Thompson Brand Partners

Great identity work for Metal, an artists residency in Liverpool. I think that the die cut really complements the typography, really industrial. The spot colour has that ultra bright wow factor which means that anything printed with is is just going to jump out at you amongst other printed matter. Definitely a good choice if you're doing something that you want to be loud. This project I think is really successful because it can carry this extremely bright colour but without being garish, still looks really professional.

Studio Aad

Studio Aad have just done the lookbook for fashion label Arms. I've not seen many images from the inside pages but I thought that the idea for the cover was great, the little die cut whole create a really effective piece of typography and also a sneak peek onto the first page. I also think that the simplicity of the idea lends itself really easily to work across a range of bright colours. The matt, uncoated stock was definitely a good choice for this project.

Jongemeesters

Jongemeesters, based in Amsterdam have just done this work to promote the Holland Dance Festival. The project carries a distinctly dutch feel to the work, while still being quite progressive and very contemporary, I think a lot of this is down to the brave colour choices which I think have worked incredibly well, the posters will just jump off the wall at people but not in a garish way. Really good work. The pattern carried across onto the spine of the work is a really classy finishing touch which just adds that wow factor to the project.

Not Jones

Identity for Ceidiog done by Not Jones, I think that the typography works really well and simply, I think when using a very characterful typeface such as this its often best to leave out any other marks and let the type do the talking. I almost feel like there's one too many colours, I don't think that the pink/brown brick esque pattern works as well as the mint green and I think maybe just the mint with the black and white would have created a more rounded feel.

Modern Publicity

Great Identity done for Monacle by Modern Publicity. I think that the whole identity really revolved around the logo, it's a really beautifully formed piece of typography and it just carries a real feeling of class, almost like chanel. The rest of the work has really followed suit, very slick with its black, white and gold colour scheme, foil everywhere and simple type. It has a very expensive and classic feel.

Nicholas Cary

Really nice identity here from Nicholas Cary. The material used on the embossed business cards looks almost brushed with glitter it must be some kind of semi metallic stock I think it looks great. I also like how the really simple rounded edge lines have been arranged to make that great logo/mark when combined with the type.and also how the identity has been kept to tints of black, I has a very corporate and serious feel but I think that works in this context.

Till Wiedeck

This work is really great. The green in the top picture much be the Pantone Fluerescents green is looks super bright. A Colour like that in itself can make a great identity for something. It's also photographed fantastically, it looks like they've applied it to everything imaginable. That debossed gold triangle is also a lovely symbol. Triangles just look great sat in a space there's something really imposing about their shape which implies to many things from a million different sources like heirarchy, direction, mystery and loads more.

Nikolaus Schmidt

Really good single colour work. The die cut 3 and line works really well with the bright colour underneath and the nice shadow it casts when partially open is a really cool effect. I think that using a single colour and reversing out certain portions of a design can be really effective.

Lotta Nieminen

Debossed and spot glossed business cards on pulp board look great, super simple. The letterform of the R is great too. Simple line work to make it look bevel cut, 100% cyan looks amazing on brilliant white stock.

Kobi Benezri

The debossing on this cover is such a perfect use of the process, looks absolutely great. The inside is also really good, I always think its hard to mix together full bleed stuff with bordered photos but it's really well done here.

Fluff & Nike SB

Collaborative book to celebrate some new Nike photography and other stuff. The debossed cover of pulp board is really nice and the spreads look really nice, full bleed photography and strong layout. Apparently the book weights about 3 kg, very heavy.

Design Project

The Design Project (Leeds) have done the promotional stuff for creative packaging company Progress Packaging. I think the whole blend logo this is a little overdone now since PS3 used it. The book however is really nice, I was lucky enough to pick a copy up while I was up at Team Impression, they printed it.  The entire cover is foiled which is really nice, if not a bit garish.

Sawdust

This could be the greatest CD package over made, comes wrapped with a tiddlywink so that you can scratch off the gold and reveal the test (as if you ever would). Printed by the amazing generation press.

Paulus M. Dreibholz

Really great print work and materials in use. Firstly, the red metallic bag looks great, creates almost a sci-fi feel, really special. The overlayed colours for Architecture 53 is really good, you usually see people do CMYK colours or the red and blue for 3D but I think that the yellow and red is a really nice change. Finally the layout at the bottom is really simple but nice and delicate.

Lehni-Trub

I'm not a massive fan of some of the colours and composition of the layout in this book but I think that the use of differently sized pages is really interesting, it alters the way that you flick through the book which creates a different experience.