V houses at Verana/Mexico.

Since January 2008, at the initiative of agence marc praquin, DesignAndDesign.com website has enabled designers from all over the world, to have their voices heard, finally liberated from the monopoly of major publishers. DesignAndDesign.com offers them a free opportunity to present their work in the first book entirely devoted to the best of graphic and product design.

The “2008 Design and Design Book of the Year” shows the 730 award-winning designswhich were honored each day on DesignAndDesign.com homepage. As a new reference, benefiting the universal community of designers, design and design projectintegrates contributions by active members from over 100 countries.

For more details please contact François Salanon: fsalanon (at) praquin.com. For more information on agence marc praquin please visit www.praquin.com.

Getting a job as a game designer proving tricky? Don’t Panic want you to create a character for the upcoming PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet. The winning entry gets massive exposure and a glowing sense of pride (plus a copy of the game and a PS3).

The competition is open until 4^th August 2008. Trailer here…

Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model.

The making of tutorial.

An incredible blog about design, webdesign, typography and more…

by a 15-year-old boy from the Netherlands.

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digital illustration exhibited as part of “The Black & White Poster Project” in Cape Town
also printed in “The Black & White Poster Project”, published by Bell Roberts Publishing

Not satisfied with new Google favicon? Here is a master-class from TurboMilk Studio.

“Not so long ago we berated the new Google icon and called it bad. But denouncing something that is not yours is easy! But what icon would be good? We decided to answer this question: let’s take four designers and make them draw a good icon for Google. Such approach we call running ‘a creative boutique’.” Continue reading.

Evokes 3 year Anniversary release; Unity!

typeface design for personal use - “romp” means “to play”. This font is called Rompfont.

More about Jess: she is young not old. freelance not hired. shepherd not sheep. not consumer but PROsumer. Available for contract or permanent work, in London. jessjorgensen@gmail.com

Cool interview with Malaysian designer Ee Venn Soh on Designfeedr.

http://sublevel.us/

Two months ago, the community at slashTHREE celebrated the release of our finest pack yet, ‘Odyssey.’ On top of that, after 6 months of hard work we finally released the newest version of the site itself, complete with new layout and many, man new features. To ‘christen’ this new-look slashTHREE, we decided that we need a new theme; one that would not only spawn many different mediums of art and style, but would inspire artists to make their own interpretations and come up with new ideas. One word came to mind: Afterlife. The name stuck, and for almost the past two months, slashTHREE’s staff and artists have been working diligently, and anticipating the release of what we believe is our finest pack yet. Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, we are proud to present to you; ‘Afterlife.’

Please check out my homage to Helvetica. Happy Birthday Helvetica! Sorry if I’m a bit late!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/reeceward/clothing/1233419-1-graphic-design-rubs-me-up-the-wrong-way

Great article. Really stresses just letting go of some projects you know are half doomed to begin with, embracing and coming out with something good after all.

Italians do lust better. From luxury yacht charter and luxury cars to exquisite high fashion, MyEXL covers every aspect of a luxurious italian lifestyle.

Yves Saint Laurent, one of the greatest fashion designers in history, died at his home in Paris late Sunday at 71 after a long, undisclosed illness. He had been bedridden recently and friends said in the last week he had been unable to eat or talk. Saint Laurent had been rarely seen over the last year
via- BLOG BY NIKI

http://www.behance.net/ocired

Designfeedr has a new article up showcasing some impressive photo manipulations from various artists and studios.

New graphic design agency from Glasgow, Scotland with a really nice site and nice folio of work too. I first noticed them on cpluv where I saw their hand made paper aeroplane campaign. Take a look at the site.

http://www.tangentgraphic.co.uk

Poster was made for a speaking engagement in Arkansas. Some are left for sale on the chopshopstore website. Eventually the Chopping Block website is supposed to adopt the robot theme into full site, but those pesky client jobs keep getting in the way!