Monday Quick Links: 11.16.09
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Check out this huge collection of free textures for your design projects There’s some really great stuff in this collection of vintage-inspired ...
Courtney • Doublenaut
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Doublenaut, who I previously mentioned in a Color Happy post, has some really awesome posters up for sale. Check them out right here....
Creative Grab Bag
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Creative Grab Bag, a book created by design student, Ethan Bodnar, is a publication that collects the work of well-known and up-and-coming artists and...
Color Happy 57
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A perfectly Fall palette in this typographic illustration by THIS STUDIO....
Yurko Gutsulyak
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I’m intrigued by this identity for Legal Consulting Group by Ukraine-based designer Yurko Gutsulyak....
Type Love 70: Encore Sans Pro
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Parachute’s Encore Sans Pro is a humanistic sans serif that suports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic texts. It comes in 11 weights, from Hairline to Ul...
Design is Love
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Design is Love is a gathering place whose goal is to “facilitate meaningful communication amongst designers and those working in the non-profit ...
Mind Design
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Mind Design’s portfolio encompasses both the chic and sophisticated, and the modern and playful, as you can see below. And no matter the style, ...
Abigail Wynne
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Abigail Wynne is a talented illustrator, designer and photographer....
International Year of Astronomy
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An awesome set of posters designed by Simon Page. More here....
Transformer Studio
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Great branding work by Transformer Studio....
Sollinero
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Thinking about picking up one of these fun prints by Buenos Aires-based artist, Sollinero. via Pikaland...
Jeremy Dimmock
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Jeremy Dimmock is a designer and art director who specializes in style guides. His portfolio is packed wth great work, including film titles for this ...
Monday Quick Links: 11.09.09
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More promotional posters for Up by the talented Eric Tan Thirty Conversations on Design is a video project that collects the thoughts of 30 internatio...
Twist Creative
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Beautiful work by Twist Creative....
Love What You Do
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These slides are part of a lecture given by Frank Chimero for Portland State University this month. See a few more right here....
Color Happy 56
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Loving the hyper-saturated colors in this photograph by Nancy Stockdale, aka futurowoman. Lots of her photographs are available at prints on etsy as w...
Round Object
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I’ve been on a bit of a poster kick lately, so I’m really enjoying these designs by Bryan Keplesky of Round Object. Be sure to take a look...
Still Room
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Still Room, a bi-coastal writer and designer (and sister and sister!) team, is another Print Regional Design Annual find. Their work is modern and unp...
Type Love 69: Skolar
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If nothing else, Type Together’s Skolar is a workhorse. A text serif originally designed to shine in multilingual publications, the Skolar famil...
Scribbler
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Another great find from this year’s annuals is the calligraphic identity for Scribbler, a stationery shop, by Lewis Communications....
Call for Submissions
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I am working on lots of projects and updates in the background right now, as I have been for months. So I will have lots of big and small announcement...
Tower of Babel
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Lately I’ve been poring over this year’s Communication Arts and Print Design Annuals, one of my favorite mail deliveries of the year. I al...
Owner of this World
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If you’ve seen Where the Wild Things Are (amazing, in my opinion), you already know that the film’s star, Max Records, is one talented kid...
Erik Marinovich
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Particularly enjoying the web design projects in the portfolio of Erik Marinovich....
Acme
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Really liking the minimalist packaging design for tea purveyor Bernschutz & Co by Acme Industries. via Share Some Candy...
four 30
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four 30 is a project of Lauren Nicole Photography, where instead of creating one image every day, she is creating four sets of 30 photos each season. ...
Holiday Goodie Bags
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I’m starting to get geared up to put together this year’s gift guides, so I was excited to see that bluepoolroads’s holiday goodie b...
Augustus
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Augustus is a chunky sans serif with quirky, curvy details by Karl Frankowski. Augustus is currently available at You Work for Them....
Stitch Design Co.
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I’m currently admiring the work of South Carolina-based design duo Stitch Design Co. Their website is under construction, but you can check out ...
Creative Roots
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Creative Roots is a new-to-me design blog with a specifically international perspective. The goal for each post is to present samples of art and desig...
