Sociedad Anónima: Hotel Boca Chica Identity and Collateral
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Hotel Boca Chica, a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, was once the place to be in the 1950s and 60s, but in recent years had lost its glamorous appeal. To tu...
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Student Work: Russell Edling: Homespun Records
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For his senior thesis project at the Tyler School of Art, designer Russell Edling created Homespun Records, a “small time record label that puts an em...
Ryan Frease: New Work
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Ryan Frease has been making some excellent work since the last time I checked in with him (way too long ago!) In addition to the two pieces that he cr...
Type Love: Live
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Live is a new release by Lián Types The lively brush script features three fonts, Pro, Standard and Live More which includes a set of pre-designed cat...
Richard Baird: Solis Brand Identity and Stationery
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Designer Richard Baird—who also runs the excellent blog BP&O—recently completed this beautiful identity for Solis, the fashion label of Tel Aviv-based...
No-Studio: The Personal Work of Miles Chic
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No-Studio is a showcase of the personal work of Vancouver-based designer and illustrator Miles Chic, who loves “big colour, Japanese & French culture,...
Booth: The Secret Garden Brand Identity and Collateral
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Montreal-based studio Booth recently developed this lovely identity for The Secret Garden, a traditional Cape Cod bed and breakfast. Take a look throu...
Type Love: Historism Border 2D
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Historism Border 2D is an ornamental font family consisting of various friezes and patterns grouped into four fonts. All of the ornaments were based o...
Somewhere Else: Foodology Brand Identity and Collateral
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Somewhere Else just launched an extensive brand for Foodology, an 8000 square foot restaurant located in Singapore. The project encompassed developmen...
Eoin Duffy: Encounter Short Film
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Encounter is Eoin Duffy‘s short animated film which explores the territorial responses of varying North Atlantic species. The message, which he states...
Help Ink T-Shirts!
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Last week Help Ink launched t-shirts, a welcome addition to their shop. This week’s design, “Never Give Up,” comes to you from designer extraordinaire...
The DM Collection: Animal Prints by Daniel Mackie
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The DM Collection is a line of prints and cards featuring the work of artist Daniel Mackie, who is inspired by the styles of traditional Japanese prin...
Kevin Cantrell: Aguas Poster
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Kevin Cantrell recently released the second of seven posters in his “7 Days” series, Águas. This new poster features the same style of gorgeous letter...
Jeremy Pruitt: Bordo Bello Skate Deck
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Jeremy Pruitt, aka Thinkmule, recently contributed a deck design to AIGA Colorado’s Bordo Bello, a skateboard art show that’s been on view annually si...
Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs
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The creative minds behind Kern and Burn, 100 Days of Entrepeneurship have just launched the site for their first book, Kern and Burn: Conversations Wi...
Draw Your Own Alphabets
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Draw Your Own Alphabets: Thirty Fonts to Scribble, Sketch, and Make Your Own is a new book by Tony Seddon that teaches you how to create your own cust...
Cat Neligan: The Owl and the Pussycat Illustrations
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I’m loving Cat Neligan‘s illustrative interpretation of Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat....
Chloe Allen: Neck of the Woods Project Lettering Project
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Neck of the Woods is hand-lettering project by Chloe Allen, a current student at the University of Leeds. Each entry illustrates a local idiom, from p...
Lashun Tines: Diaspora “The Art of Blackness” 2013
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Take a look at Chicago-based designer Lashun Tine‘s work for the 2013 Diaspora “The Art of Blackness” exhibition. (See the 2012 edition right here.) A...
Amy Walters: Summer Fruits and Berries
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I’m loving this series of bright, summery patterns by illustrator Amy Walters....
Type Love: Tomato
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Tomato is a new discovery for me, but it was actually produced in 2005 by Canada Type. This curvy display face is actually an expanded digitization of...
Kathryn Brylinsky: Poppin Free Stuff
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Poppin is definitely a favorite brand of mine, so I was excited to see the work Kathryn Brylinsky (who currently works in house fo them) has developed...
Michael De Pippo: Love at First Flight Wedding Materials
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For Michael de Pippo’s recent nuptials, he designed a super fun suite of materials around the theme of Love at First Flight. The theme, which was insp...
KNOCK: We Heart Trees
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Check out We Heart Trees, KNOCK’s 2013 campaign in celebration of Arbor Day, a site that asks users to design their own virtual trees while also pledg...
Mackey Saturday: New Instagram Logo
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In case you missed the launch of Instagram’s new logo last week, see below for Mackey Saturday‘s new and improved version. I also happened to stumble ...
The Mood Series on Behance
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The Mood Series, by Riccardo Casinelli, combines cheerful colors with not-so-cheerful messages in this dimensional typography. Love the contrast....
Muxxi: We Are Magical Illustrations
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I can’t get enough of the graphic illustration work of Guatemalan artist Muxxi. The colors! These particular pieces are a new series of symmetrical ex...
Weekly Crop
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Weekly Crop is a new year-long illustration project started by Jim Mezei. Each week four designers and illustrators will interpret the same topic, res...
Hofstede Design: 83/87 Chapel Street Signage
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Hofstede Design recently launched a new website featuring quite a few new projects. In particular, their modern and playful—love the cat chasing the b...
