My Kind of School
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I highly doubt anyone has actually ever said they wanted to go back to middle school and meant it, but this recent branding project—yet another grea...
Courtney • Monday Quick Links: 03.29.10
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Music Philosophy looks like such a fun project to maintain. (via Quipsologies) Le Potager, a lovely video by Benoit Millot. Can’t stop browsing ...
Ideas You Forgot
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Ideas You Forgot is the portfolio of German-based designer and recent graduate Regina Rebele. Regina has a wide range of projects in her portfolio, bu...
lullaby
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I’ve got my eye on this hand cranked music box by loja de estar. The beautiful illustrations and handmade packaging was created by Maria Hellena...
Color Happy 73
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This beautiful palette comes from green dress by Summer Allen-Gibson, who runs one of my favorite blogs, design is mine. ...
Isaac Arthur
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For his first home brewing attempt, Isaac Arthur cooked up this Honey Apple Mead. I’ve never tried mead before, but—as someone who pretty much...
jergot+gotroch matchboxes
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Even if this project is not particularly your style, you will surely be impressed by the sheer scale of it. For a recent music video for the Navigator...
Type Love 86: Eames Century Modern
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I’m cheering on House Industries for their latest and greatest release (and the newest addition to my typographic wishlist). In their own words:...
Neverend
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Bobby over at Kitsune Noir just keeps topping himself. First it was the Desktop Wallpaper Project, then the Poster Club, and now Neverend, this amazin...
Pavlov Visuals
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I’ve stayed away from featuring T-shirts for awhile, but Pavlov Visuals—who specializes in artist merchandising—has designed some really gre...
Boys’ Adventure
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Coralie Bickford-Smith is perhaps most well-known for her Clothbound Classics Series one and two. However, I’m also really impressed with her ar...
Vitamin E
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I continue to be impressed with the quality of images some people are able to produce on the iPhone—as an owner myself, I know how difficult it can ...
A Map in the Dirt
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A Map in the Dirt is a short story by Utah-based artist, Jess Smart Smiley about a group of animals trying to escape a common threat. The striking bla...
hatch Happy Easter
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It’s that time of year again—hatch has launched their 3rd Annual Egg Coloring Contest. I always enjoy seeing how they rebrand the contest from...
Monday Quick Links: 03.22.10
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The new travel poster series from The Heads of State has already been featured all over the place, so I won’t do a long post here. But that does...
W+K Studio
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There’s some great work coming out of W+K Studio in Portland. They have a well-stocked shop featuring their handmade goods, which includes poste...
Kari Herer Botanicals
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Photographer Kari Herer has a background in both graphic design and fine art; and her varied experience definitely comes through her in work, which ra...
Brandt Botes
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Check out the “Creativity Can:” campaign for Design Indaba by South African-based designer Brandt Botes. Here’s a little bit about D...
Daniel Kent
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When Pennsylvania-based designer Daniel Kent sent in his work I was immediately impressed, from the very first project I viewed. In particular, though...
Type Love 85: Farnham
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Farnham is a typeface that was designed by Christian Schwartz for Font Bureau in 2004. The confident serif was based on the work of “Johannes Fl...
Cake Sale
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Sweets and typography are one of those combinations I can’t ever resist. So I’m loving this album artwork created for The Cake Sale, an al...
Zeus Jones
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Zeus Jones is a Minneapolis-based design firm that produces consistently smart, polished and beautiful work, no matter what the medium. Their pool of ...
Hand Drawn Type Collection
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On my wishlist: the Hand Drawn Type Collection from You Work for Them. Below are just a few of the 12 OpenType fonts that are part of the set, and eac...
Lego Boardroom Table
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Legos were one of my favorite toys as a kid, so I’m completely envious of the people that get to work from this Lego Boardroom Table every day. ...
Everything is Swell
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After living abroad in France for awhile, Karl Hebert, of Gold Lunchbox, produced this beautifully designed and illustrated booklet to celebrate their...
Justin Skeesuck Prints
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I’m loving these retro illustrations of fashionable women in Paris, New York and Italy by Justin Skeesuck. The series of three was inspired by m...
Jeanie & Jewell: { abc…c’est finis! }
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I’m excited to share that the Jeannie & Jewel alphabet I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, is officially completed! Soon they wi...
Monday Quick Links: 03.15.10
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Made You Think is a project that aims to create a 100 page magazine with the personal work of 100 creatives. To learn more about how to participate or...
José Azevedo
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I’m a sucker for great hand-lettering, so I found these sketch book pages by José Azevedo hugely inspiring. Check out the rest right here. via ...
