Pollen is a creative agency founded in 2001 and consists of Barny Collis, Rosa van Wyk and Anton Agejkin. The work is stellar, and the site is impressive as well. It amazes me how many agencies don’t have great sites to present their work. It makes a huge difference.

In December of 1976, Dieter Rams gave a speech titled “Design by Vitsœ” in New York City about his work with Vitsoe. He also outlined much of his design thinking, which later evolved into his 10 Principles for Good Design.

Vitsoe has released the full transcript of the speech to celebrate Rams’ 80th birthday on May 20th. It’s a must read.

Our apps include:

VIEW — a quarterly art photography magazine for the iPad featuring photographers from all over the world and is available on Newsstand.

image/words – a creative tool developed for the iPad which allows the typographical artist in you to commit thoughtful words to beautiful images.

Antique ABCs – a children’s game app featuring charming illustrations from a 19th c. children’s book. Developed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

FusionLab conceptualizes from the ground up or works as consultants, developing a range of projects for themselves and their clients.

GraphicDesign& publishing house is releasing its first title, Page 1: Great Expectations. The book includes 70 different typographic interpretations of the first page of Dickens’ novel Great Expectations from some of today’s best designers.

Contributors include: APFEL, Phil Baines, Tony Brook, Cartlidge Levene, Tony Chambers, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, Experimental Jetset, Fraser Muggeridge, KarlssonWilker, Frith Kerr, Robin Kinross, Ellen Lupton, Luke Hayman, Morag Myerscough, Erik Spiekermann and Sam Winston.

Page 1 is 110mm x 178mm and contains 320 pages. The cover is printed in two colours and foiled on 300gsm Olin Rough Cream. The interior pages are printed in black on 70gsm Ensonovel. A letterpress tip-in is also included.

You can pre-order the book now.

A lot of excellent work from Alex Lin.

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Really digging’ these posters designed by David Bennet for Emil Olsson’s site launch. And it’s not because I’m mentioned in the text. For reelz.

The Marber Grid was developed in 1961 by Polish graphic designer, Romek Marber, for Penguin book covers. This grid layout is admired by many designers and is example of how a well-designed grid can stand the test of time.

Read more about the Marber Grid on The Book Design Blog.

Font Bureau has created this wonderful mini-site all about the excellent typeface Neue Haas Grotesk. It explains the history of the face, along with a nice section on its features and what makes it different from Helvetica. An instant valuable resource.

Nice simple design in this iPad game called Olo created by Sennep. Looks like it’s fun, too.

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Absolutely stunning stationery design by Six for timepiece brand, Uniform Wares.

I’ve always been a big fan of Darren’s work, so it’s good to see some new stuff from him. Always a great inspiration.

The “Annual of Annuals 2011” offers a unique opportunity to delve into the 582 pieces of winning work from 25 European countries; all winners of the 20th Edition of The Best of European Design and Advertising ADC*E Awards along with all of the Gold and Silver awarded work from each nation’s competitions.

Available on the App Store for $6.99.

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Here’s a brilliant ad campaign for LEGO by German agency Jung Von Matt that visualizes famous cartoon characters using the basic square LEGO block. Color is used to create characters from The Simpsons, South Park, The Smurfs, The Ninja Turtles, Donald Duck, Bert and Ernie, Asterix and Obelix and Lucky Luke and the Daltons.

Solid work by Studio Iknoki in Italy.

This is awesome. A great gallery of Las Vegas chips from the 60s and 70s. Not an easy canvas to work with.

I’ve featured Bardhi’s work numerous times. I guess you can say I’m a fan of the work. He has updated his site with a bunch of new work.

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14/41 — 14 Years, 41 Logos is the first book from Mash Creative founder Mark Bloom. Produced as a limited run, the book showcases 41 of his favourite logos designed during a 14 year career. Includes five golden rules of logo design and an insight into how he approaches an identity brief. 148mm x 210mm, 100 pages, P.U.R bound with white foil debossed logo to the cover, this beautiful soft back book has been printed with an enticing mix of GF Smith Colourplan and Olin rough papers.

Available to buy from here.