Charlie don’t surf the web during working hours, for Charlie Hocking is out newest intern and therefore has more respect for the job than the rest of us, who idly spend our days watching Star Wars parodies, ranting on football blogs and buying shoes.

Anyways, Charlie is recent BA(Hons) graduate in Graphic Design from London College of Communications and has joined Airside for a three-month internship where we’ll presumably unlearn all them good habits picked up at LCC.

Charlie’s past work saw him shortlisted in the 2010 D&AD Student Awards’ Brand Communications category for his take on a campaign for The Body Shop, while he has also co-authored a book with fellow LCC graduate Alex Hunting about their initial experiences in the world of design, called Be Brave.

One of the first things Charlie will be working on here is the 2011 Airside Calendar. Excitingly we are moving on from the landscape format of the past few years and we are really looking forward to seeing the brand new typeface that Charlie is creating especially for it.  More on that later but for now, welcome to Airside, Charlie.

Airside features in a new book, Flashback: Retro Design in Contemporary Graphics. Published and edited by visual graphics collaboration group, Viction:ary, Flashback showcases recent design work that embraces nostalgia of the past.

From simple designs with bold colours, to strong geometric forms and streamlined graphics, the book is a trip down design’s memory lane. Airside’s contribution includes the 2009 Airside Calendar and our Birds wrapping paper.

Deep down in the dark and dank crevices of an Islington basement, your future is waiting. Yes folks, another New Year approaches and that means another Airside Calendar is ready to encapsulate your time in a Gregorian arrangement of days and dates.

But what illustrations will be assaulting your eyeballs in biweekly bursts this year? Will there be more explicit images to hide to from the kids? Which captions will make you chuckle and groan? What does the cover look like?

I’m afraid you will have to wait a little bit longer for the answers. But don’t fret, the 2010 Airside Calendar will be soon available to buy from www.airsideshop.com.

In the meantime all we can show you are the boxes, in which each calendar lies safely tucked up awaiting its grand unveiling. Exciting, huh?

It’s nearly time for us to unleash the 2009 Airside Calendar on an unsuspecting world. Today we took a trip down to our new printers Calverts to see the first batch roll off the presses.

Above is the magic of the CMYK process in action on the front and back covers. Exciting, isn’t it?

Thanks to Calverts, this year’s calendar is our greenest yet: it is on FSC-approved recycled paper made from 100% post-consumer waste using bio-vegetable-oil-based inks.

It should be ready in a couple of weeks but you can pre-order your copy now.