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Alliteration Inspiration: Jelly & Journeying

Garth — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:00:23 +0000

Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s thematic combo: jelly & journeying. Jelly Do you think you’re ready for this jelly? How about multiplied by TEN? Are you ready for that? Okay, you’re right. I think you’re ready for that […]

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Eszter Chen: Patterns & Illustration

Garth — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:00:12 +0000

Illustrator and textile designer Eszter Chen has got something good going. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, she’s brought her lovely style and freelance hustle to Los Angeles where she has also founded Retzsë Studio, a pattern and textile design studio. Savor Eszter’s range of work below and find even more on her website.

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Matt Chase: Escapades Magazine

Garth — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:00:24 +0000

Matt Chase just blew my mind with his challenging, beautiful design work for “The Takeoff Issue” of new travel magazine Escapades. After you ogle the gorgeous end results below, read Matt’s in-depth process recap to learn about the design decisions, type exploration and overall challenges that went into creating this wonderful work. From Matt’s website: In the Fall […]

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Alliteration Inspiration: Gold & Grains

Garth — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:00:48 +0000

Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s thematic combo: gold & grains. GOLD Though the winter Olympics may be over, every day is an opportunity to bring home a gold medal in creativity. And even if nothing gold can stay, […]

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Alliteration Inspiration: Noodles & Numbers

Garth — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:00:20 +0000

Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s thematic combo: noodles & numbers. NOODLES If your New Year’s resolution involves losing a few pounds and gaining a few brain cells, this section is just for you. These ten pieces of noodle […]

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Steven Bonner: Computer Arts Collection Illustrations

Courtney — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:00:06 +0000

Steven Bonner created this series of graphic illustrations for Computer Arts Collection Volume 2, the Typography edition. The illustrations accompanied an Industry Focus feature on bespoke typefaces in branding. If you’re interested in checking out Computer Arts Collection for yourself, you can pick up print editions right here.

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Student Work: Fred Carriedo: Transform Conference Collateral

Courtney — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:05:53 +0000

This impressive student project was developed by Fred Carriedo for the Transform conference, an event that tackles evolution and the future of communication, technology and design. You can check out more details in Fred’s portfolio, and flip through the entire publication on Issuu right here.

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CA Collection Redesigns

Courtney — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:00:17 +0000

For their second volume, CA Collection has undergone a complete design overhaul. The first edition was stellar, in both design and content, but the new set-up takes it to the next level. Here’s a sneak peek at how the first issue, Graphic Design, is looking: You can learn more about the redesign right here. And if you […]

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Recent Grad: Catherine Dimalla: Jeopardy Magazine

Courtney — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:00:25 +0000

For a recent grad, Catherine Dimalla has quite the portfolio. I’m especially loving the work she’s done for Jeopardy Magazine, which is an annual, undergraduate-run literary and fine arts publication published at Western Washington University. For more from Catherine, check out her portfolio, or follow her on Dribbble. via Discover Paper

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CA Collection, the Complete First Series

Courtney — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:00:50 +0000

The first series of the excellent Computer Arts Collection (previously mentioned here and here) is now complete. Each issue focuses on one broad topic, including graphic design, typography, illustration, branding, photography and advertising. Each one is beautifully produced and includes great exclusive content. The second series will soon be circulating, and you have until November 5th to […]

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Terroir Magazine

Courtney — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:19:23 +0000

Terroir Magazine is a bi-annual publication that focuses on Singaporean perspectives on travel. Each copy is inkjet printed, and painstakingly coptic-stitched and glued by hand, which takes around 10 hours per copy. Issue 3 is now available for purchase.

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Atelier Martino&Jaña: PLI Arte & Design Magazine

Courtney — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:00:46 +0000

Atelier Martino&Jaña recently completed a new print project, design for the magazine PLI Arte & Design: This magazine is the result of an exploratory exercise about alternative narratives in print. There was an intention to use format, paper and sequence so that the different articles could be contaminated by each other, as it happens in a […]

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Frost Design: Eye Out of Home Magazine

Courtney — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:00:20 +0000

Frost Design was recently tasked with developing a new industry magazine for Eye, an international out-of-home media company. The print publication features diverse opinions on trends, technology and innovation in the industry, and was distributed to a selection of Eye’s key customers, and industry influencers.

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CA Collection Issues 3 and 4

Courtney — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:00:12 +0000

I recently got my hands on Issues 3 and 4—Illustration and Branding, respectively—of Computer Arts Collection, and they do not disappoint. Below you can see a few spreads from each, but if you’d like a closer look you can check out this preview for an overview of what it has to offer. If you’re interested in purchasing […]

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Offscreen Magazine Issue 2

Courtney — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:00:36 +0000

Offscreen Magazine, a publication about the “human side of websites and apps” just launched Issue 2: In our second issue we speak with the legendary Iconfactory founder Gedeon Maheux, Berlin’s Wunderkind Christian Reber, robot-inspired app maker Mark Jardine, Sketchnote artist Eva-Lotta Lamm, retro-game designer Shaun Inman and British Software entrepreneur Dan Counsell. Sounds pretty interesting […]

