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Luving this awesome packaging for this furry little character named Toothians to hit stores sometimes soon.

Creative direction by David Oliver Steinberg.

FORM US WITH LOVE is a Swedish creative collective focused on product and furniture design. Their projects span from exploring forms for installations, alternative lighting devices, accessories and deccorative elements.

Prepare to be amazed. From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 three-dimensional letters move and change before your eyes.

Watch the movie, to fully appreciate.

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via: Harriet Golden

This official collaboration between Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay started after many years of sharing life, thoughts, ideas and everything in-between. Together they work under the name Raw-Edges and share a common goal to create objects that have never been seen before.

Check out the results!

In-house top-notch creative designer seeked by Poketo. Submit resume, portfolio URL and cover letter to jobs@poketo.com.

Sugar, spice and everything nice! Pepper & Cinnamon is a small design outfit run by Ben from sunny Singapore. Year of Astronomy is an integral part of Ben’s thesis – The Papercy Project.

Astronomically beautiful!

Digging the Flink identity and brand positioning by the terrific Me and Mister Jones team.

Boxes is the reinterpretation of the most elementary object for storing – a wooden box.. that LOVE KOMPOTT has developed into a simple modern storage system.

These are neat! Luv the rough meets elegant visual tension.

Music packaging design for Phonica’s in-house record label. The music from each release was imported into a 3d programme which processed the sound to create an individual image for each piece of music.

Imagined and designed by Sam Renwick aka SRCP.

The extraordinarily delicately carved, moving and naive sculptures of Yoshimasa Tsuchiya. There is a making of. Worth watching.

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via: Iain Claridge

Julien Pacaud — a terrific collage illustrator — has opted for a triangular shape to feature little ‘visus‘ of his work. Giving him a A+ for taking this direction.

Visually allowing for loads of negative space, as you can see in the two featured works below, triangular shapes aren’t restricted to the navigational system, but are integral to his style.

Simple + edgy = unique

I believe in the power of pop-art. In my view, it has to do w/ providing affordable and inspiring eye candy for everyone to enjoy. As creative people, we surround ourselves w/ chosen keepsakes in our large or small studio space both as decoration and inspiration.

For many years, always shared eye candy and some design works as a token of my gratitude to you. Some habits are worth keeping.

To celebrate the launch of my new featured projects hub, Away #1 is the first release of the digital series poster imagineered by.. The concept is based upon the fact that our memories fade, leaving behind a pixellized fragmented image. Photography is mine and shot while travelling. I am using a different ‘A’ font for each poster.

Free to enjoy, download and print.

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To inquire about non-exclusive licensing – contact me.

"Did your work experience at .. agency play a large role in your deciding that maintaining a small business was better than running an office of over 100 people?

Yes, that was the major reason: I saw at .. that I will not be able to actually design when my office is bigger, and I saw the advantages of a large office for the clients as tiny, while the disadvantages were huge."

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See the new small office website of Sagmeister. As always, explicitly smart!

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via: We Are Manic

Brewing out from Brussels – found at social events, URBAN COFFEE is a new concept of take-away drinks. Definitely a creative way to interact with people through the website using passwords on the original beverage cups to open new sections on the website.

Ah somebody has figured out how to tap into our community / social media cravings (and hot beverages). Well done! Niiiiice website too.

Reminders — childish treatment for childish behavior — is a photographic essay by Erin Hanson a recovering lazyholic (?!?!). The project is about putting little notes made of colorful paper cutout letters in play in strategic locations, sorta speaking.

Forest is the multi-purpose art direction and graphic design studio of Joel Speasmaker, located in Brooklyn, New York.

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Featured, the re-branding of Los Angeles-based Poketo – designers of limited edition art products, accessories, apparel, and decor – founded by Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung.

Alongside the primary identity, I came up with the option of seasonal and special event color variations, as well as a modified version of Futura to be used on promotional materials. The website and online store were completely revamped to reflect the new branding and future of the company.

BAPE® camo chair in white and black from the trendy Bathing Ape apparel designers. These are really cool!

Redbean is home to San Francisco based designer and illustrator, Melissa Crowley. She has been crafting beautiful since 2002 and her illustrations are elegant flowery powery visual poetry applied to all sorts of media and surfaces. Especially digg her printed blank cards and posters. Featured prints:

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Little Snow Bird

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Succulent Garden

Depart is Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf. Really digging this photographic essay and installation made with paper sculptures, titled: Dressed in Form.

Tom Nulens aka Sodafish wants his work to represent a form of universal language and communicate strong ideas with fresh simplicity. Therefore pictogram and illustration design has become his main focus.

Currently he’s self-employed, designing stock imagery and custom projects for a selective group of clients.

Fashion spread and promotional images for Bright trade show and it’s very own bright magazine shot by Lars Borges.

He is a Berlin based portrait photographer. From the moment he touched his first camera, he knew he wanted to be a photographer. He graduated from art school in 2006 and has been making a living from photography ever since.

747 Studios is based is Germany and a talented photographic concept agency. Particularly like their interior design almost monochrome series.

Nice shots, staging and installation: Doing it for themselves viewpoint editorial by Kai Wiechmann.

