FormFiftyFive – Design inspiration from around the world

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Founded in 2005 by an ever growing group of young designers and vagabonds eager to collect and share the best design work they came across, FormFiftyFive soon became an international showcase of creative work.

Although the site was doing a great job at sparking creativity, we felt it could, and should, be even bigger and better. So we spent many moons working on a brand new FormFiftyFive, still high in eye (and brain) candy, but with a brand new look and lots of new features that dig even deeper into what’s happening in the design community.

We’ve also added more interactive elements on the site so people can exchange and store ideas more easily, encouraging collaboration and making the site more than just another design blog.

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Inspiration / Author archive for Chris J

Rory Sutherland

Ex-LOVE designer Rory Sutherland has been in touch to tell the world he is going freelance. With this standard of work, I think he is going to be a very busy chap. Take a look here

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Jim Davies

Jim at totalcontent has just released some great promotional posters designed by Rich and Si at Elmwood with illustrations by Rob from The Partners and copy from the man himself. More info and shots on his blog.

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Hitchcock For Haiti

Matt Needle has been in touch to let us know about a sale of 6 limited edition prints with 50% of the proceds going to various Haiti aid relief charities. Good stuff all round, find out more here

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B&W Studio Anniversary Poster

Lee from B&W Studio has let me know about this lovely poster they have produced to celebrate their 5th anniversary and Christmas, a single black print onto metallic stock to get a slight twinkle of the constellation of stars over Leeds.

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The Design Conspiracy

Kingsley from The Design Conspiracy sent me this great old school, handmade Xmas greeting yesterday and let me know about some updates to their site and blog.

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Frost*

Just got the Frost* newsletter and it contained this fantastic piece of typography for the State Library of NSW’s centenary. It is a alphabet made from objects from the library’s rare and unusual collection. There is over 400 hours of work here and it looks ...

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Features

Graphic Design: A User’s Manual—Book Review

Of all the design related books on my shelf How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul is definitely the most thumbed. Its tatty corners and mucky cover hint at its usefulness since I bought it about five years ago. And you ...

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HelloMuller Poster Competition—Winner

The lucky winner is Jack Osborne. Congratulation to Jack for winning our HelloMuller signed poster competition. Commiseration's to everyone else who entered. There's always next time. So keep checking back for more competitions and features and best of luck for next time. We'd also like to thank ...

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Made & Sold—Book Review

Made & Sold charts the efforts of designers outside the usual 9 to 5 bill paying work. Published by Laurence King and edited by FL@33 towards the end of last year; FL@33 have built themselves a reputation for editing ...

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Fully Booked—Book Review

Fully Booked is a tome representing some of the best examples of cover art and design for books. Hitting our doormat with a real thud, Fully Booked is a hefty title announcing itself as an authoritative reference point on book design. Everything about it has been ...

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Sixpack Zines

1998, Sixpack opens it's first store in Paris, with no business strategy & no daddy's boys socializing, the first Sixpack tee-shirt is made. 2009 and Sixpack is still collaborating with incredible artists around the world, from Steven Harrington to Parra. Famous for ...

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Papercraft—Book Review

Papercraft is the fourth book from Gestalten documenting the growing trend of hand crafted creations. Following on from Hidden Track , Tactile and Tangible, Papercraft focuses on paper as a means of creation and expression of ideas through this common ...

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Visual Aid 2: Competition—and the winner is…

To mark the recent release of Visual Aid: v. 2: You Can Never Know Enough Stuff, the people kind people at Draught Associates are giving away one of their brand new poster from the book. Visual Aid 2 is the sequel ...

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Boxed and Labelled—Book Review

Boxed and Labelled takes a fresh look at packaging design, illustrating how it has developed it's own graphic language in today's over crowded shelves. A solid body of work, showing off some of the best examples of contemporary packaging design. Documenting various aspects from ...

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HelloVon Interview

Continuing on with our video interviews feature, we spoke with illustrator and exhibiting artist HelloVon at his London studio. HelloVon has worked with some big name clients and agencies including one of his design idols, Non-Format. To help make your commute to work less boring, ...

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BIMA Awards 2009

The clever people at the BIMA Awards have shortlisted FFF in the 'Best blog' category. I say they're clever not only because they've shortlisted us – which was clearly a stroke of genius – but because they've managed to get a load of bloggers ...

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Recognition

Voice

whatsinalaska on Alexa Meade
“I find these incredi,bly disturbing to look at, brilliant!...”
Gil on CarneMag—a digital magazine rant
“Completely agree Dave. I'm surprised my subconscious said, hey take the time out...”
daveconrey on CarneMag—a digital magazine rant
“One thing I cannot stand on the web is barriers to entry. I don't care how prett...”
Daniel on CarneMag—a digital magazine rant
“Some good points. A lot of the arguments for digital publishing spurred by the g...”
Victoria Archer on Woods & Weather
“Anything Letterpress steals my heart. Normally, I look at swirly, flourishy (som...”
LukeTonge on Alexa Meade
“Crazy good...”
Victoria Archer on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“I really enjoyed reading your review of this book. It has incited enough curiosi...”
Emanuel on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“I was at the shop of the Design Museum the other day and the cover caught my eye...”
Greig on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“Great stuff Liam, have ordered it tonight....”
jamesmattison on Woods & Weather
“mmmm... so nice! stuff like this makes me wish there was proper letterpress prin...”
Gil on Alexa Meade
“Very good. Off topic, but it reminds me of an Entourage involving Gary Busey...”
Victoria Archer on Alexa Meade
“In a world where you think that everything has been done, even now, we see peopl...”
Hian Battiston on Alexa Meade
“A little bit strange, but amazing!...”
Jack on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“Shamefully I've never seen/heard of this book before. Great review Liam, i'll de...”
malte on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“i totally agree — picked it up a couple of weeks ago and almost read it through....”