Tim Bjørn

Danish designer Tim Bjørn designed and hand painted this playful illustration and custom typography for the Madame Madsen shop in Denmark. Click here to see a few more pictures of the process.

Woods & Weather

The portfolio of Woods & Weather includes several of vibrant letterpressed pieces—created during his time at Studio on Fire—like these materials for AIGA design camp.

Seth Weisfield

Seth Weisfield is a talented New York-based designer who specializes in motion graphics. I’m personally loving these boards he art directed for New Balance, a project that was completed at B-Reel.

In Love with Letters

These gorgeous letterforms stopped be in my tracks. Apparently they are actually part of a notecard set design by Jeanie Nelson of The Paper Nut from 2008, and somehow I missed them back then. These particular letters are part of…

Nicholas Saunders

Screen printer and illustrator Nicholas Saunders is currently working on the new Harry Potter film The Half Blood Prince. (How cool is that?) He also has some really great work in his portfolio, so take a look.

Silvia Portella

Silvia Poretella, aka Bukubuku, has clearly mastered the art of cute. More of her work can be found on Flickr, and you can purchase products created with her artwork at Etsy, L’Affiche Moderne, and Poketo.

Type Love 54: Liza

Liza, the latest release from Underware is pretty amazing. Not only is it a fun and playful script with a hand-painted look, but it also has built-in features including “artificial intelligence” that automatically chooses characters so your text looks different…

Sweet Cakes

Here is a fun project by Central Saint Martins student Sara: a set of cupcakes was made for her design tutors based on Adobe’s Creative Suite and Mac icons. Yum.

The Heist Series

Designer Brian Gossett creates mixes on his blog from time to time. He describes his latest series, The Heist Series, as such: “I am a huge fan of heist films. They exude a sense of excitement and wonderment. The recipe…

Nurit Koniak

Isreali designer Nurit Koniak seems to dabble in various disciplines, from design to art direction to styling. Several of his her (sorry, Nurit!) projects are for the food service industry, and I’m particularly liking the simple and classic branding for…

Totem

I found the branding for Totem via the portfolio of Haley Fiege. Totem is a Canadian design collective of six designers and artists specializing in “the curious”. Their branding was a collaborative effort, and each logo was formed through a…

Road Trip

This series by French photographer Laurent Nivalle makes me want to hop in a car immediately. He perfectly captured the mood of a lazy summer day.

Swerve

In 2007, HunterGatherer was charged with helping to launch the Swerve Festival, an event celebrating West Coast creative culture. The playful branding they came up with was achieved with hand-painted, hand-cut wood forms, and all of the animations were were…

Reflections

Eart Magazine invited Sabato Urciuoli to create a photographic series based on the idea of reflections about nature. The series consists of 10 images, which you can see right here.

Garrett Karol

I was psyched to stumble upon the work of Garrett Karol, a new-to-me designer to keep an eye on. As a huge fan of gig posters, I’m especially drawn to the screenprints he’s designed for some of my favorite bands.…

Charlotte Read

I’m really loving Charlotte Read’s bold colorful style and her use of intricate geometric patterns. Her work for the Guardian is especially fun. via Yay! Everyday