T-shirt Wednesdays
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Common Threadz offers limited edition, artist-designed t-shirts that make a difference. For every shirt you buy, they will donate a school uniform to ...
Category: Design
Courtney • Brian Oakes
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I recently came across the work of Brian Oakes in an article on Design Observer where they were discussing the Lehman Brothers situation. What brought...
Random Resources 09.22.08
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In my day-to-day web browsing I come across a lot of helpful resources that don’t necessarily warrant a full post. So I’ve decided to star...
You Are What You Touch
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Advertising is a field I don’t often draw inspiration from—I started out as an Advertising Design major in college and it quickly wore on me. ...
Masters of Design
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This month Fast Company has published it’s annual Masters of Design issue. All of the content is focused on design and business—from architect...
The GOOD Sheet No.2 and other GOOD stuff
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GOOD Magazine released the second GOOD Sheet—Bill of Health—yesterday. Again, click on the image below to see the full size version. (By the way I...
Type Love 16: Priori
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I just recently received Emigre‘s latest type catalog (sign up to receive your own copy here) in the mail, which reminded me how extensive their...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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For some reason I’ve never set foot inside a Brooklyn Industries store, but I might have to make a point to now that I’ve discovered these...
Noodle Gun
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Noodle Gun is an online horizontal publication featuring artwork by various contributors. Purely visual in content, there is very little explanation a...
Chocolate Mail
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Designer Toby Ng was faced with a brief that challenged him to redesign something that needed improvement. And his ingenious solution was to create li...
Solid Gold
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This fallish weather is putting in the mood for warm metallics. So here are a few favorites I found on etsy recently. substudio Hinge Series, $12 for ...
The GOOD Sheet
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I’ve been a subscriber of GOOD Magazine since it started. In case you’re not aware, it’s a publication “for people who give a ...
Jewel Tones
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The rich colors, textures and patterns of Jane Churchill fabrics and wallpapers are insanely gorgeous. If I could immediately move in to one of these ...
Beautiful Work from NNSS
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I’m in love with this identity project from Argentinian design firm, NNSS. The designers describe their work for MG54 Naturaleza Digital, a digi...
ADC Young Guns
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For those of you in the New York area, the Art Director’s Club is hosting a really great event next week. They recently announced their 50 picks...
Type Love 15: Device Type
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This week I’m liking lots of distressed type—something I almost never use in my work, but always admire. The collections below are designed by...
Local Learning
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Image of 3B Letterpress – EDGY Collection by The Type Junkie. $12 for a 5″x7″ print on etsy. As I’ve mentioned before, I love ...
Fashion-inspired
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I’m don’t really consider myself someone who is into “fashion”. Don’t get me wrong, I am definitely into shopping for cl...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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This week I came across Ugmonk, a new site whose mission is “to provide high-quality products with simple, yet fresh graphics”. They curre...
Karen Kurycki
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I discovered this designer’s work through her AIGA Get Out the Vote submissions (see below), which immediately drew me in. I’ll definitely...
Get the Vote Out
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“AIGA invites designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters—and YouTube submissions—that inspire the American public...
Neither Fish Nor Fowl
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Love the design and illustration work of Jim Datz—especially the handdrawn type (surprise, surprise)....
A New Blogging Favorite and Alison Carmichael
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I can’t believe it’s taken me four months to come across the amazing Oatmeal & Cinnamon blog. There Sarah Miller blogs about hand lett...
Time
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Design firm, Johnson Banks, maintains a section on their website where they invite those interested to submit ideas based on the theme of time. If the...
Inspired By: Soap Packaging
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Clockwise from top left: Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day in Lavender, Earthworks Hazelnut, Est Limão (lime), Mistral South Seas Petit Shea Butter Bar So...
Type Love 14: Fig, Stratum, Maple
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Here are some favorites from Process Type Foundry, who has a small but high quality catalog. I already own a couple of them—Bryant and Locator—but...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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A couple of miscellaneous shirts I’ve seen in the last week or so (coming a little late today). Not much of a theme this time around, but fun sh...
Beautifool
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Gorgeous handdrawn type. See more here. via Design Notes...
Goodbye Summer
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I hope everyone had a great long weekend. This seemed like the perfect image to share with you as summer comes to a close. Summa Time pattern and icon...
More of Frank Chimero
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Designer and illustrator Frank Chimero came up the other day in my Old School post. And I didn’t want to forget to mention another recent projec...
