The Cult of Done Manifesto
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....
Category: Design
Type Love 40: Glosa
Glosa Display...
Me and Mr. Jones: Flink
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
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
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
How cool is this?...
Sis, Deli and Cafe
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
You Work for Them just released four new typefaces: Pineapple, Merriam, Matter and Morricone. My two favorites (Pineapple and Merriam) are below....
Stefanie Shank
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
Canadian designer, Chester Ebona, has some great work in his portfolio, including this identity and packaging project for Michelussi....
L’Affiche Modern + Imeus
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
Here is a fresh and unexpected color palette for this stationery by Hey Studio....
Esquire Breakfast
More awesome work from Erin Jang. How can you not love the maple syrup type?? Yum....
Alvin Diec
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
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
Tons of great work over at Erik Below Sea Level. via Surfstation...
Oxford and Cambridge Goat Race
Cool logo for a crazy event. By Made in England....
Red-Handed
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
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!
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
Justin David Cox makes some pretty awesome posters....
Lisa Makes
Check out the sweet three-dimensional type in Lisa Makes’ entry for a Flight of the Conchords poster contest....
The Oak Room
Check out Pentagram’s recent redesign of The Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel. Love the pattern details....
New Work: simple + pretty
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
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
I really enjoy how HAUS Design presents their case studies. The presentation completely integrates each project into their site, allowing the viewers ...
Andrea Guinn
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
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
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
This week I’m loving the fun retro style of script, HT Cartoleria....
Friend & Co.
I am in love with the brush script of this logo. via We Like To...
2009 ReBrand Winners
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
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
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
Brian Brooks recently signed up for the dwl mailing list, and this portfolio piece (among others) caught my eye....
Alex Cornell
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
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
Designer Daniël Maarleveld designed a book of typographic experiements using the blackletter face, Cutback Gothic, during his time at the Rietveld Ac...
Disney Nature
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
The Fifty Dollar Logo Experiment (or a Perfect Example of Why Logo Factories are Bad)
Art by 160/90 For quite some time now, there has been an ongoing discussion (or outrage depending on how you look at it) going on about why logo facto...
The Sketchbooks of Cyrus Highsmith
MyFonts sent out it’s monthly Creative Characters newsletter the other day, and this time the focus was on Font Bureau’s Cyrus Highsmith. ...
Jordan Michael Gray
Check out the portfolio of Jordan Michael Gray on Flickr. via Inspiration Lab...
Fun with ASCII
Typeset something of your own right here....
Type Love 36: Geogrotesque
Geogrotesque is a new type family from emtype....
T-shirt Wednesdays
Interesting gradients: Prisma Gradient, about $51 at Marthuba Utopia, about $41 at Sixpack France...
Emperor of Antartica
Designer/art director Christian Zander has one of those portfolios that make it practically impossible to choose what to showcase, because every piece...
Great Flickr Find
The other day I luckily stumbled upon the typographic goodness of wasianed’s Flickr stream. I’m especially loving this Berthold Type Found...
Michael Renaud
Cool album artwork for The Laureates There are no More Gentlemen album, by designer Michael Renaud. Also check out this amazing calendar design (found...
Get ’em While You Can
20 x 26 collects out-of-print Pantone by Letraset posters and resells them as pieces of art. There are still some great colors left; but move quickly,...
TDC 2009
The winners of the Type Director’s Club’s annual competition have been announced. You can see the complete list of winners right here, but...
Royal/T
I came across Royal/T by way of (amazing photographer) Bonnie Tsang’s food blog and immediately loved the branding, which I later found out was ...
Candy 11
The latest issue of Candy Magazine—The For All Intents and Purposes Issue—is now available for download. And it’s got a brand spanking new l...
Monster Type
Originally created by designer/illustrator Joey Ellis, these adorable little letterforms can all be downloaded as desktop wallpapers right here. And n...
A Happy Inbox
I always enjoy the emails I get from Kate Spade, but this one is particularly fun (and makes me reaaallly wish it weren’t 25 degrees outside rig...