Some insanely detailed stitching from Peter Crawley has gone into this Wallpaper logo, accumulating a staggering 70 hours of needle-time for the metre-squared piece which involved 12,000 hand-pierced holes and 250m of cotton. It was exhibited as part of the Wallpaper exhibition at Brioni House in Milan.

Finally, all the greeking at university pays off! Spotted this on the Creative Review feed (which part of is paywalled now, wtf!) and it really jumped out. To be fair though I’m a sucker for words I don’t understand and wood panelled floors.

Check out more work by Jotateam here.

While up north last month one of the grads we met was Leeds-based design student Heather Bradley. She showed a suprisingly mature knowledge of type and layout in her branding work, even working with spatial designers to design spaces for the brands she was working on. Nice to see an editorial concept carried out over multiple issues too (and that’s a custom typeface, intriguingly titled squircle).

Little White Lies is one of London design agency and independent publisher The Church of London‘s several titles and the mag from which the agency was born. In this video they show the process of developing the Black Swan issue, one in a long line of beautiful pieces of design (I can’t think of another title with such consistently striking and touchable covers). Looks like a lot of fun too.

There’s too much on Tom’s website to possibly put up on here but it’s safe to say he has a grasp on type and information graphics that has to be seen to be believed. This 2010 Falmouth grad is going places (though Falmouth is lovely), having already interned at Telegramme. Visit his website for much more delicious design…

Some lovely work here on the website of Aussie James Kape – Magazines, posters and all sorts of other stuff.

The album cover. A square of pure expression with, client allowing, no rules and the opportunity to enter into history. Two men that have literally lived the dream and produced some of the most iconic album covers of the last 50 years are Storm Thorgerson and Roger Dean, the darlings of pop and album cover art’s golden age – the 60s and 70s (though they have remained prolific ever since).

Lucky then that they’re doing a talk on the 28th of October in conjunction with our mate Adrian Shaughnessy’s Unit Editions at Logan Hall, London. Tickets are available from www.uniteditions.com priced at £12.50, a snip compared to some of the other conferences and wotnot going on at the moment.

UPDATE: It’s cancelled. Balls.

One of the events we ran last year, a mishmash of students, graduates, industry, music and beer, went by the name of ‘VS’. The promotion for the event (see below) consisted of a poster of which we were very proud. So imagine our surprise when we got an email from Falmouth student Alice Saunders asking to redesign it. The cheek!

Thank god we said yes. We just received the finished piece fresh from Alice’s degree show and have been playing with it for the last hour. Playing up the ‘VS’ aspect of the theme, she has instead made the viewer the superhero, allowing them to don their mask in order to read their tailor-made instructions. In our opinion she’s nailed what we’re about and we’re truly honoured with the effort she’s put in.

Forgive the photography, it was done very early in the morning by a very tired man (not by Alice). We’re going to be holding our next one of these in the next couple of months – eyes peeled mofo’s.

We at ShellsuitZombie don’t usually dabble in the seedy world of politics but a recent opportunity allowed one of our number to design a print and online publication for three of the most read political blogs in the country, Left Foot Forward (in the red corner), ConservativeHome (blue) and Lib Dem Voice (yeller). The result was LITMUS, a collaborative project co-ordinated by the Rebel Alliance, a brilliantly named (and brilliantly brilliant) team aiming to unite fans with the organisations, brands and in this case questions that matter to them.

Eighteen big hitters from across the political spectrum answered six of the toughest questions facing the UK today and the debate was opened through the three blogs as well as everyone’s favourite micro-blogging platform. Print editions are going out to all attendees at the political conferences happening this month but us normos can download the free pdf version from the LITMUS website right here.

Impress your mates, quote Chuka Umunna MP at Oceana next weekend. Dares ya.

OH MORE NEWSPRINT *yawn* BUT WAIT… Protein, one part of a recent delivery by the aforementioned Stack (still bloody brilliant by the way) boasts clean lines and interesting articles. The layout of the print edition of the hulking creative behemoth that is Protein is all thanks to Max over here. Part designer, part illustrator, Max wanders the earth feasting only on raw meat while constantly filling books of scribbles like some cross between the bad guy from Se7en and Forest Gump*. His website is dead tasty too.

Read Protein Journal in it’s entirety here.

*This is a lie, literally never met the guy.

Definitely worth looking at, Lukes site, not only for the quality of work (bloody LOVE the cupboard woodcut) but quality of presentation. A bit of nice photography goes a long long way, and I wouldn’t expect luke to have too much trouble getting through the door of a studio with this bunch of work (unless he’s an arsehole. You’re not an arsehole are you Luke?). He was also partly responsible for the Nottingham Trent 111 identity that we posted a while back.

Ashwin is a London-based designer with a very nice collection of work in his portfolio including this poster called ‘The Bare Essentials’. Often a self-congratulatory ‘design about design’ concept combined with the student classic ‘poster over face’ pose will bring me out in a rash but this piece overcomes that by being really rather pretty with some intricate use of colour (The clock has a red second hand for example). You can buy it an’ all.

Ok, I’ve plugged this on my Facebook and my Twitter, and I’ll more than likely be cracking it on my personal blog too (not that anyway reads that shite), but I just had to post this on here too. In the midst of New Blood and other end of year shows I feel bad for not posting about any students. But this is too good.

It’s like someone has looked inside my mind and picked out my ideal look, feel and way of creating typography. That’s right, it’s all hand rendered. Anyway enough of the arse licking, go watch this video and make yourself feel inferior like I do right now.

Pete Bowen has just come back from four and a half years working for 55DSL, Diesels ace sub-brand – and now has some cracking illustration from that and other projects, showing an occasional dark sense of humour portrayed in a variety of mediums from airbrushing to hand-drawn line work. Do they do this skull one on a Tee? If not why not, it’s pretty damn rad.

Just Us. is probably the best resource about at the moment for promoting up and coming design and illustration students in the UK. There’s far too much talent on display, some of which have been showcased on SSZ. There is also a tasty little shop up on the site to buy loads of goodies, and an alumni section, promoting the best of last years graduates from the collective.

Expect some more projects coming soon, and hopefully another collective exhibition after the success of the job centre themed event at KK outlet last year.