Rebecca Mah: Culture Caps
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For her senior thesis, Tyler School of Art graduate Rebecca Mah created Culture Caps, a drop cap alphabet influenced by different regions correspondin...
Tag: Hand-lettering
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Alliteration Inspiration: Zoos & Zzz’s
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Kelly Thompson: Design & Illustration
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Kelly Thompson, a Texan designer/illustrator based in Seattle, has combined her southern spice and northwestern quirkiness into a wide range of notewo...
Alliteration Inspiration: Wheels & Water
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Jon Newman: Daydreams & Nightschemes Studio Launch
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Designer Jon Newman took the leap from the comfort of his day job at MTV to start Daydreams & Nightschemes, his own new studio. Among Jon’s other grea...
Alliteration Inspiration: Veggies & Vacation
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Ciara Phelan: Collages
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Ciara Phelan, a freelance illustrator and textile designer in east London, recently launched her new website full of intricate collage work and other ...
Open Door Design Studio: Reinventing the Toilet Challenge
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Who knew a toilet could be so beautiful? The team at Open Door Design Studio, in collaboration with Kohler, designed the remarkable exterior of Caltec...
Casey Ligon: Hand Lettering
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The hand lettering work of Casey Ligon is a gorgeous force to be reckoned with as her talents span chalk, ink, vector and beyond. Her ability to work ...
Alliteration Inspiration: Universe & Umbrellas
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Alliteration Inspiration: Outdoors & Outlaws
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Mike Lowery: New Work
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It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Mike Lowery here at DWL, and since he recently launched his new website with tons of saucy recent work, we simpl...
Alliteration Inspiration: Quotes & Quickness
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Alliteration Inspiration: Jelly & Journeying
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Andreas Wikström Illustration
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I’m thoroughly enjoying the work of Andreas Wikström, a graphic designer hailing from Sweden. There’s more to explore on his website, so get to clicki...
Alliteration Inspiration: Icons & Imbibing
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Sergi Delgado Illustration & Lettering
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If “rad” were a design discipline, Barcelona-born Sergi Delgado could teach a class on it. His illustration, lettering and typography work all fit a c...
Alliteration Inspiration: Eggs & Eyes
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Alliteration Inspiration: Reading & Royalty
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year
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Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes serving as “par...
Alliteration Inspiration: Coffee & Currency
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Isabel Urbina Book Covers
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The book cover designs of Isabel Urbina for Random House, New York are absolutely delightful examples of lettering, textures and illustrations combine...
Alliteration Inspiration: Knowledge & Knives
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Alliteration Inspiration: Plants & Pizza
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Jen Mussari Lettering
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I’m not sure how I have not come across Jen Mussari‘s lettering portfolio before now, but it is filled with all kinds of awesomeness. You can check ou...
Alliteration Inspiration: Script & Skateboards
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Melissa Chaib Illustration
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Melissa Chaib, a graphic designer and illustrator based in Mexico, has a cheeky illustration style that she pairs delightfully with hand lettering. I ...
Jon Contino: The Hidden Sea Packaging
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I pretty much always buy wine based on its label (with the hope that it tastes good too), so I am all over this new packaging design for South Austral...
Alliteration Inspiration: Fruit & Feathers
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Alex Westgate Illustration
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Alex Westgate is a freelance illustrator and designer out of Toronto, ON. Though he’s only recently graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design...
Alliteration Inspiration: Dairy & Drop Caps
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Do Not Open
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If, like me, you’ve been admiring Erik Marinovich‘s envelope handiwork via Friends of Type, you are in luck. Now, through his new project Do Not Open,...
Jeff Rogers: New Site
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I’m late to the game on this one, but last month Jeff Rogers launched a beautiful new site. In addition to huge, crisp images of his work, he’s also i...
Caetano Calomino Lettering
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An impressive collection of lettering samples by Caetano Calomino. Much more to see in his portfolio and on his Facebook page....
Ethan Park: Unconventional Lettering
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I’m loving these pieces of unconventional lettering and typography by UK-based designer Ethan Park....
