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Badass Lady Creatives in History: Sofonisba Anguissola

Badass Lady Creatives in History: Sofonisba Anguissola

Melanie • Mar 26, 2014Mar 25, 2014
Though this column has featured creatives from the 20th-century onward, women have long been active participants in the arts. Among the first female a...
Badass Lady Creatives

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Courtney • Mar 25, 2014Mar 25, 2014
It’s fascinating to get a look behind the scenes of Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, through the work of the designer...
Design

Type Love: FF Dora

Courtney • Mar 25, 2014Mar 24, 2014
FF Dora is a serif family of five weights including display styles. OpenType features like ligatures, small caps, fractions, and super- and subscrip...
Typography
Little: Ephemera

Little: Ephemera

Garth • Mar 25, 2014Mar 24, 2014
We recently featured Little‘s lovely identity and collateral work for Fair State Brewing Cooperative, and now I’m quite taken by Ephemera...
Design
Did Google figure out wearable technology?

Did Google figure out wearable technology?

Jackson • Mar 25, 2014Mar 24, 2014
This past weekend we noticed a tweet about Alicia Keys out for a run in St. Barts. It was only remarkable because she was taking selfies, not with her...
Art & CodeDesignProducts

Stitch Design Co.: New Stationery

Courtney • Mar 24, 2014Mar 23, 2014
Check out the new stationery package that Stitch Design Co. designed to go with their recently updated website. Gorgeous, as always....
Design

Recommended Resources: Skillshare Memberships

Courtney • Mar 24, 2014Mar 23, 2014
I’ve already raved about Skillshare’s educational platform multiple times, so I will keep this short and sweet. In addition to their offer...
LearningRecommended Resources
Matt Chase: Escapades Magazine

Matt Chase: Escapades Magazine

Garth • Mar 24, 2014Mar 23, 2014
Matt Chase just blew my mind with his challenging, beautiful design work for “The Takeoff Issue” of new travel magazine Escapades. After...
Design
Inspiring Instagramers: josecabaco

Inspiring Instagramers: josecabaco

Ashley • Mar 24, 2014Mar 23, 2014
Username: josecabaco Name: Jose Cabaco Info: Mel. Ana. João Pedro. Jack. Portland. Lisbon. Maputo. Creative Director at Nike. José Cabaco is Nik...
iPhoneography

Nicole McQuade: Kitchen Stories Identity and Collateral

Courtney • Mar 21, 2014Mar 20, 2014
For the past three years, Nicole McQuade—designer and photographer—and Judi Cutrone—writer—have been collaborating on Some Kitchen Stories, a ...
Design

MaeMae Paperie: Munster Rose Stationery

Courtney • Mar 21, 2014Mar 17, 2014
I’m loving this beautiful stationery developed by MaeMae Paperie for Munster Rose, a floral design company based out of Minneapolis....
Design
Quick Links: 03.21.14

Quick Links: 03.21.14

Courtney • Mar 21, 2014Mar 20, 2014
The VSCO Artist Initiative is a “$100,000 USD scholarship fund providing artists the resources to pursue their creative vision.” More inf...
Quick Links

Kickstarter Spotlight: The UpStanding Desk

Courtney • Mar 20, 2014Mar 19, 2014
I know it was only a week ago that I featured a desk design being funded on Kickstarter, but I’ve got another one for you today: The UpStanding ...
Kickstarter Spotlight

Plus63 Design Co.: Your Local Identity and Collateral

Courtney • Mar 20, 2014Mar 17, 2014
Plus63 Design Co., a Phillipines-based studio, recently developed the brand identity and collateral for Your Local, a restaurant serving Asian comfort...
Design
Alliteration Inspiration: Reading & Royalty

Alliteration Inspiration: Reading & Royalty

Garth • Mar 20, 2014Mar 20, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Alliteration Inspiration

Wise Words: Jenna Meister

Courtney • Mar 19, 2014Mar 17, 2014
This week’s Wise Words on community come from Jenna Meister of Airbnb. via Behance Instagram...
Wise Words
Student Work: Clarke Harris

Student Work: Clarke Harris

Garth • Mar 19, 2014Mar 17, 2014
I’m quite fond of the work Clarke Harris has put out as he cuts his (Gator) teeth in the University of Florida’s graphic design program...
Design
Badass Lady Creatives: Poster Design by Jessica Svendsen

Badass Lady Creatives: Poster Design by Jessica Svendsen

Melanie • Mar 19, 2014Mar 17, 2014
Jessica Svendsen, a designer at Pentagram, is talented across print and environmental media. Where this badass lady creative really shines is in her p...
Badass Lady Creatives

Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year

Courtney • Mar 18, 2014Mar 17, 2014
Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes se...
Design

Type Love: Result

Courtney • Mar 18, 2014Mar 17, 2014
Result is a grotesque sans serif designed by Cloud9 Type Dept, an independant type foundry based out of Helsinki, Finland. Result features three weig...
Typography
Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty

Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty

Garth • Mar 18, 2014Mar 17, 2014
Gabby Lord, whose wildly clever business cards were featured on DWL last year, loves her mum very much. When she asked Gabby to design a “simple...
Design
Where Food + Technology Meet

