Friday again… and still cold outside. Time for Friday5, the blog which never asks just five questions. Today we introduce Mike Smithson, freelance graphic designer and head designer for the new Johnny Cash Museum. . ONE: Mike, last year you started your own design studio. What’s the uniqueness behind artyourminddesign? . It seems like a [...]

What’s the biggest thing you’ve ever designed? The layout of your bedroom? A website for a multi-national corporation? The logo for your daughter’s school dance? Well whatever your answer you probably haven’t designed anything as big as Adam Ryder who’s designed a whole world. This is the planet of Areth, a distant and abandoned planet. [...]

If there’s one sartorial statement that I’ve always enjoyed it’s the knotted sweater around the waist. It speaks volumes about the wearer, but unfortunately most sweaters are too bulky for people to wear them around their waists comfortably. This is where Pretty Pink Toes Boutique comes in, they’ve invented  the ‘BootyWrap’. This is a “bulkless” [...]

Everywhere you look these days everyone seems to be miserable, weighed down by their problems. Luckily though the world seems equally full of braniacs and boffins to whom the world is one big Rubik’s cube. But sometimes they get side-tracked, and instead of working on world hunger, the cure for cancer and peas taking over the [...]

A tweet the other day posed the question as to whether Designers should still be called this, or whether they would prefer the more generic Creative title. It’s reminded me of similar debates over the years – computer programmer or software engineer, CEO or MD but I thought it might be interesting  to discuss why [...]

With over ten billion apps downloaded, Apple may rule the roost when it comes to downloadable application software. But if Mobile World Congress 2011 is anything to go by, Android is definitely the cool kid in school, and this kid is growing in popularity all the time. Smartphones running Android outnumber Apple’s iOS by more [...]

Luca Molnar was born in Hungary & studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Hertfordshire University in London. Her clients include Coca Cola, Hugo Boss, Shaun Robinson and the Emmy winner Charlie Jones. Here’s what she had to share with us

Nicolas Moulet is a 26 year old designer from Toulouse, France. So is there alot of planning to your design, or is spontaneously put together? I think that there is little both … Graphic design is more than a way of life, It’s something of all moments… I never stop thinking about, and when something [...]

The atomic ghost is Rafael Castilho Monteiro, graphic arts technician graduate from senai joao martins coube, bauru/sp, Brazil. Are you really a ghost?Not really. (laughs) Im Rafael Castilho Monteiro, Brazillian graphic designer. (Nice to meet you!) My inspiration seems to come only after six o clock in the afternoon, so like all the ghosts I [...]

RicardoFX is a digital photo manipulator from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. When did you first get interested in design? What was your first piece of design work?hello and thank you for the opportunity for this interview. Well, actually I am a manager in a jewelry store and one time I needed a promotional poster for [...]