The Mammoth Collection
If you’re looking for more affordable art gift options, look no further than The Mammoth Collection, a curated selection of art prints in a vari...
Cloudy Collection: Simple
Cloudy Collection’s latest series, Volume II, Edition 4, focuses on the idea of simplicity. The pink and black prints feature the work of seven ...
Gift Guide 2010: Happy Holidays
1. Sparkling Ornament Wreath, $65.00 / 2. No Kid Hungry Holiday Cards, $35.00 donation and up / 3. Two-sided Wrap, $20.00 / 4. To You, From Me Gift Ta...
Wine Country Travel Posters
These posters celebrating California’s wine country would make a great gift for any wine connoisseur. Designed by Hatch, the three posters are a...
Valerie Jar 2011 Calendar
I’m a big fan of Valerie Jar’s illustration and design work, so I was excited to see that her 2011 calendar is now available. This year...
Gift Guide 2010: For the Guys
1. Video Game Controller Poster, $30.00 / 2. Rhodesian Postage Stamp Cufflinks, $70.00 / 3. Icon Printed Banker’s Envelope, $250.00 / 4. Meatbag...
Ty Mattson’s LOST Final Season Print
By now all or you should have seen Ty Mattson‘s great series of LOST posters; but this one is a little bit different. To commemorate the final s...
Tom Davie Note Cards + Prints
My gift guides are all set up and ready to go, but I’ve come across a few other great gifts this week, so I will be featuring them here and ther...
Gift Guide 2010: Affordable Art
1. The Swan Lake, $35.00 / 2. Buoy, $35.00 / 3. Descartes, $50.00 / 4. America, $14.00 / 5. A Fond Childhood Memory I Never Had, $20.00 / 6. Hamilton ...
Gift Guide 2010: Typography
1. Resolution Pencils, $8.00 / 2. Thoughts Postcards, $12.00 / 3. Collector Plate, $50.00 / 4. OMFG Journal, $8.00 / 5. Alphabet Greeting Cards, $398....
Gift Guide: Fire
From Wikipedia: Fire Signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius— Fire represents one’s desires and creative energies. The Fire signs are associated wi...
Gift Guide 2010: Air
From Wikipedia: Air Signs: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius— Air represents the intellect and one’s ability to reason and communicate. The Air sign...
Gift Guide 2010: Water
From Wikipedia: Water Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces— Water represents imagination, human feelings and one’s ability to love and sustain. ...
Gift Guide 2010: Earth
From Wikipedia: Earth Signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn— Earth represents one’s material resources, environment and possessions. The Earth s...
It’s Gift Guide Time
If you had any time off last week for Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed it! This week will be a little bit different as it will mostly be devoted to th...
COÖP: 1.1 Architects
I’m fascinated by this branding for 1.1 Architects by COÖP. According to designer Paul Marcus Fuog, “The collaborative practice was inter...
DOPLUDO
Three-dimensional artwork has never been my strong suit, so I’m always envious of those who excel at woodworking and things of that nature. For ...
Scott Pilgrim Paper Art
I’m loving this Scott Pilgrim-inspired, pixelated, three-dimensional paper art by Ruth Afrita, a young designer from Indonesia....
Tandem Design for Herman Miller
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! T...
Color Happy 106
This colorful message, by holds no water, seems perfectly appropriate for this week....
Iceland Summer Solstice
Iceland is definitely on my dream travel list, especially after seeing these stunning photographs taken by Þorleifur Gunnar Gíslason. via Swatch MTV...
Douglas Richard Design
Douglas Richard’s project, Farm to City, is a branding program that encompasses posters, print materials and packaging. Farm to City, an initiat...
Le Soleil & La Lune
I’m loving this new pair of prints, Le Soleil & La Lune, from Double Merrick. The set has been printed in a very limited edition, only 25 co...
Alemagna Rebranding
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! A...
Type Love 119: United
I first came across United, by House Industries, via Tyler Galpin‘s (very well-designed, might I add) site, and was immediately drawn to it. It ...
Julia Sonmi Heglund
There is a wide variety of intricate yet dreamy work in the portfolio of Los Angeles-based illustrator Julia Sonmi Heglund. I’m especially lovin...
Kelly Blair
Here’s a series of book jackets designed by Kelly Blair, a new-to-me designer discovered via the 30 Days 30 Covers project....
