I met Greg Durell last year when I lived in Vancouver. I’ve always been very curious of his work as some bits of his projects appeared on the Internet over the years. When he told me he was working for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, I was even more curious (and a little bit jealous too).

Yesterday he sent me a email telling me his website was finally up with all the projects he did for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. Greg is a very talented and solid designer, take a closer look at his work.

Greg is a graphic design for hire.

The Revolution won’t be set in Garamond – “Slanted #11 – Monospace, Typewriter” comes in revised structure and layout. Projects are confronted with each other, magazine sections overlap. The changes reflect our attitude towards contemporary editorial design in analogue and digital times. This “new order” is a homage to the visual and to design. Orientation, information and sections still have their own right and place within the magazine’s structure, but the changing of perspectives, the relations and associations are definitely not an expression by the medium of information, rather of openness and examination. It’s a concept that doesn’t come under the hegemony of function, a feast of the visual.

With great pleasure we present the work of studio Moiré (Zurich/CH), the photographic essays “Images from the Dark Side” by Martin Miller (Baltimore/USA) and “A Crude World” by Paolo Woods (Paris/FR) as well as contemporary typefaces, illustrations and projects related to monospace and typewriters. Type essays by Alexander Negrelli (Berlin/DE), Rieke Harmsen (Munich/DE) and Horst Wöhrle (Esslingen/DE) examine the aesthetics, history and connotations of typewriter fonts, interviews with Yves Peters (Sint-Denijs-Westrem/BE), Richard Kegler (Buffalo/USA), Georg Seifert (Berlin/DE) as well as a Tokyo report by Ian Lynam (Tokyo/JP) and a musical travelogue by DJ Frank Wiedemann (âme / INNERVISIONS, Berlin/DE) round up the stuff to read.

Great new projects by Oslo based studio HeyDays. Here are some images and explanation by member of the studio.

Anthon B Nilsen
Annual report for Anthon B Nilsen, an over 100 years old company that operates in the fields of property, education and recycling. What a man carry in his pockets can tell a lot about a person, and Anton B Nilsens largest resource is their employees, the individuals behind the scene. Documenting the company from the inside by showing their emplyees belongings, rather than just their faces, we learn to know the company at a personal level. Print finishing includes black foil blocking and mainly recycled paper stocks. Art direction and design in collaboration with Martine Holmsen and Berit Bakkerud at Plastelina. Photography by Mathias Fossum.

Frøystad+Klock
A small identity for furniture designers Frøystad+Klock, inspired by scandinavian design traditions and their clever use of materials. A stripped down minimalistic approach is ensured by focusing on details in the wordmark – like the plus, Ø and O, and the way they stand together. Twelve photos of different materials were teamed up with colored paper to separate the two designers. This also allows flexibility, each element can be shown a number of ways, within the same strict setup.

Westerdals
We were commissioned by Dist Creative to create a small sub-identity for the Westerdals 2010 admission. We saw no reason to change Westerdals profile font, Helvetica, but we did want to create a clearer separation between the different courses. We did this by utilizing only coloured paper, with black ink. The brochure utilizes nothing less than 8 different paper stocks in three different weights. We wanted to make a clear, grid-based work, that didn’t overshadow the creative tasks that the applicants themselves were submitting. The profile was also used on other ranges of media. Photography by Yann Bougaran.

The Frontroom Cambridge is exhibiting Jess Wilson (http://www.jesswilson.co.uk) & Liv Bargman (http://www.livbargman.co.uk)

Their conversations will spread all over the walls, floors, and ceilings throughout the week telling the story of their chin-wags and their time in The Frontroom.

Starting August 20th. More info here

Craft returns to the forefront of creative consciousness this October.

Featuring 14 remarkable individuals, Crafty will explore the artistry and process behind disciplines from design to art, fashion to film and advertising to specialized print techniques.

Held at the Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore), the event is produced by design think tank Anonymous and curated by art director Felix Ng – following the launch of A Design Film Festival in January 2010.

Supplementing the conference will be A Crafty Paper.

The 40pp newsprint paper, will feature a foreword by Thinking For A Living founder Duane King, as well as speaker profiles and a DIY interview (dubbed conversations) with 15 of the most remarkable individuals from around the world. The paper is complimentary for all conference attendees.