Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year
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Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes se...
Courtney • Type Love: Result
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Username: abeachcottage Name: abeachcottage Info: I love old furniture, coastal vintage things, clouds on the sea & a sweet pup in our old whit...
Quick Links: 03.14.14
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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
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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
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Wise Words: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “If You Want to Build a Ship…”
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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
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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
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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
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Lovely clean, modern, sophisticated work for BNT Studio, “a distribution studio devoted to design and innovation,” by Emmanuel Cohen....
Type Love: Malina
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Texas two-man operation Deuxtone executed some exquisite work in designing the brand identity and environment for Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits i...
Inspiring Instagramers: gopro
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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? ...
Naomie Ross & Daniel Renda: Pastosa Ravioli Co.
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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...
Quick Links: 03.07.14
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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...
Etsy Finds: Vintage Posters
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This Perth, Australia-based Etsy Shop, Vintage Posters Art, is offering some awesome vintage poster reproductions. Their stock mostly covers travel—...
1983 Present: The Happy 8 Identity and Collateral
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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...
Alliteration Inspiration: Gold & Grains
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
2014 RE:DESIGN UXD Giveaway
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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...
Wise Words: Tim O’Reilly
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Wise Words about the good things that can come from sharing your work from Tim O’Reilly via Austin Kleon...
Stitch Design Co.: Produce Candles Packaging
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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 ...
Badass Lady Creatives: Kiwi Designers and Illustrators
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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...
Type Love: Typejockeys Give it a Shot
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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...
Scotty Reifsnyder: Cheers Notecards
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Today, Scotty Reifsnyder and Chronicle Books release Cheers!, a set of 12 notecards and envelopes “perfect for toasting any occasion.” Th...
Down the Rabbit Hole of Social TV
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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...
Jean de Lessard Interior Design
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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...
Atelier Olschinsky: Rollercoaster Illustration Series
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Between the kaleidoscopic use of color and deconstructed, abstract forms, I can’t stop staring at Rollercoaster, a new illustration series by At...
Inspiring Instagramers: perrycolante
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Username: perrycolante Name: Andrew Zonzini Info: illustrator / graphic designer. All photo’s made by me. If you’re looking for an Inst...
Isabel Urbina Book Covers
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The book cover designs of Isabel Urbina for Random House, New York are absolutely delightful examples of lettering, textures and illustrations combi...
D.T. Practice: The Roxy
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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...
Studio MPLS: Alli Marie Identity and Collateral
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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, ...
Quick Links: 02.28.14
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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...
Luvocracy Love: 02.27.14
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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...
“Love From Hawaii”
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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...
Alliteration Inspiration: Knowledge & Knives
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Wise Words: David Ogilvy
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Wise words from David Ogilvy, the “Father of Advertising.” For more wisdom, also check out his 10 Tips on Writing on Brain Pickings...
Cherry Bomb: Innovación Lectora Series
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It’s so encouraging to see good design making its way into schools, and I’m absolutely enamored with Cherry Bomb Design Studio‘s il...
Badass Lady Creatives: Comics by Yumi Sakugawa
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As of late, comics are enjoying greater popularity—and respect from the art world. One of the best side effects of this trend is a wider variety of...
Student Work: Zan Barnett
Garth •
With as much negativity that exists within and toward the world of hip hop, the genre’s positive influences can be easy to overlook. With this i...
Type Love: Revisal
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Revisal is a new typeface from Switzerland-based foundry Type Dynamic. This “humanist sans family” includes seven weights plus italics, fr...
Marx Design: The Coconut Collective
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Personally, I’m not a huge fan of coconut water as a beverage. But despite that face, I am loving the fresh, sunny packaging that Marx Design re...
Design and Facebook’s Newest $16 Billion Toy, WhatsApp
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Last week Facebook bought popular messaging company WhatsApp for $16 billion (Yes with a b), giving the social media company yet another crown jewel i...
Bolster: The Freehouse
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The folks at Bolster have executed some fantastic work for Blue Plate Restaurant Company in developing the brand identity and overall brewpub experi...
Recommended Resources: Skillshare Round-up
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As an avid user (and teacher) of Skillshare’s online classes, I thought it would be great to use this column to highlight a few of their offerin...
Rodrigo Maia: New Records, Old Covers
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Audiophiles and collectors alike argue that there’s nothing like holding and owning a real life, tangible vinyl record as the world continues to...
Inspiring Instagramers: zacharysmithh
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Username: zacharysmithh Name: Zachary Smith Info: Do what you love | @knowwhereco There are plenty of artists, designers and typographers sharing thei...
Little: Fair State Brewing Cooperative Identity and Collateral
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I am loving the work that Minneapolis’s Little has developed for Fair State Brewing Cooperative, Minnesota’s first cooperative brewery. As a ...
Justyna Medoń Screen Printing
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I’m really enjoying the work of Justyna Medoń, head of Red Poppy design studio in Warsaw, Poland, who specializes in hand screen printed textil...
Matt Stevens: Junk Drawer Prints
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Matt Stevens‘s Junk Drawer series is an ongoing set of illustrations that depict “fascinating characters from pop culture by showing the r...
Quick Links: 02.21.14
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I’m loving these cool “Seeing New York” Cinemagraphs by Ann Street Studio found via Diego Guevara’s blog. The folks at Glob...
Alliteration Inspiration: Plants & Pizza
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Etsy Finds: Sarah Abbott Art & Illustration
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Sarah Abbott’s Etsy Shop features a collection of prints and paper goods designed by the Sheffield, UK based artist, who clearly has a strong a...
Chris Turnham Prints
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I was happy to recently discover the work of Los Angeles-based Chris Turnham, who has worked as an artist in both feature and television animation a...