10 Cool Fonts to Inspire Your Next Design Project
If you’re anything like me, you already have over a thousand fonts installed on your machine. But every time you start browsing your collection, all...
Category: Design
Guts & Glory Projects
I recently came across the work of Guts & Glory, the Oakland, California-based studio founded by Faun Chapin and Meg Paradise, and I am loving wha...
Easy, Tiger: Cards for Awesome People
Easy Tiger is a new Kansas City based stationery business that strives to make “cards for awesome people.” And they are certainly distribu...
A Master of Her Brand
Everyone seems to be talking about the new Kate Spade collection right now. And as much as I love the clothes and accessories, I’m more impresse...
Anderson Design Group: Rahal Farms Branding
Nashville-based Anderson Design Group recently completed this branding project for Rahal Farms, a holistic and sustainable farm, also in Tennessee.The...
Badass Lady Creatives: Art Director/Designer Jenny Tondera
Jenny Tondera, Art Director at Spring Studios NY, hasquite a bit under her belt: she’s designed atMCAD DesignWorks, 160over90, andBloomingdale&#...
Franklyn: Betaworks Identity and Collateral
Brooklyn-based studio Franklyn?recently completed a rebrand for Betaworks,?who builds and invests in companies and products in the digital realm. Part...
Rebecca Mah: Culture Caps
For her senior thesis, Tyler School of Art graduate Rebecca Mah created Culture Caps, a drop cap alphabet influenced by different regions correspondi...
Kelli Anderson: Russ & Daughters
I am incredibly impressed with the extensive?project that Kelli Anderson recently completed for New York institution, Russ and Daughters. Working alon...
Roger Dario Design
I just recently stumbled upon Roger Dario‘s portfolio?which he just redesigned this past winter?and found a selection of really impressive ident...
The Fox and King Illustration
There’s something sly and regal making magic in Melbourne, Australia, and that something is Glenn Thomas, AKA The Fox and King. Glenn’s r...
J.Crew for Paperless Post
Paperless Post’s latest collaboration is with none other than major fashion brand?J. Crew, who created a collection of 42 greetings and invitati...
Alliteration Inspiration: Zoos & Zzz’s
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Kelly Thompson: Design & Illustration
Kelly Thompson, a Texan designer/illustrator based in Seattle, has combined her southern spice and northwestern quirkiness into a wide range of notewo...
Kevin Cantrell: Terra Poster
Kevin Cantrell just completed the next poster in his 7 Days series, Terra, and it is—as expected—just plain gorgeous. This time around he has prin...
Meagan Tidwell Design
Meagan Tidwell has a beautiful portfolio filled with work that is sophisticated, elegant and often soft, light, airy. Below are a few projects that ...
Neenah Env Papers Notecards + A Giveaway
Neenah Paper recently worked with Design Army to reinvent their line of Environment papers, including the development of a new color palette and...
The Fascinating World of the Global Web
If you haven?t had a chance to click through the 113-slide deck on The Emerging Global Web yet, you?re seriously missing out. 25 years on and the web ...
Triboro: Narcissa Identity and Collateral
Triboro recently relaunched their website with a ton of beautiful, new work. One project that particularly caught my eye is their identity and collat...
Mirth Studio Hardwood Floor Tiles
Not your typical DWL post, but I cannot get enough of these gorgeous, patterned hardwood floor tiles by Mirth Studio....
KNOCK Inc: We Heart Trees 2014
This year, for their annual Arbor Day initiative, KNOCK Inc put together a Buzzfeed-style quiz that tells users what CelebriTree they are. Results a...
A Few Fuzzco Projects
It’s been a little while since I checked in with what Fuzzco was up to, and since I always love their work, I figured now is the time. Here are ...
Quick Links: 05.23.14
Looking for some new color inspiration? Check out The Day’s Color, a daily color digest. If you’re looking for icons to use in your next d...
Etsy Finds: Hooray Today
Illustrators Alyssa Nassner and Allison Beck just recently launched Hooray Today, a new line of colorful greeting cards and paper goods. They have lot...
Student Work: Rosie Gopaul Packaging Projects
I’m really enjoying these two student packaging projects by Rosie Gopaul, a designer based out of Vancouver, BC. Hushh Stewards Soapery Messy M...
Alliteration Inspiration: Wheels & Water
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
ASCD: 2013 Annual Report Website
Every annual reporting season, companies and nonprofits alike step up their design game to create a solid impression of the past year’s progress...
Sense: Oblica Catalogue
Bask in the warming glow of beautiful design found in this catalogue for Oblica fireplaces created by Sense, a creative agency based in Melbourne, A...
Baron Fig: The Poster Project
Baron Fig, a small business making “sketchbooks and notebooks for thinkers,” just launched a lovely new side project simply titled The Pos...
