These are some of the covers from Penguin's new Great Loves series, designed by David Pearson. For this series they've decided to use more traditional printing methods such as lino cuts and screen printing to achieve a distinctive look. Shame they couldn't screen print the covers for real, obviously that would have made them very expensive paperbacks! A limited edition maybe? Here's the man himself explaining the process.
A really simple and smart old-style clock screen saver by 9031, beautiful, don't you love nice freebies!
Illustrator and artist Keri Smith has published through her website an "Artist's Survival Kit" that can be downloaded for free. As she says it's "for the really bad days (...) when you want to lie in bed for a month and eat chips." She intended it for artists but I think it works absolutely fine with more practical creative professions: designers, printers (he,he)... or for anyone who's decided to work in a non conventional way! We all have bad days and a bit of humour goes a long way. 
Ever judged a book by its cover? "Everytime" would be my answer. I admit it, I'm a sucker for a nice cover, beautiful packaging and other shiny and colourful things. And in this case I recognised the illustrator Rob Ryan and couldn't resist. If you've never seen his work it's worth having a look at his website & blog. In my defense I'm sure the book is really good too, and with a different cover I probably would have bought it all the same... mmm.
when final year students finally say goodbye to university life and face the future, scary, I know, but also exciting. And before they say goodbye they put together their Degree Show to let the world know they are coming out and that they are full of ideas... so I went to see some of those ideas at GSA. And it was fairly mixed as usual but there was some really good work and worth checking out if you are in Glasgow. I particularly liked the work of Sissel Johannsen (sorry no image!) and Elain Eckford (above, no website yet). The above image has been taken from a class portfolio in the form of a newspaper so it definitely does it no justice. Didn't have my camera with me, damn!
Just came across the work of Small Stakes and since it's mainly posters and cd covers (our favourites) I had to share it through our blog. The majority of their clients seem to be from the music industry, a field we would like to look into ourselves.
We thought we'd share with you an image of our latest job. It's been a pleasure designing and printing our friend Daniel's business cards... we wish him the best tomorrow in the opening of his Degree Show at RSAMD and a very exciting future as set designer. The show is sure to be quite interesting since it's been themed around Dadaism...
Nice idea from design studio Littlefury. Their first product is Starthere, a series of notebooks that can be joined by sliding into each other's covers. It's not very clear from their website whether each notebook has a different use, though I'm guessing from some of the comments left that there must be a calendar notebook (?). In any case a simple and good-looking sketchbook.
