Nathalie Lete
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These vibrant, playful silkscreen prints by Nathalie Lété are currently available at Anthropologie. via Fly...
Courtney • Polaroid Composites
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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 indi...
Upcoming Type
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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
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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 tel...
Gold Lunchbox
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Hofstede Design
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Australian studio Hofstede Design has a pretty amazing portfolio, so it’s no surprise that their own identity is equally outstanding. The system...
My Inspired Heart
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Take a look at the dreamy photographs by My Inspired Heart. Pick up prints on etsy right here....
Color Happy 58
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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?
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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 ...
Igor Melgaco
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I can’t stop examining these vibrant illustrations and patterns by Brazilian designer, Igor Melgaco. You can see more of this project right here...
Type Love 71: ITC Chino
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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 ...
Kamal
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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 ...
Bam Bam Ink
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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...
Yotam Hadar
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While I’m particularly drawn to this illustrative identity for Cafe Hillel, Yotam Hadar’s portfolio is widely diverse, featuring everythin...
New from Nice Type
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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 be...
Monday Quick Links: 11.16.09
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Check out this huge collection of free textures for your design projects There’s some really great stuff in this collection of vintage-inspired ...
Doublenaut
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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
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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
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A perfectly Fall palette in this typographic illustration by THIS STUDIO....
Yurko Gutsulyak
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I’m intrigued by this identity for Legal Consulting Group by Ukraine-based designer Yurko Gutsulyak....
Type Love 70: Encore Sans Pro
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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 Ul...
Design is Love
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Design is Love is a gathering place whose goal is to “facilitate meaningful communication amongst designers and those working in the non-profit ...
Mind Design
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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, ...
Abigail Wynne
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Abigail Wynne is a talented illustrator, designer and photographer....
International Year of Astronomy
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An awesome set of posters designed by Simon Page. More here....
Transformer Studio
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Great branding work by Transformer Studio....
Sollinero
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Thinking about picking up one of these fun prints by Buenos Aires-based artist, Sollinero. via Pikaland...
Jeremy Dimmock
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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
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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
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Beautiful work by Twist Creative....
Love What You Do
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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
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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
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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...
Still Room
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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
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If nothing else, Type Together’s Skolar is a workhorse. A text serif originally designed to shine in multilingual publications, the Skolar famil...
Scribbler
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Another great find from this year’s annuals is the calligraphic identity for Scribbler, a stationery shop, by Lewis Communications....
Call for Submissions
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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
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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 al...
Owner of this World
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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...
Erik Marinovich
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Particularly enjoying the web design projects in the portfolio of Erik Marinovich....
Acme
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Really liking the minimalist packaging design for tea purveyor Bernschutz & Co by Acme Industries. via Share Some Candy Get 300+ Fonts for FREEEn...
four 30
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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
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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 b...
Augustus
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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.
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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 ...
Creative Roots
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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...
Color Happy 55
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Faux bois butcher block pattern by Meg Hunt....
Type Love 68: Block Gothic
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Block Gothic is available in three weights from Fontshop....
Objective Subject
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Enjoying the work of Objective Subject, particularly the design for The Old Brooklyn Parlor....
LAPD Studio
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Great work by LAPD Studio, the freelance design practice of designer, Pete Davies....
Andrio Abero
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Designer and illustrator Andrio Abero, formerly known as 33rpm, recently completed a redesign of his brand and new site. I’m a huge fan of his p...
Christine Celic Strohl
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Christine Celic Strohl is the designer behind many of my favorite Mucca projects, including the identity for Butterfield Market. Her style is the kind...
Behind the Design: Australian Financial Review
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Tony Rice, Design Director for the Australian Financial Review, gives Grids an in-depth look behind the design of their most recent, 10th anniversary ...
Letters Lubell
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Beautiful, “eco-chic” letterpress stationery items from Letters Lubell. via 100 Layer Cake...
Tom Henni
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I’m currenly loving the work of French designer and illustrator, Tom Henni. I especially love this unique identity project for Librairie Ouvrir ...
Monday Quick Links: 10.26.09
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A site devoted to vintage signage (via Quipsologies): Quality Vintage Remedy Quarterly is a new publication of “food stories and the recipes tha...
Letterror
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Fun type and lettering experiments from the flickr stream of Letterror....