DQE is a kitchen especially composed for PASSAGEN 2011 by using recyclable fractions and old kitchen parts to form a truly funky, modern and dynamic cooking environment.

Designed and presented by Oliver Schübbe and Sven Stornebel.

Motels is a 3 colour risograph prints for the Turn Up The Colour exhibition at Analogue Books in Edinburgh, produced after a trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in June 2010 by Holly Wales.

She is an illustrator and educator who explores a variety of subject matter through self-initiated and commercial work for a range of international clients, in a variety of playful mediums.

One of my all time favorite watch design: Icon Watch. A graphic image turned into a physical product. This minimal design watch-face is inspired by a computer icon.

Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece.

Read the haroshi x DUNK SB to learn about his process. A-a-a-mazing!

Nice pattern base illustrations for Galison/Mudpuppy by Linzie Hunter who is originally from Scotland and now lives in North London. A graduate of Glasgow University, she was a theatre stage manager before studying illustration at Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Her freelance illustration work is created digitally but when away from the computer she enjoys traditional print-making and book-binding.

No wonder these brought a large smile on my face – the project is titled: Smiling Night Animals. Flyers created for the Zouk Club – Singapore – 2010 by Jules Julien.

His, is a world of endless possibilities where his imagination keeps on churning amazing landscapes, unexpected characters out of the most mundane objects or organic shapes. His style can effortlessly (it seems) vary from assignment to assigment.

Ronald Kurniawan is one heck of an illustrator. His craftmanship is way up there.. you know, where we would like to be.

What a slick and beautiful product. Sorapot is a simple, modern teapot designed by Joey Roth.

Seems like a non-intentional data viz (anciently named infographics) day! Diagram Graphics by Kazuo Abe et Fumihiko Nishioka

This book was first published in 1992 (yes – yes you are reading right) – republished in 2000 and now out of print.. Impressive huh?

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via: But Does it Float

Should I work for free? — flowchart that Jessica Hische prepared for her students.. but really anyone working the industry needs to re-read the in your face reminders as to you why NO is the vastly preferable response. Oh, and of course you can make anything of the thumbnail.

So hit the link to view (or download) full size.

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via: C86

Information design is a fascinating design discipline. The skills required to do render data vizualization is way above my comprehension but not my enjoyment. Pitch Interactive does so brilliantly. Although their new website is cooking, you can see some projects and the list of their clients.

Both are pretty impressive.

FILE Festival call for entries

FILE Electronic Language International Festival will continually receive registrations from artists who intend to participate in the editions accomplished by the festival, obeying to pre-efined date limits for registration in each edition.

Deadline: March 01

Netdiver Mag is RIP. Mission accomplished!

New mission? Nediver Vintage edition features what was new in design worldwide — sort of a very unofficial record of web history as captured by Carole Guevin from {1998 – 2010}.

Over 1900+ projects listed.

Read the scoop.

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Netdiver Mag is now officially live – get your daily dose of design culture featured projects. See ya there.

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Migy illustrations are full to the brim with hard drinking vikings and pickup driving ducks and stunningly happy (sometimes weird) little characters. Worth a look as it will make you smile.

My thoughts on web design by Derek J. Kinsman

1 – I don’t think they’re have been many new websites that’ve gone up since the Thinking For A Living site, that are wildly different from each other (problem the first).

2 – Actually those are all the points I have. Just one.

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If you work in the field, this is a must read article.

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via: The Invisible Institute

Toko is a multifaceted creative practice committed and driven by passion. Formerly based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and since 2008 permanently operating out of Sydney, Australia. It’s creative output can be appreciated through their extensive portfolio of work realized for both national and international clients in a diverse range of fields.

Romain Lenancker is a prolific art director and set designer who surrounds himself with great talent (photographers – stylists). Have a look at his updated portfolio. Featured visuals from the Chromatic series.

Matt Hawkins has created this homage to Andy Warhol for a pop art themed holiday at his day job at C3 as a party favor and decoration. You can download a 2 page pdf and build your own!

Get the scissors and glue!

The opposite of cynicism isn’t authenticity. It is sincerity by Frank Chimero

His fascination with the creative process, curiosity, and visual experience informs all of his work in some way. Each piece is the part of an exploration in finding wit, surprise, honesty, and joy in the world around us, then, trying to document those things.

He is a graphic designer, illustrator, teacher, writer, and creative person in Portland, Oregon.

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via: Grain Edit

Just listened / watched Acceptance reflective movie with a beautiful solo piano piece animated by Peiter Hergert.

15 Essential Interviews For The Creative Community

Selection of inspiring interviews with outstanding personalities, must reads for every freelancer, designer, webpreneur, & co.

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via: Inspired Magazine

Digging the playful concept of the Good Afternoon from Space poster by Koyuki Anagaki.

Mateusz Sypien designed this engaging artwork to advertise various media courses available at University of Bradford (UK). Nice color palette and composition.

Guido Daniele advertising campaigns using hand painting are just out of this world impressive. Have a look!

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via: Inspirationfeed

It’s the New Year, a new dawn and I’m feeling good. 2011 will rock! Wishing you all the same. xoxo

Digging this quote:

“I always make two new year resolutions. A high-res and a lo-res.”

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via: Mark Howe