Last Minute Calendars
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If you’re still in the market for a new calendar for the upcoming year, I’ve come across a couple recently that you might catch your eye… Why Hello Th...
Courtney • Jared Schorr
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Jared Schorr is one talented and seriously patient artist. Schorr, whose primary medium is paper, created the intricately detailed snowflakes you see ...
Little Book of Wishes
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It’s no secret that I love stripes and mini envelopes. So, unsurprisingly, this birth announcement by Pink Dot Press is right up my alley....
The ’00s
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Now that 2009 is swiftly coming to a close, we’re starting to be bombarded with commentary about the decade, and countless “best of” lists. For New Yo...
Quick Links. Take Two.
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I realized I left out a few things I wanted to point out, so here is a second edition of Quick Links for the week. Enjoy! Dylan from OK Great, has sta...
Krom
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Krom is a series of intricate, color and black and white vector shapes, motion graphics, brushes and symbols by You Work for Them. The sheer variety o...
Curious Chocolate
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I’m really loving the the branding of UK-based chocolatier Curious Chocolate. The color palette is fun and unexpected, and the typography gives it a h...
Monday Quick Links: 12.14.09
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Designer Kyle Steed has created a hand-drawn vector font that is free for use. Take a look right here. Display is a “Display is a curated collection o...
Color Happy 60
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I’m still waiting for the snow to arrive in New York, so in the meantime I’ll live vicariously through photographs like this one by Tiffani....
The Best Part Shop
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The Best Part (one of my favorite design blogs) has opened up shop! Take a look at his first product offering, The ABC’s of branding, a foil stamped p...
Type Love 73: Geogrotesque Stencil
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One new typeface I am determined to find a use for is Geogrotesque Stencil, a new release from Emtype. The suite of 3 styles and 7 weights is now avai...
Lotta Nieminen
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I’m absolutely loving these beautiful illustrations by Lotta Nieminen. via Grain Edit...
Personal Work: Save the Dates
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Normally I like to keep anything personal out of this blog. However, although this particular example falls into that category, it is also 100% design...
New from Jessica Hische
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The lovely Jessica Hische has a brand new site! She not only has plenty of new work to share, but also has a whole slew of prints available for sale i...
Bird
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I recently discovered Bird, the latest in project from photographer Andrew Zuckerman. The hyperrealistic images highlight the beauty and vibrancy of t...
Monday Quick Links: 12.07.09
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A short but sweet list of links for this week. Delicious Design League has created an impressive 4-color 2010 poster calendar. Modern Dog’s original a...
Wearing Whitman’s Words
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The Gift Guide postings last week took up quite a bit of time, so unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to post about Wearing Whitman’s Words, what soun...
Gift Guide 2009: Happy Holidays
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Here is a guide featuring some favorite holiday items, including gift wrap, cards and decor. This brings the week of Gift Guides to an end, so I hope ...
Gift Guide 2009: For the Guys
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1. CD Packaging Kit, $16.95 / 2. Beer Brewing Kit, $30.00 and up / 3. Attack of Literacy T-Shirt, $12.00 / 4. Whiskey no. 006 eau du toilette, $68.00 ...
Gift Guide 2009: Affordable Art
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1. Coney Island Katie, $15.00 / 2. Today Was a Good Day, $29.99 / 3. Penpals Set, $50.00 / 4. Oh Me Oh My, Approx. $131.00 / 5. Ranunculus Mini Set, $...
Gift Gude 2009: Typography
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1. Push Your Luck Postcard Series, Approx. $24.00 / 2. Empire Letters, $10.00 / 3. Photolettering Blocks, $35.00 / 4. Flocked Letter Cushion, $135.00 ...
Gift Guide 2009: Water
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From Wikipedia: Water Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces— Water represents imagination, human feelings and one’s ability to love and sustain. The Wate...
Gift Guide 2009: Fire
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From Wikipedia: Fire Signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius— Fire represents one’s desires and creative energies. The Fire signs are associated with actio...
