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Graphic Design
typo.graphy
Typophile
Swiss Legacy
kommunikationsdesign
Manystuff
FormFiftyFive
The Grid System
Typography Friday
International Graphic Design

More to be added.

If you have any Flickr.com Group Pool links, please send to contact [at] sarahfrance [dot] com and I will add them to this post.
Many thanks.

How could I forget, thank you Nitzan:

My Favourite Letters

is a multidisciplinary graphic designer from Istanbul, Turkey. He has dedicated over 11 years solely to generating design ideas. Kucukaga has won many awards and is widely known for his branding, advertising and packaging work.

Here are just a few examples of what his online portfolio has to offer:

Past Present Istanbul

Smoothy Island

The Pulse

P-Liquid

Kucukaga also provides us with a immense source of packaging design, why not visit his blog filled with inspiration…I love Packaging World.

COWRAN ESTATE | BRANDING
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Today Marker uploaded some of their most recent projects to the creative network Behance. Their website is currently being designed so watch this space for any exciting new updates!

Here is a small taste of what they have to offer:

Fine food, produced naturally, is the ethos of Cowran Estate, a local producer.
The typographic treatment really compliments the delicate illustration.

Marker are currently advertising for a Creative Director.

Calendars
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Pentagram 2008 Typography Calendar Now Available

Pentagram’s 2008 calendar features typefaces designed by Matthew Carter.

Kit Hinrichs has designed Pentagram’s 2008 Classic Typographic Calendar using twelve typefaces designed by typographer Matthew Carter including Walker (originally designed in 1995 for the Walker Art Center), Snell Roundhand (a 1966 revival of 17th century English writing master Charles Snell) and Galliard (a 1978 anthology of Roman and Italian styles of French punch-cutter Robert Granjon). “I wanted to bring a new awareness of typographic design through this calendar,” said Hinrichs. “Typefaces are pervasive in our daily lives in everything we read and see around us and yet most people are oblivious of them or the circumstances in which they were created. We can gain a new perspective on our world by studying the origin of typefaces. I hope the calendar will encourage a new sensitivity to the importance of typeface usage and the work of Matthew Carter.”

The calendar is available in two sizes, a supersize 33-by-22 inch version suitable for wall hanging and a smaller 18-by-12 inch version appropriate for desk use. Both versions are available in the US and UK at kenknight.com. The price of the supersize calendar is $36 and the smaller desk and wall calendar is $22. (Prices do not include shipping.)

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“Dorogaya” Magnetic Calendar

This stunning concept has been very successful on Behance and you can probably see why. Not only easy to use but placed in the most perfect of places; on the fridge as it is more often than not the first stop in the morning!

[Visit Serhiy Chebotaryov]

TypeOff

Typodarium 2009: The Typodarium brings daily typography inspiration, the first tear-off calendar with 365 different fonts—bread-and-butter types and typography gimmicks, character sets and punctuation, old masters and new wild fonts, favourite fonts from across the world on your wall. The front page, which is classic and functional, shows the date and on the reverse are background and details, designers and reference sources. In this way, every day becomes a typography day and some calendar pages become a font shopping list.

The typography calendar was planned and designed with the Berlin designer Raban Ruddigkeit and is the first publication by Magma with the well-known Mainz publisher Hermann Schmidt.

The following type designers and founders are included in the calendar: 2Rebels, Avoid Red Arrows, bp Foundry, Caketype, Canada Type, Cape Arcona, Christian Schwartz, Coma AG, Cubanica, ds Type, Dutch Design, Dutchfonts, eps51, Font Bureau, Fontfarm, FontFont, Fountain, Hubert Jocham, Hula+Hula, Kenn Munk, Lazydogs, Lieberungewoehnlich, Lion&Bee, Magma Brand Design/VolcanoType, Mark Simonson, Martina Hartmann, P22, Parachute, Peter Brugger, Pfadfinderei, Primetype, Smeltery, Sparkytype, Subtitude, Subcommunication, Typecuts, TypeOff., TypeTogether, Typetype, Typonauten, Typotheque, Underware, urw++, Verena Gerlach, Xplicit, and Yanone.

Typodarium 2009
365 fonts by 50 foundries and designers.
368 pages, each 8.5 x 12 cm.

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I just wanted to let you know that the winner of the competition has been announced.

From a shortlist of six chosen by advertising, art and creative bloggers, James Fox, a visual communication student at Loughborough University, is the winner of its Next Generation Talent competition. His entry was chosen by the public as the best advertisement for Panasonics new Viera PZ81 Home Hub television.

