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Downtown Crossing

Courtney • Nov 09, 2008
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...
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Gabriel Morales

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
Love this wine packaging design. Click here for the rest of this talented Spanish designer’s portfolio....
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This is Sand

Courtney • Mar 20, 2011
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...
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Emotionally Vague

Courtney • Nov 05, 2008
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...
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Rebranding Martha Stewart

Courtney • Dec 21, 2010
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...
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New and Improved

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
Here’s a great slideshow of Massimo Vignelli’s recently-updated New York subway map (the original was designed in 1972). Unsurprisingly, i...
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Type Love 23: Miniscule

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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An Uppercase Project

Courtney • Dec 21, 2010
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...
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Overnewsed But Underinformed

Courtney • Nov 04, 2008
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...
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I wish I had seen this two days ago…

Courtney • Nov 05, 2008
A reminder from Fontshop:...
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Don’t Forget to Vote!

Courtney • Nov 04, 2008
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...
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ico design + Snog

Courtney • Nov 04, 2008
I love this identity system designed for Snog—”the first frozen yogurt brand to hit British shores”—by London-based design firm, ico d...
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Powerful Packaging Design

Courtney • Nov 03, 2008
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-...
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GOOD Sheet No. 8

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
You can find GOOD sheet No. 8, America. Love It or Fix It ‘08, right here....
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Nikolay Saveliev

Courtney • Oct 27, 2008
I love this packaging design by Nikolay Saveliev for a 1920s-themed experimental-industrial music album. More work here or here....
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Type Love 22: Fakir

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Fakir by Underware...
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Rubitone

Courtney • Mar 20, 2011
Too bad this project designed by Ignacio Pilotto is purely conceptual. So fun. via Core 77...
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Typocalypse

Courtney • Mar 20, 2011
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Delicatessen

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
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...
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GOOD Sheet No. 7

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
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 ...
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Garamond Powerline

Courtney • Oct 26, 2008
Probably not the most useful typeface, but cool nonetheless… Thanks for the link John...
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Jeffers Design Group

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
A selection of gorgeous rooms from California-based, Jeffers Design Group…...
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Random Resources 10.23.08

Courtney • Oct 22, 2008
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...
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Type Love 21: Barricada and Comalle

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I’m really loving these pillowy bold typefaces from Veer. As an added bonus, both are under $60 too. Barricada Comalle...
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A Year of Hand-drawn Type

Courtney • Jan 09, 2009
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...
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An Unlikely Pair?

Courtney • Oct 22, 2008
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, “...
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Oct 22, 2008
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...
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new Eclectonotes!

Courtney • Oct 21, 2008
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...
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Jordan Crane

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
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...
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The Design Entrepreneur

Courtney • Nov 20, 2013
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...
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Design + Babies

Courtney • Oct 16, 2008
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...
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GOOD Sheet No. 6

Courtney • Oct 16, 2008
You can find the third GOOD sheet, It’s the Economy, Stupid!, right here....
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Hoefler for America

Courtney • Oct 16, 2008
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 ...
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Type Love 20: David Berlow

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Design and Mad Men

Courtney • Oct 13, 2008
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’...
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Oct 14, 2008
It’s been a little while since I posted anything from Threadless and I really like this recent design. Seems sort of apropos considering we&#821...
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Aesthetic Apparatus

Courtney • Oct 13, 2008
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...
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Raking Leaves in the Wind

Courtney • Oct 13, 2008
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...
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GOOD Sheet No. 5

Courtney • Oct 16, 2008
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...
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“I design the world.”

Courtney • Oct 13, 2008
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...
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Noggin

Courtney • Oct 10, 2008
Being someone who isn’t around kids very often, I probably haven’t watched Nickelodeon since Pinwheel. But the other day someone mentioned...
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Greg Hathaway

Courtney • Oct 10, 2008
Fun ads from designer Greg Hathaway....
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Type Love 19: Stainless

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I love all the weights (especially the ultra thin and black) in this modern, somewhat techy feeling typeface from The Font Bureau. Stainless...
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Isaac Tobin

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
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 ...
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Radici

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
I really enjoy this identity system from designer Fabien Barral (of Graphic Exchange and Harmonie Interieure fame). It’s definitely not my typic...
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Oct 08, 2008
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...
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New Work

Courtney • Oct 08, 2008
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...
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Vasava

Courtney • Oct 06, 2008
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...
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Dog and Pony Prints

Courtney • Oct 06, 2008
Recently I mentioned Karen Kurycki‘s amazing Helio Sequence poster designs. Unfortunately, her and the team at Dog and Pony Showprints ended up ...
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Gig Poster Playing Cards

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
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...
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More Patterned Packaging

Courtney • Oct 05, 2008
I enjoy the packaging on these Jelly Jar candles sold by Urban Outfitters. They are available in four scents for $14 each....
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Monopoly Redesigned

Courtney • Oct 05, 2008
How cool is this Helvetica monopoly board by Florent Guerlain? I’ll take one. via Surfstation...
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GOOD Sheet No. 4

Courtney • Oct 03, 2008
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...
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Nina Chakrabarti & Cowshed

Courtney • Sep 30, 2008
Nina Chakrabarti is the artist behind the beautiful pattern designs of Cowshed products’ packaging. I wish I had the room to display the entire ...
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Design + Madlibs

Courtney • Sep 30, 2008
The new Sam Potts website is so much fun. Take a look for yourself right here. via Quipsologies...
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Kendra Smoot

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 18: Volvox

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

Courtney • Dec 21, 2010
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...
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Packaging Goodness

Courtney • Sep 28, 2008
Absolutely gorgeous hand-lettered packaging for the Belvoir Fruit Farms range of cordials and pressés. The typography, color palette, and slightly wo...
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A Perfect Marraige

Courtney • Sep 28, 2008
Earl Boykins creates infographics based on the music he listens to—a pretty awesome combination of disciplines if you ask me....
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