Fabio Ongarato Design: Baker D. Chirico Identity
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I discovered Fabio Ongarato Design late in 2010, and have loved every project they’ve done since then. So it’s no surprise that I was impressed with t...
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Courtney • Geetika Alok: Greetings, Wolff Olins
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I’m loving the playful, geometric forms found in this (clearly labor intensive) typographic project by Geetika Alok for Wolff Olins. Check out the vid...
Recent Grad: Meghan Besinger
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Recent grad Meghan Besinger created this campaign during her last year at the University of North Texas. In her own words, Move to Amend is “a non-pr...
Manic: The Sultan Branding
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The Sultan is a brand new boutique hotel in Singapore. It’s elegant branding was conceptualized and developed by Manic....
Stewart Scott-Curran: Dark Side of the Moon Posters
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As a self-initiated project, Stewart Scott-Curran designed a series of posters inspired by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Each poster represents ...
Duet Letterpress: Party in a Box
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When Julie of Duet Letterpress realized her husband’s 30th birthday would fall at an inopportune time for a gathering, she came up with an ingenious s...
Inflated/Deflated
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Inflated/Deflated is a collaborative project by three Chicago-based creatives: Jillian Barthold, Lauren Connolly, and Kady Dennell, with photography b...
MaricorMaricar: Makers, Dreamers
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Feast your eyes on yet another gorgeous specimen of hand-embroidered typography by MaricorMaricar, featuring a quote from one of my favorite movies of...
Zeus Jones: Proof iPad App and Tasting Kits
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I’m a firm believer that the best and most successful self-initialed projects grow out of a personal or shared passion. This is precisely the case wit...
Atelier Martino&Jaña: JAZZ 2011 JOURNAL
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For the past couple of years Atelier Martino&Jaña has done an excellent job creating the look and materials for the Guimarães Jazz festival, an annual...
Division Of Holiday Card
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Check out this super creative card by the folks over at Division Of/. Each year they aim to make a useful holiday gift, so this year they created a ge...
Maddison Graphic: The Fruitful Field
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The Fruitful Field, by Maddison Graphic, is an identity and book for the Methodist Church introducing their project of the same name. I’m particularly...
Birdsong Gregory Holiday Card
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This beautiful Holiday “gift pack”, which includes 3 cards, gift tags, postcards and an ornament, was conceptualized, illustrated designed and printed...
Karen To and Piper Weaver: Metamorphosis
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As a team, Karen To and Piper Weaver developed the announcement and program for the CalArts 2011 Graduation. Based on theme of metamorphosis, the desi...
TOKY: Texts in the City Gala invitation
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This stunningly beautiful invitation was designed by TOKY for the St. Louis Library Foundation’s annual gala. Here’s a little insight into the process...
The Indigo Bunting: 2012 Calendars
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I’m always a fan of Erin Jang’s work, so it’s no surprise that I’m loving the new calendars designed for 2012. I have her 2011 Icon Calendar hanging u...
Travel + Leisure Holiday Card
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This playful fortune teller holiday card was created for Travel + Leisure magazine by art Director Jill Sabato and her talented in-house design team. ...
Matchstic Rebrands
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I’m consistently impressed with the work coming out of Atlanta-based Matchstic, so my eyes widened when I spotted the recent rebrand of their own stud...
The Lost Type Co-op Shop
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I have been a fan of the Lost Type Co-op since it opened its doors. So I’m pleased to announce that as of this morning they have launched a brand new ...
Gifted
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I’m really excited about Gifted, a side project from the folks at Atelier 1A and FormFiftyFive. Gifted will be a mix of a “shop, blog and community fu...
Meers Advertising: Swoon Identity and Packaging
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I have a huge sweet tooth, so well-done branding for any dessert-related product is hard for me to resist. Case in point: Swoon, a custom sugar cookie...
Cast Iron Design Company: Liz Miller Branding
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Cast Iron Design Company, a relatively new two-man shop, has just launched their complete website. There’s lots of great work to be seen, but I was es...
Strohl: Leckerlee Lebkuchen
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Exciting news—two huge talents, Eric Strohl and Christine Celic Strohl have officially joined forces as STROHL, a San Francisco-based design firm spec...
Figtree Network: Flying Fantastic
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Apologies if you saw this post disappear earlier today, an unfinished version of this post went up unintentionally. Like Figtree says in their descrip...
Brad Woodard: Big Fish Poster
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I loved Brad Woodard’s illustration style at first sight—especially this poster design he created for Big Fish, a submission to the current Silver Scr...
LouLou & Tummie: Moonwalking the Dog Screen Print
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I’m loving this new screen print by Loulou & Tummie, Moonwalking the Dog—great color palette. Pick up a print for yourself in their shop....
Moxy Creative House: Touristique
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Moxy Creative House presents Touristique, a series of five illustrated posters based on major cities. They’re available for purchase right here. New Y...
Sane and Able: The Londoner Christmas Games
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If you’re still on the hunt for this year’s holiday cards, this set by Sane and Able, The Londoner Christmas Games, is definitely a fun and one-of-a-k...
Recent Grad: Tony Lee, Jr.
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Take a look at this beautiful senior project by Tony Lee Jr., a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon. He developed visual identities for three Puccini o...
