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AKA is a Montevideo-based (Uruguay) online magazine centered around visual art and creative. Wow, it looks beautiful, send me a ticket guys, I’d love to visit. The magazine encompasses subject matter ranging from design, photography, cinema and illustration with an aim to showcase local talent. (The image above was pulled from an article in a recent issue of AKA).

AKA launched in 2009, and quickly grew into something larger than “just-another-digital-magazine” to a more immersive experience. The feature “Videoteque” for example, now serves as an audiovisual show and tell for young directors. There is also a blog highlighting creative from around the world.

written by Christopher | tags: AKA, Montevideo, Online Magazine, South America, Uruguay

Brooklyn-based Triboro Design consists of Stefanie Weigler and David Heasty. They recently produced a variation of the famous New York City subway map. The map was printed in only one color: Florescent red. The poster was offset printed in a limited edition run of only 300 prints. I am not sure where you can buy one but I would very much like to get my hands one on (or two). If you know where to get one, leave me a comment. I appreciate it.

Via The Daily Heller.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, MTA Map, New York, Subway Map, Triboro Design

Lundgren Lindqvist is a bureau sort of. They live, breath, work, talk and love design. That is probably good considering their chosen occupation. They are based out of Gothenburg, Sweden. They believe ‘good design is good business’ and I think that is a pretty damn clever statement right there.

written by Christopher | tags: Gothenburg, Graphic Design, Lundgren Lindqvist, Sweden

ODD was founded in 2002 by Nick Stickland and Simon Glover and has offices in Clerkenwell, London. They have just relaunched their website and stocked it with a stunning body of work. The presentation of the website itself is top notch and immediately jumps the viewer into their spectacular portfolio.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, London, Nick Stickland, ODD, Simon Glover

Design and creative think tank, Tronic has relaunched their website with several new projects.

Here is what they have to say of themselves:
“Tronic was founded by Jesse Seppi and Vivian Rosenthal, graduates of Columbia University’s School of Architecture. Our work moves between - and marks a convergence of - animation, architecture, and experiential and interactive design. Our goal is to explore the overlapping conditions of these fields through creativity and technology.”

I wondered about the background in architecture because to be absolutely frank, I was totally blown away by their installation designs. Every project is breathtaking in it’s result. But then again, that is only one subsection of a truly amazing body of work. Tronic is so much more than the regular design or ad firm. I can only imagine how far they will go in the future and how hard they will push the future.

written by Christopher | tags: Architecture, Graphic Design, installation, Think Tank, Tronic

Studio Output have just launched their new site with an amazing interface. Built by Kleber.

written by James Gilmore | tags: Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, studio output, U.K., Web Design

Young Brazilian designer Nelson Balaban has updated with some maravilloso new work. I like that he is staying away from boxing himself in with a specific style and approaching each project as a unique and individual effort. It makes you harder to define or single out but I think that is the way of the future. He also has work up at both Flickr and Behance for you to check out.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Graphic Design, Nelson Balaban, Xtrabold

Just found Studio Anti, the work of an ex designer at Meta Design and Wolff Olins I love the typographic styling of his work, and by coincidence he did the identity for No. 74 an Adidas concept store I visited whilst out in Berlin.

written by James Gilmore | tags: Graphic Design, Meta Design, Studio Anti, Wolff Olins

Anck is the work of 20-year-old (yeah, I know) Graphic Designer and Junior Art Director Renaud Futterer who currently works for HKI (Hellohikimori) design studio in Paris. As to be expected, it’s a slick website that starts out a little loud but there is some attractive work in the portfolio and considering Futterer’s age, nothing but amazing things will no doubt be pouring out of this young talent in the future. He is a member of the next generation of designer, illustrator, motion designer, 3D animator and web developer in the way that he can do all of the above and do them all very well. Guys like this make my old-ass sweat.

written by Christopher | tags: Anck, Graphic Design, Hellohikimori, HKI, Paris

Alberto “Sting” Russo is a creative director and illustrator based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also the founder of the Swiss design studio Areadesign. Sting One is his online portfolio of illustration and typographical works created for both personal projects and clients. There is some great work in his book.

written by Christopher | tags: Alberto Russo, Areadesign, Graphic Design, Illustration, Switzerland

Digital Temple Magazine has released another issue (issue 9) entitled ‘Rebirth Spring MMX’ that is again filled with some fantastic content. The above image is from the amazingly talented Jonathan Zawada who is featured in the ‘Design’ section of this issue. I am continually impressed by the content of Digital Temple.

