A Few Fuzzco Projects
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It’s been a little while since I checked in with what Fuzzco was up to, and since I always love their work, I figured now is the time. Here are ...
Courtney • Quick Links: 05.23.14
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Looking for some new color inspiration? Check out The Day’s Color, a daily color digest. If you’re looking for icons to use in your next d...
Etsy Finds: Hooray Today
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Illustrators Alyssa Nassner and Allison Beck just recently launched Hooray Today, a new line of colorful greeting cards and paper goods. They have lot...
Student Work: Rosie Gopaul Packaging Projects
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I’m really enjoying these two student packaging projects by Rosie Gopaul, a designer based out of Vancouver, BC. Hushh Stewards Soapery Get 300...
Alliteration Inspiration: Wheels & Water
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Wise Words: James Victore
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This week’s Wise Words from James Victore remind us that a change of attitude can go a long way. Check out the companion Burning Questions vid...
ASCD: 2013 Annual Report Website
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Every annual reporting season, companies and nonprofits alike step up their design game to create a solid impression of the past year’s progress...
Badass Lady Creatives: Hattie Newman
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I don’t know what’s in the water over in London, but the city boasts some pretty serious set design talent. A recent favorite is Hattie Ne...
Digital Tales From 2 Days in Seattle
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This past weekend we had the great fortune to join the gang from Creative Social for their latest global event in Seattle. For this group of talented ...
Sense: Oblica Catalogue
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Bask in the warming glow of beautiful design found in this catalogue for Oblica fireplaces created by Sense, a creative agency based in Melbourne, A...
Type Love: Urban Grotesk
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Urban Grotesk is Suitcase Type Foundry‘s most recent release. A traditional grotesk sans serif, this typeface includes six weights with matching...
Baron Fig: The Poster Project
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Baron Fig, a small business making “sketchbooks and notebooks for thinkers,” just launched a lovely new side project simply titled The Pos...
BLOW: Project Charisma Teaser
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New from BLOW is their work for Project Charisma, a teaser promotion for Polytrade Paper. To promote their range of eight papers, BLOW developed eight...
Recommended Resources: The Design Method
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This week’s recommended resource is a book I just finished reading and found incredibly insightful, The Design Method by Eric Karjaluoto. You m...
Inspiring Instagramers: chrysti
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Username: chrysti Name: Chrysti Hydeck Info: Co-Author of Photo Craft (transform your photos!) Storyteller. Dreamer. Seeker of Light. Wanderer. In ...
Marriott Hotels’ Meetings Imagined Inspires You to Travel Brilliantly
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Last week I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Atlanta and work with Marriott Hotels as they celebrate the launch of Meetings Imagined, an am...
Signs of Hawaii
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Since Hawaii is my absolute favorite place on earth, I am loving this Instagram photo series of vintage signs found there. Most of the images have be...
Quick Links: 05.16.14
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Discover.typography is a really cool tool developed by H&Co that provides users with the ability “to experience type, an environment that ...
Etsy Finds: Ghost Signs
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Ghost Signs is a New Jersey-based shop featuring photographs of ghost signs, brick ads, painted advertisements, faded signage, and old hand painted ...
Jon Newman: Daydreams & Nightschemes Studio Launch
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Designer Jon Newman took the leap from the comfort of his day job at MTV to start Daydreams & Nightschemes, his own new studio. Among Jon’s ...
Alliteration Inspiration: Veggies & Vacation
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Kyrö Distillery Company on Behance
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I am by no means a whiskey fan, but I definitely love the bold identity and packaging that Werklig developed for Kyrö Distillery Company, a rye wh...
Wise Words: Joshua Gott
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This week’s Wise Words come from Joshua Grott, Creative Director at Epipheo, a video production company “dedicated to translating ideas i...
Odding Wang: The Book of Red
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Odding Wang‘s “The Book of Red,” a handcrafted notebook tribute to Pablo Picasso, is a beautifully made piece of paper cut storytel...
13 Italian Illustrators Whose Work Will Inspire You
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Italian illustrators are really showing up in the illustration scene right now. With bold color choices and meaningful messages, these illustrators fr...
Best of the Web: May Edition
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It may seem like we’re crazy about apps, but we like the web too. The question is, what’s the future of the web? Is it dying? Are apps taking over...
Type Love: Adorn
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Adorn is Laura Worthington‘s latest font family. Aimed at the handmade wedding invitation crowd, the family includes seven display fonts, four ...
Ciara Phelan: Collages
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Ciara Phelan, a freelance illustrator and textile designer in east London, recently launched her new website full of intricate collage work and other...
New Paper Goods from Hammerpress
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I’m loving some of Hammerpress’s most recently launched paper goods, from their series of astrological notecards, to their small chipboard...
Studio Fludd: Gelatology – Micro / Macro
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Studio Fludd‘s Gelatology project, which we featured back in November, has grown into a new booklet titled “Micro / Macro” and exp...
