Recommended Reading
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Between my newish Twitter usage and the hundreds of blogs in my Google reader, I come across interesting and helpful articles constantly. Whether they...
Courtney • Matt Sundstrom
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I’m loving Matt Sundstrom’s playful and graphic illustration style—it’s nice to see an example of how creative you can get with ju...
Holiday Type
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FLAT-IT, an independent type foundry based in Japan, produces a whole range of various display faces. I previously wrote about one of their fonts, HT ...
Modern Portraits
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Emily St. John paints incredibly realistic modern portraits in oils, like the one of Nero below. Her full site isn’t up and running yet, but you...
Font in Progress: Questa
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Questo is an in-progress typeface from exljbris font foundry, which also brought us Museo and Anivers. The details look amazing, especially those liga...
Kyle Poff
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I’m enjoying Kyle Poff’s identity work....
Color Happy 39
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The colors of this image really struck me when I saw them—so fresh and bright. These materials for The Reel were completed by Daniel Freytag while a...
Jay Fletcher
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In addition to being a great designer, Jay Fletcher is also a talented illustrator. I personally love what happens when he combines the two skills, li...
Tod Kapke
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Tod Kapke wrote in recently to tell me abou a great contemporary illustration blog, Ape on the Moon. And in the process of checking it out I discovere...
C.S. Lewis Signature Series
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Designer Jason Gabbert and illustrator Antar Dayal collaborated on the design of C.S. Lewis’s non-fiction works....
Ayco
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Ayco creates these beautifully delicate drawings on old Japanese paper, which you can see in her Flickr stream right here. She also sells prints of ma...
Eric Tan’s Posters for Up
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I’ve been hearing such good things about Pixar’s Up. And these posters created by Eric Tan make me even more excited to see the film....
Type Love 50: FF Dancer
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FF Dancer, designed by Fontpartners, was part of Typographica’s Best Fonts of 2007. The design was intended to combine a constructed sans serif ...
Golden Gems
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Not sure how I’ve failed to mention them before, but Golden Gems is an awesome blog that catalogs all the Little Golden Books we knew and loved ...
Jeff Harrison
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Jeff Harrison has done some really great work for Rethink Communications, including this fun identity system for photographer Hans Sipma....
Jonathan Daly
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Jonathan Daly is another fellow Syracuse grad, as well as an extremely talented artist. He describes his most recent paintings, a few of which are sho...
Silent Giants Update
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The Silent Giants have recently updated their shop with some new poster designs for Fleet Foxes, Flight of the Conchords and more. Pick up a print or ...
W.W. Norton Book Design archive
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Publisher W.W. Norton is now cataloging all of its covers on Flickr. via The Book Cover Archive...
Painted Pretzel
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Check out this gorgeous letterpress pretzel packaging by the ultra-talented Yael Miller, of Miller Creative, the Dieline and Share Some Candy....
Ben Whitla
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Fellow Syracuse grad Ben Whitla has some great work in his portfolio. I’m really enjoying the restaurant design work he’s worked on while ...
OK Experiment
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Our friends over at OK Great have an ongoing experiment creating handmade versions of their logo with various materials. Lately they’ve been exp...
Scrapbook Patterns
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I’ve never actually done any scrapbooking before, but I do enjoy a lot of the patterned paper made for the craft. There’s a huge selection...
Anthropologie + Hatch Show Print
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If you haven’t yet received the June Anthropolgie catalog, you’re in for a treat. The creative team at Anthro has joined forces with Hatch...
Mini Goals
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I love love love these mini goals chalkboards created by illustrator Mary Kate McDevitt. I think the fun hand-painted lettering would make checking of...
Lagom
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Lagom is a Swedish word that is loosely translated to mean “just right”. And based on their tight selection of designer greeting cards and...
Color Happy 38
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Feeling muted pastels today… Photograph by the lovely Shana Rae, whose prints you can purchase right here....
Anna Bond for Bonnie Tsang
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Photographer extraordinaire Bonnie Tsang has a new identity courtesy of the uber talented Anna Bond. I especially love the wallpaper-patterned busines...
Granola
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Danish design firm, Designbolaget created this complete identity system, including packaging, menus and signage, for Granola coffee company and coffee...
Type Love 49: ITC Klepto
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ITC Klepto, designed by Phil Grimshaw, is a playful yet rough-around-the-edges display face. I especially love the curves in the lowercase k (and the ...
Sarah Walsh
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I am so excited about this branding for specialist tea company Mallard by Sarah Walsh, I’m almost ready to hop on a plane to England. I would lo...