Blok Design: Topix Identity and Collateral
I’m loving Blok Design‘s new work for Topix, a special effects and animation studio operating out of Toronto: A pioneer in special effects...
Category: Design
The Apps of the Year 2013
There are over 1,000,000 apps in the iTunes store. Imagine trying to search through them all to find the ones we think could be called ‘tops’ in t...
Tim Denee: A Free Calendar for 2014
Designer and illustrator Tim Denee has generously designed a 2014 calendar that you can all print and use for free. He’s designed two options wi...
40 Days of Dating Shop
Designers. Friends. Lovers? If you haven’t heard of 40 Days of Dating, it’s one of the most fascinating side projects the design world has...
Michael J. Hildebrand: Rest
When Michael J. Hildebrand was planning his most recent website update, he knew he wanted to add a fun ending into the mix. So he shifted his focus to...
Mattson Creative: Audi Storybook
Mattson Creative recently had the opportunity to work with Audi on a 28-page book that celebrates the carmaker’s history. Check out the gorgeous i...
Studio Hausherr
There’s some beautiful work coming out of Studio Hausherr, a Berlin-based studio specializing in corporate, editorial and web design. I’v...
A New Site for Tad Carpenter
Just yesterday Tad Carpenter launched a beautiful new site featuring tons of awesome new projects. Below is a brief selection of my favorites, but be ...
Super Rural Prints
You may recognize this For Like Ever print (top image) that was popularized several years ago through Domino Magazine—I actually have it hanging in...
Mobile Creativity and the Louis C.K. Effect
Making killer designs and big impact on the small screen is hard, but it shouldn’t be mission impossible. Comedian Louis C.K. had a very funny bit a...
Lundgren+Lindqvist: Kodamera Identity and Collateral
Lundgren+Lindqvist recently updated their portfolio with a handful of new projects. Their work for Kodamera, “a digital agency specialising in...
Super Precious Art Gallery: Punctuation Show
Attention grammar enthusiasts: the latest exhibit Super Precious Art Gallery is the Punctuation Show, which features 17 pieces by 11 artists, all ins...
Sanna Annukka: New Prints
Sanna Annukka has released some beautiful new prints since the last time I checked in with her shop. They’re all limited edition, so get them wh...
Fonts.com Fontacular
Unfortunately I am extremely late to the game in announcing this, but Fonts.com is holding it’s first ever Fontactular, with awesome deals on ...
Strohl: Leckerlee Holiday Tins
Strohl designed some lovely new tins for Leckerlee this year....
Kickstarter: Slate Mobile AirDesk
If you’re a laptop user, this new Kickstarter project is for you. Slate is a lightweight, heat-absorbent laptop surface that provides both mob...
Ty Mattson: Homeland Posters Now Available!
Exciting news! This week Showtime has made Ty Mattson‘s awesome jazz record-inspired Homeland tribute posters available for purchase. You can pi...
Moodley Brand Identity: Servus am Marktplatz Packaging & Digital Branding
Moodley Brand Identity developed the brand identity and extensive packaging system for Servus am Marktplatz, an online marketplace selling handmade ...
Werklig: Pikseli Identity and Signage
Finland-based studio Werklig designed this clean, graphic identity for Pikseli (which means “pixel” in Finnish), an office building in V...
Stout San Francisco
This morning I’m pleased to introduce you to Stout, the brand new San Francisco-based studio of Ryan Meis (who you may know from Lab Partners) a...
Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
John Clifford, of Think Studio, just released his very first book, Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design, and it is a book ever...
Tim Gough: Sgt. Pepper Poster
Tim Gough just released this amazing print of his Sgt. Pepper illustrations. Printed in a limited run of 100, the design features 8-color printing wit...
John J. Custer New Portfolio
John J. Custer recently worked with developer Chris P. Wolf to put together a new site that showcases a complete archive of his work. There’s ...
Jen Serafini: Chef Alli Brand Identity and Collateral
Jen Serafini—who I had the pleasure of working with as an intern awhile back—recently worked with DC-based chef Alli Sosna on her brand identity a...
Nate Koehler New Site
Nate Koehler recently launched a brand new site, which features tons of design and illustration work in his bold and colorful style. Check out the wor...
Student Work: Hannah Johnson: Quarter Life Review
For her graduate thesis at Tyler School of Art, Hannah Johnson created Quarter Life Review, a series of book covers inspired by her childhood drawings...
Daniel Ting Chong: Red Bull Cooler Design
Daniel Ting Chong was one of 9 Cape Town artists selected to participate in Red Bull’s South Africa-based Canvas Cooler project, where they comm...
Ben Whitla: Mapkin Identity
Ben Whitla recently developed the identity for Mapkin, an app that combines turn-by-turn GPS with human storytelling, by allowing the user to “...
Frances MacLeod: Thirty Days of Thankfulness
Frances MacLoed has created a daily gratitude project to celebrate all the things she is thankful for, entitled Thirty Days of Thankfulness. The post...
Help Ink Haiyan Relief Prints
Update: Two more prints were posted after this post were published. They are now included at the bottom of this post. Check them out! This week Help I...
Foreign Policy Design Group: The Pelican Identity and Collateral
Foreign Policy Design Group recently updated their portfolio with lots of new projects, including this branding project for The Pelican, a seafood res...