Where Food + Technology Meet

Jackson • Mar 18, 2014Mar 17, 2014
The intersection of photography, social, and our insatiable desire to eat tasty animal parts and vegetables means that there is a constant stream of d...
Art & CodeDesignProducts
Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime

Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime

Garth • Mar 17, 2014Mar 17, 2014
While some take to Twitter to share their stream of consciousness experience of the world, Adam Turnbull has used Ten Cent Dime as his outlet, a proje...
DesignIllustration
Inspiring Instagramers: abeachcottage

Inspiring Instagramers: abeachcottage

Ashley • Mar 14, 2014Mar 17, 2014
Username: abeachcottage Name: abeachcottage Info: I love old furniture, coastal vintage things, clouds on the sea & a sweet pup in our old whit...
iPhoneography
Quick Links: 03.14.14

Quick Links: 03.14.14

Courtney • Mar 14, 2014Mar 14, 2014
I’ve always been a fan of Nicholas Felton‘s personal annual reports—so much so that I own every single one, in all of their data-heavy, ...
Quick Links

Kickstarter Spotlight: SlatePro by Nathan Mummert

Courtney • Mar 13, 2014Mar 10, 2014
Regular readers may remember the introduction of the Slate Mobile Air Desk seen here a few months ago. At that time my enthusiasm for this new produ...
Kickstarter Spotlight
Alliteration Inspiration: Coffee & Currency

Alliteration Inspiration: Coffee & Currency

Garth • Mar 13, 2014Mar 13, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Alliteration Inspiration

Wise Words: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “If You Want to Build a Ship…”

Courtney • Mar 12, 2014Mar 10, 2014
This week’s Wise Words come from Antoine de Saint-Exupery via this great collection of leadership quotes, by way of Swissmiss....
Wise Words

Natalie Andrewson: Wes Anderson Posters

Courtney • Mar 12, 2014Mar 11, 2014
At the moment, I happen to be anxiously anticipating Wes Anderson‘s new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (now in select theaters.) So when I spott...
Illustration
Badass Lady Creatives: Interview with Liz Danzico, Creative Director at NPR

Badass Lady Creatives: Interview with Liz Danzico, Creative Director at NPR

Melanie • Mar 12, 2014Mar 12, 2014
It’s hard to believe Liz Danzico has as many hours in the day as the rest of us. She’s the founding chairperson of the MFA in Interacti...
Badass Lady Creatives

Emmanuel Cohen: BNT Studio Identity and Collateral

Courtney • Mar 11, 2014Mar 10, 2014
Lovely clean, modern, sophisticated work for BNT Studio, “a distribution studio devoted to design and innovation,” by Emmanuel Cohen....
Design

Type Love: Malina

Courtney • Mar 11, 2014Mar 10, 2014
Malina is a new display face by Katatrad, a Thailand-based foundry. Defined by graceful, elegant letterforms, the typeface includes four fonts—two ...
Typography
MM Identity Lab: Year of the Horse Card Deck Calendar

MM Identity Lab: Year of the Horse Card Deck Calendar

Garth • Mar 11, 2014Mar 7, 2014
The team at MM Identity Lab just finished a fantastic self promotion project, working with local vendors to create their Year of the Horse Card Dec...
Design

The Apps of March—SXSW Edition

Jackson • Mar 11, 2014Mar 10, 2014
Graham and I were having a bit of a dialogue over the weekend about what hot apps were going to come out of SXSW this year. He’s there on the ground...
Art & CodeDesign

2014 RE:DESIGN UXD Giveaway Winner

Courtney • Mar 10, 2014Mar 10, 2014
Congrats, Allison—you’ve won a free pass to the upcoming RE:DESIGN UXD Conference! Please shoot me an email so that I can pass your contact in...
Design

MINE: Bun Mee

Garth • Mar 10, 2014Mar 10, 2014
San Francisco just got even more eye-popping with MINE‘s branding and environment design for Bun Mee’s new Market Street location. From ...
Design

Deuxtone: Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits

Garth • Mar 10, 2014Mar 7, 2014
Texas two-man operation Deuxtone executed some exquisite work in designing the brand identity and environment for Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits i...
Design
Inspiring Instagramers: gopro

Inspiring Instagramers: gopro

Ashley • Mar 8, 2014Mar 10, 2014
Username: gopro Name: gopro Info: We make the World’s Most Versatile Camera. Wear it. Mount it. Love it. Everyone has heard of GoPro, right? ...
iPhoneography

Naomie Ross & Daniel Renda: Pastosa Ravioli Co.

