W+K Studio 2013 Letterpress Calendar
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For 2013, W+K Studio has designed a letterpress coaster calendar in a graphic mint, black and white palette. You can pick one up right here, and check...
Courtney • Hamilton Wood Type Needs Your Help
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Calling all designers and typography afficionados: The incredible Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Wisconsin, needs your help. The owners of th...
Type Love: Trithart
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Trithart is a playful, hand-drawn, Open Type font by illustrator Emma Trithart. You can pick it up right here at You Work for Them. ...
Cardon Webb: Ralph Ellison Book Series
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Speaking of vintage-inspired design and illustration, I am also loving Cardon Webb’s colorful design for a series of texts by Ralph Ellison. For each ...
Sanna Mander Illustration
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I’m loving the vintage-inspired illustration work of Sanna Mander. via Laura Belle Wright Pinterest...
Type Love: Worthe Numerals
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Worthe Numberals is a set of fun set of decorative numerals from House Industries. The set of two fonts includes both the standard and drop shadow ver...
Print Aid NYC
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Print Aid NYC is an artistic initiative in support of Hurricane Sandy relief. Various NYC-based artists were asked to create a poster design based on ...
2012 DWL Holiday Gift Guide
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Woohoo! The 2012 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 ...
Marfa Contemporary
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Oklahoma City studio Ghost recently completed this beautifully quiet and minimal identity for Marfa Contemporary, a Marfa, Texas-based extension of Ok...
Matt Luckhurst: Advertising Women of New York Identity
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I’m loving this dynamic identity that Matt Luckhurst created for the Advertising Women of New York organization....
Type Love: The New Tungstens
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Yesterday HF&J launched the new and improved Tungsten family, which now boasts 32 styles. Improvements include four new lighter weights, the addition ...
Volume: Flora Grubb Gardens Identity
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Even though I’ve never had a chance to visit, I’ve always loved the identity for Flora Grubb Gardens. So I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon it...
Grant Gold: The Design of Squarespace Note
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In the couple of weeks since its launch, Squarespace Note has received quite a bit of positive buzz in the design and tech communities. If you haven’t...
The Plant: Union Jacks Identity and Collateral
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London-based studio The Plant recently developed this spirited design work for Union Jacks, Jamie Oliver’s newest restaurant chain. They took an inter...
Erin Jang for Paperless Post
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Exciting news! The latest in the line of amazing designers to collaborate with Paperless Post is none other than DWL favorite Erin Jang. Today marks t...
Blok Design: Not Myself Today Campaign
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Blok Design developed the interactive “Not Myself Today” Campaign for Partners in Mental Health, with the goal of improving mental health in Canada. H...
Mr. Cup Launch
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Today marks the launch of Fabien Barral’s new venture, Mr. Cup. This brings together all of his previous sites—FabienBarral.com, Harmonie Interieure, ...
Type Love: Lupa Sans
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Lupa Sans is a fun new typeface designed by Melle Diete. Lupa includes a range of weights, from Extra Light to Black, and an incredible extended chara...
Leffe Goldstein: Maximus Brouwerij Pop-Up Store
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Netherlands-based Leffe Goldstein developed the pop-up store design and details for Maximus Brouwerj, a brewer, to showcase new bottle designs during ...
Isabela Rodrigues: Cocoville Design and Packaging
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I’m loving the bright, playful designs created for Cocoville Chocolates by Isabella Rodrigues....
Orion Janeczek: Sauvie’s Hard Cherry Packaging
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I’m loving this self-initiated packaging project from Orion Janeczek. His inspiration for Sauvie’s Hard Cherry, an organic soda, was Sauvie Island, a ...
Johnny Kotze Illustration
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I’m loving the all of layered, narrative details and selective use of color shown in the illustration work of South Africa-based Johnny Kotze....
Stellavie Paper Goods
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Stellavie is the Germany-based design practice of Steffen Heidemann and Viktoria Klein. Their shop features some seriously stunning limited edition pr...
12 Musketeers Letterpress Calendar
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This fun letterpress calendar is the result of a collaboration between Paperreka stationery and 11 of her designer friends aiming to “defend the honor...
Noise 13: Heath Newton Halloween Mailer
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San Francisco-based studio Noise 13 recently completed the design for Heath Newton Family law firm’s annual Halloween mailer. This year they designed ...
Designworks: Black Dog Brew Co.
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New Zealand-based studio Designworks recently completed the branding and graphics for Black Dog Brew Co.’s retail space. More to see right here....
Type Love: Signalist
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I’m loving Signalist, a lively brush script by Mike Melvas....
#GoVote Campaign
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If you frequent Dribbble at all you may have come across quite a few pieces of art created for the #GoVote campaign, an artistic initiative that aimed...
Nudge: Stars Restaurant Identity
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Charleston, South Carolina-based studio Nudge just recently relaunched their portfolio with lots of new work, including this great identity for Stars ...
Type Love: Modular
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Modular is a six layer stacking display typeface by Letterwerk that allows for unlimited possibilities. Two versions, a slab serif and a sans serif, a...
We Don’t Work – We Play
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We Don’t Work – We Play was an exhibition held in Germany that featured various typographic interpretations of the phrase. Check out more examples fro...
