Very elegant branding, typography and layout from B&W Studio up in Leeds. The minimal application of colour and styling make for very strong, effective pieces of communication. They cleaned up at this years Roses design awards and will no doubt go from strength to strength next year.

Found these lovely posters for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on ffffound.com today. The original work can be found here on the Pentagram site. Designed by Harry Pearce and Jason Ching the posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment.

Now this has obviously been staring me in the face for years but i’ve never picked up on it. Can you make words out of the Mac dock icons, well yes you can!

Originally started by Art Director Mike Giepert it has took on a life of it’s own. I first came accross it at thenextweb.

Mr Worthington is a multi talented graphic designer with a sharp eye for detail and layout who I have known for years. He’s decided this year to venture into the wold of freelance, so if you’re looking for a good designer/art director to work on any projects you need look no further. His expanding portfolio site is dworthington.co.uk.

Gorgeous hand crafted solid oak drawers from kentandlondon.com inspired by vintage wood block letters. Simply beautiful!

Type Battle 37 – Food Font! The challenge over at Typophile.com is craft the name of any food out of the food itself. Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.

Why not give it a go and upload the fruits of your labours.

Stefan Sagmeister gives a very inspiring talk on why design can make you happy. From one of the TED series of lectures you can access from TED or their Google channel.

Stefan Sagmeister

Simply beautiful Transport for London posters for the 2012 Olympic Games. I don’t think that there is going to be as much controversy over these as there is over the Wolff Olins logo.

Some more information at ministryoftype and by the originator himself Alan Clarke

Whilst doing some brand identity research recently I delved into my book collection and trawled through the traditional avenues, books that most designers will be familiar with including the Los Logos series. I then set about trawling the internet and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of sites dedicated to art of logo/identity design.

I know I have only scratched the surface with this but those that are worth a mention are Logo of the Day, Lo8os, Logolog and Logo Design Love.

As usual with these online collections some examples are good but lot’s are pretty average!

When your going through this website you quickly come to the conclusion that this is a simply genius solution to what was potentially a difficult and demanding creative brief. Great short simple copy alongside superb and frustrating interaction make this an annoyingly good site. Try Drugs now!