My long time friend David Loftus launched his very own cookbook ‘Around the World in 80 dishes’. What is very special about David is that he is a photographer who has such a creative eye that he not only makes food and its surrounding look stunning, but captures the story behind the food at the [...]

Globe trotting architects and Grand Prix circuit designers, Hermann Tilke and Peter Wahl remind themselves as to the ‘Power of Formula 1′ on a barmy evening in Sakhir during the last Grand Prix there in 2010. The two-book, 360 page showcase took Interstate some 5,000 hours to research, compose and produce and augmented Formula One’s [...]

The start of a new year and Selfridges kicks off 2012 with a brand new store-wide initiative: Words Words Words. Celebrating the beauty of words, the joy of writing and the art of conversation. Appearing in all parts of Selfridges from the much-anticipated window displays to the exciting program of in-store events, the concept celebrates [...]

The V&A have been showcasing the works of Private Eye’s highly regarded cartoonists for the magazine’s 50th Anniversary. The exhibition features 50 (one for every year the magazine has been published) of the trademark speech bubble front covers, as chosen by editor Ian Hislop, along with walls worth of original artworks spanning their five decades. [...]

Congratulations to Jamie Oliver for securing the festive top spot in the book charts with his latest book; Jamie’s Great Britain designed by Interstate.

If you take a look on celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Website and Twitter page you will see he has chosen to use a page from the introduction of Jamie’s Great Britain as his backdrop, designed here at the studios of Interstate Associates. Take a look for yourself ! Also, last night saw the first of [...]

Today is the big day, ‘Jamie’s Great Britain’, published by Penguin is released. I was very excited to finally see it in the shops.

One of more than 200 hardbacks being published on what has been dubbed by the book trade as Super Thursday. According to today’s BBC News, Bookmakers William Hill and Ladbrokes have this new book as favourite to top the Christmas best-seller list this year. Pick one up while it is on offer!

UPDATE: Take a look at our Case Study.

Recently we were commissioned by Lotus to design and produce brochures for their existing range of British-Made sports cars. The brief required the planning and execution of a 5 day shoot in and around London and Lotus’ world famous test track in Hethel, as well as the design of both the Elise and Evora brochures [...]

Just in are the litho running sheets for ‘Jamie’s Great Britain’ – the latest cookbook designed by Interstate for our favourite celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. It’s due for release at the end of next month, and is filled with over 100 recipes exploring our diverse food culture. We’ll tell you all about it when it’s [...]

Australian celebrity chef Adrian Richardson of La Luna Bistro in Melbourne, has teamed with publishers Pan Macmillan and design agency A Friend of Mine to create a cookbook with a difference. ‘The Good Life‘ commemorates homegrown and homemade food, with chapters structured around seasonal produce, and masterclasses on how to make your own pasta, cure [...]

A VIP visit from Jamie Oliver to the Interstate studio.

Two clients spotted in the local bookstore…

Today sees the international launch of ‘A Month in Marrakesh’, a recipe book and travelogue published by Hardie Grant, with food by Andy Harris; editor of Jamie Magazine, who embraces the wealth of flavours that Morocco has to offer, all of which are brought to life by beautiful photography and illustrations from renowned photographer David [...]

Last Friday saw the re-release of Marian Keyes’ latest novel, The Brightest Star in the Sky, which we at Interstate are very excited about. Having been approached by Penguin back in October last year, following our hugely successful Jamie Oliver/Penguin collaboration, we were briefed to create a fresh new look for the Queen of Chick-Lit. [...]

This time last week we visited our client; Hardie Grant, to take a look at the proof sheets for a cook book we’ve been designing these past few months. We can’t reveal too much just yet, but we can tell you that it’s filled with recipes by Andy Harris, who embraces the wealth of flavours [...]

According to what information I can glean whilst lazily ‘researching’ on the world wide web Blogging originated first as writings distributed on email lists and evolved into ‘threads’ on forums before becoming online diaries and emerging as the entity we are familiar with today. But just what is that?

Great day with Jamie and his team working on a new project at our studio today, so exciting. We have worked with and met some amazing people since starting Interstate and Jamie was another fantastic character that we will not miss an opportunity to get a photo of for the Interstate family album. From Nicole Sherzinger to Lewis Hamilton, Bernie Ecclestone to the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Dolph Lundgren to Pierluigi Collina, the album makes us smile.

Jamie’s confidence and energy was so lovely to experience and a real inspiration to the team.

There are quite a few members of D&AD at Interstate so when the Annual comes out it’d be rude not to go and celebrate. This year, the venue was the Getty Images Gallery where we were surrounded by dramatic prints of days gone by. The Annual itself has been illustrated this year by celebrated fine-artist-signwriter [...]

Our friends at Visual Editions have just launched their first book: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; Introduced by Will Self

In their own words:
We publish books that use visual writing: writing that uses visual elements as an integral part of the writing itself.

Coming soon:

VE2: Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran Foer
An experiment in printer’s patience

See visual writing in action on Visual Edition’s website