Pantone today unveiled the Fashion Color Report Fall 2012 in conjunction with New York Fashion Week.

The report features the top 10 colors for women’s and men’s fashion for fall, along with designer sketches, quotes and headshots.

Venice-based visual effects studio The Mission launched a high-powered all-CG :30 spec spot, created for MINI, executed completely in-house.

The kinetic spot features a high-octane race between two sleek MINI sports cars on a futuristic raised highway.

Radio send us an email from Cape town with news of a big portfolio update. The illustration studio places emphasis on maintaining high levels of craft across all their work specializing in illustration, design, type and iconography.

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Busy digital agency requires freelance digital designer with 2+ years agency experience to work full time for a month (maybe longer) from our Edinburgh office and help our busy team with growing client demands.

You’ll have demonstrable experience of producing brilliant digital artwork. You’ll also need to be able to demonstrate an ability to work to deadlines and brand guidelines without compromising attention to detail.

Experience of Adobe CS5 essential – especially Fireworks and Photoshop. Experience of Adobe After Effects would be a big plus.

CV and pdf sample of work / website to info@wyoming-interactive.com

There is real potential for this job to turn into a full time permanent position for the right candidate.

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Account Manager

Whippet is a small but perfectly formed boutique agency, consistently punching above our weight. We work with a range of exciting brands from high street to boutique and are equally passionate about all of them. We’re looking to fill a new role of Account Manager due to steady growth over the last year.

What we’re looking for:
- Amazing people skills
- Experience of client liaison to build good working relationships
- Organisation skills with good attention to detail
- Experience of taking briefs from clients and liaising with creatives to schedule projects
- Experience of supplying and negotiating costs
- Project management experience
- Experience of the design/retail industry a huge advantage

What you’ll get:
- A variety of exciting projects on high street and boutique clients
- The satisfaction of taking work from brief to completion
- Working with a friendly, supportive and passionate team
- A chance to develop your skills and experience
- Working in a great location near a park and a great pub
- Free Ribena

Please email a CV, covering letter and salary expectations to interviewme@whippet.co.uk

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If you’re in London this coming Monday (13th February 2012) and looking for inspiration LAVA will be speak at The Design Museum for Long Lunch’s next event.

Tickets cost £15 / £7.50 members and are available to purchase through LongLunch and The Design Museum. As always Long Lunch through collaborations with the speaker, printer and paper partners have done a great job of producing a stunning poster which you can pick up for free on the night.

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We’re searching for an amazing artworker to join our True North team.

We’re looking for someone with an eye for detail, who’s both organised and creative, and has a technical mind to boot.

We’re not looking for a frustrated designer…
The ideal candidate must work well as part of a busy studio team, perform under pressure and take a central role in managing work through the studio in order to meet client deadlines.

All applicants need to be able to use the usual software.

If you think you’re up for this fantastic full-time opportunity, please send your CV including a cover letter and salary expectations to Tree Tabernor at tt@thisistruenorth.co.uk

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How does a spooky old house on an off-beaten street in Düsseldorf/Germany become a treasured address among a loyal group of european creatives who talk about it in an excited secretive tone normally reserved for the biggest names in New York and Paris?

It could have something to do with the cosy atmosphere: walk into one of our lofts on any given afternoon and you are likely to find it packed with more than 50 visibly happy artists and producers in various states of creativity, joy and friendly madness.
Since 2003 Parasol is producing nationally and internationally awarded film animation and digital projects for an exclusive portfolio of clients. As creative digital production we offer all kinds of solutions for the communication in the digital age. “All under one roof.”

We are looking for…

Senior Web Developer

You are at home when it comes to HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but you also fancy backend technologies occasionally such as PHP and MySQL. You also have a significant understanding of how to develop solid interfaces. You can build fast prototypes and thought-through applications and websites and you know how jQuery, Less/Sass, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js and HTML5Boilerplate can help make your work easier by finding the right Frameworks and Tools.
You are motivated, ready for new challenges and follow critical new developments in your branch of career. You don’t see yourself only as a „technologist“ but also as somebody with a feeling of aesthetics and quality and who enjoys closely working together with designers when it come to developing applications and websites. You’ll continue to surprise all the way through the work process, from finding the idea until actually producing it with creative solutions and thinking. As a member of an ambitious team you enjoy sharing experiences and thoughts to help everybody develop continuously. You are reliable and communicate understandably with colleagues, clients and business partners.

Is this you?

Information-technology related apprenticeship or university degree
Minimum of 2 years of practical experience
Knowledge of PHP/MySQL is a bonus
Quick thinker
Willingness to learn
Great in English

Please send your application with references and/or work examples (links, pdf, etc.) and maybe a description of former projects plus your motivation for his job to: hr@parasol-island.com
www.parasol-island.com
blog.parasol-island.com
or watch out the interview with our team member magomed dovjenko here on FormFiftyFive!

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How does a spooky old house on an off-beaten street in Düsseldorf/Germany become a treasured address among a loyal group of european creatives who talk about it in an excited secretive tone normally reserved for the biggest names in New York and Paris?

It could have something to do with the cosy atmosphere: walk into one of our lofts on any given afternoon and you are likely to find it packed with more than 50 visibly happy artists and producers in various states of creativity, joy and friendly madness.
Since 2003 Parasol is producing nationally and internationally awarded film animation and digital projects for an exclusive portfolio of clients. As creative digital production we offer all kinds of solutions for the communication in the digital age. “All under one roof.”

