catch-22

maricor / maricar

2011-05-10T21:00:00.002+01:00

some lovely embroidery, type & illustration from maricor / maricar
also stop-frame animations:

Big Green Idea from MaricorMaricar on Vimeo.

conflict minerals

2011-05-10T20:55:00.002+01:00

so they've got something in common…
via a developing story – media for a fairer world

clever baggers

2011-01-04T07:36:00.002Z

the clever baggers – canvas bags + printing! (didn't quote me back)

vector logos & fonts download

2011-01-04T07:32:00.001Z

hdicon – online resource of free vector logos + fonts

Eco reminders

2011-01-04T07:28:00.006Z

wall stickers by Hu2 design's online store

apparatu

2011-01-04T07:18:00.005Z

experiments with ceramics from Barcelona-based apparatus

WikiLeaks resources

2010-12-18T20:17:00.002Z

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

newspaper design & News

2010-12-18T20:12:00.003Z

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

2010-12-18T20:03:00.003Z

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

2010-12-18T20:00:00.003Z

the noun project – amazing & free infographic/icons resource

A2/SW/HK

2010-12-11T13:00:00.003Z

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

2010-12-11T12:53:00.002Z

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

Les Graphiquants

2010-12-11T12:43:00.002Z

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

LeftLoft

2010-12-11T12:38:00.002Z

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

Budgens & Londos wine labels by Pentagram

2010-11-15T12:20:00.002Z

'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

2010-11-15T12:10:00.004Z

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

2010-11-15T11:58:00.005Z

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

Save the Arts

2010-11-12T12:38:00.001Z

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

colours of the world

2010-11-12T11:40:00.004Z

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

2010-11-12T11:31:00.001Z

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

awesome technology by Berg
via MB

AOC studio

2010-11-01T18:40:00.003Z

architectural practice by AOC (job opportunities)

julien berthier

2010-11-01T18:35:00.003Z

installations and weird objects by Julien Berthier

lori nix

2010-10-29T11:11:00.002+01:00

beautifully photographed set-ups by Lori Nix

one dot zero 2010!

2010-10-29T10:42:00.001+01:00

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

2010 one dot zero is coming 10 – 14 November!

mc cloud

2010-10-29T10:34:00.002+01:00

FLUFFY MC CLOUD from conorfinnegan on Vimeo.

lovely simple film by Connor Finnegan

creative everyone

2010-10-12T15:58:00.000+01:00

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

Guild of Sage & Smith

2010-10-12T15:52:00.003+01:00

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

Post icons / TNT

2010-10-12T15:40:00.003+01:00

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

GAP logo submissions

2010-10-12T15:33:00.004+01:00

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

2010-10-06T12:33:00.005+01:00

'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

2010-10-01T15:22:00.004+01:00

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

Russian council in London

2010-10-01T15:16:00.003+01:00

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

2010-10-01T15:13:00.003+01:00

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

V&A Sackler Centre tour

2010-10-01T15:07:00.002+01:00

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

2010-09-25T11:28:00.001+01:00

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

wonderful world of hugh hughes

2010-09-25T11:25:00.002+01:00

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

V&A maps by Johnson Banks

2010-09-25T11:20:00.003+01:00

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

mikael floysand

2010-09-08T08:07:00.005+01:00

a bunch of pretty design samples from Mikael Floysand of Norway

Attack

2010-09-08T07:56:00.003+01:00

work from Attack – creative team within W+K

Dowling | Duncan

2010-09-08T07:51:00.004+01:00

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

christoph niemann's plane trip

2010-08-05T16:58:00.003+01:00

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

she's my man

2010-07-31T08:57:00.001+01:00

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

wills moody jumblesale

2010-07-31T08:41:00.002+01:00

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

2010-07-29T19:41:00.002+01:00

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

2010-07-12T06:41:00.001+01:00

Khoi Vinh's website on typography & design

iPad research

2010-07-12T06:06:00.005+01:00

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

2010-07-05T09:35:00.002+01:00

stunning visual art from xavier barrade

webdesigners toolkit

2010-06-28T08:11:00.001+01:00

webdesigners toolkit: a few templates and elements to play with

packing up moving on

2010-06-28T07:56:00.004+01:00

'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

2010-06-19T07:27:00.002+01:00

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

2010-06-16T08:27:00.001+01:00

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

London Bike Week!

