Rudd Studio: Channel 4 Idents 2010

2010 Channel 4 idents by Rudd Studio.

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Jeffrey Docherty

Art director, Jeffrey Docherty has updated his portfolio quite nicely since I last featured him. Go take a look.

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Give Up Art

Yup, some good work coming out of London based design group Give Up Art.

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Oil & Water Don't Mix

Printing with the very nature of the problem.

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JR wins TED 2011

Photographer JR has won the prestigious TED prize for 2011.

Jim Tierney

Saw this student project, was impressed.
More super illustration work over at Jim Tierney's site.

Thanks to Ben Oliver

Because Studio: Update

A nice little update from Because Studio.

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SEA Design: New Website

A spiffing new site from the folks at SEA

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Smile for London

A new creative initiative called 'Smile for London' will be launching, on London Underground, just in time to tackle the January blues.
Platform screens will be taken over with a programme of film, art and animation, exhibiting the best of London’s emerging and established artistic talent.
This is a call for submissions, with a brief to create a twenty second silent piece of moving image with a view to pushing the boundaries of the medium. You can learn more here

Submitted by Jo Kotas

Ah&Oh Studio

An interesting perfume packaging design concept based on the darker side of literature classics by Polish based studio Ah&Oh.

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Manual

Some good work coming out of San Francisco's Manual Creative.

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Eliot Rausch: Last Minutes with ODEN

Vimeo's Winner for Best Video; Simple, beautiful, and incredibly heartbreaking.

Directed/Edited: Eliot Rausch
Director of Photography: Luke Korver, Matt B. Taylor

Generation Press: Image Library

Mmm, lots of high quality eye candy for you over at Generation Press' new 'Image Library'.

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Essential reading. Expanded.

Two books, that most of you may or should have come across, How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul (Adrian Shaughnessy) and Thinking with type (Ellen Lupton), landed on my desk recently, thanks to Princeton Architectural Press, except that these were the new expanded and updated versions of the books.
I had the original H.T.B.A.G.D.W.L.Y.S, and although I have only dipped in and out of the new version, I can say that the new interviews do make for interesting reading, the main content is incredibly grounded, and the book still has me looking up every now and then, with that frowned, deep in concentration look on my face. In short, good digestible stuff.
'Think with type' is simply a really good typographic reference, and although not exhaustive in any particular area, regardless of how experienced you are, this is something to be kept close by at all times.

The originals could certainly be listed as 'essential reading', however changing attitudes towards creative work as well as the ever changing landscape of technology, mean that these expanded versions are indeed very much worth having too.

Village Green: New Site

Village Green have a new site.

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Studio Verse

Good work from Melborne based design group, Studio Verse.

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