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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.

So have a look round, if you see something you love or hate be sure to comment, and drop us a line if there’s a juicy bit of creative gold you’d like to see on here.

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CarneMag—a digital magazine rant

Call me old fashioned but when it comes to digital magazine I'm always a bit sceptical. Maybe it's that digital magazines somehow miss the point of the printed word, the gratification of some physical—the way it looks, smells and feels in your hands. Or maybe it's ...

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25ah

Perverse we know, but it's been over two years since we last posted the work of Stockholm-based 25ah. In that time they've launched a new site, full of excellent work, beautifully shot.

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Everywhere

The agency formerly known as Studio AP has rebranded as Everywhere. A new site has been launched as part of the rebrand, with clients such as Burberry, Anthony Burrill and the previous post, David Gill.

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Woods & Weather

Designer and illustrator Erik Anthony Hamline is a 23 year old who lives and works in Minneapolis, US. As well as designing under the name Woods & Weather he also runs a screen printing studio, the Steady ...

Posted by Mark
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Inka Järvinen

Inka Järvinen, an illustrator and graphic designer based in Helsinki, has a folio comprised of detailed, vintage inspired illustrations that lend themselves very well to fashion garments and accessories. It's not surprise to see she graduated in graphic design and fashion (an interesting combo) ...

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Updates at XTRABOLD

Young, self-taught, versatile and one of the most notable talents, Nelson Balaban updates his extraordinaire portfolio with a bunch of new and exciting projects.

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Studio Output – New site

Hot of the press. As always you can count on rich visually exciting work from Studio Output, and now it's all packaged up in a shiney new site – just launched.

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Adrian Johnson

Like a kid with a fresh pack of Crayola's, Adrian Johnson breaths real character and vitality into his own style of illustrations. Bright, extremely colourful and very endearing, it's no surprise that Adrian Johnson has been snapped up by Big Active. Lots ...

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Chris Wilkinson

Chris Wilkinson is a designer and frequent Tom Jackson collaborator. Chris's work has the same hand-made sense of fun, just less animal heads and more powder paint. Check out his most recent project for the forthcoming degree show at Sheffield Hallam University.

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StudioAnti

Excellent body of work from Willem Stratmann.

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  • 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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