Courtney • Mar 7, 2014Mar 3, 2014
As a personal project, designers Naomie Ross and Daniel Renda set out to rebrand Pastosa Ravioli Co., an NYC shop whose pasta they both grew up eat...
Design
Quick Links: 03.07.14

Quick Links: 03.07.14

Courtney • Mar 7, 2014Mar 6, 2014
When Adobe came to them to create an interpretive graphic of their logo, Sagmeister & Walsh came up with the brilliant idea of turning the process...
Quick Links

Etsy Finds: Vintage Posters

Courtney • Mar 6, 2014Mar 3, 2014
This Perth, Australia-based Etsy Shop, Vintage Posters Art, is offering some awesome vintage poster reproductions. Their stock mostly covers travel—...
Etsy Finds

1983 Present: The Happy 8 Identity and Collateral

Courtney • Mar 6, 2014Mar 5, 2014
I’m loving this vibrant work by 1983 Present for The Happy 8, a chain of hotels in Malaysia. The Happy 8 is a high-quality chain hotels brand of...
Design
Alliteration Inspiration: Gold & Grains

Alliteration Inspiration: Gold & Grains

Garth • Mar 6, 2014Mar 7, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Alliteration Inspiration

2014 RE:DESIGN UXD Giveaway

Courtney • Mar 5, 2014Mar 5, 2014
It’s that time of year again! The 2014 RE:Design UXD Conference is coming up at the end of April in Brooklyn, and I’m happy to offer one l...
Design

Wise Words: Tim O’Reilly

Courtney • Mar 5, 2014Mar 3, 2014
Wise Words about the good things that can come from sharing your work from Tim O’Reilly via Austin Kleon...
Wise Words

Stitch Design Co.: Produce Candles Packaging

Courtney • Mar 5, 2014Mar 5, 2014
It’s been far too long since I’ve posted a project from the ladies at Stitch Design Co., so this morning I’m excited to share their ...
Design
Badass Lady Creatives: Kiwi Designers and Illustrators

Badass Lady Creatives: Kiwi Designers and Illustrators

Melanie • Mar 5, 2014Mar 4, 2014
New Zealand is known for its extreme natural beauty (see Peter Jackson’s Tolkein movies for reference), and its design scene is pretty great, to...
Badass Lady Creatives

Type Love: Typejockeys Give it a Shot

Courtney • Mar 4, 2014Mar 3, 2014
Over the years, Typejockeys has come up with various ideas for fonts that don’t necessarily warrant a huge, in-depth typeface buildout. So to g...
Typography

Scotty Reifsnyder: Cheers Notecards

Courtney • Mar 4, 2014Mar 3, 2014
Today, Scotty Reifsnyder and Chronicle Books release Cheers!, a set of 12 notecards and envelopes “perfect for toasting any occasion.” Th...
Design

Down the Rabbit Hole of Social TV

Jackson • Mar 4, 2014Mar 3, 2014
A recent study from TiVo says that 76% of television viewers prefer to just watch what is on the TV rather than be distracted by the multitude of mult...
Art & CodeDesign

Jean de Lessard Interior Design

Garth • Mar 3, 2014Mar 3, 2014
I’m blown away by the interior design work of Jean de Lessard in Montreal, Quebec. The environments that Jean and his firm have created for lo...
Design

Atelier Olschinsky: Rollercoaster Illustration Series

Courtney • Mar 3, 2014Feb 24, 2014
Between the kaleidoscopic use of color and deconstructed, abstract forms, I can’t stop staring at Rollercoaster, a new illustration series by At...
DesignIllustration
Inspiring Instagramers: perrycolante

Inspiring Instagramers: perrycolante

Ashley • Mar 3, 2014Feb 28, 2014
Username: perrycolante Name: Andrew Zonzini Info: illustrator / graphic designer. All photo’s made by me. If you’re looking for an Inst...
iPhoneography
Isabel Urbina Book Covers

Isabel Urbina Book Covers

Garth • Feb 28, 2014Feb 27, 2014
The book cover designs of Isabel Urbina for Random House, New York are absolutely delightful examples of lettering, textures and illustrations combi...
Design

D.T. Practice: The Roxy

Courtney • Feb 28, 2014Feb 28, 2014
While browsing Klim Type Foundry’s blog recently, I discovered D.T. Practice’s work for UK’s The Roxy. Featured because of its hea...
Design

Studio MPLS: Alli Marie Identity and Collateral

Courtney • Feb 28, 2014Feb 27, 2014
I’m excited to share more new beautiful work from Studio MPLS, this time a new brand identity, stationery and packaging project for Alli Marie, ...
Design
Quick Links: 02.28.14

Quick Links: 02.28.14

Courtney • Feb 28, 2014Feb 27, 2014
Did anyone not fall in love with Mayhem this week? If you’re not familiar, Mayhem is an adorable, ultra creative four-year-old who makes dresses...
Quick Links

Luvocracy Love: 02.27.14

Courtney • Feb 27, 2014Feb 24, 2014
Luvocracy Love is a monthly column that features a handful of the products I’ve spotted over the past four weeks. Shop the links: 1. Colour + P...
Luvocracy Love
“Love From Hawaii”

“Love From Hawaii”

Courtney • Feb 27, 2014Mar 3, 2014
One of the many reasons I fell in love with Hawaii when I first visited a few years ago, was the Aloha spirit that is in the air. Beyond a greeting, a...
Design
Alliteration Inspiration: Knowledge & Knives

Alliteration Inspiration: Knowledge & Knives

Garth • Feb 27, 2014Feb 27, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Alliteration Inspiration
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