We Make Words
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This may be my new favorite blog. via Seesaw Designs...
Category: Design
Courtney • PenJet
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The PenJet project is the result of a classroom experiment involving a printer that used an attached pen as part of its mechanism. Created by three st...
Color Happy 32
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These ads for the Mississippi State University Study Abroad program were created by student designer, Kate Thomas. They were recently awarded a Bronze...
Labour: Opium
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Opium is a short animated film about the international opium/heroin system with a focus on Afghanistan, created by Labour. Love the graphics and color...
Decca Records
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Lots of inspiration to be found in this flickr set of Decca Records covers designed by Eric Nitsche. via but does it float...
Type Love 41: Zocalo
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When it comes to serifs, I tend to gravitate towards slabs. I like them to have a bit of heft to them, and Zócalo fits the bill. It actually reminds ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Somehow I’ve only recently discovered the greatness that is Mod Cloth. In case you were also in the dark, here are a couple tees from their exte...
Black and White Simplicity
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I’m loving the sleek sophistication of this ad for the Royal Gazelle for Club Monaco. The only bicycle endorsed by the Royal Dutch family, the R...
The Continental
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I saw this project by National Forest a little while ago and was just luckily reminded of it again… The Continental epitomizes great restaurant ...
Joshua Tetreault
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Designer Joshua Tetreault has some beautiful hand-drawn typography in his portfolio, including this design for the 20th century Venetian Baroque compo...
Fresh Oil
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I discovered Fresh Oil when they recently signed up for our mailing list, and was extremely impressed with their portfolio. They’ve done tons of...
SXSW Sketchnotes
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Check out Mike Rohde’s live sketchnotes from the 2009 SXSW Interactive festival. Pretty impressive. via SwissMiss...
This one’s for the LOST fans
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If you’re at all a fan of LOST, you will love this set of posters by Hot Meteor. Amazing. Click here to view the full set. via Dropular...
Helen Yentus
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I love the bold simplicity of the Helen Yentus’ book cover designs. via made by suzi...
Casco Love Notes
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Take a look at this collaborative project between several designers, including Jonathan Looman. This effort for Casco Project was created to lett the ...
The Cult of Done Manifesto
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This has been everywhere recently, but I thought I’d post it here as well in case any of you missed it. It’s a great quick read....
Type Love 40: Glosa
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Glosa Display...
Me and Mr. Jones: Flink
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I’ve featured Me and Mr. Jones before, but only recently came across their website (I had previously only seen their Krop portfolio). And this i...
The Design of Currency
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designboom has a great article up about the design and history of money, a subject I’ve always found pretty fascinating. The article also brough...
Arkiva Tropkica
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Take a look at this awesome resource of tropical vintage ephemera, including menus, matchbooks and other all kinds of other printed materials. Much mu...
Where the Wild Things Are
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How cool is this?...
Sis, Deli and Cafe
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I am in love with the graphic black and white pattern that adorns the identity for Sis Cafe and Deli by Rasmus Snabb....
New from YWFT
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You Work for Them just released four new typefaces: Pineapple, Merriam, Matter and Morricone. My two favorites (Pineapple and Merriam) are below....
Stefanie Shank
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Stafanie Shank is a talented illustrator and designer based out of New York. I’m a fan of everything in her portfolio, but I’m liking this...
Chester Ebona
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Canadian designer, Chester Ebona, has some great work in his portfolio, including this identity and packaging project for Michelussi....
L’Affiche Modern + Imeus
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I’m loving this new print by Imeus Design from L’Affiche Modern. Take a look at more of their work right here....
Color Happy 30
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Here is a fresh and unexpected color palette for this stationery by Hey Studio....
Esquire Breakfast
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More awesome work from Erin Jang. How can you not love the maple syrup type?? Yum....
Alvin Diec
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Alvin Diec’s portfolio features a few great examples of restaurant design (among other things), one being The Buccaneer, which you can see below...
Type Love 39: Jubilat
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Since Archer was released semi-recently, it can be seen everywhere (including my site). Don’t get me wrong, I love it. But I also like Jubilat a...
