Type Love 26: Dear Sarah
Dear Sarah Love the ink blots....
Category: Design
Women of Design
This book is long overdue, can’t wait to get my hands on it....
The Election Collection
Artist/designer Chris Piascik documented the 2008 Presidential election through typographic illustrations. And now he’s put them all together in...
T-shirt Wednesdays
These shirts from Collapse Design are perfect for the type geek in your life. Sex Drugs Helvetica Bold, about $22. Also comes in red. Your Type Makes ...
Serifcan Ozcan
I’m a big fan of the work of designer, Serifcan Ozcan. Portrait of Steven Heller made from the covers of several of the books he’s written...
DenHaus
I don’t have any pets, but when I heard from Becky at Denhaus I had to post about these super stylish dog houses. They’re designed to blen...
Homage to the Stamp
I was lucky enough to pick up one of Gavin Potenza‘s letterpress prints, “Homage to the Stamp”, at Tiny Showcase last week. As with ...
If only I could be in two places at once…
On any given day in New York, you can usually find multiple design-related events to attend. So every so often it happens that there are two or more h...
GOOD Sheet No. 11
You can find GOOD sheet No. 11, Our Present Economy, right here. This edition is a collaboration with design studio, Kiss Me I’m Polish. Love th...
Lovelet
Created by Sinem Erkas, Lovelet is “a modular font created entirely from one shape.”...
SPARK
Check out this fun logo for the SPARK Animation Festival this past September in Vancouver. The branding for the event was the result of a collaboratio...
Served
Another project from the genius that is Bēhance, Served is network of sites that aim to bring you “fresh works from creative professionals&...
MWM Graphics Calendar
Four 18″ x 12″ posters featuring 3 months each—purchase yours for $85 right here. via Design You Trust...
Type Love 25: Shinn Type
Here are a couple Shinn Type favorites: Scotch Modern Bodoni Egyptian...
ID Branding
Take a look at their new stationery system: From CA: “We needed to tell the story that things had changed at ID branding, and that brands don...
Blue Beetle Design
I love this packaging designed by Blue Beetle Design for the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology: From CA: “The Nano-Bio Kits are a s...
KNOCK
Here’s an excerpt from KNOCK’s storybook-format portfolio: From CA: “KNOCK is in the business of telling brand stories. So it made p...
T-shirt Wednesdays
Here are a couple of fun shirt designs from La Fraise. Not sure how crazy I am about the dogs modeling the shirts but I love the designs. Creativity W...
Imagehaus
I love this seed packaging by Imagehaus. Packaging design for All Seasons Wild Bird Store. From CA: “The packaging system for the store’s ...
Heibing
Here is a branding program for a Madison Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit, designed by Hiebing. From CA: “The Madison Museum of Contemporary A...
Asylum
The is the second branding program I’ve seen in the last month for a frozen yogurt chain (see this post here). And this one, designed by Asylum,...
Range
Range is a new-to-me Dallas-based firm, that is behind this great maple syrup packaging design. From CA: “Northwood Farms Maple Syrup is a gourm...
Room Corporation
This series of self-promotional papers created by Room Corporation can also be downloaded from their website. From CA: “We came up with a substi...
Design Army
A couple of projects by the always-excellent Design Army: From CA: “There are many moves you can make in life, and in a city like Washington, DC...
Haley Johnson Design
This week I thought I’d feature some favorite projects from the recent Communication Arts design annual. So I’m starting off with these tw...
GOOD Sheet No. 10
The tenth GOOD sheet—National Service—covers the topic of Volunteerism in the U.S. and can be found right here....
I’ve Always Loved this Logo…
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Lite Brite 2.0
Somehow I missed this when it made the blog rounds a couple of months ago, so I was extremely excited to come across it this week. Luminodot is a Japa...
These Make Me Miss CDs
Beautiful music packaging designs by Fantazma Gloria....
Amore
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
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
You can find last week’s GOOD sheet, The First 100 Days, right here....
Inspired by: Chocolate packaging
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
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
Here to Make Friends, about $40.25 at A Number of Small Things...
Behind the Times
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
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....
Knot
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
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
Love this wine packaging design. Click here for the rest of this talented Spanish designer’s portfolio....
This is Sand
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
A reminder from Fontshop:...
Don’t Forget to Vote!
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
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
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
You can find GOOD sheet No. 8, America. Love It or Fix It ‘08, right here....
Nikolay Saveliev
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
Fakir by Underware...
Rubitone
Too bad this project designed by Ignacio Pilotto is purely conceptual. So fun. via Core 77...
Typocalypse
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Delicatessen
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
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
Probably not the most useful typeface, but cool nonetheless… Thanks for the link John...
Jeffers Design Group
A selection of gorgeous rooms from California-based, Jeffers Design Group…...