ico design + Snog
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I love this identity system designed for Snog—”the first frozen yogurt brand to hit British shores”—by London-based design firm, ico d...
Courtney • Powerful Packaging Design
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The Cool Hunter published a great round-up of well-designed packaging this week. I’ve seen many of them before but there are quite a few new-to-...
Quick Note
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Hope everyone had a good weekend! I’m taking a bit of a personal day today, so normal posting will resume tomorrow. Photo from the talented-beyo...
GOOD Sheet No. 8
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You can find GOOD sheet No. 8, America. Love It or Fix It ‘08, right here....
Fontaine Anderson
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Yet another member of the Hugo and Marie collective, illustrator Fontaine Anderson. Much more work right here, all available as giclee prints as well....
Color Happy 13
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Spring Birds Pattern by Micah Lidberg, anoher member of the amazing Hugo and Marie collective. Take a look at the three other colorways right here....
Nikolay Saveliev
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I love this packaging design by Nikolay Saveliev for a 1920s-themed experimental-industrial music album. More work here or here....
Type Love 22: Fakir
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Fakir by Underware...
Rubitone
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Too bad this project designed by Ignacio Pilotto is purely conceptual. So fun. via Core 77...
Tragic Sunshine
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I’m loving these poster designs by illustrator Kevin Tong....
T-shirt Wednesdays
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If you haven’t heard of TeeFury, you’re missing out. The way it works is similar to Shirt.Woot. They sell one limited edition t-shirt per ...
Typocalypse
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Delicatessen
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Restaurant branding is an area of design that I’m particularly interested in, so I was excited when I came across this project by Marque Creativ...
GOOD Sheet No. 7
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Better late than never—you can find the seventh GOOD sheet, “Does Your Vote Matter?”, right here. As always, click on the photo for the ...
Tim Walker
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After this recent post, Eunice pointed me in the direction of Tim Walker’s work. I’m still not sure if the mysterious photograph was his c...
A Few Paper n Stitch Favorites
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Paper n Stitch is an online exhibition that is curated monthly and features a wide variety of handmade items from artists all over the world. It’...
Garamond Powerline
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Probably not the most useful typeface, but cool nonetheless… Thanks for the link John...
Jeffers Design Group
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A selection of gorgeous rooms from California-based, Jeffers Design Group…...
Long Live Analog
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Cool iPhone wallpapers by Chicago-based artist Chad Kouri. Check out the rest of his work right here and purchase originals on etsy....
Encore
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I loved Stuart Kolakovic’s work so much that I had to share a bit more… Check out these awesome nickel cufflinks. A bargain at $30 a set, they...
Color Happy 12
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I love the warm and cozy color palette of this Beard Tale print by Stuart Kolakovic....
Random Resources 10.23.08
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Part two in my semi-regular link drop of helpful resources: School of Everything I haven’t gotten a chance to register for this site yet, but it...
Trevor Hoehne
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Beautiful photography from Trevor Hoehne. See his site and blog for more....
Type Love 21: Barricada and Comalle
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I’m really loving these pillowy bold typefaces from Veer. As an added bonus, both are under $60 too. Barricada Comalle...
A Year of Hand-drawn Type
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I immediately bought this Beau Ideal 2009 calendar when I saw it on Oatmeal and Cinnamon. Screenprinted in a limited edition of 50, each month depicts...
An Unlikely Pair?
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Has anyone else seen the November issue of O Magazine? I was pleasantly surprised to see that the artwork accompanying an article at the back, “...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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The Ampersand Shoppe has made the blog rounds over the last couple of weeks but I couldn’t not mention it. You can choose your ampersand from 10...
Something to get excited about!
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I’m pleased to announce that Action Method Online is up and running! AMO translates Bēhance’s much loved Action Method philosophy int...
new Eclectonotes!
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I have always been a fan of the Eclecto series by Janine Vangool of Uppercase, so it’s no surprise that I love the new versions she released las...
Jordan Crane
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I love these prints by illustrator Jordan Crane. A lot of them are out of print, unfortunately, but they are beautiful to look at it. You can check ou...
The Design Entrepreneur
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I came across this book while browsing in Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago, but wasn’t able to find any information about it online. So I was ex...
