Jan Avendano: 1985 Typography
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1985 is a new typographic experiment by Jan Avendano. Prints are available right here—would make a great gift for someone born that year. ...
Category: Design
Courtney • Recent Grad: Tracy Hung: Linger Identity and Collateral
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Tracy Hung is a recent graduate of Art Center College of Design. Linger is a 5-week long summer outdoor film festival in Pasadena, California, for whi...
Tim Boelaars: New Icons
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Tim Boelaars just launched a pretty extensive set of icons that encompasses quite a wide range of topics. Check out the rest right here. ...
Lee Anthony Zelenak: Art of Ornament Collateral
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Lee Anthony Zelenak created these print pieces for Art of Ornament No. 2, an annual charity event hosted by AIGA Cleveland. The event enlists members ...
Jason Perez: Treasury Wine Estates Displays
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Jason Perez conceptualized these unique wine displays for Treasury Wine Estates, using only sustainable or upcycled materials provided by the winery....
Simon Frouws: Jamaica Blue Premium Coffee Packaging
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This gorgeous packaging was conceptualized, designed and illustrated by Simon Frous for Jamaica Blue Premium Coffee. Based on the island’s close proxi...
Bravo Company: By Invite Only
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Bravo Company designed the identity and collateral for By Invite Only, a handcrafted jewelry brand, with a rustic, vintage circus theme. via BP&O...
Brian Michael Gossett: People for Bikes
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Brian Michael Gossett (who just launched a new portfolio site) created these imaginary worlds for People for Bikes, an organization committed to makin...
Apfel Zet: Stuttgarter Filmwinter Posters
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Berlin-based studio Apfel Zet designed this poster series for Stuttgarter Filmwinter, a short and experimental film festival....
Robert Finkel: Up, Down, Left, Right Exhibition
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For his thesis project, Robert Finkel chose to produce an exhibition based on the history of the arrow, entitled Up, Down, Left, Right. Here’s a brief...
Saranna Drury Lettering
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These beautiful lettering snippets were created by Saranna Drury. More here. via Typeverything...
Collection: Garnet
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FOUND: 1. Garnet Karung Credit Card Case, 2. Continuum Necklace, 3. Sur La Table Red Baroque Charger, 4. Nike Blazer Hi Suede VNTG Deep Garnet, 5. Red...
New SVA Subway Posters
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SVA just launched a new poster campaign featuring a design by George Tscherny, who actually taught their first graphic design course in the 1950s and ...
DeRouen & Co.: Intuition Ale Packaging
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I’m loving the graphic illustrations and limited color palettes of the packaging designed for Intuition Ale by DeRouen & Co. Definitely the kind of be...
Jorinde Voigt Drawings
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Check out the incredible drawings of Jorinde Voigt. Wow. via But Does it Float...
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...
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....