We are looking for:
Senior Interface Designer
At the intersection between humans and machines.

As a Senior Interface Designer you are working creatively as well as conceptually. You create highly aesthetic and user-optimized websites collaborating closely with our web developers, producers and creatives. You fully understand the customers and clients needs and are able to realise their wishes with a reliable sense of style and present the results convincingly. Of course you are capable to estimate the technical feasibility of web projects and lead active communication with your team members. Although you have a unique personal style, it comes naturally to you to realise different styles according to brief. You posses a keen sense of current trends and technologies and are not afraid to speak your mind and lead your team.

Is this you?

Fluent in German and English
Talent, Curiosity, assured sense of style
Perfect Knowledge of popular design tools
Minimum of 4 Year working experience in a matchable invironment with focus on interactive projects

Please send your application including references (link/PDF), description of former projects, salary expactation and statement of purpose to: hr@parasol-island.com
www.parasol-island.com
blog.parasol-island.com
or watch out the interview with our team member Magomed Dovjenko here on FormFiftyFive

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Junior Designer
Sherry is a creative design agency based in the Old Street area of EC1. Visual communication and brand development is what we do both on and offline. We pride ourselves on our creativity and our ability to always find the answer. To keep things interesting we work for lots of different clients from many different sectors music, sport, science, transport, live events and entertainment are just some. We’re looking for a talented designer with a genuine love for all things creative. You’ll need to be full of ideas, highly motivated with excellent attention to detail and want to work as part of a team. You’ll want to work in a studio with room to grow.

You’ll also need:
to be brimming with ideas and creativity,
to manage your time and steer projects within tight deadlines,
to assist in all areas of keeping the the studio running smoothly,
an awareness of design trends and digital innovations,
an understanding of flash and XHTML would be preferable.
If this is you then send your CV and work examples to ellie@sherrydesign.co.uk The salary for this position is 18K per annum.

Find out more about us and our work at sherrydesign.co.uk

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We’re looking to expand our pool of freelancers.

If you’re a Designer, Artworker or Copywriter, have a lovely portfolio, good experience, great attitude, and are based in the north, please get in touch.

Please email Richard Bibby: richard.bibby@propaganda.co.uk

www.propaganda.co.uk

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Sherry is a creative design agency based in the Old Street area of EC1. Visual communication and brand development is what we do both on and offline. We pride ourselves on our creativity and our ability to always find the answer. To keep things interesting we work for lots of different clients from many different sectors music, sport, science, transport, live events and entertainment are just some. We’re looking for a talented designer with a genuine love for all things creative. You’ll need to be full of ideas, highly motivated with excellent attention to detail and want to work as part of a team. You’ll want to work in a studio with room to grow.

You’ll also need:

- to be brimming with ideas and creativity,
– to manage your time and steer projects within tight deadlines,
– to assist in all areas of keeping the the studio running smoothly,
– an awareness of design trends and digital innovations,
– an understanding of flash and XHTML would be preferable.

If this is you then send your CV and work examples to ellie@sherrydesign.co.uk

The salary for this position is 18K per annum. Find out more about us and our work at sherrydesign.co.uk

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IdN Video v18n6: Best of 2011

The joy of conferences? I love to share about what I do, but I gotta say from a more selfish perspective its getting to meet all of the other speakers. Its very inspiring to meet so many creative people.

OFFSET retuns to the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin on 09-11MAR 2012! 3 days of creativity, a lifetime of inspiration! Featuring speakers including: Antoine et Manuel (France), Friends With You (USA), Matt Clark @ United Visual Artists (UK), Rinzen (Australia), Shepard Fairey / OBEY (USA), Stefan Sagmeister (Austria) and many more!

“Matt Willey is one of the most talented and versatile creatives working in the business today. He gives 125 percent to whatever project he is involved with and it shows. I speak from experience as he was an integral part of our re-design team for The New York Times Magazine.”

With a snug fit that appeals to anyone who prefers a tighter, edited profile for their watch, broadening Nooka’s audience to include a younger individual of either gender. Framed under a facetted gem-cut lens, the watch’s innovative face clearly displays the minute, surrounded by a circle with twelve partitions representing the hour—presenting a compact and intuitive way to read the time.

The joy of conferences? Getting to reveal all the dodgy little secrets about how we make our work. We pointed out bits of sticky tape holding parts of things we photographed together, all the little bits and pieces that are considered mistakes, but which we think makes the work look great.

“I would characterise my work as an intervention into the mass-produced image, disrupting it through embroidery. I had tried it before with painting, but never really got anything interesting from it, so having a lot of thread lying around, I thought it would be interesting to try that instead.

Courtesy of MagSpreads, Bracket Vol. 03 surveys 16 individuals on the future of education and its’ impact on creativity. “Sometimes the argument in education seems to go against free will and creative spirit, but increasingly it’s the fact that education has become a business and a production line that destroys the innate power of education and it’s ability for change. The students that demonstrate on the streets of London on behalf of education act like dissatisfied customers, for that is what they have become.” Excerpt of foreword by Robert Urquhart. Bracket is published by Anonymous, and designed by SILNT.