Brand New Delicious Design League
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Delicious Design League, one of my favorites in the world of poster design, just launched a brand new website and store, featuring lots of new designs...
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Courtney • Gym Class Magazine
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Gym Class Magazine is a zine for the guy chosen last. What does that mean? Well, it’s a zine for the underdog, the black sheep. Remember your high s...
Bernat Fortet Unanue
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Beautiful imagery from Bernat Fortet Unanue’s 2009 Make Something Cool Everyday Project. See a whole lot more right here. via FFFFOUND!...
Color Happy 74
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Today these bright springy colors are getting me into the spirit of the upcoming holiday. This beautiful photo is by he incredibly talented Abby Powel...
Type Love 87: Lodgecode
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Lodgecode, the first release from the Look Partnership’s Tonalcase collection, is a single weight geometric sans. Designed by Jeff Warrington th...
Jonas Bergstrand
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Can’t believe it took me this long to discover the wonderful world of Jonas Bergstrand. via FFFFOUND!...
Patrick Draws Things
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Patrick Draws Things is the illustrative home of Patrick Hruby. There’s a lot of great stuff to see but I’m particularly enjoying these al...
Aaron Bouvier
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I’m thoroughly enjoying the portfolio of Aaron Bouvier. There’s lots of great stuff to see; but since I’m on a bit of a school kick ...
New Sheridan Hotel Branding
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Take a look at this meticulously detailed branding program for the New Sheridan Hotel in Telluride, Colorado. The physical and virtual experience was ...
Fling
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I’m loving everything about this chocolate packaging by Brooklyn-based designer Anchalee Chambundabongse, from the color palette to the graceful...
My Kind of School
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I highly doubt anyone has actually ever said they wanted to go back to middle school and meant it, but this recent branding project—yet another grea...
Ideas You Forgot
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Ideas You Forgot is the portfolio of German-based designer and recent graduate Regina Rebele. Regina has a wide range of projects in her portfolio, bu...
Isaac Arthur
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For his first home brewing attempt, Isaac Arthur cooked up this Honey Apple Mead. I’ve never tried mead before, but—as someone who pretty much...
jergot+gotroch matchboxes
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Even if this project is not particularly your style, you will surely be impressed by the sheer scale of it. For a recent music video for the Navigator...
Type Love 86: Eames Century Modern
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I’m cheering on House Industries for their latest and greatest release (and the newest addition to my typographic wishlist). In their own words:...
Neverend
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Bobby over at Kitsune Noir just keeps topping himself. First it was the Desktop Wallpaper Project, then the Poster Club, and now Neverend, this amazin...
Pavlov Visuals
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I’ve stayed away from featuring T-shirts for awhile, but Pavlov Visuals—who specializes in artist merchandising—has designed some really gre...
Boys’ Adventure
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Coralie Bickford-Smith is perhaps most well-known for her Clothbound Classics Series one and two. However, I’m also really impressed with her ar...
W+K Studio
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There’s some great work coming out of W+K Studio in Portland. They have a well-stocked shop featuring their handmade goods, which includes poste...
Kari Herer Botanicals
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Photographer Kari Herer has a background in both graphic design and fine art; and her varied experience definitely comes through her in work, which ra...
Brandt Botes
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Check out the “Creativity Can:” campaign for Design Indaba by South African-based designer Brandt Botes. Here’s a little bit about D...
Daniel Kent
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When Pennsylvania-based designer Daniel Kent sent in his work I was immediately impressed, from the very first project I viewed. In particular, though...
Type Love 85: Farnham
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Farnham is a typeface that was designed by Christian Schwartz for Font Bureau in 2004. The confident serif was based on the work of “Johannes Fl...
Cake Sale
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Sweets and typography are one of those combinations I can’t ever resist. So I’m loving this album artwork created for The Cake Sale, an al...
Zeus Jones
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Zeus Jones is a Minneapolis-based design firm that produces consistently smart, polished and beautiful work, no matter what the medium. Their pool of ...
Hand Drawn Type Collection
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On my wishlist: the Hand Drawn Type Collection from You Work for Them. Below are just a few of the 12 OpenType fonts that are part of the set, and eac...
Lego Boardroom Table
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Legos were one of my favorite toys as a kid, so I’m completely envious of the people that get to work from this Lego Boardroom Table every day. ...
Everything is Swell
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After living abroad in France for awhile, Karl Hebert, of Gold Lunchbox, produced this beautifully designed and illustrated booklet to celebrate their...
José Azevedo
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I’m a sucker for great hand-lettering, so I found these sketch book pages by José Azevedo hugely inspiring. Check out the rest right here. via ...
