian waters, Adelaide to be more specific (you remember Parallax right – go Adelaide!) They talked to us about how, in such a culturally changing, new and emerging world, the playing field is levelling; smaller players are now stealing […]
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.
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 […]
When I asked Switch to sum themselves up for me they used the phrases ‘nimble’ and ‘we play well with others’, this made me like them. The following images made me a like them even more. My posts have been pretty pun free thus far so on this occasion I’m going to throw in that they are truly switched on bunch, up the minute and right ON the pulse of contemporary design culture (sorry)! On […]