Visual crack for the ocular fiend – Yimmys Yayo™. A good dose of visual flim flam including some classic and inspiring Monster Movie destruction. Be careful though, some of the content is NSFW.

A little late to be talking about Christmas I know, but hold back the lectures for a second. There’s a good round up of seasonal gifts and mailers on Creative Review including the Christmas by Colour cards from RAW design in Manchester which featured my very own Christmas colour submission, Bucks Fizz as well as a creative Fedrigoni desktop calendar which I hope to get my hands on for the New Year.

I still absolutely adore the work of ISO50. I just spotted an interesting interview with ISO50 over at grain edit.

If you want to get my attention make sure its well printed and send me it in the post. Some of the mailers that arrived on my door matt today are prime examples.

First off a nice little mailer from every designers favourite paper manufacturer GF Smith. I’m always impressed with GF Smith’s simple but attention grabbing mailers like this one, fluro screenprinted on thick brushed steel like stock.

The second example is for House of Propellers gallery in London. A cosy little gallery space directly below the offices of Represent. They’ve got provocative exhibition on at the moment by Clare Shilland. The mailer is foil blocked in gold on some nice thick 300gsm board.

It doesn’t take much but I’m a sucker or anything well printed and finished.

This months copy Wired drop through my letter box recently. The design team at Wired UK have done a sterling job in this months issue, with some beautiful spreads and some nice finishing on the cover with silver foil blocking – not that they don’t do an amazing job of the design every other month.

The p hotograph was snapped with my new favourite app on the iPhone, QuadCamera. Effectively a Lomo camera (one that takes a number of shots all on the same print) but on the connivence of a mobile phone and I’m gonna say it does a grand job too. With plenty of options dictating how many shots are taking and what effects are used (though it looks like there’s a vignette on ever photograph which is taking) it’s an app I’d highly recommend. I’m sure you’ll see plenty of images on here taken using QuadCamera in the future. It’s also worth mentioning the people behind QuadCamera have an online app called QuadAnimator which takes photo’s you’ve taken with the app and then pieces them together to create an animation.

I took the time out to visit Anthony Burrill’s latest exhibition last night at Kemistry gallery. ‘In a New Places’ the title of the exhibition was very fitting, with the work on show moving away from previous iconic typographic pieces that have become synonymous with Burrill’s brand of prints. The bold lines, flat colours and simple geometric shapes are all still present, but there’s clearly a focus on illustration taking influence from nature. The show also showed Burrill’s experimentation with with laser cut perspex in the form of some beautiful wall mounted sculptures.

All in the all the private view was pretty packed, as always at Kemistry, with a small collection card reproductions of prints in the show, being given away (I’m sure I’ll post them later on in the week) along side small postcard books that showed off more of Burril’s work that most of his patrons would be familiar with. There’s also a really bold mural on the wall outside Kemistry, so make sure you don’t miss it.

Wallpaper* magazine were also there last night and have put together a small critique of the site along side production shots of the show as it was hung yesterday. The show runs until and check out the Kemistry website for more information and opening times.

Image lovingly borrowed from Wallpaper*.

Really satisfying spreads from PaperObject using a mix of flat graphic work and origami paper bjects to enhance the shapes and patterns they form to great effect.

An insightful article from Creative Review – Logo Trend Report 2009 discussing the logo trends of the past year and trends going forward, summarised from imminent publishing of LogoLounge Five. This years trends include a stronger focus on green and recycled traits and more adventures hues in usually more corporate organisations and applications. A selection of featured logos are shown above, and evidently bottom left caught my eye.

Just a quick update, as I know it’s been a while. I’ve added a recent motion video project for FormFiftyFive, documenting the making of issue 1 of 6×10. Find out more about 6×10: Making of on my portfolio website, http://www.sansgil.com.

Finally, I’ve been swept up in the whole Twitter malarkey particularly since I last posted. In that same vain, I’ve resurrected my older Tumblr which I think may well be the new Twitter-come-blog. Expect to see this blog transferring to Tumblr very soon.

I Love Typography is an amazing site for anyone who has an addiction to typography, which probably means you’re a graphic designer of sorts. They produce so much great content I find it difficult keeping up and often gets stuck on my ‘list of things to do when I have more time’. One of the best things about their blog is it’s been expertly crafted to demonstrate the love of typography but in a webpage which can inherently by quite restrictive and unpredictable when it comes to typography. So hats off to thier designers/css coders for their efforts.∑

They’ve recently done a feature recapping the best typefaces of 2008 which is definitely worth a butchers at. I’m loving Face Buster—maybe I can use it in some artwork in 2009?