2009 Calendar Wishlist
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Lately I’ve seen quite a few posts about 2009 calendar options. And although I mostly feel it’s a little bit early, I can’t help but...
Type Love 13: Odille, Restraint, Tourette
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This may not appeal to everyone, but here are a couple delicate, flourishy (I’m sure I’m making that word up) fonts with tons of feminine ...
Life of Mystery
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I absolutely love this idea: “Tiny Showcase Presents the first in a new series of mildly factual, mostly fictitious, educational posters — Our...
Old School Favorites
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Check out more gallery images on Flickr Uppercase Gallery’s Old School exhibition finally opened last week in Calgary. If you’re like me a...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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A couple Threadless faves for the week. They’re also have a massive back to school sale—all shirts are $12. Check out what’s available r...
Tube Type
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Not sure what I would use this for, but it’s definitely fun (especially the colors). Find out more about the designer—Thomas Dang—on his per...
Erin Jang & Esquire
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I really enjoy these designs for Esquire by Erin Jang. Check out her blog for more recent work. Get 300+ Fonts for FREEEnter your email to download ou...
Brad Surcey
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One of the talents behind the always-amazing work from Duffy & Partners is designer, Brad Surcey. View his complete portfolio, with lots of eye c...
Robin’s Clogs
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I’ve mentioned before that I love anything having to do with fairytales or fairytale-related imagery— anything that brings me back to the cand...
Fun Desktop Wallpaper Resources
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I like to change my wallpaper every so often, so I’m always on the lookout for new resources. Here are a few fun ones (some have more choices th...
Jessica Hische
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If you don’t recognize the name, Jessica Hische is an extremely talented designer, illustrator and typographer, who works with Louise Fili (whos...
Color Happy 4
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I saw this project on Behance awhile ago. Designed by Vash, it looks as though he has changed his privacy settings or removed his account, so I can...
Alphabet Cities prints available!
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I just got word through Behance that Craig Ward‘s Alphabet Cities prints will be available in September. The two limited edition typographic des...
Type Love 12: Samuelstype
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This week, a few selections from Samuelstype. Andrew Samuels Victoria Samuels Rosemary Samuels See their complete library here, and purchase through F...
Type Navigator
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I may be late in the game, but I just discovered Fontshop’s Type Navigator tool. I’m not sure how long it’s been around, but I wish ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Here are a few shirts found by using Rumplo’s new color sorting feature: 50 Ways to Help the Planet, $25 at Wire and Twine Painted Rio, $18 at H...
sixtypound
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I just rediscovered this type specimen I had saved from awhile ago. A quote from “Pulp Fiction”—hopefully no one is offended by the curs...
The Girl Effect
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I read about the Girl Effect in one of my monthly magazines (Marie Claire, I think.) It’s an organization dedicated to empowering girls over the...
Model Citizen
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I’m one of those people who always loved school—if I ever win the lottery, I’m becoming a professional student. So I’m always real...
Marie Bushbaum
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I stumbled upon the lovely work of Marie Bushbaum on Behance the other night. She is an extremely talented pattern designer. But what I love most abou...
Color Happy 3
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This palette is definitely unique, and the design—by Helmo, out of France—is so intricate and layered. I see something new every time I look at it...
Type Love 11: Aerotype
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I’m really liking these chunky slab serifs—what they call Western/19th century—from Aerotype. Again, I don’t really get to use type li...
Harvard Business Review Classics
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There’s nothing I don’t love about the design of these books—their compact size, the colors, their common design elements and, this goes...
A Pleasant Surprise
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Somehow I managed to get on Mike Perry’s mailing list—snail mail, not email. I have no idea how it happened, but hey, I’m not complainin...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I love the simplicity of these type tees from Print Liberation. If I was having a bad day and saw someone walking down the street in one these, it wou...
Maximalist
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Denis Olenik is one of the designers I follow on Behance. Based out of Belarus, he does some really great logo and identity work. I also really love h...
The Bubble Roome
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Delicious packaging for the Bubble Roome. I especially like that they emphasize each product’s pattern by shooting each one on the same backgrou...
If You Could
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Love the new If You Could prints for August, designed by Jason Munn and Rob Ryan. In case you haven’t heard of the series, it is a monthly print...
Happy Weekend and Miscellany
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Photo from FotografeRx’s photostream So sorry about the lack of posts the last couple of days. I took an unexpected sick day yesterday and today...
Playful Type
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“Playful Type presents an inspiring collection of illustrative fonts and hand-made typography created from a variety of cutting-edge approaches ...