Allan Sanders is an illustrator based in the UK. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1999 Allan has created illustrations for clients in Adversiting, Design, Publishing and Editorial. Allan’s style is concerned with simple ‘everyman’ characters as they try to take on the world. sophistication and fun characters.

Thanks Bobby!

Fogelson-Lubliner is the studio name of Gary and Phil, two really great designers that finally got a website up. It had been a long time coming, and shit sure don’t disappoint. Here’s what you can start with: one of a few things for Good, one of a few things for Emeco, & some recent things for The New York Times. I am going to hold off on sharing some compromising anecdotal stories about Gary and Phil, but feel free to share your own in the comments section.

They will be taking part in this year’s NYC Zine Fest in Brooklyn this weekend as The Holster collective. Go check that out for sure. They will be doing a zine-on-demand situation that some AMAZING people contributed to. Not naming names!

Sara De Bondt is a London-based Belgian graphic designer who has been running her studio since 2003. Before that she worked for Foundation 33 and studied graphic design at Sint-Lukas, Brussels (B), Universidad de Bellas Artes, Granada (ES) and Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (NL). She has given workshops/talks at Beckmans college Stockholm, Ecole des Beaux Arts Lyon, Ecole de Recherche Graphique Brussels, deSingel Antwerp, Jan van Eyck Akademie Maastricht and Laus Symposium Barcelona. She teaches at The Royal College of Art and co-curated the The Form of the Book conference at St Bride Libary in January 2009.

Quality stuff from Louise Fili. Via Demetre.

Sister is a mailorder label based in Los Angeles, California. In the two short weeks the site has been up, there have been consistent releases that I’ve been alerted to through a well-tailored email newsletter I voluntarily signed up for. Maybe this has something to do with me going through Open Studios this past weekend, but I suggest you invest in the things Sister is selling. And if you say you don’t have paypal or you don’t like logo parodies then you’re either lying or retarded and you probably don’t have a TV on purpose and end up not understanding all the good jokes with non-creatives & intellectuals and oh god I can’t wait to get out of school sorry harsh this is supposed to be about you not me

Above: 8
Below: 7, 6, & 2

Still Light in Barcelona just opened and sell fashion, books, vintage magazines and more. They also organize occasional exhibitions, next up a show curated by Tony Cederteg with six photographers from Stockholm.

This Friday night is the closing party at the School of Art at Yale for the Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition. The show’s been up all week, and it’s been the most successful show ever, so I heard - not just within the department, or even around Yale, but we are talking ALL of New Haven’s shopping district (so meaning yeah even better than the fashion show put on next to the recently closed Cosi’s that happened the one Saturday afternoon I tried to take a nap). Want to hear what first-year Vance has to say? “visual… lil’ cold… Merrrr. can i do it later?” Want to hear what pre-lim Keri is saying? “its videos so your grubby fingers don’t get all over the books.” & when asked to follow up: “i’m busy.”

The show is up now but is coming down the day after the party. There’s just a little time. Come see it.

DEETS

Yale MFA Graphic Design Show 2009 (the site if off when the show is off, but will be live for the opening and a new thing after it’s down)

Closing Reception: Friday May 15, 2009, 7–10PM

Featuring the work of: Jensen Barnes, Rachel Berger, Yeju Choi, Neil Donnelly, Ian Jamieson, Hyoun Youl Joe, E Roon Kang, Hilla Katki, Tara Kelton, Wolasi Konu, Alexander Moulitsas, James Muspratt, Daniella Spinat, Yasser Suratman, Mary Voorhees, and Ryan Waller.

Yale School of Art
Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall
1156 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520

+ after party + no room on my couch + “Nothing comes between a girl and her G.P.A.”

Sac Magique is an artist from the Great Britain who has been living in Finland for the last 4 years. He uses predominantly gouache and rubber stamp printing techniques to create images which are populated with beasts and animals both real and imagined. Humour is especially important in his work. He finds inspiration in colours, textures, the animal kingdom and idiotic human behaviour.

Apart from creating illustrations, he also hand prints postcards, posters, T-shirts and the odd wedding invite or two.

So we’re all getting older, and we or our girlfriends are pregnant, and then we or they give birth to a naked baby, the baby almost freezes (he or she turns blue) but now they can wear these clothes. Opus makes clothes for babies.

http://www.amagnumopus.com

Apartamento issue 3 is 200 pages including a new section on travel. The art direction is done by Omar Sosa, who co-runs the great Albert Folch Studio. The day-to-day work of the magazine itself is done both by Albert Folch Studio and SM in Milano.

SM have also done the image and idea for Everyday Life Objects Shop for Milano Salone.

Beautiful art store & gallery on Great Jones street in New York.

Read more about it here

The reclusive German designer, Jil Sander, is to make a remarkable fashion comeback, with a mass market, men’s and women’s collection for Uniqlo, the Japanese casualwear brand which has a chain of 765 stores around the world.

The first collection will be available for next autumn/winter and can safely be assumed to sell for a fraction of the price Sander’s designs under her name once commanded…