Facing Desks

Facing Desks is based in San Francisco and was started by Julie Cloutier and Alexis Petty as a space to support both collaborative and individual investigations.

Julie has been in touch to tell us about a new calendar they have just created. She says about the calendar, “Designed using the least amount of numerics, this twelve month calendar is a typographic exploration of the conventional representation of the days of the week, month, and year”.

Finally, the details: Hand screen-printed in black ink on 100% recycled paper. Limited edition of 50. $35.

Rebecca Manley

You may recall that we posted some bits about the Illustrative 08 event that has just happened. Well, Rebecca Manley got in touch with us to tell us that her work had been both nominated and then won the Illustration category in the international YIA Award. Check out her site to see her work!

Print Design Competition

Fancy a design challenge and the chance to win a grand prize of £1000 worth of swag ? Participate in Optimalprint’s first annual print design contest for professional graphic artists and amateur designers. Enter the contest for a chance to showcase your winning print designs.

This design competition is divided into separate divisions for professionals and amateurs. There will be 1 grand prize winner and up to 100 honourable mentions chosen from each division.

The judges of this event include: Professor Dan Fern, Head of the School of Communications, Royal College of Art, Susan Pandit, Dean of the School of Printing and Publishing, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London and Henrik Müller-Hansen, Chief Executive Officer of Optimalprint.co.uk.

Register yourself as either a professional or amateur for a chance to compete for the following prizes.

Dirty Mouse is changing

That’s right, folks! Dirty Mouse is moving to a brand new home! Due to an increasing amount daily visits (yay!) and server downtime(boo!), we have decided to move lock, stock and barrel to a new site platform with a new skin and comments that work! However, we won’t be able to officially open until next week sometime, so please SIGN UP FOR THE DIRTY MOUSE MAILING LIST HERE, and we’ll let you all know when we’ve taken up our new residence.

Adam Thurland Poster

Adam Thurland sent us a link to this poster he created to celebrate the 50th Birthday of the Univers type family. The poster untilizes Fruitiger’s original design with the phrase ‘Twenty one going on fifty’. Fruitiger had originally created univers using the 21 weights you see in the poster.