De Designpolitie is a graphic design agency, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

De Designpolitie belongs to the “Dutch design” family. Its members were brought up in the Dutch design culture and rich tradition of Dutch art, design and tolerance. In keeping with these traditions, De Designpolitie follows simple but ruthless methods. Their working process often ends in a stripped image which is a critical but always communicative solution.

Siggi Eggertsson, my favorite Icelander, is back with a massive update. 25 new projects with clients like Gnarls Barkley, Zune Originals, Mulberry mixed with self-commissioned projects.

Not far deep into the mountains or way above space. ZZZZZZ is within and about - collecting your dreams. Several stages is to be explored, Friendly Giant & Giant Friendly is forever thankful to those who choose to submit their dreams.

The Grid System. The ultimate resource in grid systems. I think this site is something many designers appreciate. Thank you Antonio.

The never stopping artist, Mike Perry (aka Midwestisbest) is back with a brand new site and a new url and tons of new work. Update your bookmarks to Mike Perry Studio.

“Every week I am auctioning the space on my t-shirt to the highest bidder. If you win the auction I will print your design and wear it for a week!”

Check out Christopher West’s eBay Store Front for more information. The graphics on the t-shirt above was made by eBay user schnitzelhopper.

Hyper Island is recruiting new students, check out if you live anywhere near their tour route..
(On the photo above: Digital Media students play with their work created in module “Experience Technology”. More information.)

The Dutch: There’s a cult party for Sandberg Institute’s new magazine: The Collective.

at Mediamatic
Friday, October 24, 9PM
Vijzelstraat 68, exhibition space—ground floor
Amsterdam

Curated by good dude Roel Wouters & Luna Mauer.

“With nofound, I chose to open a space for contemporary photographers to show fragments of their intimate diaries. This isn’t a photo lesson, I wouldn’t dare, just a try to search, universes. That’s why, nofound.”

Not just cute names for genitalia, Dawdle & Gape is also the name for the traveling 2008 Yale Graphic Design MFA Thesis Book show. It just closed in Seoul and is moving on to CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) in Beijing from October 24-30. After that it will travel to 2-3 more places in Europe and the US, through the end of the calendar year.

Hugo & Marie is an imaginative consultancy and talent boutique. We have the pleasure of working amongst and curating extraordinarily talented leaders in any number of creative disciplines. We call ourselves by many names - artists and art directors, illustrators and designers - but we each share the compulsion to speak in the wonderful, nuanced vocabulary of visual media. Hugo & Marie provides the appropriate voices to speak the goals of countless creative endeavors - including our own.

This poster recently got released for the month of October over at If You Could. Each month, they put out two two-color prints by artists and designers and make them available for sale for one month only. (Note the timeline to purchase before the month is out). Previous prints you no longer have the opportunity to own include work by Letman, Andreas Samuelsson, Anthony Burill, Siggi, and Körner Union.

Above: Ryan Waller

Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo are geared up to party and show off. The two spent the last 30 years collecting documentation of the visual history of the American Hardcore Music scene, edited it into 2,000 pages with 8 billion images of zines, tshirts, record covers, and moshpitals, and named it Radio Silence. There’s actually way too much to cover in a small entry such as the kind of blog post we deliver here, but this is a pretty intense collection of things, and there’s some great words to read, as well (including a wonderful entry by Mr. Mark Owens).

You have no choice but to get this book, and I’m debating whether or not I’ll let you sit out these two events:

Friday Night - New York Release Party:
October 3rd, 2008 / 6pm-9pm
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
RSVP: ny_launchrsvp@radiosilencebook.com
DJs Steve Lowenthal and Tony Rettman, with a special performance by Mind Eraser.
powerhousearena.com

Saturday Night - Photo Exhibition:
October 4th, 2008 / 6pm-9pm
Riviera Gallery
103 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (corner of Metropolitain and Wythe)
RSVP: ny_photorsvp@radiosilencebook.com