TGIF, and TG the long, sober, skint, cold, frankly depressing month of January is out the door to make way for the shorter, yet still pretty freezing February. What better way to celebrate than with six rad design projects? Yes, we popped in a bonus one this week, just for you, dear readers. For more along these lines (and so many others) follow along all day, every day on Instagram @AIGAeyeondesign, Facebook, and Twitter @AIGAeyeondesign.

The fourth issue of Tabula Rasa, a gorgeous non-profit print magazine about art and photography, has just launched, taking Performance as its theme. “The design of the publication always thoughtfully acts as a blank slate,” says Tabula Rasa co-founder Sabrina Banta. “Every issue has a new look and feel, theme, cover material, set of contributors, and a diverse set of work that speaks to the singular vision of our contributors.”

The new issue took the “traditional” sense of performance as its starting point, and led to examining how “everyone performs now that social media has become the unifying stage that anyone can participate in,” according to the Tabula Rasa team. “We have become both the performers and the audience.” Contributors include Yael Malka, Put Put, Lillie Eiger, and Bea De Giacomo.

New York-based graphic design agency GHD Partners, founded by former AIGA/NY Chapter Board member J. Graham Hanson, has just released a monograph of its work. Entitled 20/20 Twenty Projects Twenty Years, as you might expect, it showcases 20 projects spanning two decades, including work from Rockefeller Center, Carnegie Hall, Google, and The Smithsonian Institution, with images and insights into the design process as well as texts from design writer Roger Yee and educator Jeff Bellantoni. 

Based in Lisbon, Portugal, designer Beatriz Pinta Gama has created some brilliant work ranging from a book on rave culture to thoughtful branding for an organic food takeaway business. One recent projects that caught our eye was a self-initiated one, a poster series entitled Color Is. “The project was created as a conceptual and playful three-part experiment,” she explains. “It addresses how the graphic designer employs color as an instrument to convey its message. “Many creatives from the areas of architecture, furniture design, cinema, and art have crafted their iconic and recognizable color schemes, which plays a great role in asserting their own language… By contrast, the graphic designer does not restrain itself to a single palette—color is only one of the designer’s many tools at hand in the process of creation.”