2010-06-14T12:43:00.002+01:00

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

2010-06-12T07:25:00.002+01:00

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

2010-06-01T20:35:00.002+01:00

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

2010-06-01T20:30:00.002+01:00

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

2010-06-01T20:27:00.002+01:00

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

AfroCup festival

2010-06-01T20:24:00.002+01:00

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

2010-06-01T20:21:00.001+01:00

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

Patrick Jean

2010-05-19T09:44:00.001+01:00

+more stuff from Patrick Jean

Bizarre ER

2010-05-11T16:10:00.005+01:00

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

siggi eggertsson type + illustration

2010-05-05T09:02:00.002+01:00

some great typography from iceland-born illustrator siggi eggertsson

flickr desserts

2010-04-30T10:28:00.005+01:00

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

volcano

2010-04-25T07:32:00.003+01:00

some hilarious pictures of the icelandic volcano:
boston news
NY times
olivier vandeginste – photographer

OK GO: This too shall pass

2010-04-22T09:24:00.003+01:00

another great implementation of Rube Goldberg machine
made by Syyn Labs

i love dust

2010-04-18T21:57:00.002+01:00

i love dust: design & illustration resources and inspiration
love The Ride journal about bikes!

Where's Wally?

2010-04-16T13:38:00.002+01:00

Where's Wally? + Where's Waldo? (b. 1987)
illustration by Martin Hartford

Puma's clever little box

2010-04-16T10:35:00.002+01:00

nice infographics movie clip explaining benefits of new Puma box design

Purpose

2010-04-16T10:23:00.003+01:00

lots of great work from Purpose
they also have job opportunities!

cycling in London

2010-04-13T16:44:00.004+01:00

AOI and Transport for London organised an illustration competition to celebrate cycling!

Deadline for entries: 17 May 2010 by 5pm

Whoever you are and wherever you look a revolution is taking place. Cycling is quickly becoming a part of the fabric of everyday life in London. During Summer 2010, Transport for London will will join the revolution with the launch of its Cycle Superhighways and Cycle Hire Schemes as well as a host of other initiatives to improve cycle safety and security. In conjunction with these programmes, London Transport Museum and the Association of Illustrators are delighted to announce a call for illustrations featuring cycling as an emerging mode of transport in London.

Students and professionals are invited to submit entries that demonstrate the environmental, health and/or recreational benefits of cycling. It is the task of entrants to create an illustration that shows cycling as a fun and efficient way to get around the city.

The top three entries will receive a monetary award and may be used in an advertising campaign for cycling. The top 50 entries will be displayed in an exhibition at the London Transport Museum that will open in summer 2010 in conjunction with the launch of TfL’s cycling programmes.

Competition Prizes

Cash prizes will be awarded in three levels.

First prize: £2000
Second prize: £1000
Third prize: £750

How to submit your entry

The competion is free to enter and you can enter as many images as you wish.

1. Prepare your image
Your image should measure 1200 pixels on the longest edge, be in RGB mode and saved as either a jpg or gif. Name your file(s) sequentially and with your surname and initial separated by an underscore i.e.smith_f_01.jpg
Where possible use Photoshop's 'save for web' feature. Your resultant filesize should come in at under 1mb.
2. Accept Conditions of Entry
Read the Conditions of Entry below. If you want to proceed, click the Agree/Enter button.
3. Submit your entry
Upload your image and accompanying text information.

best ads from ADME

2010-04-11T19:14:00.003+01:00

Design Currency: ICOGRADA Design week, Vancouver 26-30 April 2010

more on ADME
+ print & outdoors

Luna's café

2010-03-24T14:43:00.001Z

Paul Luna's thoughts on typography, book design, and more..

