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OUGD406 - Communication is a Virus : Collecting Resources

The main concept of our project is to guide people to blogs/studios/designers which they should be looking at. As part of this it is essential that we collect our own list of resources which we can use in our blog posts.

Blogs/Studios/Designers..




Beast Pieces is the letterpress and design blog of Studio On Fire.
Studio On Fire is a hybrid design and letterpress workspace in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In our design services, we are committed to making distinctive work that engages the senses.
In our printing, we are committed to making letterpress one of the most premium and relevant production methods for contemporary design.
We print both our own design work and letterpress projects that come from other creatives agencies and individuals around the country. This blog is our forum to showcase that work and provide others a glimpse into our process. We also share press room tips gained from a decades worth of experience in design and letterpress.




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designworklife is a part of Seamless Creative, a New York City-based design studio. Updated daily, dwl was established to catalog and share design-centric inspiration.





This design blog is a daily diary of my inspirations. I love to come across amazing work that makes me want to tell a story in images....and a few words too. You will find the work of photographers, stylists, designers, tours of private homes and beautiful architectural spaces in Scandinavia and beyond.

Thank you for visiting and thank you for your comments, I just love reading them.



A Couple That Loves to Create

Eight Hour Day is a design boutique, and we love what we do. It’s who we are. As a husband and wife team working side by side, we aspire for the designed life(style): a place where work, life and inspiration are all equal and integrated organically.
Our goal is to create work that is honest. Solutions that are exploratory, educational and inspirational. Creative that is conceptually interesting and visually stunning. We design with the belief that process and collaboration should be as exciting and fun as the end result.
Rongfei Geng Handcrafted Book

Rongfei Geng Handcrafted Book

Launched in 2009 — and now in its second version as of March, 2012 — FPO (For Print Only) is a blog dedicated to the visual stimulus and the detailing of the development and production of printed matter: Annual reports, books, business cards, stationery suites, collateral materials, posters, packaging and anything else where ink meets substrate.
The name of the blog is inspired by the decades-old tradition of labeling images, illustration, and/or text that are not ready to print yet as FPO, “For Placement Only.” The play on words was very straightforward: Our blog will be only… for… print, so we named it For Print Only, “FPO.”
The content of FPO is generated from submissions by our readers. When provided, we will have the full scope of production details and project overview but we will also post projects where we are unable to gather all that information if we think they are worth sharing despite the lack of details.

















The Elmwood Story


Ladies and gentlemen: Bob Mould! I have had a few projects in a row where the design process has flowed like a really great conversation. With Silver Age, not only did I fall in love with these songs, but Bob Mould is a peach; he’s generous, articulate, and clearly relishes collaboration. He kicked off our dialogue by sending me a photo of the sign for Crissy Field, which a) made me cry (I miss San Francisco!) and b) described a typographic sensibility that set the tone for the visual language. The typeface here is Monod Brun, designed by V.H. Fleisher in 2009.
Bob also knew he wanted a symbol of some sort to represent the album. In the end, I designed ten symbols—one for each song—which all appear on the back of the album. I will hold off showing the rest of the artwork until it’s printed because there is going to be some production bling that I would hate to shortchange.
In the meantime, check out this mammoth list of tour dates.


Maggie Fost is a designer and educator. She received a BA in Studio Art from Bowdoin College and an MFA in Design from California College of the Arts. In the intervening years, she worked at Heckler Associates in Seattle; and Shockwave.com, Macromedia, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco. In 2004, she was invited to be the Designer in Residence at the College of Design at North Carolina State University, following which she was appointed the first art director at Merge Records, where she remains. Now operating from Toronto.


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We are A-Side: a full service creative studio set in the UK with a global reach.
We offer bespoke design solutions spanning all media; we create and nurture successful brands, we offer art direction, graphic design and illustration all the while freely jumping the divides between image and product, design and art, the flat page and the moving image.
We work collaboratively with our clients. Providing a flexible service, we prioritise our client's wishes, to help realise their vision and ensure mutually successful solutions. We are committed to producing design of the highest quality and our work reflects our ethos - accessible, human, and crafted.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a project.




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OAT COMBINES BROAD INFLUENCES AND AN ORIGINAL VIEW OF POSSIBILITY TO CREATE NEWLY RELEVANT IDEAS, METICULOUSLY EXECUTED FOR CLIENTS WHO TRUST IN OUR TASTE.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS IS A WINDING, MAGICAL AND IMMERSIVE ENDEAVOR. WITH EACH PROJECT, THE EXECUTION OF A UNIQUE IDEA IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE SOMETHING NEW TO THE WORLD.
OUR STUDIO LIVES IN A SMALL STOREFRONT OF A FORMER BARBER SHOP, WITH CREAKY WOOD FLOORS AND LOTS OF NORTHERN LIGHT.

Edwin van Gelder - FRANCISCO VAN BENTHUM
Edwin van Gelder - FRANCISCO VAN BENTHUM

EDWIN VAN GELDER 
Edwin van Gelder is an independent graphic designer based in Amsterdam, 
the Netherlands. After graduating from from Utrecht School of the Arts in 2004, 
van Gelder founded Mainstudio and has worked under the name ever since. 
Mainstudio's projects include editorial design, books and visual identities for 
clients within architecture, art and fashion. 
Clients include Frame Publishers, Wiel Arets Architects, and the Dutch Fashion 
Biennial. Van Gelder has won various international awards (Art Directors Club New York, 
Best Dutch Book Design) and has been part of different international design juries, 
such as Art Directors Club New York, Selected A - Graphic Design from Europe, and the 
Art Directors Club the Netherlands. 
His work, as well as interviews, has been published in various books and magazines, 
including +81 Magazine, Slanted, and Process Journal of Design. 
Van Gelder loves typography, magazines, identities and books. His design approach 
is 
creating a clear concept, while always playing with the context of the information 
and 
looking for something unique in every assignment.


















































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This is an online blog which allows people to keep up to date with the art and design industry. A design gossip page!!



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