Tim Bjørn
Danish designer Tim Bjørn designed and hand painted this playful illustration and custom typography for the Madame Madsen shop in Denmark. Click here...
Category: Design
Woods & Weather
The portfolio of Woods & Weather includes several of vibrant letterpressed pieces—created during his time at Studio on Fire—like these materi...
HELMO for Jazzdor
These vibrant and energetic posters were designed by Helmo for the Jazzdor festival in Berlin....
Seth Weisfield
Seth Weisfield is a talented New York-based designer who specializes in motion graphics. I’m personally loving these boards he art directed for ...
In Love with Letters
These gorgeous letterforms stopped be in my tracks. Apparently they are actually part of a notecard set design by Jeanie Nelson of The Paper Nut from ...
Type Love 54: Liza
Liza, the latest release from Underware is pretty amazing. Not only is it a fun and playful script with a hand-painted look, but it also has built-in ...
Sweet Cakes
Here is a fun project by Central Saint Martins student Sara: a set of cupcakes was made for her design tutors based on Adobe’s Creative Suite an...
The Heist Series
Designer Brian Gossett creates mixes on his blog from time to time. He describes his latest series, The Heist Series, as such: “I am a huge fan ...
Nurit Koniak
Isreali designer Nurit Koniak seems to dabble in various disciplines, from design to art direction to styling. Several of his her (sorry, Nurit!) proj...
Totem
I found the branding for Totem via the portfolio of Haley Fiege. Totem is a Canadian design collective of six designers and artists specializing in &#...
Swerve
In 2007, HunterGatherer was charged with helping to launch the Swerve Festival, an event celebrating West Coast creative culture. The playful branding...
Cover Inspiration
Gorgeous vintage patterned covers from Insel Verlag....
Charlotte Read
I’m really loving Charlotte Read’s bold colorful style and her use of intricate geometric patterns. Her work for the Guardian is especiall...
Color Happy 42
This ad, found here, was most likely designed by Erik Nitsche. According to it’s flickr page, the ad was included in Air News, a magazine he art...
Zoo
I wish Zoo would produce and sell this gift wrap they created for a promotional gift. Such a fun pattern....
Laura Barnard
I’m really liking the sketchy illustration style of the multi-talented Laura Barnard. (Those gems won me over instantly.) Laura posts quite a bi...
Type Love 53: Kulturista
Suitcase Type Foundry makes some of my favorite typefaces (Gloriola, anyone?), so I’m not surprised that I instantly fell for their newest relea...
Adapt
Adapt Studio has some great work in their portfolio, including this identity design for Honor Vodka. Nope, can’t resist a pattern....
Paul Torres
There’s no question Paul Torres has a talent for hand-drawn type. See more right here....
Elizabeth Ackerman Valins
Based on these gorgeous spreads, it looks like New York-based designer, Elizabeth Ackerman Valins at one time had the enviable job of working at Marth...
Astrid Krogh
Textile designer Astrid Krogh creates patterns and ornamental design with light. I haven’t been able to find much information about this neon wa...
Juan Carlos Pagan
Juan Carlos Pagan has a portfolio filled with thorough, polished design work, including this booklet which chronologically captures a visual journey t...
Studio 8
Studio 8 has a quality portfolio that seems to be heavy on collateral and editorial work. I’m particularly liking the design for this brochure f...
Gregory Hubacek
While at Fame Retail designer Gregory Hubacek worked on rebranding the local Italian restaurant, Cafe di Napoli. I love the classic vintage feel of wh...
Flight of the Conchords
For Flight of the Conchords’ Spring 2009 tour, they commissioned several well-known poster artists to create prints for their shows. Here are a ...
Rob Across America
In 2008 designer Rob Weychert took a road trp across America, which he documented on the Rob Across America blog. It’s interesting to go back an...
Type Love 52: Plume Advertising
My latest FontShop obsession is the chunky yet graceful Plume Advertising, designed by Bruno Maag....
What’s on the Hi Fi
What’s on the Hi Fi is a new-to-me music blog that reviews albums and concerts, with a New York focus. It quickly found a home in my Google read...
The Pressure
Lots of stellar design happens to come out of Minneapolis these days, and Adam Garcia, aka The Pressure, is no exception. A graduate of Minneapolis Co...
Leigh-Anne Mullock
Student designer, Leigh-Anne Mullock hand stitched the artwork for these classic book covers with imagery that each novel’s protagonists might h...
