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The Cult of Done Manifesto

Courtney • Mar 22, 2009
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....
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Type Love 40: Glosa

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Glosa Display...
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Me and Mr. Jones: Flink

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
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...
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The Design of Currency

Courtney • Mar 22, 2009
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...
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Arkiva Tropkica

Courtney • Mar 22, 2009
Take a look at this awesome resource of tropical vintage ephemera, including menus, matchbooks and other all kinds of other printed materials. Much mu...
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Where the Wild Things Are

Courtney • Mar 22, 2009
How cool is this?...
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Sis, Deli and Cafe

Courtney • Mar 22, 2009
I am in love with the graphic black and white pattern that adorns the identity for Sis Cafe and Deli by Rasmus Snabb....
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New from YWFT

Courtney • Mar 23, 2009
You Work for Them just released four new typefaces: Pineapple, Merriam, Matter and Morricone. My two favorites (Pineapple and Merriam) are below....
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Stefanie Shank

Courtney • Mar 22, 2009
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...
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Chester Ebona

Courtney • Mar 22, 2009
Canadian designer, Chester Ebona, has some great work in his portfolio, including this identity and packaging project for Michelussi....
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L’Affiche Modern + Imeus

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
I’m loving this new print by Imeus Design from L’Affiche Modern. Take a look at more of their work right here....
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Color Happy 30

Courtney • Mar 20, 2011
Here is a fresh and unexpected color palette for this stationery by Hey Studio....
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Esquire Breakfast

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
More awesome work from Erin Jang. How can you not love the maple syrup type?? Yum....
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Alvin Diec

Courtney • Mar 19, 2009
Alvin Diec’s portfolio features a few great examples of restaurant design (among other things), one being The Buccaneer, which you can see below...
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Type Love 39: Jubilat

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Erik Kiesewetter

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
Tons of great work over at Erik Below Sea Level. via Surfstation...
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Oxford and Cambridge Goat Race

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
Cool logo for a crazy event. By Made in England....
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Red-Handed

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
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...
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Mar 29, 2011
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...
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New Louise Fili site!

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
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 ...
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Justin David Cox

Courtney • Mar 16, 2009
Justin David Cox makes some pretty awesome posters....
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Lisa Makes

Courtney • Mar 15, 2009
Check out the sweet three-dimensional type in Lisa Makes’ entry for a Flight of the Conchords poster contest....
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The Oak Room

Courtney • Mar 15, 2009
Check out Pentagram’s recent redesign of The Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel. Love the pattern details....
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New Work: simple + pretty

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
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...
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I’d Like One of Each, Please

Courtney • Mar 16, 2009
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...
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HAUS

Courtney • Mar 15, 2009
I really enjoy how HAUS Design presents their case studies. The presentation completely integrates each project into their site, allowing the viewers ...
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Andrea Guinn

Courtney • Mar 10, 2009
Andrea Guinn has a great portfolio, including these simple and fun t-shirt designs for an orientation event for international students. via Evasee...
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Graphic Hug Project 3

Courtney • Mar 10, 2009
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-...
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Enric Jardí

Courtney • Mar 10, 2009
Barcelona-based designer, Enric Jardí, created this identity program for The Barcelona Mercè festival in 2007. Each of the black and white logos rep...
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Type Love 38: HT Cartoleria

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This week I’m loving the fun retro style of script, HT Cartoleria....
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Friend & Co.

Courtney • Mar 10, 2009
I am in love with the brush script of this logo. via We Like To...
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2009 ReBrand Winners

Courtney • Mar 08, 2009
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...
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Mar 29, 2011
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...
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Karandashy Production Identity

Courtney • Mar 10, 2009
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 ...
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Brian Brooks

Courtney • Mar 08, 2009
Brian Brooks recently signed up for the dwl mailing list, and this portfolio piece (among others) caught my eye....
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Alex Cornell

Courtney • Mar 08, 2009
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....
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Let Imagination Take Over

Courtney • Mar 08, 2009
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...
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Cutback Gothic

Courtney • Mar 02, 2009
Designer Daniël Maarleveld designed a book of typographic experiements using the blackletter face, Cutback Gothic, during his time at the Rietveld Ac...
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Disney Nature

Courtney • Mar 02, 2009
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...
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Type Love 37: Antenna

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Frug

Courtney • Mar 02, 2009
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...
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Best of New York

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
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 ...
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Mar 29, 2011
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...
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Nice Type

Courtney • Nov 20, 2013
The Nice Type channel on Vimeo was created by Matthew Buchanan and features “sturdy typography, motion and kinetic type explorations, and other ...
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Brains on Fire

Courtney • Mar 02, 2009
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...
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The Fifty Dollar Logo Experiment (or a Perfect Example of Why Logo Factories are Bad)

Courtney • Mar 01, 2009
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...
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The Sketchbooks of Cyrus Highsmith

Courtney • Mar 01, 2009
MyFonts sent out it’s monthly Creative Characters newsletter the other day, and this time the focus was on Font Bureau’s Cyrus Highsmith. ...
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Jordan Michael Gray

Courtney • Feb 27, 2009
Check out the portfolio of Jordan Michael Gray on Flickr. via Inspiration Lab...
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Fun with ASCII

Courtney • Feb 22, 2009
Typeset something of your own right here....
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Type Love 36: Geogrotesque

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Geogrotesque is a new type family from emtype....
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Mar 29, 2011
Interesting gradients: Prisma Gradient, about $51 at Marthuba Utopia, about $41 at Sixpack France...
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Emperor of Antartica

Courtney • Feb 22, 2009
Designer/art director Christian Zander has one of those portfolios that make it practically impossible to choose what to showcase, because every piece...
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Great Flickr Find

Courtney • Feb 22, 2009
The other day I luckily stumbled upon the typographic goodness of wasianed’s Flickr stream. I’m especially loving this Berthold Type Found...
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Michael Renaud

Courtney • Feb 22, 2009
Cool album artwork for The Laureates There are no More Gentlemen album, by designer Michael Renaud. Also check out this amazing calendar design (found...
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Get ’em While You Can

Courtney • Dec 21, 2010
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,...
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TDC 2009

Courtney • Feb 22, 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...
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Royal/T

Courtney • Mar 08, 2009
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 ...
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Candy 11

Courtney • Feb 20, 2009
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...
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Monster Type

Courtney • Feb 20, 2009
Originally created by designer/illustrator Joey Ellis, these adorable little letterforms can all be downloaded as desktop wallpapers right here. And n...
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A Happy Inbox

Courtney • Feb 20, 2009
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...
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