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...
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Courtney • 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 ...
Type Love 166: Carolyna
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I’m always on the lookout for scripts that emulate handwriting a bit more than traditional ones do, so I was excited to discover Carolyna, which defin...
Eric Frommelt Design
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I’m incredibly inspired by the work of Eric Frommelt, whose abstract compositions are informed by “technology, maps, data visualizations, information ...
René Bieder and Yassin Taibi: Mr. Bob Films Website
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I’ve said before that I don’t feature web design enough around here, so I’m excited to share this sleek design for Mr. Bob Films by René Bieder and Ya...
Recent Grad: Christine McMahon
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Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art seems to be producing one talented designer after another—we’ve posted about a few of their students from the progr...
Miriam Altamira: Cocktail Sodas
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LOVE this student project by Miriam Altamira—packaging for a series of Cocktail Sodas...
Lab Partners: California Gold
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I’m a bit late to the game on this one, but I am so excited about this new poster series by Lab Partners that I had to share. This screen printed, fiv...
Hello! Lucky Holiday Card Collaborations
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Along with a newly designed website, San Francisco-based stationery design shop Hello! Lucky recently launched a series of fantastic custom holiday ca...
Stitch Design Co.: Rewined Identity and Packaging
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I’m completely smitten with this new project by Stitch Design Co. Rewined is a line of allnatural soy candles that are housed in recycled wine bottles...
They Draw and Cook Giveaway
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This giveaway is now closed; the winner will be announced on Monday morning. Thanks to all who participated! For the third week in a row, I have anoth...
Sam Bosma Illustration
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Feast your eyes on the gorgeous illustration work of Sam Bosma. A selection of his work is available in print form right here....
Hovard Design: Eastfield Village Identity
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I’m really impressed with this unique identity project for Eastfield Village by Brooklyn-based Hovard Design. More about the project in their own word...
Type Love 165: Beckett
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I’ve recently discovered A-2 Type, a London-based foundry started by A2/SW/HK, and I loving the selection of typefaces they’ve developed. A few of the...
Edge and Barrett: 11 Boundary Branding
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Edge & Barrett is producing some really great work, including this branding for 11 Boundary, a high-end East London boutique. via Vigor Branding...
Rachell Sumpter: Penguin Book Covers
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I’m blown away by these hand-embroidered book covers that Rachell Sumpter created for Penguin under the art direction of Paul Buckley. Get a closer lo...
LOOVVOOL: Bendis Financial Branding
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LOOVVOOL is a branding agency for lifestyle and luxury businesses based in Hong Kong. I was particularly drawn the branding for Bendis Financial....
Anna Hurley Design and Illustration
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I’ve been a big fan of Ann Hurley‘s design and illustration work for quite some time, so I’m surprised me that I’ve never featured her here before. Cu...
Jordan Metcalf: Pictures | Words Exhibition
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For a solo show in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jordan Metcalf created Pictures | Words, a “range of type and image based pieces in various mediums inc...
CODO Design: The Libertine Branding
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CODO Design recently developed the identity, signage and various print materials for The Libertine, a new cocktail bar in Indianapolis. The brand took...
Ayaka Ito Illustration and Design
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I’m incredibly impressed with the breadth of Ayaka Ito‘s work, a Brooklyn-based interactive designer. From the dimensional hand-lettering to the typog...
Casa Rex: Emporium Collection Notebooks
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Brazilian design agency Casa Rex has recently produced the Emporium Collection, a large grouping of stationery items, for the Livraria Cultura booksto...
The New Year Design and Illustration
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I’m a big fan of the work of Sasha Barr, aka The New Year. In fact, we’ve had one of his posters (the Pinback design 5 rows from the bottom) hanging u...
Mark McCormick: Alfonso
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Alfonso is a typeface that was developed by Mark McCormick during his time in the type@cooper program. It’s not yet available for purchase, but as soo...
Christopher Monro DeLorenzo Design
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I actually posted about some of Chris DeLorenzo’s work awhile back, but it was only recently that I realized he not only grew up one town away from me...
Type Love 164
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Meet my latest typographical crush, display face Fierro: Fierro is a heavy-geometric-retrofuturistic typographic construction that, without any curve,...
Kiosk Royal: Eminor Music Packaging
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As I’ve said before, it’s rare to come across well-designed music packaging these days, as most people have gone 100% digital. So it’s no surprise tha...
Travis Brown: Core of Discovery Branding
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This colorful, typographic branding for Core of Discovery is right up my alley. Designed by Travis Brown while at TOKY, the program was intended to in...
Make & Matter: Apron Allure Branding
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I’m absolutely loving the work of Make & Matter, an Austin-based design studio who believes in a simple philosophy — “to make (aka ‘design’) and to ma...
Bryan Patrick Todd: Highlands Mural
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Check out this awesome typographic mural that Bryan Patrick Todd designed to adorn a building in the Highlands, a popular neighborhood in Louisville, ...
Katie Kirk: Eli, no!
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I actually posted a couple of spreads from Eli, No!, Katie Kirk‘s self-written and illustrated children’s book, way back in 2008 when it was just in i...
Recent Grad: Kayla Jang
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Kayla Jang is a recent SVA grad, with a portfolio that rivals many professionals I’ve seen. Here’s just one example of her smart and sophisticated wor...