Nazario Graziano Studio
Beautiful illustration and collage work by Nazario Graziano, who draws his inspiration from a variety of sources including old books, rain and rainbow...
Jack Vanzet
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! I...
New from Jacqui Oakley
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! G...
Penguin Designs
There is no question that Penguin has a great appreciation for design. Case in point, the final installment of the Great Ideas series, Volume V; and t...
Le Buro Branding
Loving the chic and sophisticated branding for Le Buro, an identity from the design minds at Montréal-based Inventaire. via Typography Served...
Mark Pinkerton
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! D...
Fernando Volken Togni
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! I...
Glasfurd & Walker
I’m really admiring the work of Vancouver-based Glasfurd & Walker. This project, brand design for Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie, is a great exam...
Socio Design
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some crazy site blips—apologies if you happened to see catch the incomplete version! Lo...
World Gesture Guide
The World Gesture Guide, designed by Alba Durana, is a detailed handbook of international silent communication. The series, which features a book, fol...
The Time Traveler’s Calendar
Alex Griendling’s 2011 Time Traveler’s Calendar takes 95 separate time travel occurrences—from movies, video games, and television shows...
Aaron Robbs
This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! W...
Stir
You may recognize some of the projects below —I posted about Julian here and Glacé here— but now you’re seeing them in a whole new light. C...
Happy Town Menagerie
Lorena Siminovich, the artist behind Petit Collage, recently opened a new exhibition at San Franciscos’s The Curiosity Shoppe. If you’re i...
Monday Quick Links: 11.22.10
Normally this would be a light posting week since we have Thanksgiving on Thursday. However, because I didn’t get everything up as planned last ...
Color Happy 105
Strangely and sadly it’s been unseasonably warm around here lately. So I’m loving this image, by Sheng Han, that feels very Fall to me....
Type Love 118: 718
Terminal Design’s 718 is an ode to the outer boroughs of NYC, or “the real New York”, as they refer to the non-Manhattan area code. ...
Letterpress Designers Calendar
If you also read one of my favorite design blogs, Graphic Exchange, you may have seen several posts about a 2011 Letterpress Designers Calendar. Follo...
Housekeeping
Good morning! Just a couple of quick updates: SITE STATUS The site is back up to speed at this point (aside from missing the posts that were meant to ...
Studio Fludd
Studio Fludd has some great new items in their shop....
A Quick Update
For now, we’re back up—we’re just unfortunately a few days behind. We’re still working on fixing everything, and we’re aimin...
Michael Wertz: Dog Dreams
Bay-area illustrator Michael Wertz came up with the idea for Dog Dreams while watching his own dog, Olive, sleep. And the result is an amazing, 2-colo...
2010 Jazz Posters
You may remember the posters Martino&Jaña designed for the Guimarães Jazz 2009 event. I was blown away by the gorgeous hand-lettering they featu...
Ursa Major
Loving PTARMAK’s work for men’s skincare line, Ursa Major....
Carson Ellis
I’m loving these quietly beautiful graphite drawings by Carson Ellis for The Decemberists....
30 Covers 30 Days
30 Covers 30 Days is a current project of The Office of Letters and Light, in which 30 designers are paired with 30 participant authors and tasked wit...
Dorian
Barcelona-based Dorian has just launched a brand new site. This particular project is a poster series inspired by various synthesizers and some of the...
Dana Tanamachi
I’m loving these chalk type drawings by Dana Tanamachi, who is currently a designer at Louise Fili Ltd. via Two Tall Blondes...
Wonderland
Wonderland, a hand-drawn font by Eve Duhamel, was created with felt tip pen for Fontself....
Typejockeys: Philippine Welser
Philippine Welser is a modern housing complex in Austria with a friendly, lively vibe. To help realize that atmosphere, Typejockeys contributed an ori...
By Force the Book
By Force is a book that accompanied the Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics, an event held in Belgrade the past two years. The book features a series of in...
826DC
Oliver Munday recently tackled the incredible task of branding the newest 826 store, 826DC. (If you’re unfamiliar with the organization, be sure...
Monday Quick Links: 11.15.10
Good reads: Inside Jonathan Safran Foers “Unmakeable” Interactive Book, Design Porn: Impressive Typographical Tattoos Matt Jacobs made a b...