Miles Design: William Roam Identity and Collateral
Miles Design worked with the team at William Roam on an extensive project which encompassed their identity and stationery, website, the naming and p...
Alliteration Inspiration: Eggs & Eyes
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Wise Words: Mark Z. Danielewski on Passion
This week’s Wise Words come from Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves via Jen Myers. ...
Mike Ellis: Rooms For Rent Illustration Series
Love this illustration series by Mike Ellis. Entitled Room For Rent, the illustrations were created as part of an experiential installation show wher...
Badass Lady Creatives: New Shop from Leah Reena Goren
This Monday, illustrator and surface designer Leah Reena Goren announced her new shop, and with it, her Fall/Autumn 2014 scarf collection. The collect...
Type Love: Surveyor
Surveyor is a brand new release from H&Co.; a serif family that was inspired by the lettering found on engraved maps. Check out all of the—plent...
Hardy Seiler and Created by Monkeys: Freies Theater Hannover Identity
I’m loving this vibrant and dynamic identity redesign for the Freies Theater Hannover by Hardy Seiler and Created by Monkeys. via Form Fifty ...
Finding Digital Inspiration in our Neighbourhood
What do a hip coffee house, a curated general store, a popular sandwich joint, a trendy shoe shop, and a new superfood store have in common? For start...
Shawna X: It’s Warm Inside Typographic Illustrations
Shawna X created this impressive series of typographic illustrations, It’s Warm Inside, as a response to her long, cold winter in Chicago. The p...
Inspiring Instagramers: emwng
Username:Â emwng Name:Â emily wang Info:Â practicing creativity. writer for barkbox. strategic planner at mars. photographing kokoro the eskie. As the...
Winkreative: The Government of Thailand
Exciting work by Winkreative for The Government of Thailand. As Thailand prepared to host the World Economic Forum, Winkreative was selected by the Of...
Dxmiq: Future Artifacts
Future Artifacts, a digital art project by Dxmiq, is just about the opposite of the type of work I do, which is probably why I’m so drawn to it....
Quick Links: 03.28.14
New York-based photographer Daniel Zvereff recently photographed a series of Arctic scenes using some of the last remaining stock of expired Kodak ...
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Janine Rewell: Minna Parikka
Janine Rewell managed art direction, illustration and body paint design for a SS2014 Minna Parikka promotional campaign. Creative Credits: Photograph...
Alliteration Inspiration: Music & Minimalism
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Skillshare By the Book Challenge Winner: Star St. Germain
This afternoon I’m doing a series of posts featuring the winners of the first challenge in my Skillshare class, By the Book: Create a Style Gu...
Skillshare By the Book Runner Up: Jena Buckwell
This afternoon I’m doing a series of posts featuring the winners of the first challenge in my Skillshare class, By the Book: Create a Style Gu...
Skillshare By the Book Runner Up: Jennifer Thomke
This afternoon I’m doing a series of posts featuring the winners of the first challenge in my Skillshare class, By the Book: Create a Style Gu...
Wise Words: Ann Landers on Opportunities
Wise Words by Ann Landers via After the Jump...
Jenney Stevens: Far North Spirits
I’m loving the identity and collateral designed by Jenney Stevens for Far North Spirits. The white glass bottle for their gin is especially gorg...
Badass Lady Creatives in History: Sofonisba Anguissola
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...
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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...
Type Love: FF Dora
FF Dora is a serif family of five weights including display styles. OpenType features like ligatures, small caps, fractions, and super- and subscrip...
Little: Ephemera
We recently featured Little‘s lovely identity and collateral work for Fair State Brewing Cooperative, and now I’m quite taken by Ephemera...
Did Google figure out wearable technology?
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...
Stitch Design Co.: New Stationery
Check out the new stationery package that Stitch Design Co. designed to go with their recently updated website. Gorgeous, as always....
Recommended Resources: Skillshare Memberships
I’ve already raved about Skillshare’s educational platform multiple times, so I will keep this short and sweet. In addition to their offer...
Matt Chase: Escapades Magazine
Matt Chase just blew my mind with his challenging, beautiful design work for “The Takeoff Issue” of new travel magazine Escapades. After...
Inspiring Instagramers: josecabaco
Username: josecabaco Name: Jose Cabaco Info: Mel. Ana. João Pedro. Jack. Portland. Lisbon. Maputo. Creative Director at Nike. José Cabaco is Nik...
Nicole McQuade: Kitchen Stories Identity and Collateral
For the past three years, Nicole McQuade—designer and photographer—and Judi Cutrone—writer—have been collaborating on Some Kitchen Stories, a ...
MaeMae Paperie: Munster Rose Stationery
I’m loving this beautiful stationery developed by MaeMae Paperie for Munster Rose, a floral design company based out of Minneapolis....
Quick Links: 03.21.14
The VSCO Artist Initiative is a “$100,000 USD scholarship fund providing artists the resources to pursue their creative vision.” More inf...
Kickstarter Spotlight: The UpStanding Desk
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 ...
Plus63 Design Co.: Your Local Identity and Collateral
Plus63 Design Co., a Phillipines-based studio, recently developed the brand identity and collateral for Your Local, a restaurant serving Asian comfort...
Alliteration Inspiration: Reading & Royalty
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Wise Words: Jenna Meister
This week’s Wise Words on community come from Jenna Meister of Airbnb. via Behance Instagram...
Student Work: Clarke Harris
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...
Badass Lady Creatives: Poster Design by Jessica Svendsen
Jessica Svendsen, a designer at Pentagram, is talented across print and environmental media. Where this badass lady creative really shines is in her p...
Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year
Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes se...
Type Love: Result
Result is a grotesque sans serif designed by Cloud9 Type Dept, an independant type foundry based out of Helsinki, Finland. Result features three weig...
Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty
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...
Where Food + Technology Meet
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...
Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime
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...
Inspiring Instagramers: abeachcottage
Username:Â abeachcottage Name:Â abeachcottage Info:Â I love old furniture, coastal vintage things, clouds on the sea & a sweet pup in our old whit...
Quick Links: 03.14.14
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, ...
Kickstarter Spotlight: SlatePro by Nathan Mummert
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...
Alliteration Inspiration: Coffee & Currency
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Wise Words: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “If You Want to Build a Ship…”
This week’s Wise Words come from Antoine de Saint-Exupery via this great collection of leadership quotes, by way of Swissmiss....
Natalie Andrewson: Wes Anderson Posters
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...
Badass Lady Creatives: Interview with Liz Danzico, Creative Director at NPR
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...
Emmanuel Cohen: BNT Studio Identity and Collateral
Lovely clean, modern, sophisticated work for BNT Studio, “a distribution studio devoted to design and innovation,” by Emmanuel Cohen....
Type Love: Malina
Malina is a new display face by Katatrad, a Thailand-based foundry. Defined by graceful, elegant letterforms, the typeface includes four fonts—two ...
MM Identity Lab: Year of the Horse Card Deck Calendar
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...
The Apps of March—SXSW Edition
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...
2014 RE:DESIGN UXD Giveaway Winner
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...
MINE: Bun Mee
San Francisco just got even more eye-popping with MINE‘s branding and environment design for Bun Mee’s new Market Street location. From ...
Deuxtone: Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits
Texas two-man operation Deuxtone executed some exquisite work in designing the brand identity and environment for Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits i...
Inspiring Instagramers: gopro
Username:Â gopro Name:Â gopro Info:Â We make the World’s Most Versatile Camera. Wear it. Mount it. Love it. Everyone has heard of GoPro, right? ...
Naomie Ross & Daniel Renda: Pastosa Ravioli Co.
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...