We Are The Friction is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators. With contributors including Frank Chimero, Pietari Posti and Micah Lidberg (amongst others!) this is a really great publication.

Elephant is a new Art, design & culture magazine from Marc Valli of Magma with Design and Art Direction from Studio8. See some more shorts of the spreads here.

Arietta – a typeface designed by Abi Huynh ‘for short subject and non-fiction books’ – is presented expertly in this extensive specimen book (pictured and here). I cannot wait for – and please excuse the unintentional alliteration – this fantastically functional font to be released.

Dan Tobin Smith’s Letter series is a triumph of augmentation and accumulation.

Neuland - The Future of German Graphic Design by twopoints looks to be a great inspiration. “This up-and-coming generation is breaking free of cultural and geographical limitations and working within an international context”. Nicely designed!

I am in awe of this poster by Mig Reyes, the custom logo and his use of colour is astounding. Look at that layout too, Swiss, and absolutely perfect.

The surreal lighting, bleached tones and dramatic landscapes make Ryan McGinley’s latest project otherworldly, superb. On show later this month at Alison Jacques Gallery, London.

jokke-svin.dk have put up this amazing post on the process behind producing this movie poster.

Chrissie Macdonald’s extensive body of work sees the ingenious fusing of four distinct disciplines– sculpture, photography, illustration and installation.

Once again I am seduced by the surreal, this time in the form of works by Nigel Evan Dennis.

Excuse my french, but I’m not sure if this is a studio or single designer or whatever, but that irrelevant. Just a portfolio full of great, slick work.

One of many great posters in Remo Caminada’s portfolio. Well worth a look.

Romain got in touch to show his portfolio, packed full of playful shapes and colour. Nice stuff from the Lyon based designer.

Delightfully vivid and somewhat surreal photo-illustrations from Bryan Dalton.

Unit Editions, a publishing venture from Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy, has a new site that showcases their beautifully-crafted first-release ‘Studio Culture: The Secret Life of Graphic Design’ that is available to pre-order now.

Deliciously retrospective, Hollis Brown Thornton’s ‘VHS Heroes’ and ‘VHS’.

I find this stationery for the photographer Franziska Scheidegger – that uses a punched hole as an identity rather than a logo – along with the majority of the work on Jonas Wandeler’s site, extremely resourceful and undeniably alluring.

Belfast-born Claire Morgan’s incredibly complex sculptures (referring to both their physical and conceptual form) take the shape of inexplicably beautiful dioramas fashioned from taxidermied animals and huge numbers of collected natural objects. Absolutely breathtaking to behold.

Wonderfully atmospheric photography from Finland’s Ville Varumo.

The sometimes psychedelic works of Michiel Schuurman are strongly based on classic typographic laws and the pure contrast between black and white. His work is almost always about altering typography to the point where it fully replaces image.