Courtney

Courtney

Courtney is the founder of Design Work Life and Seamless Creative, a small design studio she runs with her husband Brian. She now splits her time between developing brand identities for small businesses and soaking up (and passing along) as much inspiration as she possibly can.

  • Joined: May 11, 2008
  • Articles: 4967

Maximalist

Denis Olenik is one of the designers I follow on Behance. Based out of Belarus, he does some really great logo and identity work. I also really love his presentation. See below for a few examples, and check out his…

The Bubble Roome

Delicious packaging for the Bubble Roome. I especially like that they emphasize each product’s pattern by shooting each one on the same background.

If You Could

Love the new If You Could prints for August, designed by Jason Munn and Rob Ryan. In case you haven’t heard of the series, it is a monthly print release from London-based studio, HudsonBec. The two artists—one established and one…

Playful Type

“Playful Type presents an inspiring collection of illustrative fonts and hand-made typography created from a variety of cutting-edge approaches and indicates current development in font design.” This new release from Gestalten is definitely going on the wish list. It won’t…

Grady McFerrin

Grady McFerrin’s portfolio is overflowing with beautiful work. But I am especially loving his wine labels, with their gorgeous hand-drawn type. Makes me want to go pick up a couple bottles just to have those labels on display. Click here…

The Confession Issue

If you haven’t heard of Blanket Magazine, it is a free, bi-monthly, themed PDF publication that features artists and designers and their work. Each issue is full of inspiration and always introduces me to at least a few new artists.…

Grow House, Grow!

I came across these really fun hand-printed wallpaper designs, by Grow House, Grow!, in a recent issue of Time Out New York. I love that each of the designs has it’s own personality and story, as seen in the product…

Wexner Center Totes

I found these eco-friendly totes in the latest issue of Readymade. Handmade from banners used to promote previous Wexner Center exhibitions, all of the bags are one-of-a-kind, and a pretty good deal at $40 each. The Wexner Center for the…

J. Crew Studio

Not sure how long this feature has been present on J. Crew’s site, but it is new to me. They have this small interactive section which lets you see some of the inspiration behind the new fall collection. I am…

Mary

New ASG edition print from Art School Girl for August, by Molly Carter. In case you haven’t heard of ASG editions, they produce a new limited edition letterpress print by a different artist every month. I wish there was a…

Color Happy 2

I’ve had fun pulling color palettes out of found imagery the couple of times I’ve done so—it allows me to get a tiny glimpse into the process. So I think I’ll make this a regular (or semi-regular) post. This week…

Over & Over

I read about this new book from Mike Perry yesterday on Treasuring, and immediately placed an order. “Over & Over” follows the same format, only with hand-drawn patterns. Knowing how amazing his first book is (since I own a copy)…

More Pattern Love

For some reason I don’t usually spend a lot of time browsing through Flickr. I know there’s a ton of great stuff to be seen, and for a lot of people it’s their go-to resource for inspiration. But for some…

Katie Kirk

The other day Free Design pointed out “Eli No!”, a children’s book designed by the extremely talented illustrator, Katie Kirk. I absolutely loved the style, color and feeling of the images when I saw them, so I did a little…