Hampus Jageland
November 18th, 2008I’m late to this, a ton of sites have already featured Hampus Jageland work and for good reason. It’s excellent. Hard to think this kid is a recent graduate.
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Quantum of Solace Hardback
November 14th, 2008Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories is a stunning book designed by Angus Hyland and Fabian Herrmann of Pentagram that is a collection of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories. Gorgeous.
Hyland created a cloth-covered hardback with cover imagery restricted to a silver foil-blocked image of Bond’s infamous Walther PPK (shown here with silencer). A subtle diamond pattern is debossed on to the boards, which combined with deep burgundy endpapers evokes the discerning elegance of Bond’s world. An embossed manila bellyband with typewritten cover information on the label evokes the official documents of the period.
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Bastardised on Page 76
November 14th, 2008I just received my copy of Bastardised by Bunch and what a gem it is. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet then what the hell are you waiting for? Some really great stuff in here. If you do have it and happen to turn to page 76 you’ll see my submission in all it’s glory. Honestly, it’s a real honor to be included with such talents as BB Saunders, Chris Hewitt, Craig Oldham, Darren Firth, David Corti, Michael Cina, Si Scott and many more.
You can see some more shots on my Flickr page.
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Bendita Gloria
November 12th, 2008Quality portfolio by this Barcelona based studio. I personally love the their stationery pictured above that is printed in phosphorescent ink and glows in the dark. Nice!
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Sneak Peak of a New Typeface
November 11th, 2008I recently started working on a new typeface. I’m still in the early stages but I do like where it’s going with the curved edges and slightly condensed design. The plan is the do a full upper & lower case set in bold and regular with a large x-height for the lower case characters.
You can see a few more shots on my Flickr page. I’ll be updated this page as the work progresses.
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Hex Mugs
November 10th, 2008I’m loving these stylish mugs by Vitamin featuring assorted hex patterns. Might have to pick up a set.
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Suprb
November 10th, 2008I’m back and feeling better. I appreciate all the “get well” comments. Thank you.
Anyway, it seems like the multidisciplinary design studio Suprb is finally back in action with a new site and a new partner. It was originally the brainchild of Andreas Pihlström but now it’s a two man team that includes Emil Olsson.
The duo just released a new site for musician Ben Lukas Boysen. Can’t wait to see what else comes out of this studio.
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Out of Commission & RSS Feed
November 7th, 2008Sorry about the lack of posts the last two days. Turns out I have a herniated disk in my neck (these computers will kill ya) which is causing severe pain down my left arm. I can’t spend much time at the computer because it just increases the pain so I’m going to stay away for the next few days. Hopefully on Monday I’ll feel much better and get back in the swing of things.
The RSS feed seems to be working again. Please let me know if you’re having any problems with it. Thanks!
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Naturalis x5
November 5th, 2008I try really hard not to post work that’s been heavily blogged about on other design sites, but sometimes I do make exceptions. This is one of them.
Rich Lyons, AKA Breakmould, is now working at Sea and he contacted me about Naturalis, a sexy new promo that they’ve just finished up for the UK paper company GF Smith.
The 24 page promo is printed on the GF Smith’s Naturalis Smooth Absolute White (330gsm/160gsm) and features Pearlescent foiling on the front and back covers. The launch is to be accompanied by a limited edition of 200 posters, also featuring foiled text.
The fifth in the series of ‘Naturalis’ from GF Smith features compelling photographs by celebrated Art Director Peter Saville and artist Anna Blessmann at the Tulis Russell paper mill in Fife.
Naturalis x5 is launched on November 5th in Manchester. Contact GF Smith for further details.
You can check out more photos of the work at my Flickr page.
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Change has Come to America
November 5th, 2008I always try to keep politics off this site, but this is a very special moment in American history. I’ve never been more proud to be an American.
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Elegant Stationery
November 4th, 2008This new stationary by Xavier Encinas is very simple but at the same time very elegant. Some people might accuse this of not being “designed” but to me the most talented designers can take something so simple and make it extraordinary.
Xavier had these letterpress on 700gr Sirio black paper with silver ink and set everything in Helvetica Neue Bold.
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NetNewsWire Style 2.5
November 2nd, 2008Version 2.5 of my NetNewsWire style is now available. The design is simple and clean with a great deal of focus on typography and legibility. In this new version I’ve made some improvements that will enhance the reading experience.
Another enhancement that I was hoping to implement was a consistent vertical baseline. But because of inconsistencies within RSS feeds it was very difficult to accomplish, probably even impossible. For example in certain feeds blocks of copy are not wrapped in the paragraph tag, instead just use the break tag. For this reason it’s hard to control the text and elements like images.
Anyhow, I’m very exited about the features I was able to add.
New Features in Version 2.5
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Widows
Prevention of typographic widows in titles and body copy via jQWidon’t. -
Capitalization
All words in title are capitalized. -
Image Resize
Images wider than 600px are resized to fit the fixed width of the style.
Special thanks to Oliver Boermans for helping me with some bugs.
To install just double click the file.