England’s footballers will be wearing a new home shirt for their match against Bulgaria on September 3, with graphics designed by Peter Saville. Saville’s contribution is somewhat minimalist. A graphic of multicoloured crosses sits on the shoulders which is, apparently, “evocative of the basting stitches synonymous with bespoke tailoring”.

Like all england shirts theres not much of a difference from the last one in my opinion.

A portfolio well worth a flick through is that of Chris Maclean, a Creative Director over at Interbrand in Sydney. Chris, as well as being the world’s tallest designer, was the instigator of my journey over to Australia when he visited my Preston degree show back in 2008.

Australian Institute Of Company Directors (AICD)

The thought of moving into the world of ‘big brands’ was one that worried me a bit and i was quite hesitant at first, naively thinking that the work wouldn’t be as creative and/or challenging as i would like. But as you can see from some of the work Chris and the studio have been producing, i was very wrong.

Griffin Theatre Company

The team at Interbrand is now easily one of the strongest (and tallest) in Australia, I was lucky and got to work there for 6 months with some amazing designers whose portfolios are also well worth a browse through. Check them out > Christoper Doyle, Andrew Droog, Malin Holmstrom, Elliott Scott & Abi Singmin. Also not forgetting, TDOD’s very own Mike Rigby, who needs to sort himself out an interweb site.

Design For Obama

Just goes to show that, if your ideas are strong enough and you strive to be creative in everything you do, you can always produce good work. Whoever the client.

If you’re just graduating and, for want of a better phrase, shitting yourself a bit about finding work. I couldn’t recommend looking abroad enough.

I graduated from Preston 2 years ago, pretty much to the day, and I’m now a midweight at a small agency called Re, who work out of global advertising big bollocks M&C Saatchi, in Sydney – Australia

Nice neighbourhood

I’m now heavily involved in, amongst other things, a scarily large 4 year re-brand of the entire place, that being the country of Australia itself, the whole bloody shabang. We put together this (Slightly cheesy) video not long back for the launch.

Watch it, and prepare to want to move here. Good weather, good food, good people, lots of jobs, amazing beaches and, if you’re in fear of being home sick, there’s more English designers here than you can shake an ‘insert typically Australian thing here’ at. So look into it, it might just be the best thing you’ve ever done.

If not, at least you’ll leave with a tan and some proof you’re willing to go a long way for the chance to work in design.

Johnson Banks, logo mash-ups some are interestingly good and some are just pretty poor. Found on their thought for the week

A few film posters that have been redesigned for a road show in America. Can’t help but see the huge Saul Bass influence throughout.

Why Not Associates have designed a typographic booklet for issue number 68 of the journal of the international society of typographic designers

This came into our studio sometime last week courtesy of Adam Rix. It’s the first project by Manchester based Various Artists, who have been tasked with the re-launching of 24 Lever Street, which as i’m sure many of you will remember, was damaged by fire a couple of years ago.

The Northern Quarter has a rich history of porn shops, curry cafes, political rallies, market stalls and mojitos. And 24 Lever Street has seen it all. So, rather than produce a typical brochure to showcase the building, they took the opportunity to create something that felt more like a celebration of a moment in time of the building’s rich history. To start with they simplified the brand to 24, and created 8 unique logos that consisted of contrasting numerals, old and new. They then commissioned Tom Van Schelven to shoot 24 portraits of people that live, work or play in the Northern Quarter and put them all in a 24pp newspaper, with 4 different self-coloured jackets.