Color Happy 55
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Faux bois butcher block pattern by Meg Hunt....
Type Love 68: Block Gothic
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Block Gothic is available in three weights from Fontshop....
Objective Subject
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Enjoying the work of Objective Subject, particularly the design for The Old Brooklyn Parlor....
LAPD Studio
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Great work by LAPD Studio, the freelance design practice of designer, Pete Davies....
Andrio Abero
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Designer and illustrator Andrio Abero, formerly known as 33rpm, recently completed a redesign of his brand and new site. I’m a huge fan of his p...
Christine Celic Strohl
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Christine Celic Strohl is the designer behind many of my favorite Mucca projects, including the identity for Butterfield Market. Her style is the kind...
Behind the Design: Australian Financial Review
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Tony Rice, Design Director for the Australian Financial Review, gives Grids an in-depth look behind the design of their most recent, 10th anniversary ...
Letters Lubell
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Beautiful, “eco-chic” letterpress stationery items from Letters Lubell. via 100 Layer Cake...
Tom Henni
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I’m currenly loving the work of French designer and illustrator, Tom Henni. I especially love this unique identity project for Librairie Ouvrir ...
Monday Quick Links: 10.26.09
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A site devoted to vintage signage (via Quipsologies): Quality Vintage Remedy Quarterly is a new publication of “food stories and the recipes tha...
Letterror
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Fun type and lettering experiments from the flickr stream of Letterror....
Tigerette
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Tigerette is the freelance design studio of Robin Bilardello, an art director at Harper Collins and 2006 ADC Young Guns winner....
Color Happy 54
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There’s amazing stuff to be found in the vast ephemera collection of Sheaff. This trade card rebus was found in the Extreme Typography section. ...
Orange Beautiful’s Perpetual Calendar
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Orange Beautiful’s 2010 calendar is a typographic gem. The thirteen double-sided cards are letterpress printed in gray ink, and come with a disp...
Mrs. Eaves Has a Mate
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Meet Mr. Eaves, available in two styles, Sans and Modern. via Quipsologies...
Adrian Glatthorn
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Check out Adrian Glatthorn‘s bold, typographic posters for the musician’s society. via Typojungle...
Christian Montenegro
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I like how Christian Montenegro describes his style, similar to the Lego system where “simple pieces are combined in a more complex organization...
Type Love 67: St. Atmos
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St. Atmos is a bubbly and playful display face by Stereotypes....
Natalie Perkins
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Beautiful and intricate illustration and lettering by Natalie Perkins....
Report Card Patterns
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As I’ve mentioned before, I think scrapbook paper is a great resource for pattern inspiration. And the crafting possibilities are endless. Right...
Junk & Balloons
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Using balloons as props seems to be all the rage these days, in wedding photography especially. So although I’m starting to feel a bit overexpos...
Cheep Industries
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I love the details—especially that yellow wax seal—of this self-promotional mailer created by Cheep Industries....
Calendar Favorites (so far)
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Last year I ended up with way more calendars than I had spots for, so this year I’m following all the calendar round-ups—check out Paper Crave...
Drive Into the Sun
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Illustrator Matt Sundstrom recently embarked on a 3,700 mile road trip from New Hampshire to Oregon, by way of the old Oregon trail. Along the way he ...
Because Studio
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I’m loving these clever limited edition posters by Because Studio. The ink coverage on each poster amounts to exactly 50% of the surface area, a...
Goodbye Galaxy
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Goodbye Galaxy, the portfolio of designer Khristian Mendoza, features some excellent print and packaging work. I’m really liking his clean and s...
Cody Haltom
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Last week Matt Rainwaters (who I posted about here) wrote in to let me know that Cody Haltom, a member of the Public School collective, is the designe...
Tom Davie
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Tom Davie is the creative talent behind STUDIOTWENTYSIX2. In addition to his art and design portfolio, Tom also maintains a design blog and is now als...
Antonio Ysursa
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I think the best way to describe Antonio Ysursa’ photography is dramatic. His portraits are dark, moody and intense, and somehow manage to proje...