Type Love: Minot
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Earlier this week Jessica Hische launched her latest font, Minot, a beautiful ornamental display face. Minot includes three styles—Outline, Fill and...
Courtney • Lo Siento: Tenerife Design Festival
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Barcelona-based studio Lo Siento developed this fun and playful identity and collateral for the Tenerife Design Festival, a design festival held in th...
Type Love: Trend
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The layered type trend has certainly taken off in the last year or so. (See Detroit, Valuco, Frontage.) Now Latinotype has contributed their version ...
Bleed: Aker Brygge Identity and Collateral
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Bleed—who recently launched a beautifully redesigned website—developed this sophisticated identity and collateral for Aker Brygge, a popular area ...
TOKY 2012
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This year the creative team at TOKY took a different approach to their year-end assessment. Faced with the dilemma of a year flying by with no time t...
Invisible Creature: Toth Construction Architectural Blocks
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Invisible Creature designed this beautiful set of architectural nesting blocks for Toth Construction as a holiday gift for their clients. The blocks a...
Type Love: 2012 Favorites
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Before I took a look back, I thought I might have a hard time finding ten really great typefaces from 2012 to feature. But once I actually explored th...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Gearing Up for Business
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I don’t know about you, but for me the new year means taking a fresh look at my business, assessing what’s working and what needs to chang...
Darrin Higgins: Sprout Up Identity and Website
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Designer Darrin Higgins developed the brand and web experience for new site Sprout Up, which aims to provide children with environmental education: En...
Carnevale: 2013 Desk Calendar
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I’ve got one more 2013 calendar to share with you this week (and likely for the year). Designed by Megan Sullivan of Carnevale, this desk calen...
Cory Say: Cattle Baron’s Ball Catalog and Ticket Package
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You may remember the stationery designed for the Cattle Baron’s Ball by Cory Say that was posted back in August. Well today he’s been k...
Type Love: Quarzo
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This morning I’m loving Quarzo, an elegant, traditional script by Corradine Fonts....
Mottis: Mottisimals Interactive Story
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This year, North Carolina-based ad agency Mottis developed a really fun interactive story for their holiday promotion. The story revolves around Jelly...
CA Collection Redesigns
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For their second volume, CA Collection has undergone a complete design overhaul. The first edition was stellar, in both design and content, but the n...
Edwin Carter: 2013 Calendars
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If you’re in the market for a large wall calendar, designer Edwin Carter has two awesome options for you. First up is Radial, a calendar based o...
Mink Letterpress: A Dozen Eggs 2013 Calendar
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On the opposite end of the design spectrum is this charming letterpress calendar by Mink Letterpress. Each month features a pastel illustration of a d...
Upstruct: 2013 Poster Calendar
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I promise I won’t overload you with too many more 2013 calendars this year, but I do have a few lined up that I think are worth sharing. It̵...
FUNNEL: Tailored Twig Event Design Identity and Collateral
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While I was away last week, FUNNEL updated their portfolio with a couple of new projects, including this gorgeous identity and collateral for Tailored...
Happy New Year!
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Illustration by Ma + Chr via L’affiche Moderne Happy New Year readers! We’ve got lots of things in store for the coming year that we’...
Happy Holidays
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We’re taking off this week to spend time with friends and family for Christmas. We’ll be back and raring to go first thing in January. Bes...
Type Love: Carat
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Carat is a “contemporary interpretation of a classic serif” by German foundry Hoftype....
Hanna Konola: Christmas Calendar
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Finnish illustrator/designer/artist Hanna Konola is currently in the process of adding to her Christmas calendar, a daily illustration project. Despit...
Monnet Design: Holiday Promotions
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Each year Monnet Design redirects the money typically spent on holiday gifts to charities: Here’s what they did in 2011: As we’ve done since o...
Jorge Fuentes: Cosmos MMXIII Calendar
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Cosmos MMXII is a 2013 calendar that consists of 12 original illustrations inspired by the universe and beyond. Beautiful! It’s available as a h...
Mama’s Sauce: Love Letters Collection
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In support of the Hamilton Wood Type & Print Museum—if you don’t know about their current struggles, read more here—Mama’s Sauce h...
Type Love: Unio
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Unio is a friendly slab serif with rounded edges by Wilton Foundry....
Peskimo: Special Brews Prints
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The illustration team Peskimo created this fun series of prints inspired by the seemingly endless varieties of tea. Special Brews has launched with an...
Baji: Elements of Education
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Seattle-based studio Baji recently completed the re-brand and site development for Elements of Education, a Washington-based non-profit that aims to...
Paper Pusher Printworks: 2013 Risograph Calendar
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I’ve already bought far too many 2013 calendars—not sure where I’m hanging them all!— but I have to say I’m loving this vibrant ...
Bureau of Betterment: Holiday Chutes & Ladders Game Board
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Bureau of Betterment created this playful Holiday Chutes and Ladders Game Board for Xplane, a company that specializes in Business Design Thinking....
Bond: Merry Xmas Interactive Card
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Bond developed this fun interactive Christmas card game for the University of The Arts Helsinki. Take a minute to play with the greeting for yoursel...
