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.

Nicole McQuade: Kitchen Stories Identity and Collateral

For the past three years, Nicole McQuade—designer and photographer—and Judi Cutrone—writer—have been collaborating on Some Kitchen Stories, a blog that combines food and fiction. They once worked together in the West Loop of Chicago. They cook, then Nicole mans the…

Quick Links: 03.21.14

The VSCO Artist Initiative is a “$100,000 USD scholarship fund providing artists the resources to pursue their creative vision.” More info here. I came across two interesting Tumblrs this week: Wes Anderson Palettes and Humanæ, which showcases a series of portraits whose backgrounds…

Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year

Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes serving as “part motivation, part fun.”

Type Love: Result

Result is a grotesque sans serif designed by Cloud9 Type Dept, an independant type foundry based out of Helsinki, Finland. Result features three weights, an extended character set to support Central, Eastern and Western European languages, plus OpenType features like fractions and…

Quick Links: 03.14.14

I’ve always been a fan of Nicholas Felton‘s personal annual reports—so much so that I own every single one, in all of their data-heavy, infographic, print glory. Which means I was incredibly excited to see him featured in the latest…

Natalie Andrewson: Wes Anderson Posters

At the moment, I happen to be anxiously anticipating Wes Anderson‘s new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (now in select theaters.) So when I spotted Natalie Andrewson‘s poster series inspired by four of the director’s most popular films, I was immediately…

Type Love: Malina

Malina is a new display face by Katatrad, a Thailand-based foundry. Defined by graceful, elegant letterforms, the typeface includes four fonts—two weights plus matching italics—as well as various alternate characters. Pick up a copy at MyFonts.

2014 RE:DESIGN UXD Giveaway Winner

Congrats, Allison—you’ve won a free pass to the upcoming RE:DESIGN UXD Conference! Please shoot me an email so that I can pass your contact info onto the RE:DESIGN folks. Thanks to everyone else who entered!

Naomie Ross & Daniel Renda: Pastosa Ravioli Co.

As a personal project, designers Naomie Ross and Daniel Renda set out to rebrand Pastosa Ravioli Co., an NYC shop whose pasta they both grew up eating. Their intent was to transform the shop’s image from that of a generic corner deli to a gourmet…

Quick Links: 03.07.14

When Adobe came to them to create an interpretive graphic of their logo, Sagmeister & Walsh came up with the brilliant idea of turning the process into a five-part gameshow series. Four of the five episodes are now available for…

Etsy Finds: Vintage Posters

This Perth, Australia-based Etsy Shop, Vintage Posters Art, is offering some awesome vintage poster reproductions. Their stock mostly covers travel—the Hawaii one is my favorite, of course—and SciFi movies. A few favorites are below, but be sure to check out…