Type designers Fontsmith have published a limited edition of 10 booklets to commemorate 10 years since their first typeface release.

Each booklet is a short story written by one of the type designers, providing an insight into the creative process of typeface design.

Read more information all about the project here at the fontsmith blog.

Josh Cunliffe is studying Press & Editorial Photography at University College Falmouth.

He’s also a mad legend.

Check out his site here.

Follow his shiny new tumblr here.

Sound advice from the Duchess in this 1956 edition of ‘The American Home’…

To celebrate it’s ten year anniversairy, Polish design agency mamastudio had a 24hour event aptly titled ‘DayNight’. This was the invitation that they sent out. Great use of contrasting letterpress printing against the photograph, and a simple but effective touch in rotating the image around.

See more images of the campaign and work here.

Designers United put together the ‘5 Seasons of Russian Avant Garde’ exhibition catalogue for the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.

Take a look at some more of the spreads as well as the rest of their portfolio here.

Design student Sergey Grigoryan has been receiving some buzz around his Vitale Dog Food packaging designs.

His minimalist packaging and animals closeup with a wide-angle lens is a winning combination.

Check out more shots of the packaging here.

OASE Journal of Architecture - Issue 68 - Cover design Karel Martens.

Find an entire digital archive of the journal here.

Tommy Perez designed this entire set of complementary items for the leavers Prom for the school his wife teaches at. Designed around the theme ‘Flying First Class’ tickets were designed like airline boarding passes, with t-shirts and paper airplanes to help with promotion for the event.

Check out the whole set of photos here.

The Smithsonian National Postage Museum have an amazing collection of Beer Stamps.

From 1866 to 1955, every keg of beer leaving an American brewery was required by Internal Revenue Law to include a Federal beer stamp pasted over the keg’s bung. Generally, beer stamps tend to be very scarce, as they were legally required to be destroyed at the time the keg was tapped, making this book a valuable historical record of an important aspect of brewing history.

Check out the series here.

London ‘ideas’ agency Hat Trick have just published their book ‘In Brief’ chronicling past projects in a volume limited to 1000 copies.

During my time in Falmouth we had Jim Sutherland (founder) make it down for some fantastic lectures.

Check out the book here.
Check out the company’s work here.

Title Scream is a brilliantly curated collection of title screens and typography used accross popular retro 8 bit and 16 bit videogames.

Enjoy the series here.

Designer Felix Sockwell shared a fascinating rundown of some rejected icon designs for the Apple iTunes logo.

Take a look at the sketches and mockups here.

Kern Type, the kerning game made it’s way around the internet a week or so ago. If you didn’t see it yet be sure to have a go here.

This pack of Space Invaders playing cards is impeccably and faithfully designed to the video game that inspired it. Be sure to check out the packaging as well (pictured below).

Designed by russian design house Art. Lebedev Studio.