I mentioned Winnie O’Brien back in May thanks to a tip off from Supercool but bemoaned a lack of information. I’m pleased to say Winnie’s website is now up and running, from which we learn that she produces animation, design and illustration for an impressive, international client list. What’s more: Her work has received many … [Read more…]
The theme of this year’s Plus International Design Festival is ‘Hybrid’. It takes place on 5 to 8 November 2008 and, as the folks at Fused have picked up on, a call has been put out for submissions: The Festival is now seeking exhibitors, speakers and demonstrators to work to the theme of Hybrid, which … [Read more…]
Punch Records ran a competition to design the ident for this year’s BASS Festival and the winner is Pretesh Mistry: The two runners up are here.
JamFactory aka Gavin Strange is a brilliant designer from Bristol, but he’s launching his new vinyl toy collection, Droplet, here in Brum which gives me a good excuse to write about him here! I first discovered JamFactory on Flickr, I think after one of his ‘Free Art Friday‘ pics showed up in Flickr’s interesting pages … [Read more…]
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The Big Picture are seeking artists/design teams to help with the following projects: World Record Attempt (deadline for proposals 18th March) Audiences Central wants to appoint an artist or artist/design team to break the world record for the largest photo mosaic in the world, as the culmination of our ‘Big Picture’ project. The current record … [Read more…]
Skimming through Cassie Leedham’s Graphic Design website I see she did the posters used on the sets of the Control movie, which, I think you’ll agree, is worth noting.
From the Midlands with Love is a postcard book put together by BCU’s Media Content Lab brought to our attention by TAK! (who have a card in it). Media Content Lab felt that too much of the design world’s attention is focused on a handful of London companies, so decided to do something about it. … [Read more…]