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 Tom Muller and …]]>

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 Tom Muller and LongLunch for donating the poster.

Forsnowboarding and Grafik Armor are proud to announce their first collaborative project together: Snowboard Graphic Design Contest. Beginning February 15th, 2010, we invite all snowboarders and designers to create their best original snowboard topsheet graphics using our supplied templates and submit them to our official …]]>

Forsnowboarding and Grafik Armor are proud to announce their first collaborative project together: Snowboard Graphic Design Contest. Beginning February 15th, 2010, we invite all snowboarders and designers to create their best original snowboard topsheet graphics using our supplied templates and submit them to our official gallery to be judged by a panel of artists, designers and industry professionals. Guest judge for this competition is none other than Mike Orduña AKA Fatoe.

Grand prize is a custom one-of-a-kind Grafik Armor Snowboard Decal Wrap with the winners graphic. Second place gets a Grafik Armor Snowboard Decal of their choice from Grafik Armors current line-up.

You can download the template here.

For more info check out the contest page.

The nice folks over at Central Station have asked us to spread the word about a film project being produced by some of its members, Art/Roc/Doc. The film documents Glasgow band Isosceles’ trip down to London in October 2009 to play a headlining show at the

The nice folks over at Central Station have asked us to spread the word about a film project being produced by some of its members, Art/Roc/Doc. The film documents Glasgow band Isosceles’ trip down to London in October 2009 to play a headlining show at the PLUS event, while also exploring the various goings on at the Frieze Art Fair.

So where do you guys come in? Simple… they need designers to contribute titles for the film. If you think this might be your bag, more details can be found in the Art/Roc/Doc project page on the Central Station site. The deadline for applications is midnight on 17 January, so if you fancy a shot you’ll need to get cracking! Good luck.

Rich from Very has just let me know about their Christmas competition – hidden within their newly updated site are Mr.T’s lost reindeer! If you find one, email them its name and tag number and you could be one of the 9 winners …So far I’ve …]]>

Rich from Very has just let me know about their Christmas competition – hidden within their newly updated site are Mr.T’s lost reindeer! If you find one, email them its name and tag number and you could be one of the 9 winners …So far I’ve only found 1! While on the site check out their projects, and their shop full of fun stuff.

It’s always good to see agencies doing something a little different with their festive self-promotion. Whitespacers have been in touch, telling us about their snappily named ‘The Great Whitespace Snowflake Challenge‘. The 10 top rated snowflakes will become the proud owners of a box Tunnock’s Snowballs.

If any of …]]>

It’s always good to see agencies doing something a little different with their festive self-promotion. Whitespacers have been in touch, telling us about their snappily named ‘The Great Whitespace Snowflake Challenge‘. The 10 top rated snowflakes will become the proud owners of a box Tunnock’s Snowballs.

If any of you FFF’ers have come across other interesting festive projects, let us know!

I received the ISTD 2009 International Typographic Awards catalogue* through my letterbox the other week and what a little gem it is. The variety and undoubted quality of submissions make it a fantastic contemporary reference for anyone interested in typography and graphic design.

Special congratulations must go to

I received the ISTD 2009 International Typographic Awards catalogue* through my letterbox the other week and what a little gem it is. The variety and undoubted quality of submissions make it a fantastic contemporary reference for anyone interested in typography and graphic design.

Special congratulations must go to Studio Apeloig of Paris, who received the prestigious Overall Winner’s award for their series of posters for Théâtre du Châtelet. Awards Jury Chair Gilmar Wendt sums the poster series up rather well:

‘Three posters. Black and white type on coloured backgrounds. I first saw them in situ on the metro in Paris where their sheer visual power cut through all the clutter of signage, ads and busy people jumping on and off the trains. I don’t remember any of the other ads but these posters stuck with me. What is so wonderful about them is how they are at the same time clear information design, and beautiful graphics. Because the words drive the design, all three of them, whilst using the same principles, become unique pieces. And if the typography provides unity, the coloured backgrounds help differentiate. Simple, beautiful, intriguing.’

Winners of Premier Awards include Cartlidge Levene (for their brilliant wayfinding signage at the Guardian newspaper HQ), Barcelona based Studio Astrid Stavro (featured in this month’s Grafik), Studio 8 Design, Vienna’s Bohatch Visual Communication and Bockting Ontwerpers of Amsterdam amongst others.