Here is an outline of the most recent issue:
MOTION : Edouard Salier for MASSIVE ATTACK / Splitting the Atom
ILLUSTRATION : Cody Hoyt
PHOTOGRAPHY : Carlos Nunez
PAINTING : Antony Micallef – Mark Warren Jacques – Aleksandra Rdest
DESIGN : Jonathan Zawada
FASHION : Amanda Camenisch
POLA ADDICT : Katja Sonnewend
DIVIDERS : Joao Travessa

written by Christopher | tags: Digital Temple 9, Graphic Design, Magazine, Online Magazine

You can now pre-order It’s Nice That Issue #3 though their online Shop. The recent issue features the best from their blog in the last 6 months. Inside this latest edition are interviews with graphic design legend Milton Glaser, furniture design icon Tom Dixon, filmmaker Keith Schofield, illustrator Tom Gauld and fashion designer Sir Paul Smith. There are 42 pages of work featuring the likes of A2/SW/HK, Gregoire Alexandre, Leslie David, Christopher DeLorenzo, Anne De Vries, Daniel Eatock, Jochen Gerner, Marcelo Gomes, Charley Harper, William Hundley, Abi Huynh, Himi Kozue, Mårten Lange, Alastair Levy, Lucy and Bart, Susanne Ludwig, Livia Marin, Aakash Nihalani, Jasmine Raznahan, Isabella Rozendaal, SpY, Damjan Stanković, John Paul Thurlow, Adam Voorhes, Cardon Webb, Taizo Yamamoto.

It’s an amazingly impressive publication they have managed to pull together and terribly exciting that they have been able to wrangle interviews with some of the biggest names in the business. The pre-orders will ship March 31st and the issue officially drops April 1st. To put the cherry on top of an already large sundae, the issue also arrives with an oversized large-scale (980 x 550mm) screen print by Parra. The issue is available for the sincerely affordable price (even for Americans) of £10.00. Hot damn.

written by Christopher | tags: Books, Editorial, Graphic Design, It's Nice That Issue 3

Copenhagen-based multi-disciplinary arts and design studio Hvass&Hannibal have updated yet again with more intriguing work. Since 2006, its founders, Nan Na Hvass & Sofie Hannibal have been busy generating creative for the music, arts and publishing industries. They take a unique approach to every project they take on, the results of which shine through in their highly individualistic portfolio of work.

written by Christopher | tags: Copenhagen, Denmark, Graphic Design, Hvass And Hannibal

In a collaboration with the AIDS awareness fund (RED), book publisher Penguin commissioned a team of designers and typographers to create 8 new covers for Penguin Classics. Each cover uses a quote pulled from the text. Three of the eight covers featured were designed in-house by Penguin Press, with the remaining covers created by Nathan Burton, Studio Frith, FUEL, Grey318, and Non-Format (whose cover you can see above). It’s a great project and would have been fantastic to be a part of but (if you don’t mind me expressing my personal opinion here) I had mixed feelings about the covers myself. I felt like the executions were sometimes a little off for the subject matter. Regardless, it is nice to see Penguin branching out and doing something different.

You can see all the covers at CR.

written by Christopher | tags: (RED), Aids awareness fund, Books, Penguin, Typography

I recently had the pleasure of going to see the GF Smith travelling exhibition of their promotional print material. Collected over a span of 111 years it’s an amazing and inspirational collection. The exhibition will be traveling around UK Universities this year.

Pictured above is the lovely poster designed by SEA for the event, get down and grab one whilst you can.

written by James Gilmore | tags: Events, GF Smith, Graphic Design, Sea, Typography

The Church of London, the creative agency behind Little White Lies and HUCK magazines has updated with a new website and a comprehensive update to their portfolio. As good as their publications are, it should come as no surprise that they have some great work in their portfolio.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, London, magazines, The Church of London

Socio Design just emailed that they have posted new work in their updated website and it looks stunning. Socio Design is a London-based design consultancy specializing in graphic design, web design, art direction and branding. Their new site is clean and smooth and also stocked with equally clean and smooth portfolio work. Top notch all around. I was very pleased to get the email this morning. It sparked my inspiration for the day.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Graphic Design, London, Socio Design, Web Design

New work from Kashiwa Sato, one of my favourite designers including some of his new work for Uniqlo. Spotted via Grafik Cache.

written by James Gilmore | tags: Graphic Design, Identity, Japan, Kashiwa Sato, Uniqlo