WikiLeaks resources

The Guardian: WikiLeaks Embassy cables with graphic data + Map & Database
Spiegel online: WikiLeaks diplomatic cables
Infosthetics: WikiLeaks cable gate visualisations & infographics

newspaper design & News

Newseum – Today's frontpages and many more great articles on newspapers
Poynter Institute – '…a school that exists to ensure that Americans have access to excellent journalism—the kind of journalism that enables us to participate fully and effectively in our democracy.'
Ascender Corporation by Monotype maging – Study of Newspaper fonts and other useful info
Ron Reason – News design & type
Times Skimmer
Visual Journalism

dot-font articles

dozens of articles on typography from John D.Berry, typographer and editor of dot-font magazine, as well as other creative readings on creativepro

the noun project

the noun project – amazing & free infographic/icons resource

A2/SW/HK

great work by Shoreditch-based A2/SW/HK, including Ergonomics exhibition, different catalogues for museums and typefaces from A2 type as well!

Museum of Unnatural history

Designs for strange items in Museum of Unnatural History, by Oliver Munday (+ much more other good work)

Les Graphiquants

loads of cool posters, infographics, exhibitions and other great designs by French trio Les Graphiquants

LeftLoft

interesting print&editorial work (including designs for Moleskine) by Italian studio LeftLoft

Budgens & Londos wine labels by Pentagram

'In the latest release of work for Musgrave Retail Partners GB own brand ranges Harry Pearce and his team have designed the labels for Budgens and Londis wines.

The team have strived to create a unique visual language for this own brand wine range, self-confident and not aping any other brand. Each country of origin is identified with an individual style using a paired down elegant approach, and a simple colour palette.'

pentagram's new posters

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime posters

'Harry Pearce and Jason Ching have designed a series of posters for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that highlight the relative merits of drug treatment and rehabilitation around the world. The posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment. The posters had to be eye-catching, easy to absorb and not reliant on language. The typographic solution built a simple world map from internationally recognised country abbreviation codes (GB, US, RU, etc). Eight variants were then designed, using colour coding and icons to provide comparative statistics around drug abuse, the incidence of HIV, Methadone and opioid maintenance therapies, and needle and syringe programmes.' (cursive mine)

anamorphic typography

Chelsea school of art & design graduates' (joseph egan & hunter thomson) typographic project (more images on designboom)

Save the Arts

David Shrigley's animation on why we need to Save the Arts

colours of the world

articles on colours of the web brands:
• the most powerful colours of the world
• colours of the social web

Colors of the Social Web from CHROMAom on Vimeo.

Berg and iPad light painting

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

awesome technology by Berg
via MB

AOC studio

architectural practice by AOC (job opportunities)

julien berthier

installations and weird objects by Julien Berthier

lori nix

beautifully photographed set-ups by Lori Nix

one dot zero 2010!

onedotzero_adventures in motion 2010 festival motion identity from onedotzero on Vimeo.

2010 one dot zero is coming 10 – 14 November!

mc cloud

FLUFFY MC CLOUD from conorfinnegan on Vimeo.

lovely simple film by Connor Finnegan

creative everyone

new portal for those who don't want to miss creative events

Guild of Sage & Smith

some really good design pieces from Guild of Sage & Smith (Falmouth), including these awesome leaflets for Theatre Royal Plymouth

Post icons / TNT

'Post icons' – interactive resource for philatelists (and designers)

GAP logo submissions

over 500 designs already submitted to GAP logo redesign competition. Meanwhile, the controversial new logo in Helvetica with blue gradient box was removed from website due to designers'/public complaints.

IKEA cookbook

'Home-made is Best' – awesome cooking book without words from IKEA (via dezeen)




Workgroup:
Client: IKEA, Joel Idén
Agency: Forsman & Bodenfors, Sweden
Art director: Staffan Lamm, Christoffer Persson
Copywriter: Fredrik Jansson, Anders Hegerfors
Account director: Susanna Fagring
Account manager: Ewa Edlund
Retouch: Factory, Henrik Lagerberg
Photographer: Carl Kleiner
Stylist: Evelina Bratell

RSA

RSA (Royal Society for encouragement of Arts) – various programmes, events, grants, etc.
RSAnimate: 21st century enlightment:

Russian council in London

they've opened a new free service for visa advice – need to book in advance
russianassociation@googlemail.com
+44 208 426 6003
RIAs Community Premises
27 Northolt Road
South Harrow HA2 0LH

+ Pushkin house, centre for Russian culture in London, is even organising some exhibitions

boneshaker exhibition

exhibition opens this Saturday at Look mum no hands, bike-café near Old street

V&A Sackler Centre tour

A tour of the V&A's Sackler Centre, with its architect Christopher Bagot from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.