AIDS commercials

2010-03-24T09:09:00.003Z

nice piece of french toilet graffiti!
Mom said I could:

2006 ones:
straight...

...and different

Arts Jobs

2010-03-23T09:04:00.001Z

Arts Council's Art Jobs website

wordsearch

2010-03-23T08:51:00.006Z

wordsearch – communications agency, Farrington (contacted)
specialise in Estate & Building branding, promotion, etc. (above – Battersea PS & New Dharavi)

EARTH HOUR!

2010-03-13T09:51:00.005Z

WORLD EARTH HOUR – March 27th
(c'mon switch off your lights)

My Way by Christoph Niemann

2010-03-12T08:48:00.006Z

witty cartography by mr. niemann
his new book is out as well:

and my cryonics infographics sits on the opposite page next to his his sleep scheme in DATA FLOW 2:

my last 5 girlfriends

2010-03-11T08:43:00.003Z

ICA, Wed 17 March, 18:30
'This smart new British rom-com based loosely on Alain de Botton's Essays on Love deals with the vagaries of love, telling the tale of Duncan (newcomer Brendan Patricks), who is planning his suicide while also thinking back on his series of disastrous relationships. It is a witty and effective comedy, with a strong cast that also includes Naomie Harris, Jane March and Michael Sheen.

After the screening we have a Q&A with director Julian Kemp and members of the cast'.

london italian film festival

2010-03-10T11:45:00.003Z

Italian cinema festival 16-25 April at Riverside Studios

bates y&r ad agency

2010-03-10T10:48:00.004Z

bates y&r – belgian ad agency standing behind a bunch of awesome ads, mostly video – smart even when in flemish!

danse dance

2010-03-07T22:35:00.003Z

DanseDance from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

Julien Vallée's and Nicolas Burrows' new interactive project:

'Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other, or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them. We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they don’t interfere or inhabit our space. But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly. And what if they did so all at the same time? We want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord. Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths.

This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings. Each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time'.

Julien Vallée is a Montreal based graphic / motion-designer. Trying to explore the different fields of design, he's been questioning the relative roles of the computer and handmade processes in design. He tries to get in touch with every aspect of the environment, using manual processes strongly supported by the technological tools of today to bridge as many of these disciplines as he can.

Nicolas Burrows is an artist, illustrator and designer and works as part of the Nous Vous collective. He also makes music under the moniker 'Glaciers'. He tries to make work appropriate to the context, and is interested in collaborative processes.

+++++

MTV-One from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

mary hale: itinerant home

2010-03-01T14:39:00.005Z

designboom article about Mary Hale's inflatable homes

battersea power station development

2010-03-01T14:18:00.005Z

Rafael Vinoly architects are doing the Battersea development project:
'The masterplan for the Battersea power station – a grade-II listed, large former electric power plant along the river Thames – aims to create a mixed-use sustainable development offering commercial and retail functions as well as residential, cultural, and event spaces interspersed with community facilities and a zero-carbon energy plant for the adaptive reuse of the power station itself. The iconic historic structure of the power station functions as the focal point of the site’s regeneration, which aims to create a self-sufficient and vibrant new community serving as the anchor of the Vauxhall/ Nine elms/ Battersea opportunity area.

The primary design goal is to reinforce the presence of the power station as the main architectural feature of the site by setting it in a formal space ('the circle') defined by a reflecting pool and open to views to and from the Thames river and its north bank. Further, accessibility to the site is increased by creating three primary streets that link the power station to the site’s southern perimeter and through to a future extension of the waterfront park and river walk.'
Designboom article

lauren milton: magnetic rings

2010-03-01T14:01:00.005Z

Design / Magnetic Rings from Laurent Milon on Vimeo.

Some interesting 'grown' objects from this french industrial designer

put your business forward

2010-02-24T09:04:00.002Z

'Ravensbourne Commercialising Digital Technology programme will provide you with consultancy and support to get your company's digital skills bang up to date; facilities for experimentation and exploration; ideas incubators; advice sessions and networking events. It will fill in the gaps in your knowledge or, if there are no gaps, it will help you preview the future and equip you to make the best of new opportunities and business models.'

