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Legendary designer Mark Farrow, responsible for iconic sleeves for The Pet Shop Boys, Spiritualized, Manic Street Preachers and Deconstruction Records comes to Manchester for a rare talk as part of Design Manchester 13.

Mark Farrow will be in discussion with Design Week’s Angus Montgomery covering his time designing for Manchester’s legendary Hacienda to his 25 year relationship with The Pet Shop Boys.

Other speakers including prolific creative Kate Moross, Type foundry Colophon, Sustainable design pioneers Nat Hunter & Sophie Thomas and Interactive artist Andrew Shoben.  The event will be hosted by DM13 Ambassador and design legend Malcolm Garett and feature a Q&A with the speakers and the audience.

Design Manchester 13 is an originative week-long design festival featuring talks, workshops and social events.

Tickets are available on the website here Design Manchester
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Christopher Nieri is a designer who teamed up with Troika, put in a stint at Accept & Proceed, did time at Wallpaper*, hustled at Spin, hooked up with Build, rolled with Harriman Steel, and shacked up with Method.

This October, Manchester will host the first annual Design Manchester, an originative two-day festival, celebrating creativity, collaboration and inclusivity in the worlds of art, design, illustration, animation and photography.

Working closely with lead sponsor the Manchester School of Art, part of Manchester Metropolitan University, Design Manchester will bring inspirational UK and internationally renowned speakers to the city and showcase Manchester’s talented creative community.

The festival, curated with ambassador Malcolm Garrett, is a series of inspirational talks, interactive workshops and evening events, on the theme of longevity held at Manchester Town Hall and venues across the city.

Design Manchester launches this week with 10 x 10, an exhibition of ten collaborative works produced by Manchester artists and designers including infamous mosaicist Mark Kennedy and performance poet John Cooper Clarke, along with graphic designers David Sedgwick (Designbydave) and John Owens (Instruct Studio), paper artist Helen Musselwhite, designer makers Loz Ives (Fieldwork), Tim Denton and Liam Hopkins (Lazerian), photographer Percy Dean, design collective Owt Creative and many more.

The exhibition will be held in the Northern Quarter’s Bench Self Made Gallery and opens on Thursday 15^th August with an evening view. Design Manchester’s first speakers will be announced at the end of August with early bird ticket sales available from then.

The brand for the festival has been created by Empre. @EmpreEmpreEmpre

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Huddersfield based design and gamer Matthew Kenyon has put together a beautiful book project on Kickstarter to celebrate the game—uniting artists and gamers across the globe through video game culture and creativity. With over 180 pledges already Matthew has made a great start – all gamers need to get on this, and get it into production.

From Mike Sullivan – aka Studio Mister – come two new posters. Both are beautifully silkscreened on Curious Skin Frost, and are available in an edition of only 50 each.

To get your hands on one – or both – head over to Mike’s store.

I have to admit that, unlike a lot of graphic designers, photographers and general creative types, I’m not a cycling fan, although I do find the graphics, colour schemes and kit designs a great deal more interesting than those sported by football teams. This point has been nicely illustrated by Rob Millington in this Tour de France poster series.The poster – printed on 230gsm silk photographic paper, and is signed and numbered – is available in A1 and A2 sizes, and is available via Rob’s Etsy store.

Studio Contents is a collaborative design practice run by James Gilbert. After a much anticipated wait the studio now has it’s very own place on the web showcasing their excellent work.

The next little bit of goodness from Thomas Manss is the annual report designed and produced for leading paper merchant Fedrigoni. More info after the jump. 125 years Fedrigoni: The 2013 annual report designed by Thomas Manss & Company celebrates the people at the giant Italian paper manufacturer.

125 years ago Giuseppe Antonio Fedrigoni set up his first paper mill in 1888 in Verona, Italy. Hence this year is a year of celebrations for the paper manufacturing group which has grown from a family business to a multinational company with 8 manufacturing divisions and 7 distribution companies.

Without doubt the 2013 report could not simply be a standard financial report, instead it is a homage to everyone who has made the success of Fedrigoni possible throughout the years. For the first time ever, a Fedrigoni annual report features portraits of employees and every single one of the employees’ names are printed in silver on the blue endpaper of the report.

During its presentation at the anniversary gala at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona all 2165 employees of the great Fedrigoni family greeted the report with thunderous applause – eagerly searching for their names on the endpaper of the 252 page book.

Thomas Manss, consultancy founder, who has designed numerous annual reports in the past shares the excitement: “I did not think I could get that excited about a piece of print anymore but as an object this is pretty unusual.”

Nevertheless, it does not neglect its customary duties as an annual report. Therefore also included is detailed information about finance and environment. The celebratory theme is further enhanced through the edges which are painted in a glossy silver and, of course, it is printed on only the finest Fedrigoni paper.