Pavlov Visuals
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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! }
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This week I’m liking the display face, Sans Merci, “an incisive font for sharp words”, by SMeltery....
Flowers In May Prints
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am definitely a sandwich person. So I love these minimalist sandwich paintings by Dan Kenneally. The 18″ x 18″ acrylic originals, includ...
maharam
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
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
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
Here’s to hoping Spring comes sooner rather than later! Photo by catmil...
FEED Alphabets
More type today! I’m intrigued by these experimental letterforms from Montreal-based studio FEED. See more here....
Tavis Coburn takes on BAFTA
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
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
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
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
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
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
I’m really liking the simple sophistication of the Bar Milano (now closed, unfortunately) identity by William Morrisey....
Tuesday Quick Links
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Type Love 82: Adelle
Adelle is a modern slab serif by Type Together. It was created with editorial use in mind, but I think it’s versatile enough to use in a whole s...
Something Pressed
Something Pressed in a new North Carolina-based letterpress operation. Right now they only have a couple of pieces for sale in their Etsy shop. But ju...
Unless Someone Like You
I discovered the work of Unless Someone Like You via simple + pretty and immediately fell in love with her style. The pieces below were designed for a...
Feltron in Progress
Swayspace is currently painstakingly letterpressing the 2009 Feltron Annual Report, which as you can imagine is no simple letterpress job. Here are a ...
In Other Words
In Other Words is a self-initiated project from student Patrycja Zywert. The primary goal of the was to explore the effects of textspeak on human lang...
Typographica Cards
Laura Palese recently sent over these typographic notecards she designed, which are now available at Amazon. The book of 24 cards includes various des...
doe eyed
I’m loving the textures, patterns and layering of these posters by doe eyed....
The Chalk Walk
Katie Sokoler decided to inject some color into her neighborhood by tracing footprints on the sidewalk in brightly colored chalk. The Brooklyn-based p...
Ryan McCullah
Ryan McCullah is one of those multi-talented creatives I envy who excels at not only multiple facets of design, but also in illustration and photograp...