The original paste up of this brilliant book that has inspired so many graphic designers. Watching Words Move was originally produced in 1959 as a handmade typographic notebook of pasted-up words and done in one day in the Composing Room in New York. Imagine how many days a book like this would take to design now! View the new website of Brownjohn’s iconic work here.

I work in an art department with some brilliant designers. These feature openers are designed by Jason Sfetko (1-3), Frank Augugliaro (4-6), Ben Grandgenett (7-9) and Chloe Scheffe (10-12)

Design Director: Gail Bichler / Art Director: Matt Willey / Deputy Art Director: Jason Sfetko

I love this recent moving / Christmas card by Garbett Design for Sydney printing company Digital Press. The story goes that the client asked for a moving card and designer Paul Garbett realised that the time of year presented an opportunity to combine that brief with the need for a company Christmas card. A beautifully simple idea, perfectly executed.

Argos is a British retail institution. So updating their brand is a big deal. As well as developing the new Argos voice, alongside The Partners, Reed Words have written packaging copy for four own-label ranges. Simple Value is just that: the simplest products, at great value. Our copy style celebrates the simplicity, and adds a twist. And once we’d written about 50 pack lines, the Argos team have been able to follow our guidelines and complete the full range of around 140.

To advertise an offbeat collection of flip flops from Ipanema in collaboration with Starck, GBH created a campaign that uses the language of fashion photography to create surreal mashups of beach objects and legs. The result is a set of memorable and eccentric images that say beach-wear without the usual cliches. Particularly love the sun hat – perfect.

Transport for London have launched a new poster project that celebrates the 100th anniversary of Edward Johnston’s iconic typeface for the London Underground. Some lovely designs from the likes of Alan Kitching, Magpie Studio, SEA and The Beautiful Meme show just how relevant the 100 year old typeface still is today.

Shakespeare Lives is an international programme of events to celebrate Shakespeare’s life and work, on the 400th anniversary of his death. The ‘Shakespeare Lives’, logo is activated with the word ’in’ to create a flexible system to communicate the myriad of places where Shakespeare still ‘lives’ today. Typography is anchored to the name in a series of blocks that are a homage to the historical print process of hot metal typesetting that typified the posters and programmes of Shakespearian times.

Natsuki is a new Japanese restaurant based in Madrid designed by Philippe Starck. Erretres have designed the identity bringing together the traditional elements of Japanese life in a very modern way. It is inspired by the phases of the moon (Suki meaning ‘moon’), and traditional Kamons (Japanese family emblems). These new Kamons were then infused with neon light colors and the Kawaii culture of Japan. The result is beautiful, fun, fresh and sophisticated. A really lovely project.