Pandas and Such
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Pandas and Such is a “collection of cute and adorable” by artist Renata Liwska. The nostalgic feel of her work reminds of books I loved as...
Color Happy 71
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More spring colors for this Friday morning. As you can tell, I’m beyond ready to see the snow melt away and give way flowers, nature and green. ...
A Dress and a Gig Poster
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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of inspiration post series that pair two seemingly different objects together—a piece of clothing and a home acc...
Cornwell
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Australian design studio, Cornwell, excels in developing large scale brands that manage to retain a healthy dose of personality. Case in point, this p...
Type Love 84: Sans Merci
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This week I’m liking the display face, Sans Merci, “an incisive font for sharp words”, by SMeltery....
Flowers In May Prints
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Flowers in May makes some really fun prints. Each one features a collection of graphic illustrations based on various themes, including Paris (below),...
“I’m Here”
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To promote Spike Jonze’s latest film—I’m Here, a half hour “robot love story celebrating a life enriched by creativity”—a ...
Juuso Koponen
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I’m loving these pieces that Juuso Koponen, a Helsinki-based designer and illustrator, designed for the Flow Festival, an annual music festival ...
Top 50 Artists & Bands of 2009
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It might be a little late for Best of 2009 lists, but I recently came across this particular one and couldn’t not mention it. In January, The Hy...
40 Days of Water Facts
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Great project for a great cause. 40 Days of Water Facts (more information on the cause here), by pope saint victor. found via mint...
New Reads
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Here are two books I’ve come across recently that made it to my wishlist: Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design This new book ...
Alphabattle 2.0
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If you have been keeping up with Lettercult at all, you may already be aware of the Alphabattle currently going on over there. Not exactly a battle pe...
Lunch Box
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I am definitely a sandwich person. So I love these minimalist sandwich paintings by Dan Kenneally. The 18″ x 18″ acrylic originals, includ...
maharam
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maraham, a company who makes textiles for interiors, recently collaborated with several artists and designers to create a series of digital wallcoveri...
Monday Quick Links: 03.08.10
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Before I get to the links I wanted to just make a quick note. We received an influx of submissions last week, so it’s taking some time to go thr...
Eric Ellis
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Check out this fun class project by Chicago-based designer and illustrator Eric Ellis. Matro is a fictional chocolate company whose concept is based o...
Color Happy 70
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Here’s to hoping Spring comes sooner rather than later! Photo by catmil...
FEED Alphabets
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More type today! I’m intrigued by these experimental letterforms from Montreal-based studio FEED. See more here....
Tavis Coburn takes on BAFTA
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I’ve been a huge Tavis Coburn fan for awhile, but it has been quite some time since I’ve seen any of his recent work. So I was psyched to ...
Type Love 83: Giorgio Sans
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Giorgio Sans is quite the character. Designed by Schwartzco as a quirky companion to their popular serif, Giorgio, the typface features six weights an...
Verdun
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Verdun is the result of a collaboration between Mind Design and Rafael Farias.The work in progress is a modern take on Morris Fuller Benton’s ty...
Sea Creatures
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Take a look at Rachel Wilson’s beautiful sea creature illustrations, some of which were created for a collaboration with Brainstorm. I’m l...
Submitting Your Work
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You may have noticed a small addition to the sidebar today regarding work submissions. We get quite a few emails from our readers, which we love, so w...
Seth Akkerman
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Seth Akkerman does some great print work, including this Fowl Approach to Bird Watching wood cut print that really caught my eye. The details are impr...
William Morrisey
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I’m really liking the simple sophistication of the Bar Milano (now closed, unfortunately) identity by William Morrisey....
Tuesday Quick Links
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Better late than never! pr*tty sh*tty interviews one of my design idols, Paula Scher. Big news: FontShop announces the release of 30 web FontFonts! Ra...
Edmundson | Martin
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Edmundson | Martin is a Florida-based freelance design team with a combined nineteen years of experience. Russ and David specialize and excel and bran...
Yummo
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I’m not sure how Tad Carpenter finds such amazingly fun projects to work on, but he’s done it again. Yummo is a frozen yogurt and smoothie...
Color Happy 69
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I’m really loving the incredibly sophisticated color palette of this oversized Map of the Future infographic. If you’re interested in the ...
Celeste Prevost
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Celeste Provost is a Minneapolis-based designer with quite the portfolio. All of her work, which ranges from identity and branding to web to packaging...
Rebecca Ward
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This geometric neon installation was created by artist Rebecca Ward for Kate Spade in Tokyo with gaffers tape. I am just amazed at what creative poten...