I’ve seen Wedge & Lever, a relatively new (established in 2012) design studio out of San Diego, all over the place lately, and rightfully so. Their portfolio is filled with lots of incredible work, but these three projects particularly caught my…
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s thematic combo: dairy & drop caps. Dairy If my ‘B’ in high school anatomy class serves me, I…
Watch out: this Little Mule kicks. After sharing her talents and building her chops at Pentagram (Austin, TX) and Yee-Haw Industries (Knoxville, TN), Blair Richardson decided to set off on her own. After three years of freelance in Austin under the name…
The last couple of months have seen quite a few new site launches, including one for talented illustrator and designer Danielle Kroll. Designed by Jessica Comingore, the site features some new projects, as well as a new shop design with…
Laura Woods, an Italian freelance illustrator living in Melbourne, Australia, has only been in the illustration game for a year and a half, yet her impressive work shows she’s got the talent of a seasoned vet. Laura’s first 1.5 years…
Sing Statistics recently released You Are The Friction, a new anthology of collaborative short fiction and illustration. The collection includes twelve short stories inspired by illustrations and twelve illustrations inspired by short stories, all collected in pretty little red paperback package.…
For her graduate thesis at Tyler School of Art, Hannah Johnson created Quarter Life Review, a series of book covers inspired by her childhood drawings and writings. Below you can see the series of covers along with the piece of…
Nice work for Link Magazine Issue 14 by David Di Gennaro, Pietro Buffa, Niccolò Mazzoni and Luca Zamoc.
Check out these amazing new book covers that Dana Tanamachi created for Puffin Books, the children’s division of Penguin Books. Each one was designed and lettered in an oversized format, and then photographed for use on the covers. Be sure…
Check out the lovely work of NY-based designer Kristen Haff. More to see right here.
As part of SVA’s Masters of Branding program, the students are each currently participating in a self-initiated project that spans the course of 100 days. One current student, Tyler Adam Smith, chose to work with the theme of “100 Books that SHOULD…
I’m loving Cat Neligan‘s illustrative interpretation of Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat.
Somehow I only just discovered David Drummond‘s incredible collection of book cover designs this week. More here. via MyFonts Facebook
I just came across some of the covers from the latest in Penguin’s Great Ideas Series, Volume IV (check out Volume III here). They’re not yet up on David Pearson‘s site, but you can learn more on Lovely Book Covers…
This year, Owen Davey will release his third picture book, entitled Laika. According to Owen, “Laika is based on a true story of a stray, living on the streets of Moscow who is chosen to be the first ever animal…
Speaking of vintage-inspired design and illustration, I am also loving Cardon Webb’s colorful design for a series of texts by Ralph Ellison. For each cover, he drew inspiration from record art and typography from the mid-century jazz era.
Jessica Hische and Paul Buckley have collaborated on an exciting new project, a series of cover designs for classic literature featuring Jessica’s Drop Caps. The first six titles, below, look pretty amazing. More info here. via Imprint
I’m loving the minimal, typographic covers that Astrid Stavro Studio designed for this Sol de Ícaro Essay Collection.