The ad, Boxes, will be featured on Panasonic’s homepage, NextGenerationTalent.co.uk and has a chance to be a part of the next Viera ad campaign.

* The ad:

* The judges’ views on the entries here
* The judges’ views on the winner here
* And last but not least, the Panasonic UK Channel

All the best,
Melanie Seasons at Online Fire

Well done James Fox!
&
Thank you to Melanie for this series of informative posts.

GIFT IDEAS FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
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Chromatic Wood Type

This beautifully printed typographic arrangement appears in one of the rarest wood type catalogs of the 19th century. Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c., Manufactured by Wm. H. Page & Co. Greenville, Conn., 1874. Held in the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

Cards printed in color on front, blank inside.
8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs with envelopes.
Size: 4.25 x 6 in. each

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Type Trumps

Creative Review:

Rick Banks, has created a set of Top Trumps style cards where classic typefaces are the subject matter - hence the name, Type Trumps. Each card is designed to make the most of the particular font it features, and typophiles will happily find such faces as Frankfurter, Times, Helvetica, Johnston Underground and Neu Alphabet in the pack. Type Trumps players can battle it out using such statistics as year of design, the amount of weights, cost etc to win their opponent’s cards. Banks has given each typeface a ‘rating’ score, a ‘legibility’ score and even a ’special power’.

[via Swiss Legacy]
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Canvas Tote Bag

Here is a cross stitch printing with hand silk screened on a sturdy, gusseted canvas tote.

Avalible in size 11″ wide x 14″ high x 4 1/2″ deep and an 18″ handle. 2 colors currently available: pool blue and orange.

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Grotesque Poster - Xmas Sales

The Grotesque poster is on sale for Christmas!

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Only a couple of copies left…

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Antonio Carusone for featuring my online portfolio on TheGridSystem.org last week.

Since October I have been trying to think of a way to create a conceptual approach to a simple desktop design. Here is a little feedback I received when I asked my Flickr contacts:

Here are just some of the many responses:

Ben Kimball: not a graphic designer, but as photographer/cartographer:

NatureyPrettyStuff
Self-Deprecating Humor
Maps
Forks
Failures I Learned From
Failures I Learned Nothing From
Intentionally Streaking Things
The Delightfully Odd

Mark Blyth: Neat idea!

Stuff that really needs doing
Stuff that I can procrastinate about
Stuff that’ll never need doing

Christine: Mine would be:

Black and white
To Repair
Sunsets
No work needed.

So as you can see it was very varied.

With the combination of TheGridSystem’s inspiring website and the urgent need of being more organised when it comes to my desktop; I decided what better way than to incorporate my websites Six Grid System into something I could use to get my files more organised and something I could share with other creatives.

Here is the end result using titles which are changeable for each individual user:

So now instead of having one file on my desktop saying the proverbial ‘Sort!’ I will now be able to place my files on my desktop in accordance to type and subject.

To download your own editable version:

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Please mail me for other screen resolutions.

CRAFT
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Every Sunday I am going to list several new links I have stumbled across over the week. I am hoping others will find them as inspirational as I have.

So with it being the month of December, here are some craft related links for Christmas:

Whip Up
Nesting Instincts
A Foothill Home Companion
A Little Hut
Marta Cards & Marta Designs Blog
Paper Crave
Dottie Angel
Craftzine
Cardboard Safari
All at Sea with a Bucket & Spade
Instructables
Crafty Pod

If you have any links you would like to share please mail me: contact [at] sarahfrance.com

I have to say I do love a good grid system, it’s amazing what can be achieved with a few well structured lines! Well Antonio Carusone at AisleOne.net has used his initiative to fill a huge gap in the website and blogging experience for us Graphic Designers; supplying us design addicts with some useful and well structured information!

Hey folks!

I wanted to let you know about a new site I’ve just launched called The Grid System. It’s basically an ever-growing resource site on the topic of grid systems and anything associated to it, like the golden ratio and baseline grids. My goal for the site is to be a one stop shop for all designers to learn about grid systems, how to design them and how to use them.

The site features links to articles, tools, books as well as templates and other goodies. I’ve also added the ability to show the grid that the site was built on, this way visitors can learn about the structure and how it was applied to the design.

I’ve also partnered up with YouWorkForThem to bring a great collection of books to the site. Over time the site will grow in content (I have a backlog of articles and tools to post) as well as features. I plan to add a forum where people can chat about grid systems and design in general, and other small things like wallpapers. Additionally, I’ve created a Flickr group as an extension of the site.

Thanks!
Antonio

Bookmark The Grid System and share the love.

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