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“Process Journal – a quarterly design publication, which showcases the very best of Australian and International design. Edition One features: Re-public, 3 Deep Design, Unit Editions, Heydays, Norm, Hofstede, Spin, Kim Holtermand, Mainstudio, South South West, Kleber, Tim George and Cartlidge Levene. As well as design responses from Dominic Hofstede (Hofstede Design) and Matt Judge (Design Assembly). Process Journal is designed and produced in Melbourne Australia. ”

I received a note about Process Journal this morning and it looks like an exceptional no frills creative publication featuring some equally no frills exceptional talent. The effort that went into creating a clean and easy to navigate website to showcase Process Journal bodes well for the quality of the publication. The journal is also a featured project on the K.W.Doggget Fine Paper website.

It’s still nice to see small scale publishers taking on print against the internet tsunami. There is much to be said for holding, keeping and archiving a printed publication especially for use as inspiration within a studio’s library.

written by Christopher | tags: Australia, Editorial, Magazine, Print, Process Journal

Craig Oldham is a Yorkshire born, bred and idealistically realistic Retired football player turned professional Graphic Designer who is now based in Manchester. He recently put together a series of maxims accompanied by essays called 10 Penneth that he hands out to students when speaking about graphic design.

A little more on the project from the designer himself:
“10 Penneth (if you’re not sure what I mean by penneth follow this little asterisk sitting on the shoulder of this*) is an accompaniment to a lecture series that I have given to students of Graphic Design and takes the form of ten (for lack of a better word—and I can’t understand why there isn’t one) maxims. These maxims take the form of short essays, each one being a lesson that’s an important thing to learn in order to help the students become better Graphic Designers, and in order for them to better understand the profession in which they are entering.”

written by Christopher | tags: Craig Oldham, Graphic Design, Manchester, Yorkshire

Australian graphic designer and illustrator Andrew Fairclough works under the name Kindred and has updated his pop-digital portfolio with some crispy new works.

written by Christopher | tags: Andrew Fairclough, Australia, Graphic Design, Surry Hills

Cardiff based Departures is an independent branding and graphic design studio with a highly considered body of beautiful work. The passion for what they do comes shining through in the execution of their craft.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Cardiff, Departures, Graphic Design, U.K.

Hey Ho is a Paris based design studio founded 2007 by Julien Hourcade and Thomas Petitjean. They have some exceptional work for print, editorial and branding in their new yet already mature portfolio. It appears as though someone in their office works sitting at a ping pong table. Maybe that is the secret in their sauce.

written by Christopher | tags: France, Graphic Design, Hey Ho, Paris, Print

“The Official Manufacturing Company is Mathew Foster, Fritz Mesenbrink & Jeremy Pelley. We are thing makers, simply put. After having separately worked for some years at Wieden+Kennedy and Ace Hotel, then out on our own freelancing, we wound up in a studio together and realized how much better it could be.”

OMFGCO sent in their exceptional portfolio of design and branding work today. I was not only impressed by the work but inspired by the above words considering their employment at the amazing W+K and especially in lieu of recently launching my own studio after having left a wonderful agency myself.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Official Manufacturing Company, Oregon, Portland

East London-based design, illustration and motion graphics studio I Love Dust sent news of an updated website and portfolio today and it is spilling over with top-notch slick, sexy and stunning work. They are a longtime favorite of mine and a role model for where I hope to take my studio in the coming years. Keep on rocking guys. Fantastic.

written by Christopher | tags: England, Graphic Design, I Love Dust, Illustration, London

“Duane King is a designer, thinker & writer.”

King’s thinking aligns his highly considered design work and it is exhibited beautifully in the same fashion as the recently relaunched website Thinking For A Living coded by CSS master and in-and-out sometimes Denver local Ian Coyle.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Duane King, Graphic Design, Thinking for a Living

Design and branding agency Kutchibok Ltd has some sublime design work in their portfolio all of which is beautifully realized and highly considered.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Cardiff, England, Graphic Design, Kutchibok

“TrustoCorp is a New York based artist (or artists) dedicated to highlighting the hypocrisy and hilarity of human behavior through sarcasm and satire. TrustoCorp targets areas in the public domain typically reserved for messages of trust and authority and subverts them with messages of mayhem and absurdity hijacked from the visual style of our authorities.”

TrustoCorp recently stocked some local store shelves with fake products in line with their above manifesto. I remember some guy stocking local Denver stores with fake Gatorade bottle that said something utterly meaningless about Tiger Woods. That was the wrong way to do something like this. Trustocorp has done it right.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Guerilla Advertising, street art, Trustocorp

Chicago gig poster makers Delicious Design League have updated with a new website and online store bursting with fantastic posters. Strangely the site still has no portfolio section completed but you can still see a lot of the work via the storefront.

written by Christopher | tags: Chicago, Delicious Design League, Gig Poster, Screenprint

New York-based Graphic Designer, Art Director and Photographer Irwin Tobias Matutina has a small but highly considered body of commercial work as well as some striking images in his personal cache.

written by Christopher | tags: Fashion, Graphic Design, Irwin Tobias Matutina, New York, Photography

Scroll down down down and down to see the primarily music industry related design and art direction work of Jacob Escobedo including a very nice project for Broken Bells.

written by Christopher | tags: Gig Posters, Graphic Design, Jacob Escobedo, Music

It has been a very long time since I have visited the portfolio of designer/illustrator Théo Gennitsakis. His work has grown immensely as he has moved around Europe and he is now the Creative Director for LA SURPRISE Paris. His work has become simpler in it’s execution but much more rich in terms of it’s content. I can’t wait to see what he does in the future.

written by Christopher | tags: Greece, Illustration, La Surprise, Paris, Theo Gennitsakis

Dynamo was created by Thibaud Tissot and Yassin Baggar to carry out self-commissioned editorial and typographical projects. They have a small but very promising body of work.

“Thibaud Tissot is a graphic designer who graduated from School of Applied Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH) in 2007. Since then, he works at onlab, focusing mainly on editorial projects.

Yassin Baggar is a graphic designer who graduated from School of Applied Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH) in 2007. He has been an intern at B&P Typefoundry and NODE Berlin Oslo. He now works on a publishing project with Christian Bordeaux and does freelance between Berlin and Switzerland.”

written by Christopher | tags: Dynamo, Graphic Design, Onlab, Oslo, Typography

Over 500 works from the legendary Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel have been gathered here. Each piece can be viewed individually and zoomed in to look at a larger scale. It’s the holy grail of graphic design and if you are unfamiliar with Crouwel’s work, spend some quality time picking through it. This is inspiration guaranteed.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Minimalism, Typography, Wim Crouwel

Polish graphic designer/illustrator Michal Bialogrzywy has a totally insane set of posters up in his Behance-folio that is guaranteed to inspire those leaning toward the vector scale. It would be nice to see these printed and available to purchase as they would make a striking series to hang on a wall.

written by Christopher | tags: Behance, Michal Bialogrzywy, Poland, Posters, Vector Art

London based graphic design duo Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton who labor under the name Sawdust have recently updated with some new project work including a new poster for independent music artist Angel-A.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, London, Print, Sawdust