'i' – not your usual newspaper print

i (short for informação) was recently selected by the 'Society for News Design' as the 'best designed newspaper'. The examples of the Portuguese daily's front covers look great, very colourful, grid based and fresh. Design Taxi has a nice little write up on the award, and include a few covers.
The paper's website is also engaging and dynamic. Wishing I could understand a little Portuguese right now!

The lazy alternative to screenprinting your ideas

I'm due to take a break from the world of freelancing (and other employment) around April-May to prepare to pop a little person into the world. So I've been giving some thought to what happens afterwards and, without prior experience in all things babies, was hoping (some mothers might say in vain — apparently babies take up a lot of time) to develop a series of self-promo items. My basic concept is to concentrate on where I get my inspiration from, primarily my local sources (home, family, Perth etc). I came across this site recently — looks quite interesting. They will print your design onto a range of fabrics which you can purchase by the yard. Small start up business from North Carolina, USA...

Studio Glithero – the products of processes

I came by Studio Glithero, another creative duo, via a London Design Festival email (I wish I was there!). They have a great selection of work based on the concept where the "duality of product and process strive to be one and the same". They do this amazingly well.

There's some lovely pieces, but I think my favourites are 'Burn, burn, burn', and the simplicity and effectiveness of 'Blueware'.

8 Hour Day Go Road Tripping

This couple has given fantastic to scope to the term 'work life balance'. They've taken a year out of their regular lives and will spend the next twelve months operating out of short-stay accommodation and the like, working at full capacity servicing existing (and new) clients.
Travel is one of my favourite sources of inspiration too – and I love their take on incorporating this aspect into their process!
From the website...
"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."

Pony Up - Two and Three

Here's Juliette's second and my third (and final) version. Juliette's third version should be finished soon, ready for submission to Loose Leaf. My last effort was a little homage to my mate who has been living and working in Melbourne for a while now – I miss her and our creative collaborations quite a bit!

Data is the new s(oil)

Wonderful talk by David McCandless about new ways of visually interpreting data. Great graphics, but more interesting is his passionate take on how we can view and process data in context and more easily.
For more info on McCandless see here.
If you haven't already, check out TED talks here. Lots of great ideas, presenters and mind blowing observations!

Pony Up - One, One and Two.

The Ponies zine returns, at last, in a new format and with a new name: Loose Leaf.
It's due out in September, first issue free. If you like it you can subscribe for twenty bucks and have it deleivered right to your mail box. Awesomeness. You'll need to email the industrious K to send your own submissions and to subscribe.
So, to submit! After getting the wonderful Juliette on board we decided to contribute a quick game (our take anyway) of exquisite corpse that we'll complete before the submission due date, swapping our working file three times each before finalising. A5, black and white. No theme (eek!).
The idea is to spend minimal time and have fun, of course!
Here's my and Jule's first marks and my second. I've just bought a lovely 'typographic workhorse' from House Industries – the font family Eames Century Modern, so thought it would be a good excuse to start playing with it.
I'll post the rest up as we go. I'd love to hear what anyone else is doing.