Gift Guide 2009: Water
Courtney •
From Wikipedia: Water Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces— Water represents imagination, human feelings and one’s ability to love and sustain. The Wate...
Month: November 2009
Courtney • Gift Guide 2009: Fire
Courtney •
From Wikipedia: Fire Signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius— Fire represents one’s desires and creative energies. The Fire signs are associated with actio...
Gift Guide 2009: Air
Courtney •
From Wikipedia: Air Signs: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius— Air represents the intellect and one’s ability to reason and communicate. The Air signs are as...
Gift Guide 2009: Earth
Courtney •
From Wikipedia: Earth Signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn— Earth represents one’s material resources, environment and possessions. The Earth signs are...
Welcome Back!
Courtney •
If you had any time off last week for Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed it! This week will be a little bit different as it will mostly be devoted to th...
Color Happy 59
Courtney •
Here’s an interesting color palette from The Great Carnival, the graduation project of Eric van Den Boom. Check here to learn more about the concept, ...
Type Love 72: Sun
Courtney •
This versatile sans serif, Sun, a family including 14 styles, is available from Lucas Fonts....
Siebe Warmoeskerken
Courtney •
Take a look at the beautiful bokeh-filled photographs by Siebe Warmoeskerken of De Vetpan Studios....
Truly Deeply
Courtney •
I’m really liking the typogrpaphic details and color palette of this identity project by Australian design firm Truly Deeply....
kimmika
Courtney •
Loving these saturated, vintagey images by Kimmika....
Nathalie Lete
Courtney •
These vibrant, playful silkscreen prints by Nathalie Lété are currently available at Anthropologie. via Fly...
Polaroid Composites
Courtney •
I’ve been seeing a lot of photo collages on photography blogs and around the web lately. And I’m particularly interested in how these individual image...
Upcoming Type
Courtney •
The graduates of the 2009 Type and Media Program at The Hague are one talented bunch. Most of the typefaces they created as final projects are still i...
Holiday Favorites
Courtney •
We’re almost a month away from Christmas and, since I haven’t done a thing to prepare, I’m starting to panic a bit. Every year I tell myself I’m going...
Gold Lunchbox
Courtney •
There are so many great things to see at Gold Lunchbox, the portfolio of Karl Hebert, that it was definitely tough to choose which to feature. Karl, w...
Yeehaw
Courtney •
Over the weekend we took some time to check out the Yeehaw Industries exhibit at Chelsea Market. Their prints are hung all throughout the space, and a...
Last Call
Courtney •
Just wanted to let everyone know that if you were planning on submitting your work (email us here) for the Holiday gift guides, we will need to receiv...
Monday Quick Links: 11.23.09
Courtney •
Hope you all had a great weekend. We have a huge installment of quick links for you today—enjoy! Field Notes has released the “Just Below Zero” collec...
Hofstede Design
Courtney •
Australian studio Hofstede Design has a pretty amazing portfolio, so it’s no surprise that their own identity is equally outstanding. The system, whic...
My Inspired Heart
Courtney •
Take a look at the dreamy photographs by My Inspired Heart. Pick up prints on etsy right here....
Color Happy 58
Courtney •
This lively tourism poster for the city of Jerusalem is from the 1966/1967 Graphis Annual. Just one example of the vintagey goodness in Sandi Vincent’...
How do we achieve harmony?
Courtney •
Another colorful project I’m loving at the moment is this interactive site for GOOD magazine and Toyota Prius. Designed by New York studio, For Office...
Igor Melgaco
Courtney •
I can’t stop examining these vibrant illustrations and patterns by Brazilian designer, Igor Melgaco. You can see more of this project right here. And ...
Type Love 71: ITC Chino
Courtney •
This week I’m excited by the possibilities of one of Linotype’s newest releases, the ITC Chino family. The family, designed by Hannes von Döhren and L...
Kamal
Courtney •
I wasn’t familiar with Kamal before I saw their gift wrap on design*sponge last week. But after perusing the designs on their site, I became an instan...
Bam Bam Ink
Courtney •
Take a look at Ana Carucci, aka Bam Bam Ink’s, delicate, detailed food illustrations for the late Gourmet Magazine. I love all the subtle colors that ...
Yotam Hadar
Courtney •
While I’m particularly drawn to this illustrative identity for Cafe Hillel, Yotam Hadar’s portfolio is widely diverse, featuring everything from packa...
New from Nice Type
Courtney •
Awhile back I posted about Nice Type, the Vimeo channel created by Matthew Buchanan. And since I’d last checked some really great videos have been add...
