Beautiful Screen Prints by type foundry House Industries. Produced using silver, gold and semi-opaque fluorescent orange ink, this series is limited to just 300.

During our imminent re-brand, we are researching letterpress printers for our new stationery – and have come across this stunning calendar produced by Studio on Fire. You can buy one here.

Do have a good look at the Beast Pieces blog – as there are some great samples of letterpress.

Harry Pearce and Jason Ching have designed a series of posters for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that highlight the relative merits of drug treatment and rehabilitation around the world. The posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment. The posters had to be eye-catching, easy to absorb and not reliant on language. The typographic solution built a simple world map from internationally recognised country abbreviation codes (GB, US, RU, etc). Eight variants were then designed, using colour coding and icons to provide comparative statistics around drug abuse, the incidence of HIV, Methadone and opioid maintenance therapies, and needle and syringe programmes.

Read more on their blog.

Some nice updates from AFOM.
via Grafikcache.

Landor have designed the new identity for Melbourne. Find out more at Brand New.

The D&AD Awards tickets, designed by NB:Studio and produced by Generation Press. Via the Grafikcache.

Some more great work by Mr. Xavier Encinas – lovely job sir!

Print Finishes:
Plike Black 330gsm
Fedregoni Splendorlux Black Glossy 240gsm
Century Premium White 100gsm
Litho’d Offset black
Foil Stamp
Die Cuts
Deboss

Typeface:
VAG Rounded

“One positive change the recession has already brought is the shift of work from larger studios to small, young agencies (granted, this probably isn’t that positive if you’re the ‘larger’ agency in question). The companies that have been patiently waiting in the wings for the past couple of years are now getting their chance to impress those in a position to commission work, as the benefits of having little or no overheads (and egos) to contend with are making them an appealing alternative financially.”

Via Design Assembly.

Read this refreshingly positive article by Dan Greene  –  HERE

Our Hello book has arrived! 100 pages printed on GF Smith Naturalis recycled with a Colourplan with Morocco emboss and matt silver Alufin Foiled 8 page cover. Nicely wrapped in our ‘Happy’ poster. Available through our website, for a small fee – except for those lucky folk who pre-ordered up to now – Yours are in the post – enjoy! 

Martin sent me this screensaver. He loves Michael C Place. He now looks at this screensaver until his eyes melt a bit. Then he goes caving.