FormFiftyFive – Design inspiration from around the world

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.

Keep it real, the FFF team.

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Inspiration / Painting

Frank Gonzalez

Frank Gonzales is pretty good eh? He likes his birds too.

Posted by Gui
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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 ...

Posted by Rydo
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Chrissy Angliker

Lovely paintings by Chrissy Angliker. We all love letting the ink drip, looks like she mastered it.

Posted by Nikolay
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ARYZ

Barcelona based graffiti writer ARYZ is in the spotlight with his great style of characters. Some of them are huge! Check Aryz out on his brand new web page.

Posted by staynice
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Central Station

Central Station is an online community for exploring art, film and design. The project originated in Glasgow and is already attracting members from all over the globe who are keen to make contact with other artists and creatives. The community aims to promote awareness, ...

Posted by Rydo
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Features

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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Recognition

Voice

Jack on StudioAnti
“Hi Joe, I've been managing to populate the site almost entirely from submissions...”
Stargate Studios on Stargate Studios
“If you like this, please visit our new CHANNEL for more demo reels and other vid...”
Joe on StudioAnti
“Another great find Jack. Where do you manage to find them all?...”
ben on ODD
“be great if there was an actual link to the website in this post... :-p...”
Nikolay on 2014 Games
“http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Row-over-39identical39-logo-for.6137459.jp ...”
Ally on 2014 Commonwealth Games Identity Launch
“Being Scottish its great to see the identity with no Saltire in sight...”
Ewan on 2014 Games
“As others have commented upon the promo video looks fantastic and works well to...”
lee on 2014 Commonwealth Games Identity Launch
“Boring, it has no emotion. Sport is all about emotion. Looks more like a pit...”
Simon on Ideas you forgot
“I know this is completely off subject but does anyone know what's happened to Gr...”
Ideas you forgot on Ideas you forgot
“Thank you Leni....”
Leni on Ideas you forgot
“This is a really great folio of work....”
Gary on 2014 Games
“Don't mind it, although I prefer the Glasgow Candidate City logo. Only issue...”
fanie on 2014 Games
“Thanx a lot for taking our logo in reference. We are a bit upset by this big pl...”
Brian Copeland on 2014 Games
“My only issue is that awful footer enforced by the Games organisers, without it...”
Ben on 2014 Commonwealth Games Identity Launch
“A little over indulgent, but a damn sight better than 2012....”