In an effort to bring their Exclusive Faces range to a larger audience, HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce their first magazine release Typographic Revolt. The brief was to produce a 16 page A2 magazine with a twist. Instead of following the traditional convention, Ryan designed a quick read through A2 magazine which also doubles up as a set of 4 Exclusive Faces posters. Each page folds out to create a double sided poster perfect for your studio or home wall space. Typographic Revolt is printed as a limited litho run on 90gsm wood free paper, giving everything a premium newspaper feel which absorbs the inks to create a beautiful desaturated look and feel. Typographic Revolt. is available now through Amazon.

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A lovely looking little trailer for a new film on leading Canadian designer, educator and painter Burton Kramer by Greg Durrell of A Brief History Of. Also worth mentioning there is a lovely retrospective book available on a half century of identity work by Kramer.

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Nick Greenwood over at Creative Lynx got in touch to tell us about some lovely new identity/brand work they have recently completed for new fine dining restaurant Australasia based in Manchester. Lovely materials and nice details create a lovely suite of print, packaging and signage materials. Particularly like the typographic wine bottles.

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RM Regular is a simple, clean and legible sans-serif type font designed to be used as alternative to Arial, Helvetica or Gotham and is a first foray into type design by London based agency Mash Creative. The Opentype font includes a full charcter and glyph set which supports 47 languages. A limited edition of 2 x 50 A2 type specimen posters have been made available absolutely FREE! for the first 100 people to purchase the font exclusively from HypeForType. The posters have been screen printed in silver and purple ink on 200gsm GF Smith Accent Smooth Glacier White stock – Available in 50 x silver on purple and 50 x purple on silver, each print is hand numbered and signed by Creative Director Mark Bloom from Mash Creative and can be posted worldwide. They will also be selling another limited edition of 50 purple A2 posters through Blanka shortly (Images below). These posters have been printed in white and silver ink on 270gsm GF Smith purple colorplan.

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Lovely folio of work from Canadian based designer/art director Greg Durrell at his site A Brief History Of. Particular highlights are the Canadian Olympic team brand guidelines and the Terry Fox Award but all the work is well crafted, clean and beautifully presented.

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Daniel from Graphical House got in touch to tell us about the new Scotland Can Make It initiative which they have designed the identity and website for. Initiated by Creative Scotland and inspired by London 2012 and Glasgow 2014, Scotland Can Make It! aims to celebrate Scottish creativity and stimulate the relationship between the country’s creative and manufacturing sectors. Against the backdrop of these two major sporting events, Scotland Can Make It! will present six new, limited edition souvenirs, designed and manufactured entirely in Scotland and leaving a lasting material legacy from Scotland’s dynamic and imaginative cultural landscape.

The project has been designed to enable relationships and collaborations between Scotland’s creative practitioners and our manufacturing industries. As the name suggests, all the souvenirs will be produced in Scotland and applicants are asked to suggest a manufacturing company they could work with. The six winning entrants will each work closely with Panel on the research and development of their designs. Each successful commission will receive a £1000 fee and a maximum budget of around £2000 will be allocated to the development and production of each souvenir prototype.

Scotland Can Make It! is not just open to designers and makers: music, textiles, accessories, books, stationery, clothing, prints and homewares are amongst the types of work the organisers would be interested in seeing submissions for, and proposals for inter-disciplinary collaborations involving writers, musicians, visual artists and designers are particularly welcome. Application packs can be downloaded at www.scotlandcanmakeit.com from Monday 6 June 2011, when the project will formally launch. Submissions are invited from established and emerging creative practitioners and will be judged by a panel of creative practitioners and industry experts, including current Turner Prize nominee Martin Boyce, leading design retailer Sheridan Coakley, Rob Young (Editor-at-large, The Wire), Christina Jansen (Curator, The Scottish Gallery), and Creative Scotland’s Leonie Bell (Creative Programmer: London 2012 and Glasgow 2014). All submissions must be received by 5pm on Monday 25 July.

In 2012, an exhibition featuring the souvenir prototypes and a behind-the-scenes look at all the design and manufacturing processes involved to date will tour Scotland.

Submission instructions
Download application packs from www.scotlandcanmakeit.com

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Glasgow based designer Kerr Vernon of KVGD has updated with some new projects, including a lovely letterpress promotional sample pack for Glasgow Letterpress and a variety of new projects for the SECC. he has also launched a new blog for news, inspiration and ramblings.

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I’m sure you’re shocked by recent events in Japan as we all are here at FormFiftyFive. Daniel Freytag from Berg/Editions of 100 has been trying to think of a way to help and has designed a special limited edition print which will is now available for sale through the Editions of 100 website. 100% of all proceeds from sales will be donated to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal. I have bought the first print to get the ball rolling so there is 99 editions of this left which will hopefully help to make some small difference to those whose property, homes and lives have been shattered by this disaster.

The poster is Litho printed and available in B2 size Justin Hobson from Fenner paper has very kindly donated the paper needed for the print.

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