Anagrama: Cocolobo Identity and Packaging
Anagrama recently completed this playful, feminine identity, collateral and packaging for Cocolobo, a high-end women’s fashion boutique. Cocolob...
Minimals Paper Goods
I’m loving the adorable, colorful animal illustrations found at Minimals. The site offers the illustrations on various printed pieces, from gree...
Type Love: Esmeralda Pro
Esmeralda is a new display serif from Sudtipos, which was heavily influenced by classic capitals carved in stone, and includes a huge amount of ligat...
SAM+CAM Identity and Stationery
I’m loving the new identity for Sam + Cam, a two-person design studio based in Paris. via Branding Served...
Harry Diaz: Self-Promotional Materials
Harry Diaz recently created this fun package as a self-promotional piece for current and prospective clients. The package includes four small Risogr...
Student Work: The Good Store
Editor’s Note: As learned through the comments, this project was actually the result of a group effort. The other designers who worked on The Go...
Michael George Haddad: Funhouse Posters
Michael George Haddad created this awesome series of posters for Funhouse, a DJ night at a venue called Mugshots, which is located in the historic O...
Lettering by Ryan Hamrick
My friends at Mama’s Sauce recently pointed me in the direction of Ryan Hamrick, a Pittsburgh-based designer. And as expected, his portfolio did...
Special Event: Designing Better Experiences in the Digital Landscape
This morning I’d love to point you in the direction of a great design event happening in NYC in just a few weeks. After the Jump: Designing Bet...
Type Love: HWT Unit Gothic
HWT Unit Gothic is the latest release from the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry, a digitization of the Unit Gothic series, which was released by Hamilton M...
New Prints by Raymond Biesinger
Raymond Biesinger recently launched several great new prints, including a series that depicts How Illustrations Are Made, his illustrated take on the ...
Sociedad Anónima: Hotel Boca Chica Identity and Collateral
Hotel Boca Chica, a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, was once the place to be in the 1950s and 60s, but in recent years had lost its glamorous appeal. To ...
Student Work: Russell Edling: Homespun Records
For his senior thesis project at the Tyler School of Art, designer Russell Edling created Homespun Records, a “small time record label that put...
Ryan Frease: New Work
Ryan Frease has been making some excellent work since the last time I checked in with him (way too long ago!) In addition to the two pieces that he cr...
Type Love: Live
Live is a new release by Lián Types The lively brush script features three fonts, Pro, Standard and Live More which includes a set of pre-designed...
Richard Baird: Solis Brand Identity and Stationery
Designer Richard Baird—who also runs the excellent blog BP&O—recently completed this beautiful identity for Solis, the fashion label of Tel A...
No-Studio: The Personal Work of Miles Chic
No-Studio is a showcase of the personal work of Vancouver-based designer and illustrator Miles Chic, who loves “big colour, Japanese & Fren...
Booth: The Secret Garden Brand Identity and Collateral
Montreal-based studio Booth recently developed this lovely identity for The Secret Garden, a traditional Cape Cod bed and breakfast. Take a look th...
Type Love: Historism Border 2D
Historism Border 2D is an ornamental font family consisting of various friezes and patterns grouped into four fonts. All of the ornaments were based o...
Somewhere Else: Foodology Brand Identity and Collateral
Somewhere Else just launched an extensive brand for Foodology, an 8000 square foot restaurant located in Singapore. The project encompassed developmen...
Eoin Duffy: Encounter Short Film
Encounter is Eoin Duffy‘s short animated film which explores the territorial responses of varying North Atlantic species. The message, which h...
Help Ink T-Shirts!
Last week Help Ink launched t-shirts, a welcome addition to their shop. This week’s design, “Never Give Up,” comes to you from desig...
The DM Collection: Animal Prints by Daniel Mackie
The DM Collection is a line of prints and cards featuring the work of artist Daniel Mackie, who is inspired by the styles of traditional Japanese pr...
Kevin Cantrell: Aguas Poster
Kevin Cantrell recently released the second of seven posters in his “7 Days” series, Águas. This new poster features the same style of g...
Jeremy Pruitt: Bordo Bello Skate Deck
Jeremy Pruitt, aka Thinkmule, recently contributed a deck design to AIGA Colorado’s Bordo Bello, a skateboard art show that’s been on view...
Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs
The creative minds behind Kern and Burn, 100 Days of Entrepeneurship have just launched the site for their first book, Kern and Burn: Conversations W...
Draw Your Own Alphabets
Draw Your Own Alphabets: Thirty Fonts to Scribble, Sketch, and Make Your Own is a new book by Tony Seddon that teaches you how to create your own cu...
Cat Neligan: The Owl and the Pussycat Illustrations
I’m loving Cat Neligan‘s illustrative interpretation of Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat....
Chloe Allen: Neck of the Woods Project Lettering Project
Neck of the Woods is hand-lettering project by Chloe Allen, a current student at the University of Leeds. Each entry illustrates a local idiom, from...
Lashun Tines: Diaspora “The Art of Blackness” 2013
Take a look at Chicago-based designer Lashun Tine‘s work for the 2013 Diaspora “The Art of Blackness” exhibition. (See the 2012 edi...
