These Make Me Miss CDs
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Beautiful music packaging designs by Fantazma Gloria....
Category: Design
Courtney • Amore
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I love the work coming out of Sweden- and New York-based design firm, Amore. Aside from the examples below, they are responsible for the Malarcholocat...
Type Love 24: Wood Type Impressions
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Wood Type Impressions 2is a gigantic collection of wood type letters, numbers and ornaments. It isn’t actually a keyable typeface, but a compila...
GOOD Sheet No. 9
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You can find last week’s GOOD sheet, The First 100 Days, right here....
Inspired by: Chocolate packaging
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The examples of amazing chocolate packaging are endless, so here are just a few favorites. Fat Pig Chocolate Bloomsberry V Chocolates Malarchocolateri...
New From Threadless
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Threadless announced this week that they are spinning off two of their popular t-shirt lines into their own sites: The Select Series and Type Tees. Th...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Here to Make Friends, about $40.25 at A Number of Small Things...
Behind the Times
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Unfortunately my copy of the latest issue of GOOD Magazine sat barely opened for the last few weeks. The entire issue was focused on voting and the cu...
Parisi
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I love the branding that Parisi completed for these two residential buildings in New York City, The Laurel and 246 W17. More work right here. Get 300+...
Knot
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Probably not a typeface you could get much use out of, but an interesting idea nonetheless. Click here to purchase Knot, or here to see the rest of th...
Downtown Crossing
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As a Boston native, Christmas shopping in Downtown Crossing was an annual ritual for me. So I was really excited to come across this project that bran...
Gabriel Morales
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Love this wine packaging design. Click here for the rest of this talented Spanish designer’s portfolio....
This is Sand
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This is easily one of the coolest things ever. This is Sand allows you to create the multicolored sand art of your youth within the confines of your c...
Emotionally Vague
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Emotionally Vague is a research project that aims to discover how people feel anger, joy, fear, sadness and love in their bodies and minds. The questi...
Rebranding Martha Stewart
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I just came across this Case Study about the rebranding of Martha Stewart. Written by Stephen Doyle of Doyle Partners, the article goes into enlighten...
New and Improved
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Here’s a great slideshow of Massimo Vignelli’s recently-updated New York subway map (the original was designed in 1972). Unsurprisingly, i...
Type Love 23: Miniscule
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Miniscule, a winner of the 2005 TDC certificate of excellence, is a typeface designed specifically for extremely small sizes. It is intended to be use...
An Uppercase Project
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I love this new project that Janine from Uppercase completed over the weekend. She upcycled a banner used to promote the Old School exhibit into these...
Overnewsed But Underinformed
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Unfortunately I don’t speak German, so I can’t really give you any information as to what any of these infographics actually mean. But the...
I wish I had seen this two days ago…
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A reminder from Fontshop:...
Don’t Forget to Vote!
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Throughout this election I’ve always tried to keep any political content on this blog within the realm of design. Afterall, dwl is a design blog...
ico design + Snog
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I love this identity system designed for Snog—”the first frozen yogurt brand to hit British shores”—by London-based design firm, ico d...
Powerful Packaging Design
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The Cool Hunter published a great round-up of well-designed packaging this week. I’ve seen many of them before but there are quite a few new-to-...
GOOD Sheet No. 8
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You can find GOOD sheet No. 8, America. Love It or Fix It ‘08, right here....
Nikolay Saveliev
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I love this packaging design by Nikolay Saveliev for a 1920s-themed experimental-industrial music album. More work here or here....
Type Love 22: Fakir
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Fakir by Underware...
Rubitone
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Too bad this project designed by Ignacio Pilotto is purely conceptual. So fun. via Core 77...
Typocalypse
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Delicatessen
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Restaurant branding is an area of design that I’m particularly interested in, so I was excited when I came across this project by Marque Creativ...
GOOD Sheet No. 7
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Better late than never—you can find the seventh GOOD sheet, “Does Your Vote Matter?”, right here. As always, click on the photo for the ...
Garamond Powerline
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Probably not the most useful typeface, but cool nonetheless… Thanks for the link John...
Jeffers Design Group
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A selection of gorgeous rooms from California-based, Jeffers Design Group…...
