Bleach are are a London studio founded by David Puzey and Matthew Darcy Hunt with a lot of strong branding work for most notably, The Big Chill, Jamie Olivers brands and Spitalfields.

Though my french isn’t as good as it once was, that didn’t stand in the way of enjoying the work on Julie Michel’s folio site. Simple use of colour and bold typography with some nice overlaid text seems to work really well here without getting in the way of the work too much. The use of animated gif/jpgs also do a great job of showing off the complexity of some of the pieces of work Julie has produced.

Thinking for a Living, the brain child of Duane King and has been through a redesign. We must say it’s looking pretty slick. Now focusing more on feature and long form content the redesign reflects this, shifting from presenting a traditional long scrolling page to a landscape mode—after all most of the screens it’ll be read on are probably larger widescreen models. Where the design really comes into it’s own is the keyboard shortcuts which makes navigating the columns of content a pleasurable experience. Quite similar to the shortcuts AisleOne recently incorporated into their redesign, it’s no surprise to see that both AisleOne and Thinking for a Living are part of the same publishing network (TFAL Network). This seems like an interesting move to bring similar content providers together and reminds me of what Gawker Network has done for the tech/videogames/geek community with Gizmodo/Lifehacker/ValleyWag.

What do you guys think of the new design and the more editorial content and magazine like presentation of TFAL?

As it’s been another cold and snowy few days here in the UK, I decided to spend some of Sunday gone, indoors finishing off another yeti. Appropriately named to match his pencil mustache, Sebastian or Seb for short, is extremely furry and warm with his bright green mustache looking very dashing.

The lucky winner of is Jack Osborne.

Congratulation to Jack for winning our HelloMuller signed poster competition. Commiseration’s to everyone else who entered. There’s always next time. So keep checking back for more competitions and features and best of luck for next time.

We’d also like to thank Tom Muller and LongLunch for donating the poster.

Earlier this month, along with some of the folks from FormFiftyFive, we put together our own mix tape for The MixTape Club. With a 10 track listing 10 of the contributors from FFF including myself picked each of the songs. In case you can’t work out which was my pick, it’s the one that’s slightly educational.

Now go have a listen to the FFF MixTape.

Aaron Miller has done a sterling job of creating a really interesting header illustration for this week over at FormFiftyFive. I’ll even go out on a limb and say it’s up there in my top 5 that have been created for the site since we redesigned it last year. For me the best ones have been those that play with the space, change on a daily basis or think of the area as more than just an illustration space.

There’s only today and tomorrow to see it on show at FormFiftyFive so head over if you haven’t already seen it and check out Aaron’s full folio site for some more gems.

I just put this little guy in the post yesterday bound for Scotland. His name is Emmanuel. I think it fits him well.

There’s always a fine line between Art and Design and The Sleeved Blanket for Happiness in Bed is a prime example of where the line is blurred. However when a brilliant idea is well executed it doesn’t matter how you categorise it, it’s still a great piece of work.

The Sleeved Blanket from Andrea Ayala Closa answers that problem many of us have come across of cold arms in bed when read and provides a witty solution that reminiscent of Dom Wilcox’s work. I can already see a whole range of these being made available from Single through to King size.

As I mentioned a couple of posts back, last week I had some time off and took the opportunity to go see the Decode exhibition on show at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

If you’re interested in programming based digital art then you’ll be pleased to see this niche area that has usually be restrictend to being presented online, instead taking centre stage in a broader forum. The show is relatively small but features around 20 or so exhibits from animations to interactive pieces and emmersive interior environments. For anyone who’s no stranger to Processing based art will recognise some popular artists such as Matt Pyke and Daniel Rozin to name but a few.

Like always there’s an album on Vimeo with all the video I shot at the exhbition along with some shots over on my Decode flickr set.