Amy Walters: Summer Fruits and Berries
I’m loving this series of bright, summery patterns by illustrator Amy Walters....
Type Love: Tomato
Tomato is a new discovery for me, but it was actually produced in 2005 by Canada Type. This curvy display face is actually an expanded digitization...
Kathryn Brylinsky: Poppin Free Stuff
Poppin is definitely a favorite brand of mine, so I was excited to see the work Kathryn Brylinsky (who currently works in house fo them) has develop...
Michael De Pippo: Love at First Flight Wedding Materials
For Michael de Pippo’s recent nuptials, he designed a super fun suite of materials around the theme of Love at First Flight. The theme, which...
KNOCK: We Heart Trees
Check out We Heart Trees, KNOCK’s 2013 campaign in celebration of Arbor Day, a site that asks users to design their own virtual trees while als...
Mackey Saturday: New Instagram Logo
In case you missed the launch of Instagram’s new logo last week, see below for Mackey Saturday‘s new and improved version. I also happened...
The Mood Series on Behance
The Mood Series, by Riccardo Casinelli, combines cheerful colors with not-so-cheerful messages in this dimensional typography. Love the contrast....
Muxxi: We Are Magical Illustrations
I can’t get enough of the graphic illustration work of Guatemalan artist Muxxi. The colors! These particular pieces are a new series of symmetri...
Weekly Crop
Weekly Crop is a new year-long illustration project started by Jim Mezei. Each week four designers and illustrators will interpret the same topic, ...
Hofstede Design: 83/87 Chapel Street Signage
Hofstede Design recently launched a new website featuring quite a few new projects. In particular, their modern and playful—love the cat chasing the...
Sabrina Smelko: VOA, an Illustrated Science-Fiction Novel
For her graduate thesis, Sabrina Smelko wrote and illustrated VOA, a science fiction novel focused on the concepts of death, power and justice. If yo...
Student Work: Michelle Wang: Shakespeare Poster Series
I’m incredibly impressed by this Shakespeare poster series designed by Michelle Wang, a current graphic design student at Pratt. In her words: A...
Andy Luce Updates
Earlier this year Andy Luce overhauled his portfolio, featuring lots of new work. Below you can see a few projects I’m especially loving, but be...
Animography
Animography is a side project by Netherlands-based designer Jeroen Krielaars. The site is essentially a type foundry that produces and distributes e...
Adam Wells: The Circle Line
I don’t post a lot of animation work around here, but every so often one really catches my eye. And Adam Wells‘s beautiful black and whit...
Art Prints by Matthew Korbel Bowers
Awhile back I briefly featured the work of Matthew Korbel Bowers in Color Happy 152. And after stumbling upon his work again this week, I realized his...
Christophe Remy: Delbôve
Belgium-based designer Christophe Remy has done some beautiful work for Delbôve, a high-end cosmetics line. Be sure to check out Christophe’s...
Eric Comstock Illustration
I’m loving the playful retro style of Eric Comstock‘s illustrations....
Type Love: Kana Sans
Kana Sans was released earlier this year by GT & CANARY, a New York City studio founded by Takaaki Goto, a type designer from Japan. Kana Sans...
Radio: Sea World Orlando Maps
Radio recently worked with London-based agency Cubo to create all new maps for Sea World in Orlando. Get a closer look right here....
One Heart Boston Letterpress Print
One Heart Boston is an initiative by Boston-based Hairpin Communications to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon attack. In the aftermath of the at...
Type Love: Verb and Verb Condensed
Verb and Verb Condensed are two sans serif families from Yellow Design Studio. Verb Condensed is just a slightly more condensed version of the origina...
Push: Italio Modern Kitchen Identity and Collateral
Push recently completed the identity and extensive collateral for Italio, a fast casual Italian restaurant chain. Challenge. Italio came to Push with...
The Original Champions of Design: MC Kitchen Identity and Collateral
I’m loving this new project by The Original Champions of Design for MC Kitchen, a modern Italian restaurant in the Miami Design District. MC Kit...
Ada Blackjack Identity and Collateral
Beautiful work for bag and leather goods brand Ada Blackjack by Verena Michelitsch and Tobias van Schneider. Check out the products online right he...
The World’s First Annual Report on Instagram
Trigger Communications just launched this year’s annual report for Calgary Zoo. But it isn’t your typical printed piece; the report unfold...
Fabio Ongarato Design: QT Port Douglas Identity and Collateral
I’m loving this work for QT Port Douglas by Fabio Ongarato Design: Each QT Resort and Hotel has it own unique character and individual personal...
Design Ranch Update: Learn + Let Go
In a post over the weekend, I requested that if anyone had pictures of the finished pieces from the Learn + Let Go workshop to send them my way. Well,...
Hammerpress: W. 18th St. Fashion Show
A recent browse through Hammerpress‘s custom portfolio turned up this beautiful work for the W. 18th St. Fashion Show, a collaboration with Per...
Type Love: Poster
Poster is a new release from Type-Ø-Tones designed by Íñigo Jerez. Want more type? Check out my Type Wishlist, current Favorites and Calli...