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The Chip Shop Awards are different to most awards out there. It has no rules. It has no regulations. It has no baggage. So if some of your best ideas are yet to see the light of day because they bombed in research, you have not yet won the client concerned, or they haven’t a hope in hell of getting passed the regulators, then the Chip Shops are for you. Check out some great work here

For the past few months we have been traveling back and forth to Oslo to work with Telenor. Here are some images of their offices in Fornebu that i took last week whilst the weather was great. The site used to be the old Oslo airport and the views over the Fjord are stunning…

A blog entirely devoted to the Ampersand!!  

At the weekend I went to see this exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. It features more than 100 posters charting the history of the games and their eras through design, including prints from post-war London 1948, remarkably modern designs from Melbourne 1956 and works by David Hockney and Andy Warhol. Tokyo 1964 and Mexico 1968 are my favourite, but take a look for yourself…

Having seen Iron Man the other night, these old school 3-D wireframe titles were almost as impressive as Jeff Bridges’ bald head and beard combination in the film! Designed by Prologue 

Great ad for Nike Football, shot from a first person perspective by Guy Ritchie 

The Rather Difficult Font Game is quite a challenging test for any designers that think they know their fonts. Telling the difference between Arial and Comic Sans is easy, but when you are trying to make the the distinction between Adobe Caslon Pro and Adobe Garamond Pro, then, you need to know your stuff. Give it a go, and the score to beat is 24…

The Royal Mail have just released the new British Coin Redesign. The new designs have been chosen via an open competition which was widely publicised in the national media in August 2005 and attracted 4,000 entries. The winning designer is 26-year-old Matthew Dent, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London as a graphic designer. The only question now is, ‘Have they aged the Queen too?’

Our new office just happened to be directly under the Red Arrows Flypast this lunchtime. This was organised to mark the 90th anniversary of the RAF and was both loud and impressive! Check out more photos here

Rainbows seem to be everywhere I look at the moment since we launched the new site for Grey. Get yourself some bright, summer tees from American Apparel.