Category Design

New and Improved Veer

I recently received an email from Veer announcing all sorts of improvements they’ve made to their Ideas section. On top of being a prime source for type, photogrpahy and illustration; the new features make Veer more of a community. Among…

The Process Behind the Poster

Awhile ago I wrote about this poster designed for Barack Obama by Scott Hansen of ISO50. Here he outlines the complicated process in detail. Pretty cool insight into what’s involved.

Smock

Several years ago while at Syracuse, I was lucky enough to work part time at Boxcar Press. If you know letterpress at all, you know Boxcar. In addition to letterpress printing and photopolymer plate making, they produce the well-known Boxcar…

Old School

“The “Old School” theme will celebrate the aesthetics of twentieth century education through an art exhibition and companion book, as well as curated objects. It is inspired by vintage flash cards, old desks, biology class, science fairs, crayons, card catalogs,…

Helvetica Hoodies!

I love this hoodie! (Especially the black one with pink letters, super girly I know.) And it’s even cooler that all the letters are individually hand cut. $38 right here. via Seesaw Designs

Some Packaging Eye Candy

Here’s some smart, clean and functional packaging from BVD out of Stockholm. They also have some great identity work, see that here. I also really love the simplicity of their site design, and the fact that they include their brief…

Harmonie interieure Prints

I became obsessed with these typographic designs when I saw them on the Graphic Exchange last fall. And I hadn’t visited the main site in awhile—an amazing resource for design inspiration. So when I decided to see what’s new yesterday,…

My Secret Playlist

Next Tuesday Lost at E Minor will be launching what promises to be a really cool email newsletter. Every week a different guest musician will compile a list of the 8 songs they’re loving at the moment. I’m always on…

Handwritten Typographers

Cameron Adams over at The Man in Blue put together a really fun post that showcases the handwriting of several prominent typographers. See Sebastian Lester below, and many more here. Thanks for the link, John!

Type Love 7: Tisa and Atma

FontShop does it again, with another great newsletter this week. I’m always on the lookout for a friendly text weight serif family, so here are a couple I’m really liking. FF Tisa FF Atma Check out the rest of the…

The Heads of State Site Redesign

One of the many growing collections in my apartment is screen-printed show posters. We have quite a few of them, designed by various artists for several different bands. Some time in the near future I plan on doing a post…

The Daily Heller

For awhile now, design aficionado Steven Heller has been writing a column for the online version of Print Magazine where he posts short design-related entries daily. Today marks the redesign of the column as well as the launch of a…

HOW Conference mp3s Available

The HOW Conference site has posted mp3s of most of the 2008 sessions. You can download single sessions for $15 and workshops for $19, or you can get the entire package for $199. A pretty good deal considering the price…