Rasmus Norlander is a photographer with in Zürich and Stockholm. The photos he takes are of stunning engineering and architectural shots.
But what makes his photos extra special is that they are made with large (we are taking quite large!) or medium format cameras.

Check out his minimalist site; www.rasmusnorlander.se

A while back now I wrote a blog post about the Impossible Project and how polaroid film was coming back, well late last year Abigail and I took part in a Polaroid Workshop in Manchester, hosted by Tom Wright (the UK impossible project ambassador). The aim of the workshop was simple, to get people back into taking polaroids, a medium that people have nearly forgotten about. There is something special about film and the way you can’t just keep snapping away, with polaroids you could only take 10 photos per pack, with impossible thats 8. You really have to think about what you are taking, make that photo different to what you could simply take on a digital camera.

The photos above are mostly my attempts at taking a decent polaroid photo – you can tell I have never used one before. Couple of them, of myself and Abigail were taken by our polaroid expert Tom.

Hopefully this year when the sun is out we shall join forces and take to the streets of Manchester to capture it. Who knows perhaps it could be Liverpool…

Tom Wright / Abigail Sinclair / The Impossible Project

Laurent Nivalle is a French photographer with a wonderful eye for the classics. Love the designs of the old cars. You might have seen these before but this series taken at the LeMans 24hr race is amazing to look at, the colour in the photographs and the behind the scenes shots make me jealous. This year will definitely be a photography year for me.

www.laurentnivalle.fr

Lost Type Co-op is a fantastic type foundry where you you can find some great new fonts and styles that won’t break the bank – you can pay what you like. 100% goes to the designer. In fact if you many pennies you can choose to download the font at no cost…

Check them out before you start seeing these fonts everywhere!

www.losttype.com

German photographer Bernhard Lang takes these amazing arial photographs of some fantastic places.

http://www.bernhardlang.de

Designspiration is simply a user generated resource of high-quality designed-everything. From architecture to furniture, to typography to photography. Inspired from the many image collected websites such as ffffound.com, Designspiration does a little more with the ability to search and sort images by their colour. Fantastic! Saving you time trawling through pages and pages of material. Even arranging everything into tags makes this a great resource for inspiration and simply finding out what the latest trends are in the design world.

If you want to register you can send your portfolio to the email and if you are lucky, you might get invited…

http://designspiration.net

(images link to full view)

There are too many to pick from to show here but if you haven’t seen his comics, check them out at pbfcomics.com and if you have seen then, they are definitely worth a re-read.

http://pbfcomics.com/

Yowayowa Camera Woman’s Diary is a photographic diary by Natsumi Hayashi, who takes amazing portraits of herself levitating in all sorts of places in Japan (and photos of her cats too).

You can see her diary at yowayowacamera.com

Display is a site devoted to documenting the history of mid-20th century design through a collection of books and articles. I would love to get my hands on a few of these. There is even a bookstore, if you can spare a few hundred dollars that is.

Check them out over at Display.

this isn’t happiness is a blog by Peter Nidzgorski that I seem to always stumble upon when looking for inspiration, whether it is design, art, typography or photography (women too). It isn’t one of those blogs where everything you see has been plucked from ffffound. It’s really the opposite (the images here end up on ffffound). Images taken from many different sources there is always a fresh stream to wash over you, vintage and modern. It’s one of those blogs where you can end up spending hours going through the pages if you haven’t been on it before, so I pre-warn you.

this isn’t happiness is a blog you must bookmark and keep as your scrapbook for creativity.

(images here taken from the blog itself – images link to source.)

PS. That last image. That’s a digital illustration!

http://thisisnthappiness.com/