Gift Guide 2009: Air
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From Wikipedia: Air Signs: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius— Air represents the intellect and one’s ability to reason and communicate. The Air signs are as...
Gift Guide 2009: Earth
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From Wikipedia: Earth Signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn— Earth represents one’s material resources, environment and possessions. The Earth signs are...
Welcome Back!
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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...
Color Happy 59
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Here’s an interesting color palette from The Great Carnival, the graduation project of Eric van Den Boom. Check here to learn more about the concept, ...
Type Love 72: Sun
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This versatile sans serif, Sun, a family including 14 styles, is available from Lucas Fonts....
Siebe Warmoeskerken
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Take a look at the beautiful bokeh-filled photographs by Siebe Warmoeskerken of De Vetpan Studios....
Truly Deeply
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I’m really liking the typogrpaphic details and color palette of this identity project by Australian design firm Truly Deeply....
kimmika
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Loving these saturated, vintagey images by Kimmika....
Nathalie Lete
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These vibrant, playful silkscreen prints by Nathalie Lété are currently available at Anthropologie. via Fly...
Polaroid Composites
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I’ve been seeing a lot of photo collages on photography blogs and around the web lately. And I’m particularly interested in how these individual image...
Upcoming Type
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The graduates of the 2009 Type and Media Program at The Hague are one talented bunch. Most of the typefaces they created as final projects are still i...
Holiday Favorites
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We’re almost a month away from Christmas and, since I haven’t done a thing to prepare, I’m starting to panic a bit. Every year I tell myself I’m going...
Gold Lunchbox
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There are so many great things to see at Gold Lunchbox, the portfolio of Karl Hebert, that it was definitely tough to choose which to feature. Karl, w...
Yeehaw
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Over the weekend we took some time to check out the Yeehaw Industries exhibit at Chelsea Market. Their prints are hung all throughout the space, and a...
Last Call
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Just wanted to let everyone know that if you were planning on submitting your work (email us here) for the Holiday gift guides, we will need to receiv...
Monday Quick Links: 11.23.09
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Hope you all had a great weekend. We have a huge installment of quick links for you today—enjoy! Field Notes has released the “Just Below Zero” collec...
Hofstede Design
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Australian studio Hofstede Design has a pretty amazing portfolio, so it’s no surprise that their own identity is equally outstanding. The system, whic...
My Inspired Heart
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Take a look at the dreamy photographs by My Inspired Heart. Pick up prints on etsy right here....
Color Happy 58
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This lively tourism poster for the city of Jerusalem is from the 1966/1967 Graphis Annual. Just one example of the vintagey goodness in Sandi Vincent’...
How do we achieve harmony?
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Another colorful project I’m loving at the moment is this interactive site for GOOD magazine and Toyota Prius. Designed by New York studio, For Office...
Igor Melgaco
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I can’t stop examining these vibrant illustrations and patterns by Brazilian designer, Igor Melgaco. You can see more of this project right here. And ...
Type Love 71: ITC Chino
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This week I’m excited by the possibilities of one of Linotype’s newest releases, the ITC Chino family. The family, designed by Hannes von Döhren and L...
Kamal
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I wasn’t familiar with Kamal before I saw their gift wrap on design*sponge last week. But after perusing the designs on their site, I became an instan...
Bam Bam Ink
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Take a look at Ana Carucci, aka Bam Bam Ink’s, delicate, detailed food illustrations for the late Gourmet Magazine. I love all the subtle colors that ...
Yotam Hadar
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While I’m particularly drawn to this illustrative identity for Cafe Hillel, Yotam Hadar’s portfolio is widely diverse, featuring everything from packa...
New from Nice Type
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Awhile back I posted about Nice Type, the Vimeo channel created by Matthew Buchanan. And since I’d last checked some really great videos have been add...
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 design...
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 Ultra Bl...
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 sector...
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, each a...
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....