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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Post-it Philosophy…

I’m assuming that most of you learned design-types out there enjoy reading Mr Michael Johnson’s Thought for the Week from time to time. Even so, I thought this rather charming entry was worth sharing. It’s a series of anonymous Post-it notes from students ...

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Graphic-ExchanGE

Many of you will be regular visitors to Graphic-ExchanGE, an excellent design site & inspiration blog run by one(!) dude, French designer Fabien Barral. He's currently asking for monetary support to keep GE up and in return he's sending out sets of his ...

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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, ...

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I am the Client!

  For those of you who may not have come across it before, I am the Client is truly a must-visit for design & advertising creatives. Nowhere else will you receive such an astonishing insight into the inner workings of your ...

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Helveticons

I like this site, you can purchase a set of icons designed on the principles of Helvetica at Helveticons Alternatively you can download some nice little yellow folders and icons for your OSX desktop for free.

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Desing Smoke

Desing Smoke, presented by Spunk Design in Minneapolis, is a webisode series that engages innovators in the worlds of Design, Culture and Invention. They interview everyone from photographers and designers to fire starters and window dressers, aiming to explore a broad cross-section of ...

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Original Designers Workbook

You can't beat a good notebook to keep your day on track! The Graphic Clinic have created the Original Designers Workbook a notebook with designers, illustrators, architects & artists in mind. The A4 spiral bound book contains 200 pages of high quality 100% recycled ...

Posted by Glenn
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It’s Nice That

Alex and Will have been busy over at It's Nice That and have now updated the site. With a new design, new features and a nice new logo there's plenty to see and do.

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Return of The Serif?

Okay not the Serif (R.I.P) but this is Fleuron the new design blog by Serif founder Jim Richardson of Sumo Design. He's obviously got the bug back and has already posted lots of great stuff. One for the bookmarks I think!

Posted by Greig
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Things We Have Found

Things We Have Found is a great online photo journal, sharing interesting images of people, places and things found by it's contributors (including my good friend Gordon) whilst out and about in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Co-founder Mike is on the lookout for folks who would ...

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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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