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...
Category: Design
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…...
Random Resources 10.23.08
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
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
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?
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
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!
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
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
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
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
You can find the third GOOD sheet, It’s the Economy, Stupid!, right here....
Hoefler for America
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.”
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
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
Fun ads from designer Greg Hathaway....
Type Love 19: Stainless
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
More Patterned Packaging
I enjoy the packaging on these Jelly Jar candles sold by Urban Outfitters. They are available in four scents for $14 each....
Monopoly Redesigned
How cool is this Helvetica monopoly board by Florent Guerlain? I’ll take one. via Surfstation...
GOOD Sheet No. 4
The fourth GOOD sheet, Getting Gas, is now posted right here. I can’t say I’m as crazy about this design as the others, but it’s sti...
Nina Chakrabarti & Cowshed
Nina Chakrabarti is the artist behind the beautiful pattern designs of Cowshed products’ packaging. I wish I had the room to display the entire ...
Design + Madlibs
The new Sam Potts website is so much fun. Take a look for yourself right here. via Quipsologies...
Kendra Smoot
I stumbled upon the portfolio of prop stylist Kendra Smoot via the now-defunct Bluelines blog. (I think I still haven’t gotten over the end of B...
Type Love 18: Volvox
Designed by Typecuts, Volvox is a complex ornamental type system involving 5 fonts that can be superimposed on top of one another in an infinite numbe...
T-shirt Wednesdays
Here are a couple of shirts that caught my eye in the Graniph new arrivals. Unfortunately, they cannot ship outside of Japan at the moment due to site...
Packaging Goodness
Absolutely gorgeous hand-lettered packaging for the Belvoir Fruit Farms range of cordials and pressés. The typography, color palette, and slightly wo...
A Perfect Marraige
Earl Boykins creates infographics based on the music he listens to—a pretty awesome combination of disciplines if you ask me....