Phaidon have relaunched their site with a much stronger empahsis on editorial content. There’s some excellent features on the site, and it is most definitely worth a read.
Eight48, the new magazine for the creative community, have a delicious new site online. This piece of featured work from Eskimo Square for DeadMau5 caught my eye, not least because I was listening to DeadMau5 at the time
“This authoritative and meticulously researched collection charts the story of product design over the past 200 years. It was years in the making and was compiled via rigorous selection process by an international panel of design-world insiders, including architects, critics, curators, product designers, auctioneers, and historians.”
Process Journal is a quarterly released design publication that showcases the very best of Australian and international design. Thomas Williams tells us, “As you turn the pages you will se that we are not a magazine, we are not a book, but like to consider ourselves somewhere in between. We are about capturing beautiful work in a printed publication that takes a step back and allows the design to do the talking”.
Along with Edition One, we have launched a brand new website, that is now live. Our site will include regular updates on Process Journal, plus featuring new design work from from all studios and individuals featured in the publication.
The Design Council has published the first national survey of the UK design industry since 2005. It shows an industry in growth - with numbers of designers increasing by 29% in the past five years despite the recession – but also increasingly fragmented, comprising freelances and micro businesses.
When you’ve read all the fine posts on this here blog, then have a mooch over to Repulp for more fine design bloggery.