Inspiring Instagramers: donalddrawbertson
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Username: donalddrawbertson Info: Google: Vanity Fair, NYPost, Life and Times Donald Robertson’s Instagram feed has been getting a lot of pres...
Open Door Design Studio: Reinventing the Toilet Challenge
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Who knew a toilet could be so beautiful? The team at Open Door Design Studio, in collaboration with Kohler, designed the remarkable exterior of Caltec...
Casey Ligon: Hand Lettering
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The hand lettering work of Casey Ligon is a gorgeous force to be reckoned with as her talents span chalk, ink, vector and beyond. Her ability to work...
Morgan Davidson: Colored Pencil Season Girls Illustration Series
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This series of beautiful colored pencil illustrations was created by Morgan Davidson, a soon-to-be graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design. Ea...
Quick Links: 05.09.14
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Before there was Pantone, there was A. Boogert, who wrote a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors in 1692. The resulting book, which ended up span...
Etsy Finds: Belinda Marshall Art
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I’m loving these colorful, abstract paintings created by Belinda Marshall, a Melbourne, Australia-based artist and surface designer. Her Etsy s...
Juan Coca: CHS 2014 Commencement Invitation
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Juan Coca, a design student at Fort Hays State University, gave his younger brother quite the rad grad gift in designing these beautiful letterpress...
Alliteration Inspiration: Universe & Umbrellas
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Wise Words: Barry Schwartz
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This week’s Wise Words come from psychologist Barry Schwartz’s 2009 TED Talk, Our Loss of Wisdom. via The Quotery...
Student Work: Josh Schott
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Graphic designer Josh Schott is pursuing his MFA at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and already has an impressive collection of work to his...
Type Love: Modum
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Modum is a new contemporary serif typeface from The Northern Block. Featuring eight weights with matching italics, over 800 characters, seven vari...
Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean
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With tons of plastic waste filling the globe’s oceans, Vicki Turner set out to do something about it. The result: Drop in the Ocean, a limited e...
The Graveyard of User Interface Design
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Even though Apple just sold another 43.7 million iPhones last quarter, countless products, screens and interfaces have apparently missed the memo on ...
Grey, Singapore: Multinational Typeface
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The team at Grey Advertising‘s Singapore office designed a fascinating modular Multinational Typeface, using colors and composition representati...
Young & Laramore: “Time is Measured in Tomorrows”
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Building Tomorrow, a nonprofit dedicated to building schools in East Africa, worked with Young & Laramore to produce “Time is Measured in To...
Inspiring Instagramers: julieskitchen
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Username: julieskitchen Name: Julie Lee Info: iPhone 5 only | Los Angeles There is a lot of food photography on Instagram. A LOT. Unfortunately, mo...
Kevin Cantrell: Commonwealth Coffee Identity and Collateral
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Kevin Cantrell has recently lent his beautiful, highly detailed, maximalist style to the identity, collateral and packaging for Commonwealth Coffee. T...
Bielke+Yang: Vitenparken Identity and Collateral
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Oslo-based studio Bielke+Yang developed this dynamic, experimental identity for the new incarnation of the traditional Norwegian Agriculture Museum...
Color Happy 200
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Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs
Garth •
I’m loving the delightfully clever GIFs that designer Dimas Forchetti has put together as part of an ongoing personal project of random creati...
Alliteration Inspiration: Outdoors & Outlaws
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Wise Words: Sharon Ann Lee
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This week’s wise words come from Sharon Ann Lee’s Creative Mornings talk about what she calls “DYO (Design Your Own) Success.”  ...
Leeay Aikawa: Mixed Media Collages
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Toronto-based designer/illustrator Leeay Aikawa has a special talent for crafting mixed media collages that are simply fascinating. Leeay on her in...
Badass Lady Creatives in History: Sarah Wyman Whitman
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Vital to the history of graphic design is the Arts and Crafts Movement, a notion that art and life are intrinsically bound to each other. The initia...
Will Miller: AURA Natural Pet Identity and Collateral
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Chicago-based designer Will Miller worked with AURA Natural pet to develop their identity, packaging and stationery. One detail that especially stand...
Type Love: Geometria
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Geometria is a new geometric sans serif typeface from Moscow-based type foundry Brownfox. The typeface offers 16 fonts, encompassing eight weights ...
Mike Lowery: New Work
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It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Mike Lowery here at DWL, and since he recently launched his new website with tons of saucy recent w...
April Apps for Super Users
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Last week we read a study claiming that 176 million users open their apps more than 60 times per day. These app “super users” are beyond addic...
Tyler School of Art: Brains, Muscle, Wildcard
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In teaming up for their exhibition date last week as part of the 2014 Tyler School of Art MFA Graphic and Interactive Design Thesis Exhibition, desi...
The Hungry Workshop: Inkster Maken
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I’m in love with this minimal identity and gorgeous business cards and tags designed by The Hungry Workshop for Inkster Maken, designer of equa...