Brilliant

Pleks

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

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Office Pod

If I had a) a big garden and b) a spare £15,000 I could see Bitique broadcasting from an Office Pod. If anyone from Office Pod is a fan of the ‘tique I could be persuaded to accept a freebie!

Check it–

www.officepod.co.uk

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Grafik/Made Thought

The new cover for Grafik – as featured over on Grafikcache this week – reminded me of just how good Grafik was when designed by Made Thought. More examples can be found in the Archive on Made Thought’s site.

Check it–

www.madethought.com

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Paul Rand Inc

Spotted this over at Amass – the blog of designer James Phillips Williams – JP to his friends. Lovely to see the simplicity and beauty of the card. I wonder how it would look if Mr Rand was to design it today with all the added content that goes on a card these days – email address, URL, Skype, Fax etc. I reckon it would still be a belter!

More here–

www.amassblog.com

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Pick of the year

To mark my last post of the year – probably – I’ve put together a compilation of my favourite work featured on Bitique over the last year – in no particular order other than the order in which I found them in my images folder!

From the look of the mega slideshow opposite it looks like it’s been a very good year for graphic design – and here’s to another. Chin chin and a Merry Christmas!

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Kent Lyons

Check out this ridiculously sexy Christmas card by the chaps over at Kent Lyons. Featuring a hand carved 12 pointed Moravian ice star which was allowed to melt as polaroids were taken. The whole 15 hour sequence has also been put together as a stop-frame movie.

I’m not to ashamed to say I would love to get one through Bitique’s letterbox ;)

Check it–

www.kentlyons.com

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Pentagram

Some people say it is following a trend and that it won’t date well but I really like the MAD branding produced by Michael Bierut’s team at Pentagram. They have now just completed work on a MAD ‘Pop-up’ store in New York’s Upper East Side that will be around for the holiday season.

Check it–

www.pentagram.com

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Selgas Cano office

With the topic of offices/studios/workspace being very much in vogue recently – due to the release of Studio Culture from Unit Editions and being the focus of the November issue of Creative Review – it was quite apt that a programmer friend of mine fired over a link to this quite exceptional workspace for Spanish Architects Selgas Cano today.

Check it–

www.beginbeing.blogspot.com

www.selgascano.com

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Qlocktwo

I absolutely love this typographic clock – Qlocktwo – from German designers Biegert & Funk. It is available in 5 colours and 6 languages and even as an iPhone app!

Check it–

www.qlocktwo.com

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Landor Associates

City branding seems to be a hot topic at the moment with the brand for London tender generating publicity even in the mainstream media and also the excellent new branding for the city of Melbourne by Landor Associates. Cheers to Jason for the heads up.

Check it–

www.level11.tumblr.com

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