Studio Ken
Awesome graphic design from Studio Ken in Wales. Nice!

BBH
I am really liking the use of Flash at BBH’s new site. Well controlled and just right = awesome.

Playful: Pablo Alfieri
Pablo Alfieri has a really human, colourful, playful sense of design.
Awesome

Adam Rix
Design and Art Direction from Adam Rix. Some great branding work!

The Supervisory
Us photographer+art director duo, thanks to the heads up from Artistsandcreatives!

Lynne Devine
A non touchy feely portfolio, but some excellent work.
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Sorry for the lack of Catches, i’ve been busy with my own personal work and at Whitespace.

Recently we’ve launched a studio project called Premiere Issues. The project was given birth in 2002 by my good friend and creative director Danielle Huthart. Essentially, the project is a massive collection celebrating first issue magazine triumphs.

It was my role to mature Danielle’s baby from this to this, turning the static into a live, dynamic collection with submissions, search, commenting and of course design structured in a solid grid.

I’m super happy with the result, and you should definitely check it out.
Premiere Issues

Recently I’ve been designing an online store for a bag designer in the UK who uses HSBC as their payment gateway. Currently in development stage, we ran into problems whilst integrating the store with HSBC online payments.

Security wise, HSBC’s online payment system is insanely strong (well it should be…), with numerous hash keys and etc to deal with. Your server requires a 128bit SSL certificate, and root access to install HSBC’s hash key generators, libraries and such. SSL tick. Root access, no. The server my client was using did not have root access, OR a working cgi-bin (I don’t recommend 1&1) Calamity strikes!
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This is a pretty awesome nifty little utility from those clever fellas at Yahoo! I stumbled upon today.

“The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The 4kb file provides over 1000 page layout combinations.”

Go mental with efficiency, speed and a scary (!) enjoyable factor when creating your next CSS Grid with Yahoo!

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/index.html

Jen Stark
Vibrant colours shine in the drawings of Jen Stark.

Mikmik
Studio Mikmik is graphic/web designer Michael Lewis. Great work!

Volumeone
Check out the latest season of Volumeone. Awesomeness. You should also check out Athletics.

Linzie Hunter
Check out Linzie Hunter’s lettering sketchbook. Awesome!

Forcetwelve
Some great typography & graphic work from Forcetwelve. Via FFF!

Undoboy
Cute graphic goodness and goodies from Undoboy in Portland, Oregon!

Sylvia Heisel
Check out Sylvia Heisel, fashion designer. Sylvia has recently started a blog too here.

Yukister
Liking Yuki’s paintings on timber. Retro chic feel!

Hyperakt
Fabulous design studio from Brooklyn, with love.

Wayne Harris
Great vector illustrations from Wayne Harris.

CommandShift3
It’s Hot or Not, for design.

GraphicalHouse
Multi disciplined design studio GraphicalHouse.

Damien Poulain
Very hot work from Damien, French graphic designer and art director based in London.

Wid Mest
Eric Ellis is design student Wid Mest. Interesting type explorations.

Don’t Panic
“The Don’t Panic Pack is a unique free publication found in carefully selected independent shops, bars, universities and art spaces. At the heart of the pack find the Don’t Panic Poster where a rotation of established and unknown, up and coming artists design around an issue that affects culture across the world.” - Might give this a go!

Django
A little tutorial on installing Django and building a quick web app / blog from this framework. (Geek alert…)

Unimark International
A history of the world’s largest design and marketing firm, 1964-1977.

Onur Can Coban
Slick Flash portfolio of photography/illustration from student Onur Can Coban.

James Dawe
Awesome collage styled illustration from James Dawe.

Anna Haus
Liking the watercolours of illustrator Anna Haus.

Robjoe
Some nice personal illustration/graphic design from Robi Joeleht.

Onlab
Editorial/book/graphic design studio Onlab, co founders of etc publications.

Astrid Feldner
Interactive/graphic design from Astrid Feldner.

Toko
Graphic design studio Toko was est. in Rotterdam and now rocking Sydney, Australia with their fab work.

Rumors
Rumors is a design collective in Brooklyn by Holly Gressley, Renda Morton, and Andy Pressman.

Jonathan Puckley
Some great illustrative graphic work from Jonathan Puckley.

Flexn
Is artist/illustrator/graphic designer Jakob Kanior a.k.a. flexn.

Thierry Le Goues
Perfect moments captured from photographer Theirry Le Goues.

Shaz Madani
London based graphic designer with some nice work.

Andefined
Impressive talented freelance designer and coder Dimitris Papaevagelou.
Damn hot interactive.

Apeloig
Some interesting graphic/typographic experiments at Apeloig.
Check out Vivo in Typo.

Mariano Vivanco
Great editorials from photographer Mariano Vivanco

LOGAN / Metal Gear Solid 4
Check out the intro clips for the video game Metal Gear Solid 4, by LOGAN.

Super8
This is the portfolio of artist/designer Andrew Cross. Cute!

Eat Sleep Work / Play
Design & Art Dir. from Antoine Choussat & Zamir Antonio. Hot!

Guidelines for Online Success
A new book from Rob Ford / Julias Wiedermann. Thanks FFF/R²!

Iowa Interactive
Nice solid interactive and a clear distinct style from Iowa Interactive.

Internet Explorer 7
html>body #center { *float: none; }

Internet Explorer 6
* html div#block { css rules }

Safari
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
/* Safari 3.0 and Opera 9 rules here */
}

Firefox
#hackme, x:-moz-any-link {styles for Firefox 2.0 here}
#hackme, x:-moz-any-link, x:default {restore styles for Firefox 3.0 and newer}

Somtimes you just gotta…

As Tim Gunn says, make it work.

The map pins down nearly 300 of the most successful and influential websites to the greater Tokyo area train map. Different train lines correspond to different web trends such as innovation, news, social networks, and so on.

By the thoughtful fellas at Information Architects.

Apologies for the lack of updates at 1983! I’ve been beavering away at Whitespace to create some pretty interesting work! I’ve recently completed our portfolio www.whitespace.hk, incorporating SEO techniques and usability for Flash (back, forward, bookmarking!). And it’s all managed by XML. Pretty exciting stuff and theres more to come!

Also check out www.kushliving.com, and www.johnferdinand.com some other sites i’ve been working on.