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Severin Furneaux from SampsonMay Design send us a mail to inform us the release of one of their new work. Worth the look…

We have just designed the London College of Fashion Graduation 2008 brochures. They have just been launched at their Royal Academy show and consists of four A3 brochures covering their BA Courses – Fashion Design and Technology (64pp), Fashion Photography (36pp), Fashion Illustration (24pp), and finally a joint Specialist make up design and Styling and Photography brochure (24pp).

Maomao Publications, a Barcelona-based publishing company specialized in design and fashion, Is currently working on a new book title and they need all the help they can get with collecting some statistics about graphic designers today.

You can help them here and maybe win a copy of the book.

Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes.

[ZIP] Download Word Clock Screensaver (Mac Universal Binary)

Beta versioncontaining some bug fixes, but maybe some new ones:
[ZIP] Beta Download (Mac Universal Binary)

(via Simon Heys)

minimalexperimental is a platform for online and offline design exhibitions. They want to encourage designers to be more daring, to experiment more, not to choose the most available solution to any project. They are here to promote graphic designers and to promote experimental design as contemporary form of expression. For the time being they will organize exhibitions in Romania.

Happy Xmas
Front page of an invitation to participate in a photo and type competition sponsored by the Munich section of the German Compositors’ Association, 1932. Jan Tschichold.

This is the last post till 2008. I wish you all a happy Xmas with your familly and friends. See you in 2008 for more swiss and type news!