W+K Studio: 2014 Calendar
W+K Studio always does a fun calendar every year. This year’s is a limited edition run of 100 and each month features a unique two-color, Risogr...
Badass Lady Creatives [in History]: Varvara Stepanova
The Russian Constructivist movement was a huge catalyst for graphic design and applied arts; in the years following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a g...
Planet Propaganda: 12 Days of 6 Words for the Holidays
Planet Propaganda chose to celebrate the holiday season by creating 12 Days of 6 Words for the Holidays. As fans of the Six-Word Memoirs® project, ...
Type Love: Equip Slab
Equip Slab, by Hoftype, is the newest edition to the Equip family. The slab serif typeface includes eight weights plus italics, for a total of 16 styl...
Mike Smith: A Vague Christmas Card
Mike Smith’s quirky advent calendar-themed design for the Vague family is by far my favorite Christmas card I’ve seen this year. Check ou...
HeyHey Apps
There’s some joyful noise, color and ideas coming out of Ghent, Belgium, where HeyHey Apps is making iOS a more creative space for children. HeyHey ...
5 things we hope Santa puts under our tree just by looking at their websites
The fact that a simple, often one page, website can create completely irrational consumerism in a human is awesome, isn’t it? That web design can he...
Westwerk Design: Yeti Spotter
For this year’s holiday card, Westwerk Design went the non-traditional route and created Yeti Spotter, an interactive contest. The team sent ou...
Laura Wood Illustration
Laura Woods, an Italian freelance illustrator living in Melbourne, Australia, has only been in the illustration game for a year and a half, yet her im...
Inspiring Instagramers: christiangideon
Username: christiangideon Name: Christian Gideon Info: Portrait photographer located in the Missouri Ozarks Christian Gideon is a professional portrai...
Fred Schaub: BurdgeCooper Holiday Card and Gift Tags
This colorful holiday card was created for LA-based printer BurdgeCooper by CT-based designer Fred Schaub. The set of engraved and stamped cards wer...
Alan Rodriguez: Itzmin Project Illustration
Perhaps more Halloween appropriate than Christmas, but still worth sharing, Itzmin is a project that tasked 40 Mexican designers and artists to create...
Misty Manley: First Birthday Infographic Invitations
Misty Manley created these super fun infographic-style invitations for her son Jude’s first birthday, which is coming up in January. More than j...
Quick Links: 12/20/13
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Beyoncé’s recent surprise album release. I haven’t actual...
Streamline Icons
Designer Vincent Le Moign of Webalys recently introduced Streamline, a set of over 1600 icons for designers and developers. Yes, you read that ri...
Kickstarter Spotlight: Foldio
As someone who takes mobile photos quite a bit, I understand that lighting is a constant challenge. Enter Foldio, a compact, portable, foldable photo ...
Interview with Designer Darrin Higgins: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Designer Darrin Higgins, known for his work in spaces such as The Noun Project and Fast Company, shared with us his work on another fascinating orga...
Alliteration Inspiration: Lights & Lions
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week&#...
New House Industries Cotton
I’m loving all of the new cotton products that House Industries recently released, including men’s and women’s t-shirts, tote bags a...
Wise Words: Kid President’s 20 Things We Should Say More Often
If you’re not familiar with Kid President, you’re in for a treat. The inspirational video series was created by Brad Montague, whose mis...
The 2014 Studio On Fire Desk Calendar
Studio on Fire‘s letterpress desktop calendar is always my favorite calendar to purchase. Each year they work with a group of designers and illu...
Badass Lady Creatives: Illustrators to follow on Instagram
Too many blurry shots of food in your Instagram feed? Need something to break up all the selfies? More and more illustrators post works-in-progress to...
KOMBOH: School’s Cool Print Series
KOMBOHÂ just came out with an amazing little series of “School’s Cool” illustrative prints, meant “for the schoolkid in all of...
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...
Type Love: Clear Sans
Clear Sans is a “rational geometric sans serif” from Positype, that has been reworked since its original introduction in 2008. The newly ...
Last Minute Holiday Greetings
If you’re still on the lookout for a fun holiday card to send this year (fashionably late) I have a few suggestions for you. Alex Perez designed...
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...
Recommended Resources: Two Minutes with TGD
The Great Discontent is one of my all-time favorite blogs. Each week they feature in-depth interviews with people from creative fields who are doing r...
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...
Inspiring Instagramers: annstreetstudio
Username: annstreetstudio Name: Jamie Beck Info: The New York studio of Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg, fashion photographers and creators of the Cinemag...
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...
Quick Links: 12/13/13
This one’s for the eggnog enthusiasts: Eggnog—A Project. I spotted Paul McCartney’s newest album NEW in Starbucks the other day. 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...
Color Happy 195
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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 ...
Alliteration Inspiration: Beards & Bees
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
New You Are The Friction Anthology
Sing Statistics recently released You Are The Friction, a new anthology of collaborative short fiction and illustration. The collection includes twel...
Wise Words: Pablo Picasso
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Interview with Product Designer Jessica Harllee
Badass Lady Creatives celebrates talented women working in the creative industries. This week, I chat with product designer Jessica Harllee about her ...
Type Love: Canaro
Canaro was released last month by Rene Bieder: Conceived as an exploration of geometrical typedesigns of the early 20th century, Canaro developed in...
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...
Recommended Resources: What I Listen to While I Work
One of the things I love about working on my own is having the freedom to listen whatever I want during the day. And while I do listen to music (via S...
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...
Inspiring Instagramers: punkodelish
Username: punkodelish Name: kael Info: Be excellent to each other Toronto | iPhone only punkodelish has one of my favorite Instagram feeds. It’s a...
Colle + McVoy: 2014 All-Set Card Set
For this year’s All-Set Card Set (see past versions here and here), Colle + Mcvoy decided to take a slightly different approach.They stuck wit...
The New Schedule
I hope you all are enjoying the new browsing experience on DWL! (If you happen to notice any problems, please let us know.) As I mentioned in our laun...
Brad Woodard: NOEL Letterpress Holiday Card
If you’re still on the lookout for this year’s holiday card, Brad Woodard‘s newest design may fit the bill. The NOEL holiday cards w...
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...
Introducing Garth!
Garth Purkett is our new DWL intern! He is going to help me out with all kinds of things behind the scenes, but he will also be lending his voice to t...
Introducing Melanie!
This morning I’m incredibly excited to introduce our next contributor to all of you. Please welcome Melanie Richards, an awesome designer who ...
Introducing Jackson and Graham!
For quite awhile, one of the ways I’ve been wanting to improve DWL’s content is to provide more information and inspiration focused on the...
Welcome to the new and improved Design Work Life!
Surprise! The new DWL is here! Over the last few years we’ve had a few (too many for my liking!) stops and starts so I’ve been a bit tight...