Aaron Ruell
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I’m intrigued by the subjects of Aaron Ruell’s offbeat photography. More here. via Lost at E Minor...
Design + Babies
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I have seen so much great design for babies lately. Well, I guess it’s all really geared towards their modern parents, but everything baby-relat...
GOOD Sheet No. 6
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You can find the third GOOD sheet, It’s the Economy, Stupid!, right here....
Color Happy 11
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Underneath by Steve Kim is a 40″ x 60″ painting using oil on canvas. Take a look at the rest of his work right here....
Hoefler for America
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Over the summer Jonathan Hoefler was comissioned to create a poster for the Obama campaign, and it is now available on the beautifully designed Obama ...
H is for Hannah
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I love this collection that ceramic designer Hannah Morrow recently wrote to tell me about. The playful and fun stickers collection is available in th...
Chinatown Numbers
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I love this new print by Evan Hecox. The typography, the colors, the texture, the subject matter—it’s pretty much perfect aside from the price...
Type Love 20: David Berlow
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Quick sidenote: Have I really been doing this for 20 weeks? Wow. And now back to the typography… I recently came across the work of type designe...
Booty Juggler
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I love the screenshots from this game created by Robin Davey in collaboration with Thought Den. The game’s pretty fun too—play here....
Design and Mad Men
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As a big fan of the critically-acclaimed Mad Men, I enjoyed these two recent articles about the use of typography throughout the show. I couldn’...
Esther Aarts
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Speaking of t-shirts, I came across the work of this illustrator via Threadless. Her t-shirt design, The Tree Referendum, was featured in Monday’...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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It’s been a little while since I posted anything from Threadless and I really like this recent design. Seems sort of apropos considering we̵...
Does Anyone Know…
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Who created this image? I am in love with it and have been searching for some type of information on the artist to no avail. If you have any ideas, le...
Aesthetic Apparatus
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Aesthetic Apparatus is one of my go-to gig poster resources. They’re one of the first places I discovered when I started my collection several y...
Raking Leaves in the Wind
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For those of you in the Berlin area, this exhibition featuring past and new work by Eve Duhamel, Julien Vallée and Brent Wadden, is one you sho...
GOOD Sheet No. 5
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I forgot to mention this last week. The latest GOOD sheet to be released, Reform School, is all about education. You can find it right here. I also re...
“I design the world.”
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I normally don’t just link directly to other people’s posts, but I really connected with this one by Andrea over at Fly. Like her, I often...
Off Today!
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Sorry about the lack of posts today, it’s a vacation day for me. Normal posting will resume tomorrow. Hope everyone had a great weekend!...
Noggin
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Being someone who isn’t around kids very often, I probably haven’t watched Nickelodeon since Pinwheel. But the other day someone mentioned...
Greg Hathaway
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Fun ads from designer Greg Hathaway....
Type Love 19: Stainless
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I love all the weights (especially the ultra thin and black) in this modern, somewhat techy feeling typeface from The Font Bureau. Stainless...
Paper Source Wall Calendar
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Finally, it’s up for sale online! I love the full bleed illustrations for each month—instant wall art. Purchase your own right here for $26.95...
Isaac Tobin
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I’m really loving the work of designer Isaac Tobin. I was first drawn to his book covers, but after looking through his portfolio I really love ...
Time to streamline?
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I caught this “I will do one thing today” notepad on swissmiss yesterday and it made me think. I am the queen of mutltitasking and trying ...
Radici
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I really enjoy this identity system from designer Fabien Barral (of Graphic Exchange and Harmonie Interieure fame). It’s definitely not my typic...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I’m not really a huge fan of American Apparel, mostly because of their ridiculous advertising, but I have to admit these new shirts are pretty c...
New Work
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I know I don’t mention my own work on here too much. But as Suann announced yesterday, we just launched her website, Simplesong Design. It was a...
Vasava
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It was difficult to choose what projects to feature from Spanish design studio, Vasava, but I’ve picked out a couple of my favorites below (of c...
Dog and Pony Prints
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Recently I mentioned Karen Kurycki‘s amazing Helio Sequence poster designs. Unfortunately, her and the team at Dog and Pony Showprints ended up ...