Jessica Bruggink: Patterns
Jessica Bruggink recently launched a new site, and I was particularly drawn to all of her pattern design work. Check out the rest of her portfolio rig...
Jolby & Friends: Ride The Weird Screen Print
I’m loving this fun print that Jolby & Friends recently released. It features the words, “Ride the Weird,” which, among many oth...
Kickstarter: Gettysburg Address Letterpress by Craig Welsh
To commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Craig Welsh (of Go Welsh) developed a Kickstarter project to help spread Lincoln&...
Kickstarter: Turnover: Interchangeable Wall Art
Turnover, a new Kickstarter project by Katie MacLachlan, Sisi Recht and Robyn Faith Donnelly, is a product most art and design enthusiasts will ...
Reynolds and Reyner: Coffee House London Identity and Collateral
Beautiful work by Reynolds and Reyner for Coffee House London, a new coffee brand based in Ukraine....
Fieldwork: A Guide to Making Things
For Fieldwork’s one year anniversary, they developed a limited edition printed piece with the theme of “A Guide to Making Things.” T...
Bravo Company: Sopra Identity and Collateral
Great new work by Bravo Company for Sopra, a Singapore-based Italian restaurant that is inspired by “the glamorous days of post-war Italy.”...
Rook: Various Identities
I’m loving all of the identity work coming out of new-to-me, Athens, Georgia-based studio Rook. Check out a few of my favorite projects are belo...
The Company You Keep: Builders Arms Hotel Social Campaign
Australia-based studio The Company You Keep developed this clean and bold typographic campaign to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the Builders...
Style guide class starts this week!
Just a quick reminder that my new Skillshare class, By The Book: Create a Style Guide for Your Brand, opens up this Thursday. Once again you have lif...
Paperlux: Arjowiggins Reinventing the Bookmark
The Paperlux team created this series of fun, colorful—and incredibly useful for book lovers!—bookmarks for Arjowiggins. Check out more details ri...
J.D. Humphreys: An Invitation Across the Nation Poster Series
An Invitation Across the Nation is a collection of twenty posters featuring and celebrating musical artists from the 1960s, especially those who help...
Carlos Lerma and Azucena Morales: Geeks Illustration
Illustrators Carlos Lerma and Azucena Morales recently collaborated on this colorful and fun illustration as part of a submission for Picnic Magazine...
Typefight Relaunch
Typefight, “an arena for alphabetic altercations,” recently relaunched and it is looking awesome. Each day the Typefight folks pit two des...
Bosque: Oaxaca Moleskine
I’m loving the vibrant design and illustrations that Bosque created for the Oaxaca moleskine for Monoblock....
Karsh Hagan: Colorado Tourism Wine Bottles
The folks at Karsh Hagan designed this unique wine bottle for the annual Governor’s Tourism Conference in Colorado. Each bottle was laser etched an...
Taylor Goad Portfolio Update
Talented designer Taylor Goad recently launched a brand new site, featuring all sorts of new projects. A few favorite images are below, but you can c...
Ghost: Ladies & Gentlemen Identity and Stationery
Beautiful, sophisticated work by Ghost for Ladies & Gentlemen, a full service millinery boutique offering high-end, handmade and custom hats fro...
Kickstarter: Oakland Illustrated by The Weekend Press
Every so often a Kickstarter project comes through my inbox that I get really excited about, and Oakland Illustrated is definitely one of them. Curate...
DIA: Speak Up Africa Identity and Collateral
New York-based studio DIA developed this bold identity and series of collateral pieces for Speak Up Africa, a non-profit organization dedicated to ...
Telegramme: Hawt Sauce
Telegramme recently updated their portfolio with a ton of new projects that span various design disciplines. One that particularly caught my eye is th...
Michael George Haddad: Zodiac
If you’ve been a reader for a little while, you may remember Michael George Haddad‘s self-initiated project, Mid-Century Canada. Well he&#...
Korn Design: Area Four Restaurant Identity and Collateral
Restaurant identity design is one of my favorite things to feature, so when Jeshurun Webb sent over her work for Area Four I jumped at the chance to p...
Andrew Colin Beck: Aurora Florence Identity and Album Design
I’m loving this sophisticated, feminine identity and collateral that Andrew Colin Beck developed for Aurora Florence, a singer, songwriter, vio...
Martín Azambuja Illustration
Awesome design and illustration work by Uraguay-based designer Martín Azambuja....
Think Work Observe: Mask / Snake / Surprise Prints
Think Work Observe recently designed this series of illustrated prints—Snake, Mask and Surprise—for Editions of 100, an online shop that sells li...
Student Work: Apollo Identity and Collateral
As a student project, designers Tiffany R. Hsu, Eric Cancino and Nathan Shigeta developed this identity and extensive collateral system for the clo...
Always With Honor: Boke Bowl Identity and Collateral
Earlier this month Always With Honor launched a brand new site. I’m particularly loving their work for Boke Bowl, a Portland-style ramen shop. C...
Patrick Fry: Good Design Identity and Site Design
Patrick Fry developed the identity and website design for Good Design, a blog by Joseph Maduma that focuses on “design and creativity that is cr...