Erik Kiesewetter
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Tons of great work over at Erik Below Sea Level. via Surfstation...
Oxford and Cambridge Goat Race
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Cool logo for a crazy event. By Made in England....
Red-Handed
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Benjamin Steed Griffin is a recent graduate from the midwest, with a portfolio full of great work. I especially enjoy this branding project for Red-Ha...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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The Names Brand offers hundreds of t-shirts sporting the trendy list of names format. They cover everything from TV to politics, in both men’s a...
New Louise Fili site!
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Take a look at the gorgeous new online home of Louise Fili Ltd! It’s so much cleaner and easy to use, and I’m especially loving the newly ...
Justin David Cox
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Justin David Cox makes some pretty awesome posters....
Lisa Makes
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Check out the sweet three-dimensional type in Lisa Makes’ entry for a Flight of the Conchords poster contest....
The Oak Room
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Check out Pentagram’s recent redesign of The Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel. Love the pattern details....
New Work: simple + pretty
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For the past month or so we’ve worked with the lovely Jane of The Speckled Egg to give her blog a fresh new look, in conjunction with it’s...
I’d Like One of Each, Please
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A set of t-shirts printed by MyFonts to hand out to attendees of last summer’s TypeCon in Buffalo, New York. via the MyFonts blog...
HAUS
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I really enjoy how HAUS Design presents their case studies. The presentation completely integrates each project into their site, allowing the viewers ...
Andrea Guinn
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Andrea Guinn has a great portfolio, including these simple and fun t-shirt designs for an orientation event for international students. via Evasee...
Graphic Hug Project 3
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If you have a chance, take a few minutes today to check out Graphic Hug Project 3, a project celebrating their soon-to-be-opened store and soon-to-be-...
Enric Jardí
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Barcelona-based designer, Enric Jardí, created this identity program for The Barcelona Mercè festival in 2007. Each of the black and white logos rep...
Type Love 38: HT Cartoleria
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This week I’m loving the fun retro style of script, HT Cartoleria....
Friend & Co.
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I am in love with the brush script of this logo. via We Like To...
2009 ReBrand Winners
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The winners of the 2009 ReBrand 100 were recently announced, and there were quite a few that I wasn’t familiar with. One that stood out to me wa...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I first discovered Maryink t-shirts a couple of years ago at the Renegade Craft Fair, and immediately loved them. So I was excited to see some new (to...
Karandashy Production Identity
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A birght and dynamic identity by Russian design firm Stavitsky Design + Airdesign. Scribbles seem to be a bit of a trend as of late, but I especially ...
Brian Brooks
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Brian Brooks recently signed up for the dwl mailing list, and this portfolio piece (among others) caught my eye....
Alex Cornell
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Alex Cornell has a great style, and a portfolio packed with fun projects, including the Mega City Impact Web, below. Lots more to see right here....
Let Imagination Take Over
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These posters for Play-Doh are nothing short of brilliant. For more from the portfolio of Think Simple Act Simple, click here. via Change the Thought ...
Cutback Gothic
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Designer Daniël Maarleveld designed a book of typographic experiements using the blackletter face, Cutback Gothic, during his time at the Rietveld Ac...
Disney Nature
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These flats were created for Disney Nature by Andy Gugel, of 32 round. It’s really refreshing to see something so modern and sophisticated desig...
Type Love 37: Antenna
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We talked about Cyrus Highsmith earlier in the week, so I figured I would feature one of his fonts. Antenna is an extremely versatile sans serif type ...
Frug
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I’m not sure I totally understand the story behind this project by Fabian Jochen Kanzler and Steve Michaelis, but the artwork is really beautifu...
Best of New York
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New York magazine released it’s Best of New York double issue this week. And they always ask several design firms for cover art submissions, so ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I came across the t-shirts by ONLY NY in Time Out New York recently and thought they were really fun. They have a great catalog of typographic tees in...
Nice Type
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The Nice Type channel on Vimeo was created by Matthew Buchanan and features “sturdy typography, motion and kinetic type explorations, and other ...
Brains on Fire
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I came across Brains on Fire—a South Carolina-based branding agency—through a random Google search, and I was really interested in and impressed b...