BLOW: Project Charisma Teaser
New from BLOW is their work for Project Charisma, a teaser promotion for Polytrade Paper. To promote their range of eight papers, BLOW developed eight...
Marriott Hotels’ Meetings Imagined Inspires You to Travel Brilliantly
Last week I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Atlanta and work with Marriott Hotels as they celebrate the launch of Meetings Imagined, an am...
Signs of Hawaii
Since Hawaii is my absolute favorite place on earth, I am loving this Instagram photo series of vintage signs found there. Most of the images have be...
Jon Newman: Daydreams & Nightschemes Studio Launch
Designer Jon Newman took the leap from the comfort of his day job at MTV to start Daydreams & Nightschemes, his own new studio. Among Jon’s ...
Alliteration Inspiration: Veggies & Vacation
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Kyrö Distillery Company on Behance
I am by no means a whiskey fan, but I definitely love the bold identity and packaging that Werklig developed for Kyrö Distillery Company, a rye wh...
Odding Wang: The Book of Red
Odding Wang‘s “The Book of Red,” a handcrafted notebook tribute to Pablo Picasso, is a beautifully made piece of paper cut storytel...
13 Italian Illustrators Whose Work Will Inspire You
Italian illustrators are really showing up in the illustration scene right now. With bold color choices and meaningful messages, these illustrators fr...
Best of the Web: May Edition
It may seem like we’re crazy about apps, but we like the web too. The question is, what’s the future of the web? Is it dying? Are apps taking over...
Ciara Phelan: Collages
Ciara Phelan, a freelance illustrator and textile designer in east London, recently launched her new website full of intricate collage work and other...
New Paper Goods from Hammerpress
I’m loving some of Hammerpress’s most recently launched paper goods, from their series of astrological notecards, to their small chipboard...
Studio Fludd: Gelatology – Micro / Macro
Studio Fludd‘s Gelatology project, which we featured back in November, has grown into a new booklet titled “Micro / Macro” and exp...
Open Door Design Studio: Reinventing the Toilet Challenge
Who knew a toilet could be so beautiful? The team at Open Door Design Studio, in collaboration with Kohler, designed the remarkable exterior of Caltec...
Casey Ligon: Hand Lettering
The hand lettering work of Casey Ligon is a gorgeous force to be reckoned with as her talents span chalk, ink, vector and beyond. Her ability to work...
Morgan Davidson: Colored Pencil Season Girls Illustration Series
This series of beautiful colored pencil illustrations was created by Morgan Davidson, a soon-to-be graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design. Ea...
Juan Coca: CHS 2014 Commencement Invitation
Juan Coca, a design student at Fort Hays State University, gave his younger brother quite the rad grad gift in designing these beautiful letterpress...
Alliteration Inspiration: Universe & Umbrellas
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Student Work: Josh Schott
Graphic designer Josh Schott is pursuing his MFA at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and already has an impressive collection of work to his...
Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean
With tons of plastic waste filling the globe’s oceans, Vicki Turner set out to do something about it. The result: Drop in the Ocean, a limited e...
The Graveyard of User Interface Design
Even though Apple just sold another 43.7 million iPhones last quarter, countless products, screens and interfaces have apparently missed the memo on ...
Grey, Singapore: Multinational Typeface
The team at Grey Advertising‘s Singapore office designed a fascinating modular Multinational Typeface, using colors and composition representati...
Young & Laramore: “Time is Measured in Tomorrows”
Building Tomorrow, a nonprofit dedicated to building schools in East Africa, worked with Young & Laramore to produce “Time is Measured in To...
Kevin Cantrell: Commonwealth Coffee Identity and Collateral
Kevin Cantrell has recently lent his beautiful, highly detailed, maximalist style to the identity, collateral and packaging for Commonwealth Coffee. T...
Bielke+Yang: Vitenparken Identity and Collateral
Oslo-based studio Bielke+Yang developed this dynamic, experimental identity for the new incarnation of the traditional Norwegian Agriculture Museum...
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Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs
I’m loving the delightfully clever GIFs that designer Dimas Forchetti has put together as part of an ongoing personal project of random creati...
Alliteration Inspiration: Outdoors & Outlaws
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Leeay Aikawa: Mixed Media Collages
Toronto-based designer/illustrator Leeay Aikawa has a special talent for crafting mixed media collages that are simply fascinating. Leeay on her in...
Will Miller: AURA Natural Pet Identity and Collateral
Chicago-based designer Will Miller worked with AURA Natural pet to develop their identity, packaging and stationery. One detail that especially stand...
Mike Lowery: New Work
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Mike Lowery here at DWL, and since he recently launched his new website with tons of saucy recent w...
Tyler School of Art: Brains, Muscle, Wildcard
In teaming up for their exhibition date last week as part of the 2014 Tyler School of Art MFA Graphic and Interactive Design Thesis Exhibition, desi...