Sébastien Bisson: B-SIDE Branding
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I’m loving the crisp black and white branding and materials for B Side Studios by Sébastien Bisson. via The Dsgn Blog...
Citizens for Optimism
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Citizens for Optimism is a collaboration among 17 up and coming designers who strive to use their unique styles to inspire happiness through design. O...
Michael Croxton: Viacom Projects
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Michael Croxton recently did a bit of work for Viacom and Viacom International that caught my eye. This first set of images represent a campaign creat...
Hopscotch Design Recent Works
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Hopscotch Design is the new studio of paper artist Chloe Fleury, who I featured back in February. She’s been quite busy since then, as you can see by ...
Vesa Sammalisto Alphabet Prints
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DWL fave Vesa Sammalisto just launched an online shop! The shop currently stocks his personal Alphabet project, a series of limited edition mini print...
Trigger Communications Advent Calendar
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As a kid, my brothers and I used to get one of those vintage style chocolate advent calendars every year, which was pretty much my favorite thing abou...
Monday Quick Links
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Mama’s Sauce is generously offering you almost 200 300 dpi bitmaps of created from scanning their collection of vintage letterpress plates. Score! Jol...
Martin O’Neill Collage
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I can’t get enough of Martin O’Neill’s mixed media, and largely typographic, collage and art work. Check out a whole lot more here, and pick up prints...
Marian Williams Design: Fitting Wines
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Lovely branding and design for Fitting Wines by Marian Williams Design....
FontMap Typographic Maps
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Typographic maps are nothing new, but these by Fontmap are the best I’ve seen. The letters that denote each area also make up an accurate geographic r...
Emily Macrae: Nine Lives Book Design
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Emily Macrae’s Nine Lives is a self-initiated project that examines how older generations are affected by the huge changes in the way we communicate. ...
Linzie Hunter Christmas Cards
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I just recently stumbled upon this project of Linzie Hunter‘s from last Christmas, where she hand lettered 100 different holiday cards for clients. He...
Miller: Olli Salumeria Branding
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Check out this gorgeous branding created by Miller Creative for Olli Salumeria, a virginia-based shop that makes dry-cured salumi. I especially love t...
The Hungry Workshop: Letterpress Bookmark
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The creative letterpress projects that are coming out of The Hungry Workshop are so incredibly inspiring—this little piece of paper goodness was desig...
Foundry Collective: Urban Wineworks
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Earlier this month Foundry Collective launched a beautiful new site featuring lots of new work. They excel at layering typographic and illustrative de...
Pedale Design: Quills Coffee
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Love this simple, yet bold packaging and identity work for Quills Coffee by Pedale Design....
Area Code Project
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Awhile back I briefly mentioned the Area Code Project, Mike McQuade’s ongoing project whose mission is to catalog all of the area codes in the United ...
John & John Crisps Packaging
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I came across this graphic packaging the other day, and they immediately grabbed my attention. According to the source, BP&O, John & John is “is a ran...
Laurie DeMartino Design: Womn in Design Exhibition
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Minneapolis has such an amazing design scene, including an especially high concentration of talented female designers. So it was great to see the deve...
Neighborhood Studio: Oaksterdam Hydroponics
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Last week Curtis Jinkins launched a brand new site for his shop, Neighborhood Studio, featuring loads of new work. All of it is fantastic, but this pa...
TunnelBravo: North Identity & Collateral
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TunnelBravo recently completed the identity and collateral design for North, a brand new Italian restaurant in Phoenix. I’m especially loving the hand...
Kelli Anderson: Infographics
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Like so many others, I’ve been admiring the infographic snippets Kelli Anderson has been posting on Dribbble over the last few months. So I was super ...
Student Spotlight: Mai K. Nguyen
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Mai K. Nguyen is a current design student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a whole lot of talent. I’m incredibly impressed with this identity and pack...
Nate Williams: The chemiCOOLS Collection
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I’ve been a big fan of Nate Williams’s illustration, design and lettering work for quite awhile, so it’s no surprise that I instantly loved one of his...
Greg Christman: Oliver Birth Announcement
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Check out this gorgeous announcement that Greg Christman designed to celebrate the birth of his son Oliver (love that name!). The lyric he chose to us...
They Draw and Cook Winner!
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Thanks again to all who participated! I’m psyched to have a huge list of new recipes to try; check the comments on the original post to see for yourse...
Misty Manley: Fake Anything Designs
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Have you heard of Fake Anything? I hadn’t before I received Misty Manley‘s submission. But I’m certainly glad I did, especially since the blog feature...
NB Studio: Land Securities Park House Branding
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A beautiful identity for Park House by London-based NB Studio. More here....
Two Paperdolls: I Do Films Branding
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When we were planning our wedding last year, a wedding video seemed like one of the items we could live without, so we opted not to hire a videographe...
Dan Cassaro: New York Times Magazine Education Issue
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For The New York Times Magazine’s Education Issue, Dan Cassaro was commissioned to create a a series of stickers to accompany each article. It looks l...
DDB: ADC Annual Awards Call for Entries Campaign
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DDB New York’s campaign for ADC’s Annual Awards Call for Entries is just plain awesome—I think we all can relate. I especially love the tagline: Keep ...