Brian Brooks
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Brian Brooks recently signed up for the dwl mailing list, and this portfolio piece (among others) caught my eye....
Month: March 2009
Courtney • Alex Cornell
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Alex Cornell has a great style, and a portfolio packed with fun projects, including the Mega City Impact Web, below. Lots more to see right here....
Neon Lamps
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I don’t post too often about interiors and products for the home, but these lamps Roger Borg sent over are so cool. Take a look right here to see more...
Let Imagination Take Over
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These posters for Play-Doh are nothing short of brilliant. For more from the portfolio of Think Simple Act Simple, click here. via Change the Thought...
Book City Jackets
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I usually don’t like to post any content that’s already gone up on Design*Sponge since everyone and their mother (including me) reads that blog. But I...
Shadow Puppets
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These shadow puppet cards by honeylux are so fun....
Cutback Gothic
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Designer Daniël Maarleveld designed a book of typographic experiements using the blackletter face, Cutback Gothic, during his time at the Rietveld Aca...
Mission Ridge Mountain Music Festival Materials
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That’s a lot of M’s. But in any case, I really love these materials, designed by Eric Smith of I Draw All Day, for this music festival in Washington....
Color Happy 28
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I’ve been obsessing over this pair of images from Rebecca Thuss’s portfolio ever since I saw it a few weeks ago. So bright, and summery and fun. (Can ...
Disney Nature
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These flats were created for Disney Nature by Andy Gugel, of 32 round. It’s really refreshing to see something so modern and sophisticated designed fo...
The Bungaloo
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designworklife reader Sara sent in a tip about the amazing work of John Vogl, aka The Bungaloo (he designed her screenprinted save the dates, which I ...
Type Love 37: Antenna
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We talked about Cyrus Highsmith earlier in the week, so I figured I would feature one of his fonts. Antenna is an extremely versatile sans serif type ...
Frug
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I’m not sure I totally understand the story behind this project by Fabian Jochen Kanzler and Steve Michaelis, but the artwork is really beautiful. ....
Matthew Tischler
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The colors and textures in Matthew Tischler‘s screen series is amazing. Take a look at the rest of his portfolio right here....
Best of New York
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New York magazine released it’s Best of New York double issue this week. And they always ask several design firms for cover art submissions, so I’m al...
Rod Hunt Illustration
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Rod Hunt creates these intricate landscapes and cityscapes that remind me a little bit of the worlds of Futurama....
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I came across the t-shirts by ONLY NY in Time Out New York recently and thought they were really fun. They have a great catalog of typographic tees in...
Holly Farrell
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Wow, these paintings are amazing, especially all the typographic details....
Nice Type
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The Nice Type channel on Vimeo was created by Matthew Buchanan and features “sturdy typography, motion and kinetic type explorations, and other typogr...
Brains on Fire
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I came across Brains on Fire—a South Carolina-based branding agency—through a random Google search, and I was really interested in and impressed by th...
Amanda Kindregan
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I’m loving the retro kitschy illustration style of Seattle-based Amanda Kindregan. If you’re in need of some affordable art, she has lots of great pri...
Brainstorm
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Brainstorm is a two-person print shop based in New Jersey. And in addition to their awesome “Happy Under the Sun” and “Sleepy Under the Moon” prints (...
Matt Held Portraits
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If you join Matt Held’s Facebook group (“I’ll have my Facebook portrait painted by Matt Held”), he’ll paint a portrait of you based on your profile pi...
The Fifty Dollar Logo Experiment (or a Perfect Example of Why Logo Factories are Bad)
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Art by 160/90 For quite some time now, there has been an ongoing discussion (or outrage depending on how you look at it) going on about why logo facto...
The Sketchbooks of Cyrus Highsmith
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MyFonts sent out it’s monthly Creative Characters newsletter the other day, and this time the focus was on Font Bureau’s Cyrus Highsmith. And a highli...