Courtney, Author at Design Work Life

The World Gesture Guide, designed by Alba Durana, is a detailed handbook of international silent communication. The series, which features a book, fol...

The Time Traveler’s Calendar

Alex Griendling’s 2011 Time Traveler’s Calendar takes 95 separate time travel occurrences—from movies, video games, and television shows...

Aaron Robbs

This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! W...

Stir

You may recognize some of the projects below —I posted about Julian here and Glacé here— but now you’re seeing them in a whole new light. C...

Happy Town Menagerie

Lorena Siminovich, the artist behind Petit Collage, recently opened a new exhibition at San Franciscos’s The Curiosity Shoppe. If you’re i...

Monday Quick Links: 11.22.10

Courtney • Nov 22, 2010Aug 25, 2021

Normally this would be a light posting week since we have Thanksgiving on Thursday. However, because I didn’t get everything up as planned last ...

Color Happy 105

Courtney • Nov 19, 2010Mar 20, 2011

Strangely and sadly it’s been unseasonably warm around here lately. So I’m loving this image, by Sheng Han, that feels very Fall to me....

Type Love 118: 718

Courtney • Nov 18, 2010Sep 14, 2012

Terminal Design’s 718 is an ode to the outer boroughs of NYC, or “the real New York”, as they refer to the non-Manhattan area code. ...

Letterpress Designers Calendar

Courtney • Nov 18, 2010

If you also read one of my favorite design blogs, Graphic Exchange, you may have seen several posts about a 2011 Letterpress Designers Calendar. Follo...

Housekeeping

Courtney • Nov 18, 2010Apr 5, 2011

Good morning! Just a couple of quick updates: SITE STATUS The site is back up to speed at this point (aside from missing the posts that were meant to ...

Studio Fludd

Courtney • Nov 17, 2010Nov 18, 2010

Studio Fludd has some great new items in their shop....

A Quick Update

Courtney • Nov 17, 2010

For now, we’re back up—we’re just unfortunately a few days behind. We’re still working on fixing everything, and we’re aimin...

Michael Wertz: Dog Dreams

Courtney • Nov 17, 2010Nov 19, 2010

Bay-area illustrator Michael Wertz came up with the idea for Dog Dreams while watching his own dog, Olive, sleep. And the result is an amazing, 2-colo...

2010 Jazz Posters

You may remember the posters Martino&Jaña designed for the Guimarães Jazz 2009 event. I was blown away by the gorgeous hand-lettering they featu...

Ursa Major

Loving PTARMAK’s work for men’s skincare line, Ursa Major. Get a Free Font Every WeekEnter your email to receive a new FREE font every Friday....

Carson Ellis

Courtney • Nov 16, 2010Nov 18, 2010

I’m loving these quietly beautiful graphite drawings by Carson Ellis for The Decemberists....

30 Covers 30 Days

30 Covers 30 Days is a current project of The Office of Letters and Light, in which 30 designers are paired with 30 participant authors and tasked wit...

Dorian

Barcelona-based Dorian has just launched a brand new site. This particular project is a poster series inspired by various synthesizers and some of the...

Dana Tanamachi

I’m loving these chalk type drawings by Dana Tanamachi, who is currently a designer at Louise Fili Ltd. via Two Tall Blondes Get a Free Font Eve...

Wonderland

Wonderland, a hand-drawn font by Eve Duhamel, was created with felt tip pen for Fontself....

Typejockeys: Philippine Welser

Philippine Welser is a modern housing complex in Austria with a friendly, lively vibe. To help realize that atmosphere, Typejockeys contributed an ori...

By Force the Book

By Force is a book that accompanied the Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics, an event held in Belgrade the past two years. The book features a series of in...

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