Here’s a new Parra design for Young In Prison, a Dutch charity which aims to help imprisoned kids in developing countries. The T-shirt design and Logo reads ‘Creativity Is Freedom’ in Dutch.

London based artist Will Sweeney and San Francisco’s Matt Furie are collaborating on a series of images of portals, doorways and entrances to new worlds for “The Doorz”, an upcoming show at DreamBagsJaguarShoes evoking the imagery of surreal children’s books, lost animations and hyper real alien landscapes. Private View: 17th August, 2010. 7pm till late.

Here’s a peek into the sketchbook of Letman aka Job Wouters.

The summer edition of Eye magazine focuses entirely on design for music – from the first sleeve graphics by Alex Steinweiss to the performance art of Laurie Anderson. The special issue also features an extensive profile on the work of Big Active and interview with creative director Gerard Saint – discussing the challenges of packaging music for the digital age – and why in his opinion design will always have a compelling role to play in making music visible. Eye #76 is out now.

Here’s Kam Tang’s cover for the August issue of Wallpaper magazine, designed in collaboration with Darren Wall aka Wallzo.

Here’s an interesting new motion test by Siggi Eggertsson.

For his upcoming “Animal Style” show at Giant Robot Gallery, New York, Matt Furie is creating a mix of colourful anthropomorphic characters, monster families, and animal wizards. He promises over 70 new, original pieces of art. The exhibition runs from August 7 until September 1  and will very definitely be worth a visit.

Parra felt very honoured to be asked by Roman/Anthos to create these covers. He read both books a couple of times to get ideas, starting with very complicated sketches but ending up with a characteristic simple solution…

These new covers for Dutch translation versions of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms were designed by Roald Triebels.

A nice new set of images by Siggi Eggertsson to answer a brief from Fader magazine for the Nike Pitch perfect project. 12 animals on 6 posters for 6 mixes by 6 DJs from 6 continents.

The Original Champions of Design recently commissioned Jasper Goodall, to modernise the classic Girl Scouts of America logo, first crafted in the 1970’s by design legend Saul Bass. Jasper provided the finishing touches to the long design and development process lead by OCD and also contributed to by Joe Finocchiaro.
Re-working a well-loved, classic icon is a challenging process, especially when the original was produced by such a respected and influential designer. Subtlety is needed, to refresh and modernise without losing the classic shapes of the original. Push it too far and it loses it’s identity, not far enough and it wont look fresh. One of the problems with the existing icon was that, although just silhouettes, the faces and hair in particular were felt to be very much of the time. It was also felt that the trefoil needed to be more pronounced, less cloud-like and more clover leafed.
The existing profiles felt quite vague, and maybe a little vacant in expression. The challenge was to instill eagerness and happiness into a simple profile. Very little detail could be utilized as the design needed to work scaled down and translate into an embroidered badge too. This was a very subtle process, tiny adjustments of lips, chin shapes and noses.
The ‘hippy’ centre parting was replaced with various options and in the end a swept fringe was settled upon.
Countless minimal but important curve variations were worked through before a satisfactory solution was reached.
At first glance, the resulting icon is very close to the original. It’s instantly recogniseable, still classic and simple, but now with a fresh, modern up to date attitude.