Sabrina Smelko: VOA, an Illustrated Science-Fiction Novel
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For her graduate thesis, Sabrina Smelko wrote and illustrated VOA, a science fiction novel focused on the concepts of death, power and justice. If you...
Student Work: Michelle Wang: Shakespeare Poster Series
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I’m incredibly impressed by this Shakespeare poster series designed by Michelle Wang, a current graphic design student at Pratt. In her words: A commo...
Andy Luce Updates
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Earlier this year Andy Luce overhauled his portfolio, featuring lots of new work. Below you can see a few projects I’m especially loving, but be sure ...
Animography
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Animography is a side project by Netherlands-based designer Jeroen Krielaars. The site is essentially a type foundry that produces and distributes exc...
Adam Wells: The Circle Line
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I don’t post a lot of animation work around here, but every so often one really catches my eye. And Adam Wells‘s beautiful black and white piece, The ...
Art Prints by Matthew Korbel Bowers
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Awhile back I briefly featured the work of Matthew Korbel Bowers in Color Happy 152. And after stumbling upon his work again this week, I realized his...
Christophe Remy: Delbôve
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Belgium-based designer Christophe Remy has done some beautiful work for Delbôve, a high-end cosmetics line. Be sure to check out Christophe’s site to ...
Eric Comstock Illustration
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I’m loving the playful retro style of Eric Comstock‘s illustrations....
Type Love: Kana Sans
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Kana Sans was released earlier this year by GT & CANARY, a New York City studio founded by Takaaki Goto, a type designer from Japan. Kana Sans feature...
Radio: Sea World Orlando Maps
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Radio recently worked with London-based agency Cubo to create all new maps for Sea World in Orlando. Get a closer look right here....
One Heart Boston Letterpress Print
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One Heart Boston is an initiative by Boston-based Hairpin Communications to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon attack. In the aftermath of the att...
Type Love: Verb and Verb Condensed
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Verb and Verb Condensed are two sans serif families from Yellow Design Studio. Verb Condensed is just a slightly more condensed version of the origina...
Push: Italio Modern Kitchen Identity and Collateral
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Push recently completed the identity and extensive collateral for Italio, a fast casual Italian restaurant chain. Challenge. Italio came to Push with ...
The Original Champions of Design: MC Kitchen Identity and Collateral
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I’m loving this new project by The Original Champions of Design for MC Kitchen, a modern Italian restaurant in the Miami Design District. MC Kitchen o...
Ada Blackjack Identity and Collateral
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Beautiful work for bag and leather goods brand Ada Blackjack by Verena Michelitsch and Tobias van Schneider. Check out the products online right here....
The World’s First Annual Report on Instagram
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Trigger Communications just launched this year’s annual report for Calgary Zoo. But it isn’t your typical printed piece; the report unfolds through a ...
Fabio Ongarato Design: QT Port Douglas Identity and Collateral
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I’m loving this work for QT Port Douglas by Fabio Ongarato Design: Each QT Resort and Hotel has it own unique character and individual personality bot...
Design Ranch Update: Learn + Let Go
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In a post over the weekend, I requested that if anyone had pictures of the finished pieces from the Learn + Let Go workshop to send them my way. Well,...
Hammerpress: W. 18th St. Fashion Show
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A recent browse through Hammerpress‘s custom portfolio turned up this beautiful work for the W. 18th St. Fashion Show, a collaboration with Peregrine ...
Type Love: Poster
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Poster is a new release from Type-Ø-Tones designed by Íñigo Jerez. Want more type? Check out my Type Wishlist, current Favorites and Calligraphic scri...
Damn You Art School
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Damn You Art School, who provides answers for “everything they never taught you in art school,” looks like an awesome resource for students, recent gr...
Heal Boston
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Designer Richie Stewart just launched Heal Boston, a great project to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon attack. Buy a shirt and all proceeds will...
So long, Texas!
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Today I’m taking off after two days jam-packed with creativity. While I’m anxious to get back to NYC, I am incredibly grateful for this experience. As...
Today on the Ranch: 04.20.13, Part 2
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This afternoon the last group of workshops were held in one three-hour block. So rather than take one full class, I decided to jump around to as many ...
Armadillo Races?
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Yes, armadillo races. Maybe it’s naive of me, but I had no idea this was a thing. (FYI, it’s definitely a thing.) But hey, it was a new and different ...
Today on the Ranch: 4.20.13, Part 1
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This morning I spent the first session of the day with Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. in a workshop entitled, “What’s Your (Color) Story?” As both a fan...
Today on the Ranch: 04.19.13
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After I had a chance to familiarize myself with the ranch this morning, I was able to attend two sessions in the afternoon: Jay B. Sauceda‘s “Thinkin’...
Hello Texas!
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Well, after a series of many travel hiccups, I finally arrived in Hunt, Texas at Camp Waldemar at 2AM earlier today. It was quite the adventure. But a...
Wear your inspiration on your sleeve.
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To celebrate Design Ranch‘s 10th anniversary this weekend, Brian and I made up some little goodies for all of the Ranchers. Based on the idea, “Wear y...
See you in Texas!
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I am currently en route to Texas for Design Ranch! That means that over the next four days, posting will be entirely Design Ranch focused, and regular...
Chris Dina: Fruit Prints
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Designer Chris Dina has created a vibrant new print series that celebrates “wondrous varieties of fruit” through colorful, graphic illustrations. All ...