Sad news – for those of us who like a bit of daily design goodness in our diets – GrafikCache is no more. I emailed David to check on the situation and it appears that the very high standards he has set himself through his quality posts – and the dedication that requires – were proving difficult to keep, alongside a busy schedule actually doing design rather than just blogging about it.

GC was one of the very best design blogs out there, often being the first with new work from the well known studios and designers as well as introducing new and exciting work that was always from the top drawer.

Hopefully we will see David and the GC return in the not too distant future.

If you like your art direction for the fashion and luxury markets of the very highest order then BrittonBritton will certainly tickle your fancy.

Founded in 1991 by married couple Christina Sollenberg Britton and Claes Britton, BrittonBritton work with a wide variety of Swedish and international brands in two specific fields. The first is fashion, design, art, lifestyle and luxury and the second is international branding, imaging and communication for Stockholm and Sweden, official as well as unofficial.

Check it–

www.brittonbritton.com

The latest project from London studio Rosie Lees is a nice playful effort for Millfields Community School.

On one stairwell Rosie Lees installed a giant scale dot-to-dot wall with thousands of dots, using round erasers on pencils dipped in paint and a numbered stamp to number every single dot! Children were asked to create images from basic geometric shapes and the best ones to accompanied a poem on the on the second stairwell.

Check it–

www.rosielees.co.uk

Swedish studio Lundgren+Lindqvist have updated with a handful of new projects including this very beautiful stationery set that they have rather selfishly kept for themselves!

Check it–

www.lundgrenlindqvist.se

Proper good.

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www.robschellenberg.com

Cracking stuff from StudioAnti aka former Meta Design and Wolff Olins designer Willem Stratmann.

Check it–

www.studioanti.com

Lovely stuff from Matthew Smith – a designer working at Tonic in London – with promises of more new work to come.

Check it–

www.matthewsmithdesign.co.uk

Lovely photography from French still life photographer Gregoire Vieille including this series of shots produced with designer Pierre Hourquet for an Amusement magazine feature about vintage video game consoles.

Check it–

www.gregoirevieille.com

Former Frost and War creative – now there’s a CV – Clinton Duncan will be getting up on stage to do a talk for the Art Director’s Club Young Guns at Sydney’s Apple Store.

For more info–

www.facebook.com

http://www.clintonduncan.com

What a joy it is to be introduced to a studio or designer whose work blows you away and instantly gets filed away in your mind under ‘A’ for ace!

Thanks to our good Michael over at Make I have just sampled the delights of Copenhagen’s Pleks and their stunning portfolio of work including this cracking piece of brand/type for The Danish Centre of Design Research. Proper, proper good.

Check it–

www.pleks.dk