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 italics,...
Courtney • 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 every...
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. And ...
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 particip...
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-Palacio of ...
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 ba...
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 particip...
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 some rea...
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 and w...
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 t...
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 commission...
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 “create ...
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 posts...
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 you f...
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’s ...
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 other things, encourages ...
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’s ...
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 love. ...
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.” The piece features ...
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 below: Fir...
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 explores relat...
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 life...
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 right ...
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 menu. The...
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 helpe...
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 up...
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 designers in a ...
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 and d...
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 ch...
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 from acro...
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 feature-ric...
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 “ca...
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’s back at it ...
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, violinist,...
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....
Martín Azambuja Illustration
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Awesome design and illustration work by Uraguay-based designer Martín 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 limited...
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 clothi...