* For those of you who are still writing Christmas lists, there’s a few copies of the catalogue left and they’re being sold on the ISTD website

]]> http://www.formfiftyfive.com/2009/12/istd-typographic-awards-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.formfiftyfive.com/2009/11/visual-aid-2-competition/ http://www.formfiftyfive.com/2009/11/visual-aid-2-competition/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:02:50 +0000 Gil http://www.formfiftyfive.com/?p=10082 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 to a …]]>

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 to a book that hit our desk last November which we feel in love with the aesthetic of. Full of titbits and random information that you once new and have long forgotten, Visual Aid 2 is well designed using lots of flat vectors and bright hues presenting the content in a playful and inviting way.

This time round spreads from the book have been printed as poster in various sizes—very reminiscent of The Guardian Wall Chart series. One lucky person can win their choosing of any one of the posters and choose the size from the selection available on the Visual Aid Shop.

To win, send your answer to the following question to win[at]formfiftyfive.com by 29th November 2009 and we’ll announce the winner on the following Monday.

Taking a leaf from the first Visual Aid; Who is taller Mr Stay Puft or King Kong?

Best of luck.

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… and the lucky winner is James Allwright. Congrats James and we’ll be sending out your choice of poster very soon.

Thanks to everyone who entered and commiseration if you didn’t win this time round. There’s always next time.

One month to go until Christmas and RAW are at it again this year with their Christmas By Colour series. Instead of releasing a poster full of colours signifying various aspects of Christmas, this year they are printing the most popular onto Christmas cards.

One month to go until Christmas and RAW are at it again this year with their Christmas By Colour series. Instead of releasing a poster full of colours signifying various aspects of Christmas, this year they are printing the most popular onto Christmas cards. Get them bought!

Morning all, good news all round on this Friday morning!

First of all Tony Smith wins the Bag of Bees T-Shirt! His T-Story was picked from all the other submissions to win him a shirt from the all new Bag of Bees Shop.

Here’s his winning story…

“My oldest tee …]]>

Morning all, good news all round on this Friday morning!

First of all Tony Smith wins the Bag of Bees T-Shirt! His T-Story was picked from all the other submissions to win him a shirt from the all new Bag of Bees Shop.

Here’s his winning story…

“My oldest tee is only about 14 months old but it’s not about how old you are it’s about what you’ve done and the quality of life you’ve had. On August 24th 2008 I left the UK to go traveling and after 386 days on the road, visiting, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Indonesia, Australia and Fiji i returned home and 1 of my original tee’s that I had left London with all those weeks ago came with me.

It may still be a baby as far as tee’s go but it’s had an eventful life. Here’s to the next trip!”

Rob Edwards wins the Hello Von print to mark the launch of the new Von Shop. He answered correctly that Von took a split degree at university of Illustration and Animation.

And finally…

FormFiftyFive won ‘Best Blog’ at this years British Interactive Media Association Awards which is chosen by popular vote. So thank you all for voting! We’ll get some pics of the award and the night on our Facebook fanpage over the weekend.

Image via DoubleTakes

After thousands of entries, Umbro unveiled the finalists in their competition to customise the sole on a pair of Specialis. Shown are some of the final 15, chosen from the thousands of different designs by a team of judges which included Umbro designers Stuart Semple and Stewart Scott-Curran, …]]>

After thousands of entries, Umbro unveiled the finalists in their competition to customise the sole on a pair of Specialis. Shown are some of the final 15, chosen from the thousands of different designs by a team of judges which included Umbro designers Stuart Semple and Stewart Scott-Curran, and Esquire’s art director David McKendrick.

‘There were some unbelievable entries, I was pretty surprised by the diversity. At the top end the standard was incredible – I was particularly impressed with the entries that dealt with the architecture of the boot within their work. There were some really hilarious entries too. I think overall the shortlist shows an exciting breadth of talent and some exciting non-literal interpretations. It seems the Speciali competition has bought some incredible talents out of the woodwork.’ – Stuart Semple

Each of the winners will have a pair of Specialis with their design on the sole made up for them, but that’s not all. Michael Owen, Gael Clichy and John Terry will each pick their favourites from the final 15 and wear them on the pitch later this year in a Premiership match.