Spencer Heyfron and Angela Southern: This Is New York
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I am still a faithful print magazine reader, and New York Magazine has been one of my favorites ever since I moved to NYC almost 10 years ago. One fea...
Danielle Evans: Food Type
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Designer and illustrator Danielle Evans is running a fun little side type called Food Type, where she creates lovely hand-lettering specimens out of v...
Pentagram: Queens Metropolitan Campus Murals
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I’m loving this series of colorful, hand lettered murals created by Paula Scher’s team at Pentagram for the Queens Metropolitan Campus. Lots more deta...
Bureau of Betterment: Quill Feather Illustration Series
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Over the past year, Mette Hornung Rankin, of Bureau of Betterment, created this beautiful illustration series featuring various quill pens alongside o...
Tanamachi Studio: Puffin Chalk
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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 ...
Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn: Hand Lettering
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Beautiful hand-lettering and illustration by Orlando, Florida-based Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn:...
The Making of Design Fu Mural on Vimeo
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Check out this incredible mural—don’t miss the video documentation!—that Yiu Studio created for their new office. The design fuses their love of Kung ...
BVK + Timothy Goodman: CITGO Fueling Good Road Trip
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BVK Milwaukee recently collaborated with Timothy Goodman on the CITGO Fueling Good Road Trip, which aims to promote CITGO through the good things they...
Michael Mullan Illustration
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Check out the beautiful illustration, lettering and pattern design work of Michael Mullan....
Shantanu Suman: Horn Please Musical Boxes
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As part of his Horn Please exhibition, Shantanu Suman created a series of beautiful music boxes to demonstrate the various horns found in Indian truck...
Studio Muti: Highlife SA
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Studio Muti recently designed and illustrated a cover for British Airways’ inflight magazine, Highlife SA. The design was inspired by things to see in...
Vault49: (Sub)Prime Cuts Hand-Painted Saws
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I’m loving these gorgeously hand-painted saws that were created by Vault49, a NYC-based “artistic collaboration, a playground, and a creative incubato...
Lettering by Ryan Hamrick
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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 not d...
Draw Your Own Alphabets
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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 cust...
Chloe Allen: Neck of the Woods Project Lettering Project
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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 p...
Andy Luce Updates
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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 sure ...
Luke Skinner: Luxury Rap
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As a personal project, UK-based designer Luke Skinner created Luxury Rap, “a hand-lettered A-Z of fashion references in Hip-Hop.” More to see right h...
Ariel Wilson: Oak Grove Center Gym Artwork
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Ariel Wilson recently completed an ongoing project at Oak Grove Center, a therapeutic treatment facility for at-risk kids. Over the past few months Ar...
A New Site for Dan Cassaro
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Dan Cassaro launched a brand new site this week, with lots of new work to see. Love the black and white stripes!...
Erik Marinovich: Cincinnati Magazine Lettering
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Erik Marinovich recently created this gorgeous lettering and set of numerals for Cincinnati Magazine‘s annual ‘Where to Eat’ issue....
Alexander Purdy Promo Cards
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I recently discovered the work of Alexander Purdy on Steady Print Shop‘s blog. I’m especially loving this series of promotional cards that the print s...
Georgia Hill: Michelberger Reserved Plates
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Berlin-based designer Georgia Hill created these gorgeous hand-lettered plates as a unique “Reserved” sign for the tables at The Michelberger Restaura...
Ryan Feerer: Abi-Haus Identity and Collateral
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Not only did Ryan Feerer develop the identity, collateral and interiors (which he collaborated on with Dana Tanamachi and Jeff Rogers) for this awesom...
Bryan Patrick Todd: Everybody Matters Mural
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In my experience, I’ve found that designers are generally a very compassionate group of people. Over the years working on DWL I’ve loved seeing and sh...
Olivia King: Hand-Drawn Infographics
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Sydney, Australia-based designer Olivia King has a profound love for ink. So much so that she developed this multi-page, hand-drawn infographic as an ...