Life In 2050: Artist Updates

Stuart Tolley has let us know that the Life in 2050 exhibition, curated by Transmisson, now has work up by the featured artists, go take a look!
Ident above by Future Deluxe

Reserves: Defense

A quick word from Mike Jerboe letting us know that type foundry Reserves have just released a new typeface, titled Defense, a bold mixed-case slab-serif stencil face with three weights and over 70 ligatures (not including alternate ligatures). Also worth checking out their other faces too.

In Graphics We Trust

Seems like Sebastian Onufszak has been rather busy since we featured him last. Take a look!

A few Selected Flickr Sets

There are many great flickr collections out there and they do make for great inspiration, so here are a few varied old and new sets that you may have missed...
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Type Specimen Books by type foundries pre WW2. Collections by Henning Krause.
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Here's a pretty good collection of matchbox cover designs.
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Worth flicking through ABCVerlag's design book pool.
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1960’s and 1970’s Scandinavian logo collection by Oliver Tomas
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Here's a super graphic design collection from Insect 54.
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Many gems to be found in Acejet170's flickr collection.
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A collection of modernist design by Alphanumeric.
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More classic design collections from Ellen McFadden.
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Another nice design collection including scans of The Barbican brand guides by Ajones87.
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A ton of type at Typofile's flickr sets.
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Also worth looking at the Typography and Lettering pool flickr set.
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An extensive collection of Found Type.
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Another pool of Vintage Type
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A big selection of vintage logos taken from a 1970’s book called ‘World of Logotypes’.
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A collection of assorted graphics by Stéphane Massa-Bidal.
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Avant guarde and great, sets from 9000.
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Today, Aisleone blog, brings to our attention another rather nice flickr set of vintage ads, which you can see here.
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Vintage imagery and type to be found in Agence Eureka's sets.
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More vintage imagery fromThe Vintage Collective.
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Another rather large and unusual collection of vintage ads by Gatochy.
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Lovely set of typewriter ribbon case designs from Uppercase.
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Of course there are a few more great flickr sites out there, but these should keep you happy for at least the weekend!

Enjoy!

Steve Buffoni

After a year dedicated to developing Typojungle blog, Steve Buffoni got in touch as he has now set up his own personal showcase. Take a look!

Gkaster: 2010 Reel

Nice new reel by Gkaster

Graffiti Analysis

Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles. Influential graffitis artist such as SEEN, TWIST, AMAZE, KETONE, JON ONE and KATSU have had their tags motion captured using the Graffiti Analysis software. All tags created in Graffiti Analysis are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. Graffiti Analysis 2.0 is an open source project that is available online for free in OSX, Windows and Linux.

Via Surfstation

Modern Publicity

Having only recently mentioned an interview with art director Ken Leung, I find that he has just launched his new site for his London based design consultancy, Modern Publicity. Take a look!

Via Lundgren+Lindqvist

Aegir Hallmundur

I saw some of Aegir Hallmundur's illustration work in Wired magazine recently, and realised thereafter that I had seen some of his work before, more than anything, his own custom logotype.
He also runs a typography blog called Ministry of Type which, I have to say, has some rather nice content. What I also realised is that I have never linked Aegir up before, so without further ado...

Tom Dixon Studio

Furniture design company, Tom Dixon, has recently launched their new site, needless to say, well worth the visit.

Via It's nice that

Official Classic

Official Classic crew emailed in to announce their 1st anniversary since starting their collection of 500 vectors / 20 sets in the end of March 2009, and have now doubled up and have reached a milestone with 1000 vectors in 38 sets. Congrats guys!

Robert McCarthy

Graphic designer Robert McCarthy has also emailed in with his new site and new work.

Nathan Mianire

New York based illustrator, Nathan Mianire, emailed in with his work, why not take a look?

Patrick Jean: Pixels

Patrick Jean’s new film, Pixels, created by Onemoreproduction.

Thanks to Dave Birss

Aeiko: Update

Pete Harrison dropped by to to let us in on his latest site update with lots of new work, check it.

Alexis Taieb

Alexis Taieb writes in to tell us about his latest site updates...

Cumulus

French motion outfit, Cumulus-Collective's sent us their reel, take a look!

Varvara Zaytseva

A promising LCC Graduate Varvara Zaytseva also dropped an email our way directing us to her new portfolio website which can be found here.

Andy Andy Andy

Andy Detskas is a keen O-L fan, and emailed in to show us his work, take a look.

Ken Leung Interview

September Industry has also unearthed this interview with Monocle art director extraordinaire Ken Leung.

Via September Industry

Golden

You may want to head over to September Industry to check out David's latest post on design group, Golden. Nice big images and commentry here.

Grafia

One of this year's most fascinating design films, Grafia, (Graphic Design and the Mafia) by Francois Bayard is now online (with English subtitles) , so you can watch it in it's entirety here.

Klaus Haapaniemi

Quite like these covers by Finnish artist Klaus Haapaniemi, for Patrick Süskind's two classic novels from the 1980s, Perfume and The Pigeon. You can read more about these here.

Xtrabold

New work from 20 year old Nelson Balaban a.k.a. Xtrabold.

Via R&R

Wim Crouwel Archive

Antonio Carusone has unearthed a nice 'little' Wim Crouwel Archive with over 500 original designs by the master himself.

Via Aisleone

First there was ChatRoulette...

then came along Reel Roulette!
A very simple idea, talent spot and inspiration stop for clients and motion designers alike.

HeyDays: Kropfolio

Feel free to peruse HeyDays' Kropfolio.

Via QBN

Spin: Update

Little bit of an update from Spin

Life in 2015: We have a winner

Back in January we featured an exhibition called Life in 2015, which is featuring 21 leading designers, photographers, illustrators and artists, however there was 1 place open to the public, and now we have been informed that this place has been filled with a winner! More here.

Middle Boop

Illustrator Gordon Ried a.k.a Middle Boop, emailed us with his latest updates - go take a look!

Blue Roses: 3 Frames Video

Most of us, I'm sure, have stumbled across Three Frames.net, and if you have, you know how mesmorising it can be. The same goes for this music video, that takes the same concept and runs with it.

Via Ventilate

Proto

Not always sold on flash portfolio sites created with unnecessary wizzy effects, but Proto's site at least loads fairly quickly and has a few nice transitions, but more to the point has a some good interactive projects to peek at.

Jamie Bennett

Alex Wittholz brings my attention to illustrator Jamie Bennett, who has quite an unusual style of illustration.

Andy J Miller

Got a nice email from illustrator Andy J Miller, you may have seen his work before but if not, you can see it here.

Mash Creative

Speaking of great posters, I just wanted to quickly say a big thank you to Mark at Mash Creative for this fantastic poster, which I received quite some time ago, but have now at last got round to framing!! Now it sits proudly on my studio wall - so thank you!

While we are here, I also wanted to say that I have been more than busy this last few months with work, so apologies to anyone who has emailed in that I may have neglected or missed etc. Anyway, as you were, and let's get back to it!

HigginsonHurst: Exhibition

James Hurst writes in to let us know about a new temporary screenprint exhibition that he and Busaba Eathai have curated, which can be seen on hoarding boards at Old Street (London,UK) for the next 3 weeks.

The exhibition is showcasing artists from illustration agency HigginsonHurst including Mike Ballard (who is also the street artist Cept), Esra Røise, Chrissie Abbot, Haniboi, Damien Frost, Daisy Fletcher and Paul Bommers. You can get to see more of the artist's work here.