Rebecca Mah: Culture Caps
For her senior thesis, Tyler School of Art graduate Rebecca Mah created Culture Caps, a drop cap alphabet influenced by different regions correspondi...
Tag: Hand-lettering
Alliteration Inspiration: Zoos & Zzz’s
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Kelly Thompson: Design & Illustration
Kelly Thompson, a Texan designer/illustrator based in Seattle, has combined her southern spice and northwestern quirkiness into a wide range of notewo...
Alliteration Inspiration: Wheels & Water
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Jon Newman: Daydreams & Nightschemes Studio Launch
Designer Jon Newman took the leap from the comfort of his day job at MTV to start Daydreams & Nightschemes, his own new studio. Among Jon’s ...
Alliteration Inspiration: Veggies & Vacation
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Ciara Phelan: Collages
Ciara Phelan, a freelance illustrator and textile designer in east London, recently launched her new website full of intricate collage work and other...
Open Door Design Studio: Reinventing the Toilet Challenge
Who knew a toilet could be so beautiful? The team at Open Door Design Studio, in collaboration with Kohler, designed the remarkable exterior of Caltec...
Casey Ligon: Hand Lettering
The hand lettering work of Casey Ligon is a gorgeous force to be reckoned with as her talents span chalk, ink, vector and beyond. Her ability to work...
Alliteration Inspiration: Universe & Umbrellas
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Alliteration Inspiration: Outdoors & Outlaws
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Mike Lowery: New Work
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Mike Lowery here at DWL, and since he recently launched his new website with tons of saucy recent w...
Alliteration Inspiration: Quotes & Quickness
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Alliteration Inspiration: Jelly & Journeying
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Andreas Wikström Illustration
I’m thoroughly enjoying the work of Andreas Wikström, a graphic designer hailing from Sweden. There’s more to explore on his website, so ...
Alliteration Inspiration: Icons & Imbibing
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Sergi Delgado Illustration & Lettering
If “rad” were a design discipline, Barcelona-born Sergi Delgado could teach a class on it. His illustration, lettering and typography wo...
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€...
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€...
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...
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€...
Isabel Urbina Book Covers
The book cover designs of Isabel Urbina for Random House, New York are absolutely delightful examples of lettering, textures and illustrations combi...
Alliteration Inspiration: Knowledge & Knives
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Alliteration Inspiration: Plants & Pizza
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Jen Mussari Lettering
I’m not sure how I have not come across Jen Mussari‘s lettering portfolio before now, but it is filled with all kinds of awesomeness. You...
Alliteration Inspiration: Script & Skateboards
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Melissa Chaib Illustration
Melissa Chaib, a graphic designer and illustrator based in Mexico, has a cheeky illustration style that she pairs delightfully with hand lettering. I...
Jon Contino: The Hidden Sea Packaging
I pretty much always buy wine based on its label (with the hope that it tastes good too), so I am all over this new packaging design for South Austral...
Alliteration Inspiration: Fruit & Feathers
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Alex Westgate Illustration
Alex Westgate is a freelance illustrator and designer out of Toronto, ON. Though he’s only recently graduated from the Ontario College of Art &...
Alliteration Inspiration: Dairy & Drop Caps
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Do Not Open
If, like me, you’ve been admiring Erik Marinovich‘s envelope handiwork via Friends of Type, you are in luck. Now, through his new project...
Jeff Rogers: New Site
I’m late to the game on this one, but last month Jeff Rogers launched a beautiful new site. In addition to huge, crisp images of his work, he...
Caetano Calomino Lettering
An impressive collection of lettering samples by Caetano Calomino. Much more to see in his portfolio and on his Facebook page....
Ethan Park: Unconventional Lettering
I’m loving these pieces of unconventional lettering and typography by UK-based designer Ethan Park....
Spencer Heyfron and Angela Southern: This Is New York
I am still a faithful print magazine reader, and New York Magazine has been one of my favorites ever since I moved to NYC almost 10 years ago. One fe...
Danielle Evans: Food Type
Designer and illustrator Danielle Evans is running a fun little side type called Food Type, where she creates lovely hand-lettering specimens out of...