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Computer Arts Collection

Courtney — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:25 +0000

Computer Arts Collection is a new annual series of six in-depth guides from the makers of Computer Arts. I’ve seen one of these babies in person and it is gorgeous—it features everything from work samples to designer profiles to a full breakdown of one studio’s design process, not to mention high quality production details. I admit I’m a […]

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No.Zine

Courtney — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:00:02 +0000

I’m so glad I stumbled upon No.Zine, an arts publication that is curated and art directed by Patrick Fry. Each issue features a variety of artists and designers, and is printed in two colors. They’re up to issue six at this point, and these particular spreads are actually from their first issue. You can pick […]

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BATTERIEnext

Courtney — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:00:36 +0000

BATTERIEnext is a creative magazine in which designers, illustrators, photographers et al. present their visual interpretations on a given subject. The current issue focuses on the topic of emptiness, and features 12 A1 posters created by the contributors. Learn more and pick up the limited edition series right here.

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Gym Class Magazine

Courtney — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:00:04 +0000

Gym Class Magazine is a zine for the guy chosen last. What does that mean? Well, it’s a zine for the underdog, the black sheep. Remember your high school gym class? The bit where two kids were made captain and took turns choosing who they wanted on their team? Well, Gym Class Magazine is a […]

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The ’00s

Courtney — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:44:05 +0000

Now that 2009 is swiftly coming to a close, we’re starting to be bombarded with commentary about the decade, and countless “best of” lists. For New York Magazine’s “The ’00s” issue, they continued its commitment to quality design by commissioning several designers to contribute a cover. In the end two were chosen, one for newsstands […]

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Behind the Design: Australian Financial Review

Courtney — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:16 +0000

Tony Rice, Design Director for the Australian Financial Review, gives Grids an in-depth look behind the design of their most recent, 10th anniversary issue. I’m not at all familiar with this publication, so it’s really interesting to get a glimpse in their process. And the end result is an excellent example of how a limited […]

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Design Makeovers

Janine — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:00:14 +0000

As previously mentioned, this week I’ve taken off to the Outer Banks for a much-needed vacation. And lucky for me, I’ve got some great blogger friends who agreed to guest post while I’m gone. Today you’ll have the pleasure of hearing from Janine of Uppercase. Taking some of the classic fun feature of typical fashion […]

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Color Happy 27

Courtney — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:00:18 +0000

I am dying for the cold and gray weather to subside right about now, so this week I’m focusing on this fun summer palette from a 2008 issue of Martha Stewart Living. Yum.

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Candy 11

Courtney — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:49:18 +0000

The latest issue of Candy Magazine—The For All Intents and Purposes Issue—is now available for download. And it’s got a brand spanking new look, thanks to designer Jamie Delaney.

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Todd Weinberger

Courtney — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:00:34 +0000

I found the work of publication designer Todd Weinberger through Grids, the SPD blog. He is currently the Creative Director at Inked magazine.

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Long Live Domino

Courtney — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:48:21 +0000

In case you haven’t heard the disappointing news, Domino magazine announced yesterday that it has folded. I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning, so it’s sad to see another one of my favorites fold. Here are a few images I’ve enjoyed over the past few years.

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Uppercase Magazine!

Courtney — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:01:09 +0000

What exciting news! The multi-talented Janine has launched a quarterly magazine for the “creative and curious” (which is especially exciting for me considering my magazine addiction). Read more about the new publication right here, and subscribe here. Looks amazing! Cover illustration by Blanca Gómez

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Behind the Times

Courtney — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:00:57 +0000

Unfortunately my copy of the latest issue of GOOD Magazine sat barely opened for the last few weeks. The entire issue was focused on voting and the current election; so of course I missed some great stuff that would have been more appropriate to post a week ago. But I think a lot of it […]

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An Unlikely Pair?

Courtney — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:00:25 +0000

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, “What I Know for Sure”, was created by several well-known designers. Don’t get me wrong, O is definitely a well-designed publication, but not one where I’d normally expect to find […]

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Kendra Smoot

Courtney — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:00:17 +0000

I stumbled upon the portfolio of prop stylist Kendra Smoot via the now-defunct Bluelines blog. (I think I still haven’t gotten over the end of Blueprint—it quickly became my favorite magazine.) So cheerful and fun, I wish there was more.

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Masters of Design

Courtney — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:00:44 +0000

This month Fast Company has published it’s annual Masters of Design issue. All of the content is focused on design and business—from architecture to fashion to graphic design and everything in between. You can check out some of the articles online here, but judging from my quick skim of the issue it’s definitely worth picking […]

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Noodle Gun

Courtney — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:00:14 +0000

Noodle Gun is an online horizontal publication featuring artwork by various contributors. Purely visual in content, there is very little explanation about each piece or the theme, but it’s definitely interesting to navigate. There are some really beautiful images in the mix. Make sure to also check out version one while you’re there. via Surfstation

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Erin Jang & Esquire

Courtney — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:50:11 +0000

I really enjoy these designs for Esquire by Erin Jang. Check out her blog for more recent work.

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New York Magazine

Courtney — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:19:05 +0000

When I receive my copy of New York Magazine every week, there is always some aspect of the design I really like (online as well—love this logo). The look of the magazine is really tight, and I love that they often ask prominent designers and illustrators to contribute artwork to features. Here’s a snippet from […]

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