Type Love 32: Typonine
Typonine is a Croatian type foundry with a small but quality offering of typefaces, including the two sophisticated serifs below. Marlene Amalia...
Category: Design
Long Live Domino
In case you haven’t heard the disappointing news, Domino magazine announced yesterday that it has folded. I’ve been a subscriber since the...
Good Graphic Designer
Take a look at the portfolio of Jose Antonio Contreras. He worked on one of my favorite Mucca projects, Schiller’s Liquor Bar ....
El Banco Deuno
Gorgeous new brand identity for El Banco Deuno by Saffron. More images right here. via Brand New...
Uppercase Magazine!
What exciting news! The multi-talented Janine has launched a quarterly magazine for the “creative and curious” (which is especially exciti...
T-shirt Wednesdays
Grid Systems, $24.95 at You Work for Them...
Little Bee
I love the book cover design for Chris Cleave’s novel, Little Bee, which comes out next month. Anyone know who the designer is? Update: The auth...
Type in Use
Typotheque has quite an extensive section of samples of their fonts in use. Below are a couple of examples of Fedra Sans....
Design and Design
“Every day since 1 January 2008, the home page of DesignAndDesign.com is entirely dedicated to two projects, one in graphic design and the other in ...
Color Happy 22
The image below is from the Easy Graffiti Photoshop brush set sold through Media Slap....
Every Little Counts
I’m loving the Winter Collection of typographic tees by Every Little Counts. Each one features hand-silk-screened lyrics from popular love songs...
Type Love 31: Cadena
Cadena...
Fontcase
I received an email last night announcing the release of Fontcase 1.0, a font management tool for the Mac that allows you to tag and control your font...
T-shirt Wednesdays
A couple of fun shirts from Urban Outfitters… NEAL by Neal Sperling Twist Tee, $58 Nylon Tee by Federico Gutierrez Schott, $28...
Random Resources 01.20.09
All about grids… The Grid System “The ultimate resource in grid systems.” Everything you ever wanted to know about grids can be found here. ...
danku
I passed by this restaurant recently and was drawn in by the identity. danku, which means “thank you” in Dutch, is “an international...
01.20.09
Today is the day! If you’re not lucky enough to be in DC for the festivities, you can take a look here for more information....
Menu Pages Redesign
Last month when I attended The Dinner Party, one of the projects Matteo Bologna—of Mucca Design—presented was their redesign of Menu Pages. At the...
Celebrate
Image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Landmark Memorial in West Palm Beach, Florida is from wallyg’s photostream I hope all of you get to take a ...
Hoboken Pie
I was instantly drawn to this identity system when I saw the website on Typophile the other day. Designed by the Decoder Ring Design Concern (also a g...
I Wish I Lived in Mpls
Because Studio on Fire is having a BBQ! More info here....
Type Love 30: Quantico
Quantico is a display face designed by Mad Type, and is available for purchase at You Work for Them and My Fonts....
Ampersand
I love this desktop wallpaper by Margot of Pitch Design Union. Great color scheme....
T-shirt Wednesdays
A couple tees from Design By Humans that I’m currently liking… Syntax, $20 The Hat I Found, $25...
Amazing, As Usual
Nicholas Feltron has released his 2008 annual report. Take some time to look through all the infographic goodness, and pick up the print version right...
Gig Posters Volume 1
In an exciting announcement, the music lover’s go-to resource for concert posters—Gig Posters—has recently announced the launch of their fir...
Just My Type
More vector type, this time from Formconspiracy. Just My Type features seven free fonts, including the ones below....
FWIS Type
“type.fwis.com is a playground for typographic experiments by Fwis (and friends).” The goal of the site is to release one new (and free) t...
The Book Cover Archive
Be prepared to waste a ton of time on this site. The Book Cover Archive features over 800 examples of excellence and creativity in book design. And on...
My Fonts Gets a Makeover
The beta version of the new (and long overdue) My Fonts site has been up for a little while. But I just got an email yesterday about the design of the...
Kyle Vanhorn
These are the awesome business cards of letterpress printer, Kyle Vanhorn. Take a look at the rest of his printing work here, or pick up some paper go...