Sol Linero: Descorches Magazine Illustrations
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I love this series of illustrations by Sol Linero for Descorches Magazine....
JC Lemon Photography: Exploring Powerless Manhattan
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Photographer JC Lemon took this series of haunting photographs while riding around lower Manhattan—which is still without power—on his bike the other ...
20×200 for Sandy Update
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In addition to Blue Marble—which had raised about $4k as of yesterday—20×200 is also giving you the opportunity to contribute to Hurricane Sandy relie...
Blue Marble: A Sandy Benefit
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I’m taking a little break from regular posting today to focus on the millions of people in our part of the country who have been impacted by Hurricane...
Philip Dennis Illustration
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According to London-based illustrator Philip Dennis, his inspirations include: “80s films and cartoons, natural forms and patterns, playing around wit...
TOKY: 2012 St. Louis Public Library Gala Invitations
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TOKY designed these incredible pop-up invitations for the St. Louis Public Library’s end-of-year Gala. The design and construction was inspired by the...
Siobhán Gallagher: Twelve Days of Halloween
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I’m not much of a Halloween person (I know, I know), but I couldn’t resist posting Siobhán Gallagher’s latest illustration project: Twelve Days of Hal...
Matt Chase: Herb Lester Copenhagen Map
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Herb Lester‘s map selection represents an amazing group of designers and illustrators, including many that are DWL favorites. So needless to say, I’m ...
Studio Brave: Christopher Elliott Identity
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Love this minimal, geometric identity designed by Studio Brave for interior designer Christopher Elliott....
Type Love: Salvo Sans and Salvo Serif
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The companion Salvo Sans and Salvo Serif was originally designed by Cyrus Highsmith for use in various AARP publications. Both typefaces are available...
Orion Janeczek: Supreme Tabletop Athletics Promotional Materials
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Portland-based designer Orion Janeczek developed these awesome suite of promotional materials—check out that gorgeous engraving work—for Supreme Table...
Summer Pierre’s 100 stories
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For her current self-initiated project, illustrator Summer Pierre is illustrating and hand lettering a new story every day for 100 days. She’s current...
Sanna Annukka Screen Prints
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I don’t think these are new, but I love these limited edition screen prints by Sanna Annukka....
Scotty Reifsnyder and Projekt: Martin Treu Site Design
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Take a look at this newly launched site for Martin Treu, “an urbanist, author, designer and architect,” which is the result of a collaboration between...
HoffmanChrisman Website Designs
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San Francisco-based studio HoffmannChrisman has developed some incredibly elegant websites for various wineries and wine purveyors. Case in point: Han...
Jonathan Burton: Centre François Mauriac Poster Illustrations
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I’m loving the whimsical vintage feeling illustrations of Jonathan Burton. This series was designed for a poster campaign to promote the 2012 Cultural...
Scott Balmer Illustration
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I’m loving the colorful digital illustrations of UK-based Scott Balmer....
Type Love: Aria Pro
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Aria is a graceful, elegant display serif by Fountain Type, that was released back in 2011. Get a closer look on MyFonts....
Two Arms: Expert Americana Tattooing Business Cards
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Two Arms recently created these beautiful typographic business cards for Expert Americana Tattooing, a Brooklyn-based tattoo artist....
Modern8: Bookjigs Bookmarks
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After designing print materials for Bookjigs bookmarks, Modern8 pitched the brand on a redesign of the product itself. The result was a series of 30 b...
Leo Burnett Dept. of Design: Star Reacher Award
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I’m loving the elegant idetity that Leo Burnett Dept. of Design developed for the Star Reacher Award, a prize given to individuals for their commitmen...
Megs Senk: Emergency Compliments
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Need a pick-me-up? Well I just might have the answer for you: Emergency Compliments, an altruistic online project from Megs Senk, a designer at W+K 12...
Push: Old Chicago Restaurant Re-Brand
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Orlando, Florida based design studio Push recently completed a rebrand for Old Chicago, a national restaurant chain with a pizza, pasta and beer menu....
Sad Santa by Tad Carpenter
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Just in time for the holidays, Tad Carpenter has written and illustrated a new book. Sad Santa is a story about Santa’s annual holiday blues—such a fu...
Popular Lies About Graphic Design
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Designer Craig Ward (who I’ve previously posted about here and here) has written a new book entitled, Popular Lies About Graphic Design. Craig describ...
Recent Grad: Catherine Dimalla: Jeopardy Magazine
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For a recent grad, Catherine Dimalla has quite the portfolio. I’m especially loving the work she’s done for Jeopardy Magazine, which is an annual, und...
2012 DWL Gift Guide Sponsorships Reminder
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Good news: We’ve extended our initial sponsorship deadline through the end of this week! We have several sizes and rates available. So if you run a bu...
Kevin Cantrell: Law Office of Matthew Messina Stationery
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Couldn’t resist also posting this beautiful stationery system that Kevin Cantrell designed for the Law Office of Matthew Messina. I’m loving the intri...
Kevin Cantrell: Luminares Poster
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Take a look at this absolutely stunning poster by Kevin Cantrell, the first addition to his brand new online shop. Luminares is available for purchase...