In order to take part in all of the CDT events, workshops and courses, you need to fit the criteria below:

a) be based in London
b) be a registered freelancer or part of a small-medium company (meaning with 250 people or less)
c) and of course, most importantly, be part of the creative industries

Re-Designs

2010-02-13T13:06:00.003Z

Redesign challenges by Studio 360:
x.mas by Pentagram (slideshow)
Gay Parade by Mark Randall of Worldstudio
Valentine's Day by Under consideration (Brand New)

Things we have found

2010-02-13T11:48:00.002Z

Things we have found: source of quirky random photographs

There

2010-02-13T11:43:00.003Z

There is an inspirational design studio from Sydney

made in Bunch

2010-02-13T11:32:00.004Z

Bunch: their corporate ID is thrown out into design world in order to see what will designers come up with while playing around it... Very entertaining!

current ID competition:
'We decided that it was time to rework our corporate identity this year
and base it around the overarching theme of 'Made in Bunch'.

Much of our work is predicated by the influences we as a collective of
designers take from the world around us. So we thought we'd ask other
designers how they see us and reflect this in our id.

The idea is to showcase the variety of work we make and the range of
characters in Bunch whilst also getting an alternative fresh view point.

So we're asking respected creatives, like yourself, to take our logo
and produce a visual reaction to it. This will form the basis of our
corporate identity.

You might rubber stamp it, create an overdrawing, or simply cut it up
and burn it, but we'd like you sign it when you're done smashing it up.

Please take a little time to 'make us something in Bunch' and we promise
to feature it in our Made In Bunch i.d.

Once you are done with bastardasing your version of Bunch logo, please
upload it here or simply send to submit@madeinbunch.com

totalcontent

2010-02-11T11:08:00.005Z

nice posters and other creative work from guys at totalcontent

effectivedesign

2010-02-11T10:59:00.003Z

some awesome design work from EffectiveDesign (Glasgow), including Candy Cranks fixed-gear branding:

Michael Bierut at Creative Mornings

2010-02-11T10:57:00.000Z

2010/01 Michael Bierut from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

gym class magazine

2010-02-11T10:54:00.001Z

'Gym Class Magazine is a zine for the guy chosen last. What does that mean? Well, it’s a zine for the underdog, the black sheep. Remember your high school gym class? The bit where two kids were made captain and took turns choosing who they wanted on their team? Well, Gym Class Magazine is a zine for the guy chosen last.

It's for geeks, nerds and nellys; definitely not for guys into dodgeball.

Instead, we like more creative stuff… like drawing and illustration, indie magazines and comics, scary movies and sci-fi, graphic design and typography, electronic music and tall buildings.

If any of that sounds like you, welcome. Thanks for stopping by.'

Baster

2010-02-11T10:50:00.003Z

some interesting designs from Bas Koopmans, Amsterdam-based graphic designer

Victionary

2010-02-11T10:44:00.001Z

design books from victionary!

For Print Only

2010-02-11T10:37:00.001Z

new division of Underconsideration!
'FPO is a blog dedicated to both the visual stimulus and the detailing of the development and production of printed matter... The name of the blog is, of course, inspired by the decades-old tradition of labeling images, illustration and/or text that are not ready to print yet as FPO, "For Placement Only." The play on words was very straightforward: Our blog will be only… for… print, so we named it For Print Only, "FPO"

Unhappy Hipsters

2010-02-11T10:33:00.003Z

'It's lonely in the Modern world'... Different look at dwellings from Unhappy Hipsters

'There it hung— a bicycle built for two, an exclamation point to her lonesome heart'

(Photo: Dave Lauridsen; Dwell, June 2008)

DESIGN 21: UNESCO poster competition

2010-02-10T09:13:00.001Z

Design 21 UNESCO Competition: Create the poster for 2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures; a competition to promote better communication and understanding between all peoples and cultures. DEADLINE: 9 March 2010 6pm

DESIGN BRIEF

Design a poster that celebrates “2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures".

