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.

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Inspiration / Toys

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 ...

Posted by Gil
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DAHRA Play.Create Preview

Exclusive to FormFiftyFive visitors, DAHRA and Glug have released more images from their upcoming Christmas party / Exhibition in aid of Barnardos, entitled Play.Create, where they will be exhibiting and auctioning 30 exclusive Munny dolls by: Graphic Design - Paula Scher (Pentagram), Joe ...

Posted by Greig
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Friends With You

I came across this image taken in 2006 of FriendsWithYou's rather excellent Sky Walkers parade which opened Art Basel Miami. According to FWY "Skywalkers featured 18 giant blimps designed by FWY and various artists and included over 300 volunteers, a high school marching band, ...

Posted by Glenn
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Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson has updated her site and introduced a whole bunch of new products. The site looks a lot better than the last iteration and shows off her exceptional talent with all things knitted and textiles related.

Posted by Gil
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Home De Caramel

Home De Caramel is an animation studio located near Barcelona, deep in the woods. Their work intends to be fresh, fancy and colorful. All the designers in Barcelona always seem to be having a great time, don't they?

Posted by Jack
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Tweenbots

Tweenbots are the result of a great little social experiment by Kacie Kinzer at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. The little robots (pictured above) move constantly in a straight line and their goal is to travel the hazard-laden ...

Posted by Guy
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Pen Pencil Stencil

Too good not to post, even if you'll have most likely seen this somewhere else by now. Pen Pencil Stencil is the studio and workspace of designer Mark Giglio.

Posted by Glenn
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eBoy

eBoy are a lot like Marmite and for me, I love their style and content of illustration. They've just released some new merchandise and are constantly updating their massive folio of beautifully detailed — the reason that draws me so deeply into their ...

Posted by Gil
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30 years of Lego™ Minifigures

2008 marks the 30th anniversary of this small creation part of the Danish company’s popular toy line. While we take the minifigure for granted, the design as actually a long process that slowly evolved. Since its debut in 1978, the design has changed and had ...

Posted by Nikolay
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Present+correct

I'm posting this against my better judgement, I didn't want to share it because I want it all! Spotted it in Wallpaper, I think it's run by Neal Whittington from Winkreative and it's an absolute Aladdin's cave for ...

Posted by Emma
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Features

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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Recognition

Voice

Khristian on AFOM: update
“Amazing stuff! Funnily enough, AFOM is just 2 levels down from where I work...”
whatsinalaska on Alexa Meade
“I find these incredi,bly disturbing to look at, brilliant!...”
Gil on CarneMag—a digital magazine rant
“Completely agree Dave. I'm surprised my subconscious said, hey take the time out...”
daveconrey on CarneMag—a digital magazine rant
“One thing I cannot stand on the web is barriers to entry. I don't care how prett...”
Daniel on CarneMag—a digital magazine rant
“Some good points. A lot of the arguments for digital publishing spurred by the g...”
Victoria Archer on Woods & Weather
“Anything Letterpress steals my heart. Normally, I look at swirly, flourishy (som...”
LukeTonge on Alexa Meade
“Crazy good...”
Victoria Archer on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“I really enjoyed reading your review of this book. It has incited enough curiosi...”
Emanuel on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“I was at the shop of the Design Museum the other day and the cover caught my eye...”
Greig on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“Great stuff Liam, have ordered it tonight....”
jamesmattison on Woods & Weather
“mmmm... so nice! stuff like this makes me wish there was proper letterpress prin...”
Gil on Alexa Meade
“Very good. Off topic, but it reminds me of an Entourage involving Gary Busey...”
Victoria Archer on Alexa Meade
“In a world where you think that everything has been done, even now, we see peopl...”
Hian Battiston on Alexa Meade
“A little bit strange, but amazing!...”
Jack on Graphic Design: A User's Manual—Book Review
“Shamefully I've never seen/heard of this book before. Great review Liam, i'll de...”