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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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La Tigre

Milan-based agency, La Tigre's portfolio is choc full of colourful geometric shapes and bold typography. Many thanks to regular visitor Luisa for the suggestion.

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Typography Summer School

A week-long programme of typographic study in London for recent graduates and professionals. Alongside live projects run by Fraser Muggeridge, the school will host talks, seminars and tutorials from daily visiting practitioners: Sara De Bondt, Paul Elliman, ...

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Screen Fiends

For any of our Nottingham-based visitors, The final year NTU Graphic Design students are creating a one off event ‘Screen Fiends’. They have organised an evening of live screen printing and illustration showcasing talented student’s work along with DJs and plenty of drinks. The evening ...

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Jonathan Barnbrook—Long Lunch Talk

As the second month of 2010 draws to a close, another Long Lunch talk closely follows in the calendar. Tomorrow, Monday 1st March 2010 sees a well known name in the design industry, Jonathan Barnbrook taking centre stage at Westbourne Studios in West London. For ...

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Anthony Burrill @Analogue

The guys at LongLunch have asked us to remind those of you within shooting distance of Edinburgh to get yourselves down to Analogue Books tonight. Anthony Burrill is still in town and his exhibition is opening at 7pm — so get down there for ...

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Anthony Burrill—Long Lunch

For all of our loyal Scottish readers, here's one for you. Anthony Burrill is speak at Long Lunch's next event in my old haunting ground of Edinburgh College of Art. The talk is taking place in the main lecture theatre at Edinburgh College of Art, ...

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Long Lunch Talk—Tom Muller

Another month, another Long Lunch talk for our London readers. The next talk at Westbourne studios is taking place next Tuesday (2nd February 2010) with speaker Tom Muller of Hello Muller and Kleber fame taking centre stage. To promote the event this ...

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Central Station Dundee Pop-up Tour

Here’s another Central Station flavoured update which will be of particular interest to those of you who reside in or around the Tayside area. (Good old Dundee—miss the place!) There are loads of events planned for the Central Station Dundee Pop-up Tour on Saturday 6 ...

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GF Smith 111 Exhibition

We paid a visit last night to the second stop on GF Smith's 111yr Exhibition tour. On display was a selection of paper sample books from each decade of the companies history, with the 60's generally considered the winner and the 90's picking up ...

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le petit didier

le petit didier, not the most user friendly portfolio, but still the first site since 1999 which uses Flash Page Turner and isn't absolutely terrible. Really solid body of typography too.

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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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  • Studio Culture—Book Review

    Designers and books are a perfect marriage and because we love them so much at FFF we've decided to venture into book reviews and save you all some pennies. To kick things off we're very happy to publish our first review of fledgling title Studio ...

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