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...
Courtney • 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.”...
Rook: Various Identities
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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...
Studio Fludd: Gelatology Series
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As part of their self-publishing collection, EPHEMERA & MISCELLANEA, Studio Fludd developed Gelatology, a booklet (available here) that exploresÂ...
The Company You Keep: Builders Arms Hotel Social Campaign
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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!
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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
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The Paperlux team created this series of fun, colorful—and incredibly useful for book lovers!—bookmarks for Arjowiggins. Check out more details ri...
Johnny Kotze: Wimpy Kids Illustrations
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South Africa-based illustrator Johhny Kotze created this series of playful characters for the Wimpy restaurant’s (a UK hamburger chain) kids men...
J.D. Humphreys: An Invitation Across the Nation Poster Series
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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
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Illustrators Carlos Lerma and Azucena Morales recently collaborated on this colorful and fun illustration as part of a submission for Picnic Magazine...
Type Love: Urge Text
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Urge Text is a recent release from Schizotype that includes six weights in regular and condensed widths, plus matching italics. Check it out a pick ...
Typefight Relaunch
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Typefight, “an arena for alphabetic altercations,” recently relaunched and it is looking awesome. Each day the Typefight folks pit two des...
Bosque: Oaxaca Moleskine
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I’m loving the vibrant design and illustrations that Bosque created for the Oaxaca moleskine for Monoblock....
Karsh Hagan: Colorado Tourism Wine Bottles
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Type Love: Post Grotesk
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Post Grotesk is a new release via Village’s Incubator program, and the first typeface designed by Josh Finklea. The typeface features four feat...
DIA: Speak Up Africa Identity and Collateral
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Berto Martinez Illustration
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These beautiful water color fashion illustrations were created by Berto Martinez for Tantalum Magazine....
Anna Dunn Illustration
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I’m loving Anna Dunn‘s graphic patterns and illustrations....
Andrew Colin Beck: Aurora Florence Identity and Album Design
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I’m loving this sophisticated, feminine identity and collateral that Andrew Colin Beck developed for Aurora Florence, a singer, songwriter, vio...
Type Love: Geli
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Geli is a friendly, hand-lettered typeface by Volcano, including over 130 OpenType features. Check it out at MyFonts....
MartÃn Azambuja Illustration
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Awesome design and illustration work by Uraguay-based designer MartÃn Azambuja....
Think Work Observe: Mask / Snake / Surprise Prints
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Think Work Observe recently designed this series of illustrated prints—Snake, Mask and Surprise—for Editions of 100, an online shop that sells li...
Marco Goran Romano: GQ Germany Illustrations
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Loving the style and color palette of this illustration series by Marco Goran Romano for GQ Germany....
Student Work: Apollo Identity and Collateral
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As a student project, designers Tiffany R. Hsu, Eric Cancino and Nathan Shigeta developed this identity and extensive collateral system for the clo...
Type Love: Grumpy
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Grumpy (which was used in the charity:ball invitations I posted last week) is a display face with six optical variants. Pick it up at MyFonts....
Always With Honor: Boke Bowl Identity and Collateral
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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...
Chelsea Brink: Cheerios Illustrations
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Chelsea Brink recently collaborated with Zeus Jones to create these fun e-card illustrations for Cheerios for the purpose of encouraging familie...
Ed Spence Collages
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I’m loving these pixelated collages by Ed Spence: Using a knife and a ruler I dissect the information within the image. The hand-generated pix...
Type Love: Odesta
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Odesta is another recent release from Village that flew to to the top of my wishlist. Designed by Ondrej Jób of Urtd, the typeface features seven w...
Patrick Fry: Good Design Identity and Site Design
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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...
Last Call for Gift Guide Submissions
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Quick reminder: If you’ve been meaning to submit a gift idea for this year’s Gift Guide, you have until this Friday, November 1st to do so...
John-Patrick Thomas Illustration
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Loving the illustration work of John-Patrick Thomas, who is currently a Jr. Designer at Penguin Books....
Clare Cousins Architects: Moor Street Studio
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This space designed by Clare Cousins Architects looks like such an inspiring, energizing place to live and work....
Noise 13: Reorient Identity and Packaging
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Beautiful work by Noise 13 for Reorient, a brand that creates herbal tonics and broths: Based in San Francisco, Reorient creates artisanal herbal to...
Type Love: Mrs Summer
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Mrs Summer is a “a hand drawn narrow typeface with a Western touch.” This display face comes with two weights—regular and bold—all ca...
Joseph Veazey: Azede Jean-Pierre S/S 2011 Lookbook
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Lovely work by Joseph Veazey for the Azede Jean-Pierre S/S 2011 Lookbook....
Andrew Suggit: Sanctuary 28
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While at TUSK Agency, Andrew Suggit was tasked with the rebranding of Sanctuary 28, a builder of homes strongly influenced by coastal living. Creativ...
Caetano Calomino Lettering
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An impressive collection of lettering samples by Caetano Calomino. Much more to see in his portfolio and on his Facebook page....