Ty Mattson: Homeland-Inspired Vintage Record Covers
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If you’re not already watching Homeland, you should be. Plain and simple, it’s just great TV. What’s also great—better than great,...
Anagrama: Bonnard Brand Identity and Collateral
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Anagrama just completed this gorgeous Brand Identity and collateral for Bonnard, a Mexican french-inspired tea and confectionery shop. I am loving th...
Nate Williams: Mar del Sur Collection
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It hasn’t been that cold on the East Coast yet this winter, but I’m still craving a tropical vacation right about now. So Nate Williams...
WBYK: Band Posters
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I just discovered the work of Sydney, Australia-based two-person team WBYK. I’m loving their illustration style, especially when it comes to the...
To Resolve Project 2013
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Chris Streger has just launched the 2013 edition of the To Resolve Project, where designers submit their resolutions for the new year in the form of p...
Jenny Bowers: Bloomingdales Holiday
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I’m loving the colorful holiday decorations that Jenny Bowers developed for Bloomingdales this season. via Peepshow Collective...
Two Times Elliott: Daniel Hopwood Identity and Collateral
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Two Times Elliott developed this clean, modern identity for Daniel Hopwood, a London-based interior design practice....
The Little Friends of Printmaking: Unlucky 2013 Calendar
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The Little Friends of Printmaking are greeting 2013 with “all the hostility it deserves” by way of their Unlucky silk screened calendar. ...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Illustration
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If you’re interested in getting into illustration or brushing up on your basic drawing and painting skills these classes are for you: Drawing Wo...
The Just Love Project Giveaway Winner
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Pearly Yon: Ashbourne Wine Label
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This gorgeous wine label was designed and illustrated by Pearly Yon for the Ashbourne Sauvignon Blanc. Here’s a bit about her process: I was bri...
Molly Jacques: Great Lakes Lettering
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Earlier this week illustrator Molly Jacques announced Great Lakes Lettering, a new collaboration between herself and font designer Dathan Boardman. T...
The Winter Cabin Collection
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The Winter Cabin Collection is a new collaboration between Mary Kate McDevitt, Man vs Ink and Wanderlust Vintage & Handmade. The line began as ...
Bond: Santa Claus Rebrand
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For Icon Magazine’s re-design section, Bond bravely took on Santa Claus. Faced with the challenge of a dwindling number of believers, they g...
Dan Blackman: Pointer Brand Refresh
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I’m a little late to the game on this one, but Dan Blackman launched a beautiful new (and responsive!) portfolio site yesterday. All of the work...
Type Love: Shelton Slab
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Shelton Slab is a distressed letterpress style font featuring letterforms that appear to be from many different alphabets. Pick up this new release b...
Just Love Project Giveaway Reminder
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Just a quick reminder that if you haven’t entered The Just Love Project giveaway yet, you have until tomorrow to do so. Just leave a comment on ...
Jack Muldowney: The Katie Boyce Company Identity and Collateral
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I’ve always loved emerald green, but being that it’s been declared Pantone’s 2013 color of the year, lately it’s been more pro...
Hum Creative Launch Party
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Seattle-based Hum Creative recently threw this super fun launch party to celebrate their brand new website. Love those hum dog posters and tattoos. Al...
Dominic Flask and Rory Harms: 12 Days of Christmas
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I’ve been enjoying following Dominic Flask and Rory Harms’s illustration project, 12 Days of Christmas. They have been publishing their o...
Anagrama: Doce Cielos Brand Identity and Collateral
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Anagrama recently completed this elegant Brand Identity and Collateral for Doce Cielos, makers of traditional honey-based products....
Stitch Design Co.: Hob Nob Stationery
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I’m loving the whimsical stationery items that Stitch Design Co. created for Hob Nob, an event curator based in Charleston, South Carolina....
Foundry Co: Fireside Brand Identity and Collateral
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Here is another awesome Foundry Collective project. This clean, modern and elegant identity and collateral was developed for Fireside, design + build...
Foundry Co: The Mule Brand Identity and Collateral
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The Mule is another Foundry Collective project that I’ve seen snippets of in the past, but never the complete brand fleshed out to print pieces ...
Foundry Co: Emporium Pies Update
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Earlier I happened to stumble upon Foundry Collective’s site after not visiting for awhile, and I noticed several project updates that are very ...
Type Love: Olio
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Olio is a bold, geometric display face by Max Little. Available in Bold and Inline, you can currently pick up the set for 50% off at MyFonts....
Hans Thiessen and Michael Mateyko: KOMBOH Identity and Collateral
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This identity and collateral designed for KOMBOH, a “fun loving bureaucracy run by two people,” is SO much fun. Check out KOMBOH̵...
The Just Love Project Update + Giveaway
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This giveaway is now closed. Thanks to all who participated! Back in March I first posted about The Just Love Project, a philanthropic, collaborative ...
Noise 13: Holiday Cards
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Check out Noise 13′s new line of holiday cards. You can choose to buy one of three series of three, each with its own theme, or the entire set o...