Type Love 29: Hannah
This new playful and laid-back font from You Work for Them was designed by Travis Stearns and includes three different versions with varying widths. D...
In Search of Subtitles
Speaking of Slumdog Millionaire, one thing that really struck me is the way they dealt with the subtitles. They were treated in a way I’ve never...
Live Now
Live Now is a typographic gallery of quotes and phrases related to living meaningful lives. Created by Eric Smith of I Draw All Day, Live Now came to ...
Ampersanderson
I love this poster by Matthew Anderson for Chek (designed at Hyperakt). You can see the rest of the identity system right here....
Life is Beautiful
I finally got around to seeing Slumdog Millionaire the other night (which was completely amazing by the way, best movie I’ve seen in a long time...
T-shirt Wednesdays
“Destee-Nation Shirt Co. collects authentic t-shirts from cultural icons and independent businesses along the West Coast and Hawaii.” Clic...
Wattis
A fun identity system by Stripe for Wattis Institute for the Arts. You can see more photos, as well as the rest of their portfolio, right here....
Random Resources 01.06.09
A few random resources for this week: Freckle A new source for online time tracking. I have no personal experience with how well it works, but they do...
Foiled
These exquisite business cards were designed by New-York based agency, Nothing:Something. All of their work is gorgeous, but I’m loving the foil...
Ben Gibson
I’m loving these book covers by Brooklyn-based designer and illustrator, Ben Gibson....
Serena and Lily
I’ve mentioned great design for children’s products before (here and here), but I have yet to mention Serena and Lily, a perfect example. ...
Juan Camilo
Juan Camilo makes these really impressive typographic sculptures. You can see a couple of them below: “Flavor” constructed out of cigarett...
Studio on Fire 2009
The 2009 edition of Studio On Fire’s annual letterpress calendar is now available. This year’s theme, the Hair & Fur edition, features...
Leftloft
Leftloft is an Italian design firm with quite a range of work in their portfolio, from type design to environments. One project I was particularly dra...
Chocolate Research Facility
This project for Chocolate Research Facility by Asylum, a design firm out of Sngapore, is amazing. I wish I had future plans to travel there so that I...
Type Love 28: Atlantik
Atlantik is a typeface that is made up of 213 individual wave ornaments to be used in 6 sets, providing endless design possibilities. Released by Foun...
Hey Studio
For some reason I’m on a poster kick this week. Love this series by Tilman Solé. Also take a look at his blog here....
T-shirt Wednesdays
Here’s a new shirt from Threadless Select, designed by Mike Perry and Jim Stoten in conjunction with the latest isse of Faesthetic. Love the col...
vena2
I love this project designed by Vena2 for Alejandra Quesada, especially seeing how the patterns translate into the clothing. via Pop-Pervert...
Logan Wines
War Design, out of Australia, has done some great work for Logan Wines. Check out the rest of their portfolio right here. via Lovely Package...
typo/graphic Posters
An amazing resource for all you typophiles out there, this growing database of typographic poster designs is chock full of inspiration from both estab...
Type: Best of 2008
Lately I’ve seen several round-ups of the best typefaces of 2008, so I figured I’d get them all in one place, along with my picks. Here ar...
Loveleft
The portfolio of Italian designer Stefano Joker Lionetti, aka LoveLeft, is full of great stuff. But I’m really loving this typographic poster se...
FF3300
FF3300 is a design publication written partially in Italian and partially in English. The design is beautiful and features a yet-to-be-released typefa...
365: AIGA Year in Design 29
I’m really excited to get my hands on this year’s AIGA Design Annual, 365: AIGA Year in Design 29, designed by Paula Scher and her team at...
Cardon Design
Some great type treatments from the portfolio of Queens-based Cardon Design....
Color Happy 18
Broken Social Scene poster by Doublenaut. More right here....
12.25.08
Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate the holiday! And to those of you who don’t, hopefully you’re at least getting a vacation day o...
No Days Off Christmas Cards
I meant to post these a long time ago…Clever idea for holiday cards based on the 12 Days of Christmas, by No Days Off. Check out their portfolio...