+ more tours, interviews & other videos from V&A

Lans Wyman's article on wayfinding

Lans Wyman's article on wayfinding systems on webesteem, art&design magazine

wonderful world of hugh hughes

website of Hugh Hughes – an emerging artist from Wales, performing at Barbican now.

V&A maps by Johnson Banks

a collection of maps for V&A and London design festival by johnson banks

mikael floysand

a bunch of pretty design samples from Mikael Floysand of Norway

Attack

work from Attack – creative team within W+K

Dowling | Duncan

USA banknotes design by Dowling | Duncan, + more nice work samples

christoph niemann's plane trip

'red eye': another awesomely funny blog post from mr. niemann, this time about the flight experience

she's my man

awesome video of Scissor Sisters performing 'She's my man'

wills moody jumblesale

Wills-Moody Jumblesale, 1st Sunday of every month (except Jul-Aug)
St Aloysius Social Club, 21 Phoenix rd., Euston (Google Maps)
'Since it's start in Feb 2005 the Wills-Moody Jumblesale has been a great success and given us plenty of happy times. Its a perfect day out for jumblers and londoners with late start, bar, Sunday music, cakes for charity as well as amazing finds such as records, clothes, books, comics, jewellery, vintage stuff, brick-a-brack and much much more.'

it's all about bikes

great film about the passion for bikes, presented by Rob Penn
(based on the book 'It's all about the bikes')
+ BBC iPlayer 'Britain by Bike'

subtraction

Khoi Vinh's website on typography & design

iPad research

WIRED on iPad: Oliver Reichenstein's article for Information Architects
UX mag iPad user experience guidelines
iPad Magazine Art Direction on Vimeo
iPad, magaznes, and Nespapers – an open letter to S. Jobs (The Apple Press)
iPad is not a Magazine by Milind Alvares
Magazines on the iPad II
Wired: iPad will solve all magazine publishers' woes
Adobe: Introducing WIRED on iPad
iA's Flickr photostream
What the iPad is missing by Stephen Coles for FontFeed
A Popular Misconception

The way to the Web, Print designers!
Dear designer, you suck!
Web design is 95% Typography (iA article)
Designing for iPad: reality check (iA article)
WIRED online: The Web shatters focus, rewires brain
Web typography

xavier barrade

stunning visual art from xavier barrade

webdesigners toolkit

webdesigners toolkit: a few templates and elements to play with

packing up moving on

'Packing Up Moving On': Stockport college (Manchester) 2010 Degree show. They've also hired a van to showcase students' work on the square.

Orange new campaign

new series of commercials & documentaries from Orange
I am Mark Beaumont (cycled around the world)
characters by Chrissie Macdonald
characters tv commercial by Fallon

Graphic Short Story Prize 2010

they're back again, deadline is 6th of October
as before, winner gets work printed in The Observer and £1000!

London Bike Week!

Bike2Work: 23 June 8-10am, King's cross (Ossulston st X Brill pl, free croissants for bikers)
Regents Park Bike Fair: 24 June 2-7pm
Midsummer Madness Ride: 21st June 2AM (see the sunrise at Primrose hill, starts at Beigel Bake, Brick lane, then meet with other cyclists at London Bridge, then to the hill. Sunrise at 4:43)

June-July London events

BIG Dance (3-11 Jul, some events before these dates)
Greenwich festival (24 June – 4 July)
Sadler's Wells: Bounce's Insane in the Brain (until 27 June)
Hayward gallery: Ernesto Neto (from 19 June)

LIFT 2010

London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT):
ICA – 16-18 June (hosting original productions from Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll and FML, as well as presenting a festival essential: LIFT Club)
also at NT etc.
23 June – 31 July

London hiking groups

Meetups
CLOG
Inner London Ramblers
The London Adventure Group
Backabush explorers
Minty trips
Saturday walker's club
North London Rambling Club

The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway

AIGA article about the relationship between Helvetica and Subway. Very long and informative.

AfroCup festival

RichMix: 'A festival celebration of African music, arts, culture independence and World Cup football.

Fri 11 June - Sun 11 July / All events FREE

25 days & nights of live music, DJs, film, art, food and football / All World Cup matches broadcast on our giant 15 x 10ft screen'

100 movies to see before you die

list of world's 100 must-see movies, for reference

Patrick Jean

+more stuff from Patrick Jean

Bizarre ER

Great multimedia design (titles, animation, commercials, branding, etc.) from BDH, including weird Bizarre ER series

siggi eggertsson type + illustration

some great typography from iceland-born illustrator siggi eggertsson

flickr desserts

nice flickr page with unhealthily sweet stuff
+ author's blog
+ another flickr page with LOADS of good-looking food