We were treated to a great night watching clients the Inspiral Carpets in Manchester on Saturday. Great songs and a great crowd made for an overall top night. Cheers guys!

Here is wallpaper No.2, taken from Ice Cube’s recent (and slightly bizarre!) film discussing the Eames residence in LA. If you haven’t seen this it’s worth a look, take at look at the link below (after downloading a wallpaper of course!). Back in two weeks…

Mashup iPhone

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Mashup 1600×1200

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And here is the video: Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

2012 is seeing a few changes, one of which is our fortnightly gallery (formally ‘Wednesday Wall’) evolving into Wednesday Wallpaper (clever eh!).

Every fortnight we will be posting a new unique desktop wallpaper, completely free of charge for you to download and keep. All we ask is if you like it that you tweet it and tells others about it too!

Here is the first one, designed in-house, and called ‘Type Is’, just click your size, right click to download and enjoy!

Type Is 800×600 

Type Is 1024×768

Type Is 1028×1024

Type Is 1600×1200

Type Is 1680×1050

Type Is 2560×1440

We have just launched our new responsive, mobile and tablet friendly website and we are receiving lots of positive interest.

Simply put, responsive design means the website changes depending on the screen size of the device through which it is being viewed. See the screenshots below, or if you are reading this on a desktop PC or Mac try resizing your browser window to watch the site adapt!

Number 15 from designer and illustrator John Ossoway. It’s a piece for an upcoming roleplaying game called Crypts & Things, currently being funded on Indiegogo: http://www.indiegogo.com/Crypts-and-Things

John designed the game logo and contributed to the internal art and maps.

You can find more of John’s splendid artwork at: http://www.ragingtrifle.com/

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Jemma is currently studying for a degree in graphic design at the University of Salford and has come up with this great new ‘Bones’ typeface. I have seen her other creations too and it’s all good. Check out Jemma’s other work, type and thoughts over on her tumblr page : http://jemmadavidge.tumblr.com/  Thanks Jemma.

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A big thanks to Louise Gardner this week for this great illustration conceived on a recent trip to Canada. Here is what Lou has to say:

‘ I produced this piece during a break in Canada, which gave me the space to observe and reflect.  It is the beginning of a series based on connections through our life energy. Unseen, often unnoticed and who’s power is underestimated by many ‘

Lou is part of Design by Day who can be found here!

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After a short break Wednesday Wall is back, this week courtesy of designer/illustrator friend Jules Tagoe with this great R2D2 artwork!

Here is what Jules has to say:

“Star Wars’ R2D2 using simple geometric shapes and Swiss style posters as inspiration. Other influences on this work comes from one of my favourite painters the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.

The 2 white circles in the top left of the picture denote the 2 suns we see on Tattooine in the original 1977 film, while the text relates to R2’s droid type. Also if you look closely the numbers in the image represent a code that contains the year of the release of ‘A New Hope’… 1977.”

Jules has a blog with lots more design/sci-fi goodness which can be reached at:

http://scienceflicktion.tumblr.com

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Some great images from an illustrator friend of mine, Tim Slater. Especially liking the second, a recent t-shirt design as part of the manchester skyline brief.

Find more of Tim’s work on his website

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With the recent departure if Steve Jobs from Apple it seemed timely to highlight a personal design icon of my own who’s work for Braun has had a huge influence on the electronics giant. Often dubbed ‘the Godfather of Apple’ Rams minimal, functional and highly aesthetic approach to industrial design can be seen right through Apple’s product range and shows how often great design is not simply an idea plucked out the air but rather an evolution of ideas moulded into the next great thing. The video however does a far better job of explaining this than me so enjoy!

Want to be on the wall (it’s ok, you don’t need to be an icon of the 20th century!)? Get in touch!

Here are some new cards designed and printed (two colour letterpress) for Steve Pennington of Pennivision. Turned out rather nice!

After the recent riots across the UK (some of which were very close to Islington Mill, the home of Every Last Pixel) we thought it would be good to promote the current I Love MCR campaign.

The campaign aims to show that we are proud of our city and are united against anti-social behaviour. You can follow the campaign on facebook and see more info on visitmanchester.com but I suppose the best way of showing your support though is get out, do some shopping, buy a coffee or go for a drink and support the businesses of Manchester (and Salford!).

A little while ago I was asked to attend a viral video shoot for Converse which featured SPARTAK performing the soundtrack. I took along my camera and here are a couple of shots from the top of the half-pipe looking out into the action. It’s on the wall now as these images were emailed off yesterday as they are being used in some further SPARTAK promotion.

An illustrator next week (if we can get the artwork in time!)…

Want to put your own artwork/design/photography on the wall? Just get in touch.

A bit of architecture this week. This is Batemans Row, the studio and home of London architects Theis and Khan and was recently featured on Channel 4′s ‘The Secret Life Buildings’. The building not only looks striking but when examined nearly all it’s elements (from overall building dimensions to window panes, doors etc) are based on the golden ratio which is said to be the most pleasing proportion to the human eye. I thought both the execution and ideas behind this building were fascinating.

More Wednesday Wall next week, if you want to be featured please just let us know!