Monday Quick Links: 11.16.09
Courtney •
Check out this huge collection of free textures for your design projects There’s some really great stuff in this collection of vintage-inspired design...
Doublenaut
Courtney •
Doublenaut, who I previously mentioned in a Color Happy post, has some really awesome posters up for sale. Check them out right here....
Creative Grab Bag
Courtney •
Creative Grab Bag, a book created by design student, Ethan Bodnar, is a publication that collects the work of well-known and up-and-coming artists and...
Color Happy 57
Courtney •
A perfectly Fall palette in this typographic illustration by THIS STUDIO....
Yurko Gutsulyak
Courtney •
I’m intrigued by this identity for Legal Consulting Group by Ukraine-based designer Yurko Gutsulyak....
Type Love 70: Encore Sans Pro
Courtney •
Parachute’s Encore Sans Pro is a humanistic sans serif that suports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic texts. It comes in 11 weights, from Hairline to Ultra Bl...
Design is Love
Courtney •
Design is Love is a gathering place whose goal is to “facilitate meaningful communication amongst designers and those working in the non-profit sector...
Mind Design
Courtney •
Mind Design’s portfolio encompasses both the chic and sophisticated, and the modern and playful, as you can see below. And no matter the style, each a...
Abigail Wynne
Courtney •
Abigail Wynne is a talented illustrator, designer and photographer....
International Year of Astronomy
Courtney •
An awesome set of posters designed by Simon Page. More here....
Transformer Studio
Courtney •
Great branding work by Transformer Studio....
Sollinero
Courtney •
Thinking about picking up one of these fun prints by Buenos Aires-based artist, Sollinero. via Pikaland...
Jeremy Dimmock
Courtney •
Jeremy Dimmock is a designer and art director who specializes in style guides. His portfolio is packed wth great work, including film titles for this ...
Monday Quick Links: 11.09.09
Courtney •
More promotional posters for Up by the talented Eric Tan Thirty Conversations on Design is a video project that collects the thoughts of 30 internatio...
Twist Creative
Courtney •
Beautiful work by Twist Creative....
Love What You Do
Courtney •
These slides are part of a lecture given by Frank Chimero for Portland State University this month. See a few more right here....
Color Happy 56
Courtney •
Loving the hyper-saturated colors in this photograph by Nancy Stockdale, aka futurowoman. Lots of her photographs are available at prints on etsy as w...
Round Object
Courtney •
I’ve been on a bit of a poster kick lately, so I’m really enjoying these designs by Bryan Keplesky of Round Object. Be sure to take a look around at t...
Still Room
Courtney •
Still Room, a bi-coastal writer and designer (and sister and sister!) team, is another Print Regional Design Annual find. Their work is modern and unp...
Type Love 69: Skolar
Courtney •
If nothing else, Type Together’s Skolar is a workhorse. A text serif originally designed to shine in multilingual publications, the Skolar family incl...
Scribbler
Courtney •
Another great find from this year’s annuals is the calligraphic identity for Scribbler, a stationery shop, by Lewis Communications....
Call for Submissions
Courtney •
I am working on lots of projects and updates in the background right now, as I have been for months. So I will have lots of big and small announcement...
Tower of Babel
Courtney •
Lately I’ve been poring over this year’s Communication Arts and Print Design Annuals, one of my favorite mail deliveries of the year. I always find lo...
Owner of this World
Courtney •
If you’ve seen Where the Wild Things Are (amazing, in my opinion), you already know that the film’s star, Max Records, is one talented kid. So it may ...
Erik Marinovich
Courtney •
Particularly enjoying the web design projects in the portfolio of Erik Marinovich....
Acme
Courtney •
Really liking the minimalist packaging design for tea purveyor Bernschutz & Co by Acme Industries. via Share Some Candy...
four 30
Courtney •
four 30 is a project of Lauren Nicole Photography, where instead of creating one image every day, she is creating four sets of 30 photos each season. ...
Holiday Goodie Bags
Courtney •
I’m starting to get geared up to put together this year’s gift guides, so I was excited to see that bluepoolroads’s holiday goodie bag is available! F...
Augustus
Courtney •
Augustus is a chunky sans serif with quirky, curvy details by Karl Frankowski. Augustus is currently available at You Work for Them....
Stitch Design Co.
Courtney •
I’m currently admiring the work of South Carolina-based design duo Stitch Design Co. Their website is under construction, but you can check out their ...
Creative Roots
Courtney •
Creative Roots is a new-to-me design blog with a specifically international perspective. The goal for each post is to present samples of art and desig...