Pentagram: Queens Metropolitan Campus Murals
I’m loving this series of colorful, hand lettered murals created by Paula Scher’s team at Pentagram for the Queens Metropolitan Campus. Lo...
Bureau of Betterment: Quill Feather Illustration Series
Over the past year, Mette Hornung Rankin, of Bureau of Betterment, created this beautiful illustration series featuring various quill pens alongside ...
Tanamachi Studio: Puffin Chalk
Check out these amazing new book covers that Dana Tanamachi created for Puffin Books, the children’s division of Penguin Books. Each one was des...
Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn: Hand Lettering
Beautiful hand-lettering and illustration by Orlando, Florida-based Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn:...
The Making of Design Fu Mural on Vimeo
Check out this incredible mural—don’t miss the video documentation!—that Yiu Studio created for their new office. The design fuses their lov...
BVK + Timothy Goodman: CITGO Fueling Good Road Trip
BVK Milwaukee recently collaborated with Timothy Goodman on the CITGO Fueling Good Road Trip, which aims to promote CITGO through the good things t...
Michael Mullan Illustration
Check out the beautiful illustration, lettering and pattern design work of Michael Mullan....
Shantanu Suman: Horn Please Musical Boxes
As part of his Horn Please exhibition, Shantanu Suman created a series of beautiful music boxes to demonstrate the various horns found in Indian truck...
Studio Muti: Highlife SA
Studio Muti recently designed and illustrated a cover for British Airways’ inflight magazine, Highlife SA. The design was inspired by things to...
Vault49: (Sub)Prime Cuts Hand-Painted Saws
I’m loving these gorgeously hand-painted saws that were created by Vault49, a NYC-based “artistic collaboration, a playground, and a creat...
Lettering by Ryan Hamrick
My friends at Mama’s Sauce recently pointed me in the direction of Ryan Hamrick, a Pittsburgh-based designer. And as expected, his portfolio did...
Draw Your Own Alphabets
Draw Your Own Alphabets: Thirty Fonts to Scribble, Sketch, and Make Your Own is a new book by Tony Seddon that teaches you how to create your own cu...
Chloe Allen: Neck of the Woods Project Lettering Project
Neck of the Woods is hand-lettering project by Chloe Allen, a current student at the University of Leeds. Each entry illustrates a local idiom, from...
Andy Luce Updates
Earlier this year Andy Luce overhauled his portfolio, featuring lots of new work. Below you can see a few projects I’m especially loving, but be...
Luke Skinner: Luxury Rap
As a personal project, UK-based designer Luke Skinner created Luxury Rap,  “a hand-lettered A-Z of fashion references in Hip-Hop.” More ...
Ariel Wilson: Oak Grove Center Gym Artwork
Ariel Wilson recently completed an ongoing project at Oak Grove Center, a therapeutic treatment facility for at-risk kids. Over the past few months A...
A New Site for Dan Cassaro
Dan Cassaro launched a brand new site this week, with lots of new work to see. Love the black and white stripes!...
Erik Marinovich: Cincinnati Magazine Lettering
Erik Marinovich recently created this gorgeous lettering and set of numerals for Cincinnati Magazine‘s annual ‘Where to Eat’ issue....
Alexander Purdy Promo Cards
I recently discovered the work of Alexander Purdy on Steady Print Shop‘s blog. I’m especially loving this series of promotional cards tha...
Georgia Hill: Michelberger Reserved Plates
Berlin-based designer Georgia Hill created these gorgeous hand-lettered plates as a unique “Reserved” sign for the tables at The Michelbe...
Ryan Feerer: Abi-Haus Identity and Collateral
Not only did Ryan Feerer develop the identity, collateral and interiors (which he collaborated on with Dana Tanamachi and Jeff Rogers) for this aweso...
Bryan Patrick Todd: Everybody Matters Mural
In my experience, I’ve found that designers are generally a very compassionate group of people. Over the years working on DWL I’ve loved s...
Olivia King: Hand-Drawn Infographics
Sydney, Australia-based designer Olivia King has a profound love for ink. So much so that she developed this multi-page, hand-drawn infographic as an ...