The guys at Nirvana have just launched their new site and it’s rather nice. Ed and the guys produce some beautiful pieces of print and packaging amongst other things, so check them out to see more of their work.

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DESIGNerd is an intensely geeky trivia game created by Australian designer Kevin Finn. There are currently three sets, each with 100 questions written by someone well known in the industry— namely Kevin Finn, Steven Heller & Lita Talarico and Stefan Sagmeister. There are also architecture, fashion and product design versions in development. Much more fun for Boxing Day than Trivial Pursuit, though your Gran might not get many of the answers.

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It always struck me that a good indicator of the general public’s awareness and appreciation of design could be judged by product packaging on supermarket shelves. Perhaps an unexpected source of good graphic design – the Sainsbury Supermarket’s in-house design team (which launched in 1963) took design very seriously during the 60′s and 70′s. They produced some truly fantastic packaging solutions for everyday products using bold geometric shape and colour. Here are a few examples but you can see more at the Museum of London Docklands. There is also a book available – Own Label: Sainsbury ‘s Design Studio, 1962-1977, by Jonny Trunk by Fuel (found at the Guardian)

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How much do you want a Punkt. phone after seeing what Rosie Lee have done with their branding!

Punkt. is a Swiss based consumer electronics firm manufacturing stylish technology products for a busy, design-conscious customer base. Its products are developed around the ethos that technology should always be simple, intuitive and devoid of unnecessary functionality. ‘Punkt.’ meaning full stop in many languages, is a nod to this reductionist approach.

Sounds perfect to me!

via Visuelle

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Strong work from Mexican outfit Anagrama.

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Excellent portfolio of work by Bradley Rogerson based in Auckland, New Zealand. I especially love this simple packaging for Saxton Cider that he designed at Supply, who are also worth a visit!

via 1983

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Pimrico is the Creative Portfolio of Japanese Illustrator + Graphic Designer Rieko Vining, currently based in London.  A nice mix of hand drawings and graphic work.

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Some tasty CD packaging and slick (albeit, slightly retro?) website from young Swiss designer and art director, Loïc Dupasquier.

Thanks to Hamish for the link.

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Anti is a multi-disciplinary design agency based in Oslo and Bergen (Norway)

Allot of Antis design work as I see it is a wonderful mix between fashion and Norwegian black metal. They have also made their own brand of jeans which goes by the name of Anti Sweden. If you like pitch black jeans you can buy them at Anti Sweden which also happens to be a really nice site.

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Just been put onto Mucho, a little gem of an agency, based in Barcelona. Just a shame it wasn’t a week earlier and we could have arranged an interview while we were over there. For more, check out their flickr set.

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