A Dress and a Gig Poster
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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of inspiration post series that pair two seemingly different objects together—a piece of clothing and a home acc...
Cornwell
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Australian design studio, Cornwell, excels in developing large scale brands that manage to retain a healthy dose of personality. Case in point, this p...
Type Love 84: Sans Merci
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This week I’m liking the display face, Sans Merci, “an incisive font for sharp words”, by SMeltery....
Flowers In May Prints
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Flowers in May makes some really fun prints. Each one features a collection of graphic illustrations based on various themes, including Paris (below),...
Juuso Koponen
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I’m loving these pieces that Juuso Koponen, a Helsinki-based designer and illustrator, designed for the Flow Festival, an annual music festival ...
40 Days of Water Facts
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Great project for a great cause. 40 Days of Water Facts (more information on the cause here), by pope saint victor. found via mint...
New Reads
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Here are two books I’ve come across recently that made it to my wishlist: Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design This new book ...
Alphabattle 2.0
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If you have been keeping up with Lettercult at all, you may already be aware of the Alphabattle currently going on over there. Not exactly a battle pe...
Eric Ellis
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Check out this fun class project by Chicago-based designer and illustrator Eric Ellis. Matro is a fictional chocolate company whose concept is based o...
FEED Alphabets
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More type today! I’m intrigued by these experimental letterforms from Montreal-based studio FEED. See more here....
Type Love 83: Giorgio Sans
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Giorgio Sans is quite the character. Designed by Schwartzco as a quirky companion to their popular serif, Giorgio, the typface features six weights an...
Verdun
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Verdun is the result of a collaboration between Mind Design and Rafael Farias.The work in progress is a modern take on Morris Fuller Benton’s ty...
Submitting Your Work
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You may have noticed a small addition to the sidebar today regarding work submissions. We get quite a few emails from our readers, which we love, so w...
Seth Akkerman
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Seth Akkerman does some great print work, including this Fowl Approach to Bird Watching wood cut print that really caught my eye. The details are impr...
William Morrisey
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I’m really liking the simple sophistication of the Bar Milano (now closed, unfortunately) identity by William Morrisey....
Tuesday Quick Links
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Better late than never! pr*tty sh*tty interviews one of my design idols, Paula Scher. Big news: FontShop announces the release of 30 web FontFonts! Ra...
Edmundson | Martin
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Edmundson | Martin is a Florida-based freelance design team with a combined nineteen years of experience. Russ and David specialize and excel and bran...
Yummo
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I’m not sure how Tad Carpenter finds such amazingly fun projects to work on, but he’s done it again. Yummo is a frozen yogurt and smoothie...
Color Happy 69
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I’m really loving the incredibly sophisticated color palette of this oversized Map of the Future infographic. If you’re interested in the ...
Celeste Prevost
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Celeste Provost is a Minneapolis-based designer with quite the portfolio. All of her work, which ranges from identity and branding to web to packaging...
Type Love 82: Adelle
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Adelle is a modern slab serif by Type Together. It was created with editorial use in mind, but I think it’s versatile enough to use in a whole s...
Something Pressed
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Something Pressed in a new North Carolina-based letterpress operation. Right now they only have a couple of pieces for sale in their Etsy shop. But ju...
Unless Someone Like You
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I discovered the work of Unless Someone Like You via simple + pretty and immediately fell in love with her style. The pieces below were designed for a...
Feltron in Progress
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Swayspace is currently painstakingly letterpressing the 2009 Feltron Annual Report, which as you can imagine is no simple letterpress job. Here are a ...
In Other Words
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In Other Words is a self-initiated project from student Patrycja Zywert. The primary goal of the was to explore the effects of textspeak on human lang...
Typographica Cards
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Laura Palese recently sent over these typographic notecards she designed, which are now available at Amazon. The book of 24 cards includes various des...
doe eyed
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I’m loving the textures, patterns and layering of these posters by doe eyed....
Ryan McCullah
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Ryan McCullah is one of those multi-talented creatives I envy who excels at not only multiple facets of design, but also in illustration and photograp...
Diogo Montes
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I don’t normally enjoy navigating sites that are extra flash heavy, but I can certainly appreciate how far Diogo Montes has pushed the medium wi...
Jim Tierney
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I’m loving the rich colors, graceful hand-lettering and vintagey feel of these book covers by Jim Tierney....
Studio Makgill
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I’m usually the type of person that likes a lot of color, but sometimes a slick, simple black and white design will catch my eye. Case in point,...