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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Franztormers

Franztormers' Jo has been in touch to let us know about the opening of their excellent little shop in Christchurch, New Zealand. By the looks of things there's lots of lovely designy stuff, cake and guitars. Good times indeed.

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We live now!

Live Now have teamed up with How Books to bring you the Live Now book, featuring a collection of inspirational quotes and illustrations pursuing the notion of living a happy and engaged life. The book will roughly consist of 200, ...

Posted by Glenn
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Toben

Toben are one these Australian studios that just made me thinking — Is the air on the other side of the Earth different, full of little creativity booster molecules? Aside from their lovely work, they got a tasteful presentation too.

Posted by Nikolay
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Jessica Walsh

Jessica Walsh is a multidisciplinary designer living and working in New York. Excellent portfolio site filled with some outstanding work!

Posted by Glenn
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Emma Kelly

Emma Kelly has a great portfolio of illustration work, that's well worth a browse. Really like this timely print she's selling on her site too – I'm sure she'll shift plenty by the 14th. Cheers to Anna of

Posted by Guy
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Preloaded

Preloaded have reloaded with a nice new site to kick off 2010. They are inviting comments and feedback on Twitter, you can tweet them @Preloaded

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Ben Wiseman

Ben Wiseman has an illustration folio chock full of great examples of book cover design as well as some interesting editorial and political pieces.

Posted by Gil
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David Ope

I came across David Ope's little 3D experiments on FFFFOUND and had to share it with you. You can see them all in their animated on his Tumblr.

Posted by Glenn
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Daily Drop Cap

We've posted the work of typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische before. In September she started a side project: the Daily Drop Cap. "Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap ...

Posted by Mark
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Out with the old — in with the new

Daniel got in touch with some exciting news for 2010. A new year and a new beginning. Graphical House and Skratch have merged. Our two companies have a long standing friendship and a closely aligned set of attitudes, values and ambitions. Together ...

Posted by Greig
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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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