For our Summer 2012 collection, we worked with British illustrator Adrian Johnson. We met up with Adrian at his studio in Lewes.
Over the years, Liverpool born Adrian Johnson has developed a unique and strongly identifiable body of work. His trademark economical, highly crafted, graphic work is constantly evolving, whilst always maintaining a healthy distance from current trends and passing fashions. Adrian's work has already led to a prolific working career and a client list which includes Paul Smith, Adidas, Monocle, The New York Times and Unicef. He also has exhibited work in London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Attention to detail, humor and a simple timeless sophistication mark him out as one of the leading illustrators currently practicing.

Massimo Vignelli (born 1931 in Milan, Italy) is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage to showroom design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife, Lella.He has said, "If you can design one thing, you can design everything," and this is reflected in his broad range of work. Vignelli works firmly within the Modernist tradition, and focuses on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms in all of his work.

Listen to the design genius talk about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture in our latest Gestalten.tv video and you will easily realize why. Before heading to new visionary pastures, the bike enthusiast will make a short stop to receive the German Design Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 in February.

A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk

Saul shared a little advice for design students in this video.

‘Ink’ is a short film shot at Balaji Lithographers who produce a large amount of these posters. The video was made in collaboration with artist Smriti Mehra for the City One Minutes foundation and Holland Doc 24/ VPRO. From 25 May – 19 September 2011 this film is a part of ‘Paris-Delhi-Bombay’; an exhibition of French and Indian contemporary art at Centre Pompidou, Paris.”

Luke Prowse in conversation about working with Neville Brody on The Times redesign his work for Helvetica 50 for The Design Museum and cover work for Computer Arts.

German Design studio Paperlux created this beautiful design and a unique deformable cover for Novum magazine. An awesome elaborate print job that you can discover on the making-of video showing the production process for this November Novum cover.

As part of Glug October, a panel of Intro‘s Creative Partners talked about the history of the company, how design, moving image & the digital domain has transformed over the past quarter century, how Intro have tackled some of their most notable campaigns and what they believe the future holds for brands and creatives.

Made By Hand just released their second short about a Brooklyn based writer turned knife maker. Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art.