Baron Fig: The Poster Project
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Baron Fig, a small business making “sketchbooks and notebooks for thinkers,” just launched a lovely new side project simply titled The Poster Project,...
Tag: Side Projects
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Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean
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With tons of plastic waste filling the globe’s oceans, Vicki Turner set out to do something about it. The result: Drop in the Ocean, a limited edition...
Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs
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I’m loving the delightfully clever GIFs that designer Dimas Forchetti has put together as part of an ongoing personal project of random creation and a...
Chris Dedinsky: Monster Alphabet
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Halloween may be months away, but I’m in love with Chris Dedinsky‘s personal project Monster Alphabet, a screen printed poster featuring illustrated m...
Little: Ephemera
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We recently featured Little‘s lovely identity and collateral work for Fair State Brewing Cooperative, and now I’m quite taken by Ephemera, where Littl...
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 invit...
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...
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 eating...
Studio JQ: Weather Dashboard Design
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Jonathan Quintin, of Studio JQ, is currently working on a self-initiated project that immediately caught my eye: a weather dashboard that will display...
Matt Stevens: Carolina Panthers Daydream Rebrand
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I’ve always been a fan of Matt Stevens’s side projects (and envious of his productivity levels!), so it’s no surprise that I’m loving his latest perso...
Telegramme: Hawt Sauce
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Telegramme recently updated their portfolio with a ton of new projects that span various design disciplines. One that particularly caught my eye is th...
Michael George Haddad: Zodiac
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If you’ve been a reader for a little while, you may remember Michael George Haddad‘s self-initiated project, Mid-Century Canada. Well he’s back at it ...
Unfamous Pirates
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In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day—yup, it’s a real thing—I’m happy to share a fun side project by James Abercrombie, a designer and ill...
Haikuglyphics
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Haikuglyphics is a collaborative side project between designer Anne Ulku and haiku-writer Michael Derus. The project began in January of this year and...
Jeremy Loyd: Branding Bad
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I’m loving Jeremy Loyd‘s new side project, Branding Bad, in which he creates a logo for each of the eight final episodes of Breaking Bad (which I’d ar...
Tyler Adam Smith: 100 Books that SHOULD be written
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As part of SVA’s Masters of Branding program, the students are each currently participating in a self-initiated project that spans the course of 100 d...
Luke Skinner: Luxury Rap
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As a personal project, UK-based designer Luke Skinner created Luxury Rap, “a hand-lettered A-Z of fashion references in Hip-Hop.” More to see right h...
Reagan Ray: Signs of Austin
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Since many fron the design community are currently living it up in Austin at South by Southwest (jealous!), I thought it apropos to post this personal...
Michele Rosenthal: Criterion Affection
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I just came across this really fun personal illustration project by Michele Rosenthal, Criterion Affection. Through the project, Michele is visually d...
Michael Haddad: Mid-Century Canada
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Mid-Century Canada is the personal project of designer Michael Haddad. He chose to design a logo for every province in Canada in a graphic vintage-ins...
Ty Mattson: Homeland-Inspired Vintage Record Covers
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If you’re not already watching Homeland, you should be. Plain and simple, it’s just great TV. What’s also great—better than great, really—is this new ...
Bond: Santa Claus Rebrand
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For Icon Magazine’s re-design section, Bond bravely took on Santa Claus. Faced with the challenge of a dwindling number of believers, they gave Santa ...
Orion Janeczek: Sauvie’s Hard Cherry Packaging
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I’m loving this self-initiated packaging project from Orion Janeczek. His inspiration for Sauvie’s Hard Cherry, an organic soda, was Sauvie Island, a ...
Jenny Volvovski: From Cover to Cover
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As I mentioned earlier in the week, I am very much interested in designers’ personal projects. So naturally, my interest was piqued by From Cover to C...
Braden Wise: Good Day CA Revisited
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In celebration of the project’s publishing in the CA Typography Annual, Braden Wise has posted a whole new series of his Good Day CA postcard designs....
Jeremy Payne: Project49
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Project49 is a self-initiated poster series by Jeremy Payne based on the San Francisco 49 mile scenic drive, which he walked and photographed in its e...