Wise Words: Pablo Picasso
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via Ben Pieratt...
Courtney • Interview with Product Designer Jessica Harllee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lundgren+Lindqvist recently updated their portfolio with a handful of new projects. Their work for Kodamera, “a digital agency specialising in...
Inspiring Instagramers: punkodelish
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Strohl designed some lovely new tins for Leckerlee this year....
Kickstarter: Slate Mobile AirDesk
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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...
Uncommon Goods Giveaway Winner!
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I’m please to announce the winner of the Uncommon Goods $50 gift certificate! Expect an email from Uncommon Goods soon. Thanks to everyone els...
Paperless Post for the Holidays
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If you haven’t yet decided on this year’s holiday or new year’s card for your family, I highly recommend Paperless Post. They offer ...
Moodley Brand Identity: Servus am Marktplatz Packaging & Digital Branding
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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
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Finland-based studio Werklig designed this clean, graphic identity for Pikseli (which means “pixel” in Finnish), an office building in V...
Stout San Francisco
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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...
Gift Guides Now on Luvocracy
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If you’re still looking for gift ideas—I know a lot of you will be kicking holiday shopping into high gear this week—I wanted to point you i...
Angelo Stitz: Typographic Gift Wrap
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I’m loving this black and white, typographic gift wrap by German designer Angelo Stitz....
Type Love: Directa Serif
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Directa Serif is a new release from Outras Fontes that is designed to save space while maximizing readability. It includes seven weights plus itali...
Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
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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...
An Uncommon Goods Gift Guide Giveaway!
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Uncommon Goods is one of my absolute favorite online retailers. They offer a wide selection of unique products that you can’t find anywhere else...
Lomography Giveaway Winner!
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I’m please to announce the winner of the Lomography Konstruktor DIY camera: Expect an email from Lomography soon. Thanks to everyone else for ...
Holiday Kaleidoscope Luxe Postcards
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One of the latest additions to Moo.com’s Luxe Project is this set of Holiday Kaleidoscope postcards designed by Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palac...
Kickstarter: MIJLO’s A Better Backpack
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MIJLO, a new company that provides simple solutions for small spaces recently launched their first product, A Better Backpack, via Kickstarter. The b...
Lomography Giveaway Winner!
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I’m please to announce the winner of the Lomography Konstruktor DIY camera: Expect an email from Lomography soon. Thanks to everyone else for ...
Tim Gough: Sgt. Pepper Poster
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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...
Wee Society Giveaway Winner!
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Without further ado, the winner of the Wee-You-Things block set is: Expect an email from Wee Society soon. Thanks to everyone else for participating...
John J. Custer New Portfolio
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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
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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
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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...
Giveaway Reminders!
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Hey Readers! Just a quick reminder that we have two giveaways going on right now which will close out tonight, so get in your entries quickly! Enter ...
Student Work: Hannah Johnson: Quarter Life Review
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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
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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
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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
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Frances MacLoed has created a daily gratitude project to celebrate all the things she is thankful for, entitled Thirty Days of Thankfulness. The post...
Type Love: Pacific Northwest
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Pacific Northwest is a whimsical handwritten font by Vancouver-based foundry Cultivated Mind. Pick up a copy at MyFonts....
Help Ink Haiyan Relief Prints
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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
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Foreign Policy Design Group recently updated their portfolio with lots of new projects, including this branding project for The Pelican, a seafood res...
A Gift Guide Giveaway from Wee Society!
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Update: This giveaway is now closed. Thanks for participating! Readers, I have another awesome giveaway for you! The folks at Wee Society have offered...
A Gift Guide Giveaway from Lomography!
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Update: This giveaway is now closed. Thanks for participating! To celebrate the launch of this year’s Gift Guide, I have an awesome giveaway for...
The 2013 Design Work Life Gift Guide is Here!
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Woohoo! The 2013 Holiday Gift Guide is here! You can flip through clicking on the image above or following this link. A special thanks to this year...
Jessica Bruggink: Patterns
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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
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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
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To commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Craig Welsh (of Go Welsh) developed a Kickstarter project to help spread Lincoln&...
Type Love: Displace Cut
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Displace Cut is a display face by Dzianis Serabrakou. It’s a special, stencil-style edition of the original Displace. Pick up a copy at MyFonts...
Kickstarter: Turnover: Interchangeable Wall Art
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Turnover, a new Kickstarter project by Katie MacLachlan, Sisi Recht and Robyn Faith Donnelly, is a product most art and design enthusiasts will ...
Type Love: Millie
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Millie is a cool, new, angular script by Kyle Wayne Benson. Pick up a copy (at 50% off for a limited time!) at MyFonts....
Reynolds and Reyner: Coffee House London Identity and Collateral
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Beautiful work by Reynolds and Reyner for Coffee House London, a new coffee brand based in Ukraine....
Fieldwork: A Guide to Making Things
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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
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Great new work by Bravo Company for Sopra, a Singapore-based Italian restaurant that is inspired by “the glamorous days of post-war Italy.”...