Entries are limited to text and images only.

Designers have complete creative liberty, and may freely use in their design the title of the Year ("2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures") in any of the following six languages that they are most comfortable using: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic.

Entrants are free to play with the title in more than one language, but should not use a language they do not write fluently (for example, Chinese, Arabic, Russian).

Please verify the proper spelling of the full title of the Year as shown here.

NOTE THE FOLLOWING STIPULATIONS:
Incorporating the title of the Year in your poster design is optional, not mandatory.

Entrants must keep in mind the international nature of UNESCO and the celebration of the Year and avoid any reference to a particular country, region, culture or religion.

The final printed poster will be A1-sized (59.4 x 84.1 cm or 23.4 × 33.1 in). Although the online entry provisions do not allow for the full A1 dimensions, your entry must include at least one image showing the entire poster design scaled to A1 proportions. Note the “Entry Provisions” section outlined further down the page.

You must not include any logos on your design but instead use a placeholder. The final printed posters will include the UNESCO/UN logos + the official Logo of "2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures". To accommodate these in the poster design, entrants must save a place in their design where the official logos would be positioned in the event that your design is selected as one of the 50 to be showcased. The placeholder should be scaled to 9cm x 9cm relative to an A1 poster, and be positioned in the upper left hand corner of your poster. Click here to download the placeholder example. Since screen resolutions are different across computers, if the placeholder we have supplied does not measure 9cm x 9cm on your screen, you may recreate it to the 9x9cm dimensions.

Any person submitting a design within the framework of the competition certifies and warrants that his/her proposal does not violate the rights of a third party or any copyright.

All entrants must consult and agree to the competition Rules (see the Rules tab).

ENTRY PROVISIONS

Entries should be submitted in the format of a web-resolution jpeg of 72dpi. See the “How to Enter” section in the competition Rules for more details on image and file sizes.

Additionally, entrants should have their design readily available in a 300dpi print resolution PDF in case their poster is selected as one of the 30 to be printed. If your design is chosen to be printed, and you have verified in writing your acceptance of the usage terms, you would need to add the official logos (mentioned above in the "Design Brief") which would be supplied to you by UNESCO. (See "Proposed Usage of Winning and Selected Designs," below, for more details).

Each design submission should be accompanied by a description (French or English only, 400 words maximum) describing the design and what it intends to illustrate.

Entries that direct users away from the DESIGN 21 website will be disqualified.

creative networking

2010-02-10T08:59:00.002Z

University of Arts ECCA presents Creative Networking / 15 March

Event details:
This session is designed for emerging creative graduates. Introduced and facilitated by Creative Careers, University of the Arts London, this will be an interactive experience to learn top tips from professionals on networking to further your career.

Creative practitioners, who have used networking effectively within their career, will help you improve your networking skills for success. Industry professionals include:

Lydia Thornley (Lydia Thornley design & consultancy)
Richie Manu, Creative Director (Consurgo) – helping graduates with portfolios!
Melanie Grant, CRE8 Photography Ltd and Chairman for BRX Mayfair (Business referral exchange, the Mayfair chapter)
Terry Iland, Director (award-winning commercials both in UK and internationally)
Sarah Rowles, Director (Q-Art London – London student and graduate Artist forum)
Victoria Holt, Designer (Fred&Ginger Ltd London)

Be prepared to get involved and get actively networking.

Networking drinks reception to finish session.

Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: Arrival 5pm for 5.30pm start until 8pm
Location: London College of Fashion, 20 John Prince’s Street, London, W1G 0BJ

Sally Potter

2010-02-09T09:29:00.000Z

need to get hold of some of her films!

Simon's cat

2010-02-09T08:53:00.004Z

awesome short animations from Simon Tofield, BAA nominant
(part of TANDEM films collective, they've got other cool motion stuff)
Simon's cat on YouTube