What the FFF?

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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Alexa Meade

On the face of it this scene looks like a nice, if unremarkable acrylic painting. You'd be half right. This is the work of Washington-based artist Alexa Meade. Her canvas are people. She paints directly onto her subjects, making them appear to be part of ...

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LOGORAMA!

Check out the Oscar winning animated short Logorama. Tarantino meets corporate logos. Via Twitch.

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Barbara Hennequin

Interesting graphic and type design by Barbara Hennequin.

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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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Morph runs Bath…

Very Graphic Designer and friend of FFF Richard Rhodes (pictured) is about to undertake a feat of human endurance – the Bath half marathon wearing the morphsuit! He's raising money for a great cause – Coppafeel – If you'd like to ...

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Lotta Nieminen

Really impressive work here from Lotta Nieminen

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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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Milton Glaser Honoured

The word ‘legend’ is banded about all too easily these days. Having said that, a real living legend—Milton Glaser—was recently honoured with the 2009 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. This year, Glaser was one of twelve recipients of the award ...

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It’s A Wrap.

Fancy seeing your work all over the tube? On 2nd March, Metro is taking their ongoing weekly feature with D&AD, Behind the Idea, to the front page with a competition challenging creatives to design a cover-wrap that will wake up commuters. The competition is called 'It's ...

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Richy Lamb

Scottish designer Richy Lamb has just launched his new site, featuring a strong range of identity & print work and some very nicely produced artists’ books.

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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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