In order of appearance:

Hours of Light 2010
Design Accept & Proceed
Available to buy Here

“The artworks depict the hours of light and dark in the UK; this year (2010) they also depict the astronomical twilight, so the fade that you see is the rate at which the earth lightens up through the sunrise/set. The base is printed photographically to achieve the smoothest gradient possible, onto a very high-gloss metallic Fuji-flex stock, this is then screenprinted with a matte frosted ink followed by a retroreflective ‘road-sign-ink’.”

Type Trumps 2
Design Face 37
Available to buy Here

“After the hugely successful Type Trumps comes the much awaited sequel — Type Trumps 2 — 30 new designs showing different typefaces being assigned numerical values. Type Trumps, a play on Top Trumps, uses figures to enable the cards to be won or lost using some of the tried and tested ‘Top Trumps’ rules. The Type Trumps have a ‘ranking’, which is a subjectively ascribed positional value based on my personal favourites.”

Radius ’10
Design SampsonMay
Available to buy Here

“All of our calendars are A1 size Giclee Prints. For those unfamiliar with Giclee printing, the end quality is excellent, producing museum quality fine art prints.”

It’s that time of year again, and as expected I get the usual promotional emails in the guise of “how are you, I love the site, could you possibly do me a favour?…” ;) As I’m in a giving holiday mood, I thought I’d give the chaps who wrote in an equal amount of space to promote their self-initiated projects. So without further ado, here are a selection of gift ideas to spoil yourself or others with… ;)