Sweet new tee pattern from Threadless titled, Yes or No?

Back in August I had the pleasure of doing some work for o street, an agency based in a beautiful area on the edge of Glasgow’s West End— I had some of the best sandwiches in ages whilst there. It was a great environment to work in with a really small team of people, which made me feel like I made a real impression on both those around me and on the clients brief. One of the best things about it was their open and spacious apartment studio which I managed to take some snaps of before leaving. If that’s not enough for you there’s some more over at this flickr set showing off more of their studio and they’re peseta resistance, table tennis table that’s the focal point of the studio.

Whilst on the subject, I’ll be posting up some of the work I did whilst at o street on my site over the next week, hopefully.

Cravendale settles the age old office dilemma of Who’s turn is it to make the tea? Settle it by going over to www,makethetea.com. Simple and slightly more effort than just rolling a dice but still I like it a lot.

I’m sure a you might of noticed a couple of problems/accidental postings to my blog (especially if you’re viewing it via the RSS feed). Hopefully this is now sorted. It’s all part of a new plugin to show you what I’ve been posting to FormFiftyFive.com – another blog I write for – and testing out some new themes which I hope to go live in the next couple of weeks.

Bare with me and hopefully it’s all sorted for now.

Today’s been an interesting one and apart from being flattered and asked to submit some more work for a feature on another website I got a little surprise when browsing through the YCN blog today.

The latest copy of our annual publication has been sent off to the printers. The production this time has been a massive team effort, and a big thank you to all those involved – not least all those who took the time to make a tree to be planted in the World of YCN. The book will be available online from the middle of next month.

Although I can hardly contain myself at that news, more importantly some of the knitted tree’s that I submitted for the book look like they made it onto the image they’re using on the blog. Can’t wait to see how they got used in the book. In case you can’t see them amongst all the others, I’ve been extremely vain and highlighted them very subtly below. Oh and a couple of shots in the production process (at my former messy desk in Edinburgh) before they were posted off.

Whilst having a browse this weekend I stumbled across this image (above) which immediately appealed to my childish side. I found this image on a website called Oh Baby London a baby clothing store based on Brick Lane, London. Though baby clothing isn’t something I look out for or frequent regularly, the Oh Baby London have done a really good job at getting a well designed website that suits the type of store and ethic they’re going for. Some funny clothing for children then (according to their blog) looks like it’s all screenprinted on site which really appealed that craft/artisan/printer in me.

Who doesn’t like rabbits ah!

I think a lot of designers have a soft spot or even a fetish for a good pair of sneakers, myself included. I stumbled across this great article over at CR Blog, which I just finished posting on FormFiftyFive.com. An interview with the author of, Art and Sole, a new book on the growing of collaborations between artists and sports shoe brands such as Nike’s recent Art of Football sessions.

Even if you’re not to bothered about reading the article, have a drool over some of the sneakers featured. I need some new ones soon, maybe it’s time to invest.

[Via Creative Review]

I got sent a promo video for Edinburgh College of Art’s up and coming exhibition Open Here. Though the video isn’t mind blowing and never quite seems to get going it did bring back a bit of nostalgia for me, especially the bits I’m in. No wait, I’m barfing at that shameless self promotion. Unfortunately I’m not gonna make it to the exhibition but there’s some of the work on the Open Here site which I can only presume was designed by Curious Group in Glasgow who redid their existing academic website and their award winning prospectus, which is leaps and bounds above eca’s previous efforts — one thing that’s always perplexed me about art institutions, just how bad they can be at communication and design internally. This may have just been the case for eca but at least their adoption of Curious Group for their branding is a step in the right direction.

The exhibition is on 4-12th October at eca, Edinburgh. It’s worth going just to see the print workshop alone.

A couple of really cool covers this week.