A Simple Exchange
A Simple Exchange is an ongoing correspondance between designers Ned Wright and Laura Belle Hanley, from Minneapolis to Chicago....
Scott Reinhard
Designer Scott Reinhard has designed some really great book covers....
Jason Booher
Jason Booher designs book jackets and covers, and some typographically beautiful ones I might add....
Stylo
Stylo is a UK-based design firm with a branding specialty, and a knack for clean and informative presentation. I’m particularly interested in th...
Women’s Arm Wrestling
I’m not totally sure what these posters are all about, but I love the design. There are also four other match-ups in the set, which you can see ...
Lite-Brite Love
As I’ve mentioned before, Lite-Brite was one of my favorite childhood toys—I’m kicking myself for letting my parents get rid of it years...
Type Love 51: Bodoni Script Pro
Bodoni Script Pro would be a perfect typeface for a wedding invitation.The character set is packed with lots of graceful, flourishy details, and the c...
Polimekanos
Polimekanos, a London-based studio, has been creating these invitation cards for Hales Gallery since 2004. Even though they were each created separate...
Jamie Conkleton + Space Opera
Recent grad, Jamie Conkleton has a really tight portfolio (you might have seen this sake packaging on the dieline)—each piece is really polished and...
Lessons to Live By
I am obsessing over these posters created by Public School. I really hope they make them into prints....
Saraiva Classics Redesigned
Brazilian design firm, Rex Design, recently gave the Saraiva Classics book collection a whole new look. The collection, which brings together 24 title...
Rubber Bandit
This student project by Andy Mangold, Rubber Bandit, was posted on The Dieline last week, but I couldn’t resist a recap. Any design using Archer...
Creative Inc.
Creative Inc., a multi-disciplinary creative agency based out of Dublin, has an amazing portfolio of work. Each project is meticulously crafted and ph...
Derek Hunt
Caught the portfolio of recent grad Derek Hunt the other day, and was thoroughly impressed with his work. He seems to have quite the knack for publica...
Thibaud Herem
I’m really liking the simplicity of these posters by Thibaud Herem. via Uppercase Magazine Tumblr...
Sean Clarke
I’m really enjoying the typographic book projects of student designer Sean Clarke. This particular project, cmnct, is an observation of modern l...
Recommended Reading
Between my newish Twitter usage and the hundreds of blogs in my Google reader, I come across interesting and helpful articles constantly. Whether they...
Holiday Type
FLAT-IT, an independent type foundry based in Japan, produces a whole range of various display faces. I previously wrote about one of their fonts, HT ...
Font in Progress: Questa
Questo is an in-progress typeface from exljbris font foundry, which also brought us Museo and Anivers. The details look amazing, especially those liga...
Kyle Poff
I’m enjoying Kyle Poff’s identity work....
Color Happy 39
The colors of this image really struck me when I saw them—so fresh and bright. These materials for The Reel were completed by Daniel Freytag while a...
Jay Fletcher
In addition to being a great designer, Jay Fletcher is also a talented illustrator. I personally love what happens when he combines the two skills, li...
C.S. Lewis Signature Series
Designer Jason Gabbert and illustrator Antar Dayal collaborated on the design of C.S. Lewis’s non-fiction works....
Type Love 50: FF Dancer
FF Dancer, designed by Fontpartners, was part of Typographica’s Best Fonts of 2007. The design was intended to combine a constructed sans serif ...
Jeff Harrison
Jeff Harrison has done some really great work for Rethink Communications, including this fun identity system for photographer Hans Sipma....
Silent Giants Update
The Silent Giants have recently updated their shop with some new poster designs for Fleet Foxes, Flight of the Conchords and more. Pick up a print or ...
W.W. Norton Book Design archive
Publisher W.W. Norton is now cataloging all of its covers on Flickr. via The Book Cover Archive...
Painted Pretzel
Check out this gorgeous letterpress pretzel packaging by the ultra-talented Yael Miller, of Miller Creative, the Dieline and Share Some Candy....
Ben Whitla
Fellow Syracuse grad Ben Whitla has some great work in his portfolio. I’m really enjoying the restaurant design work he’s worked on while ...
OK Experiment
Our friends over at OK Great have an ongoing experiment creating handmade versions of their logo with various materials. Lately they’ve been exp...