Random Resources 10.23.08
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Part two in my semi-regular link drop of helpful resources: School of Everything I haven’t gotten a chance to register for this site yet, but it...
Type Love 21: Barricada and Comalle
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I’m really loving these pillowy bold typefaces from Veer. As an added bonus, both are under $60 too. Barricada Comalle...
A Year of Hand-drawn Type
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I immediately bought this Beau Ideal 2009 calendar when I saw it on Oatmeal and Cinnamon. Screenprinted in a limited edition of 50, each month depicts...
An Unlikely Pair?
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Has anyone else seen the November issue of O Magazine? I was pleasantly surprised to see that the artwork accompanying an article at the back, “...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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The Ampersand Shoppe has made the blog rounds over the last couple of weeks but I couldn’t not mention it. You can choose your ampersand from 10...
new Eclectonotes!
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I have always been a fan of the Eclecto series by Janine Vangool of Uppercase, so it’s no surprise that I love the new versions she released las...
Jordan Crane
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I love these prints by illustrator Jordan Crane. A lot of them are out of print, unfortunately, but they are beautiful to look at it. You can check ou...
The Design Entrepreneur
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I came across this book while browsing in Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago, but wasn’t able to find any information about it online. So I was ex...
Design + Babies
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I have seen so much great design for babies lately. Well, I guess it’s all really geared towards their modern parents, but everything baby-relat...
GOOD Sheet No. 6
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You can find the third GOOD sheet, It’s the Economy, Stupid!, right here....
Hoefler for America
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Over the summer Jonathan Hoefler was comissioned to create a poster for the Obama campaign, and it is now available on the beautifully designed Obama ...
Type Love 20: David Berlow
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Quick sidenote: Have I really been doing this for 20 weeks? Wow. And now back to the typography… I recently came across the work of type designe...
Design and Mad Men
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As a big fan of the critically-acclaimed Mad Men, I enjoyed these two recent articles about the use of typography throughout the show. I couldn’...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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It’s been a little while since I posted anything from Threadless and I really like this recent design. Seems sort of apropos considering we̵...
Aesthetic Apparatus
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Aesthetic Apparatus is one of my go-to gig poster resources. They’re one of the first places I discovered when I started my collection several y...
Raking Leaves in the Wind
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For those of you in the Berlin area, this exhibition featuring past and new work by Eve Duhamel, Julien Vallée and Brent Wadden, is one you sho...
GOOD Sheet No. 5
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I forgot to mention this last week. The latest GOOD sheet to be released, Reform School, is all about education. You can find it right here. I also re...
“I design the world.”
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I normally don’t just link directly to other people’s posts, but I really connected with this one by Andrea over at Fly. Like her, I often...
Noggin
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Being someone who isn’t around kids very often, I probably haven’t watched Nickelodeon since Pinwheel. But the other day someone mentioned...
Greg Hathaway
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Fun ads from designer Greg Hathaway....
Type Love 19: Stainless
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I love all the weights (especially the ultra thin and black) in this modern, somewhat techy feeling typeface from The Font Bureau. Stainless...
Isaac Tobin
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I’m really loving the work of designer Isaac Tobin. I was first drawn to his book covers, but after looking through his portfolio I really love ...
Radici
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I really enjoy this identity system from designer Fabien Barral (of Graphic Exchange and Harmonie Interieure fame). It’s definitely not my typic...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I’m not really a huge fan of American Apparel, mostly because of their ridiculous advertising, but I have to admit these new shirts are pretty c...
New Work
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I know I don’t mention my own work on here too much. But as Suann announced yesterday, we just launched her website, Simplesong Design. It was a...
Vasava
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It was difficult to choose what projects to feature from Spanish design studio, Vasava, but I’ve picked out a couple of my favorites below (of c...
Dog and Pony Prints
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Recently I mentioned Karen Kurycki‘s amazing Helio Sequence poster designs. Unfortunately, her and the team at Dog and Pony Showprints ended up ...
Gig Poster Playing Cards
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This could be a fun wall display. When I was checking out Gig Posters the other day I noticed that they sell decks of playing cards with designs creat...