The recently relaunched Grafik magazine just keeps on getting better! The current issue features an in depth profile by Robert Urquhart on our lettering designer Letman and his journey from from graffiti kid to serious designer. Also featured is Big Active’s Mat Maitland and Will Sweeney in conversation with Angharad Lewis. They discuss Mat’s intriguing design references behind Das Pop’s new album, “I was thinking about Cluedo and Russian roulette…”, as well as exploring the story behind Will’s animated video for the album’s title track ‘The Game’. www.grafikmag.com

In addition to a feature on his sketches, It’s Nice That have commissioned Letman to produce a silkscreened print that comes free with all subscriptions of Issue #5 of the magazine. It is available to buy from 17th March or you can subscribe now.

Letman, aka Job Wouters, has won a prestigious Dutch Design Award for a series of 17 posters he designed with Yvo Sprey for Undercover club nights.

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

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The artwork for the cover for The Last King of Scotland is inspired by African (Masai) bead-patterns. For the original drawing (A3 size) I used paint-markers on black paper. The chosen colors reference the flag of Uganda, where the story is situated.

The book is published in July as part of a series called ‘Revolutionary Writing’ from Faber and Faber. Art direction by Eleanor Crow.

Amsterdam based designer, Hansje van Halem, runs a gallery called Schrank8 in a display cabinet in the living room of her flat. Letman’s work was recently on show, as featured on the Creative Review blog.

I designed the book for and with Gijs Frieling, a dutch painter and muralist. The concept of the book was to push its appearance (and particularly the typography) to be as close to Gijs’ work as possible. The result is therefore, in a good way, somewhat confusing; it is not clear where Frieling’s work ends and my work starts, and as a result it has become a book that showcases both our work. I am really pleased with the result, and very proud that it has been selected for ”The Best Dutch Book Designs 2009″, a prestigious annual design event in my native Holland. It was printed by Extrapool, who specialise in a traditional printing technique called mimeography, and published by Valiz. The book is available here.

Here’s a really simple but effective animated alphabet from Letman, a little taste of things to come.