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Tag: Side Projects

Baron Fig: The Poster Project

Baron Fig: The Poster Project

Garth • May 20, 2014May 18, 2014
Baron Fig, a small business making “sketchbooks and notebooks for thinkers,” just launched a lovely new side project simply titled The Pos...
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Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean

Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean

Garth • May 6, 2014May 4, 2014
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 e...
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Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs

Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs

Garth • May 1, 2014Apr 28, 2014
I’m loving the delightfully clever GIFs that designer Dimas Forchetti has put together as part of an ongoing personal project of random creati...
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Chris Dedinsky: Monster Alphabet

Chris Dedinsky: Monster Alphabet

Garth • Apr 9, 2014Mar 31, 2014
Halloween may be months away, but I’m in love with Chris Dedinsky‘s personal project Monster Alphabet, a screen printed poster featuring...
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Little: Ephemera

Little: Ephemera

Garth • Mar 25, 2014Mar 24, 2014
We recently featured Little‘s lovely identity and collateral work for Fair State Brewing Cooperative, and now I’m quite taken by Ephemera...
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Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty

Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty

Garth • Mar 18, 2014Mar 17, 2014
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...
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Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime

Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime

Garth • Mar 17, 2014Mar 17, 2014
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...
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Naomie Ross & Daniel Renda: Pastosa Ravioli Co.

Courtney • Mar 7, 2014Mar 3, 2014
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...
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Studio JQ: Weather Dashboard Design

Courtney • Jan 9, 2014Jan 8, 2014
Jonathan Quintin, of Studio JQ, is currently working on a self-initiated project that immediately caught my eye: a weather dashboard that will displ...
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Matt Stevens: Carolina Panthers Daydream Rebrand

Courtney • Jan 1, 2014Dec 26, 2013
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...
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Telegramme: Hawt Sauce

Courtney • Nov 4, 2013Nov 3, 2013
Telegramme recently updated their portfolio with a ton of new projects that span various design disciplines. One that particularly caught my eye is th...
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Michael George Haddad: Zodiac

Michael George Haddad: Zodiac

Courtney • Nov 4, 2013Dec 1, 2013
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&#...
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Unfamous Pirates

Courtney • Sep 19, 2013Sep 18, 2013
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 ...
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Haikuglyphics

Courtney • Sep 17, 2013Sep 16, 2013
Haikuglyphics is a collaborative side project between designer Anne Ulku and haiku-writer Michael Derus. The project began in January of this year a...
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Jeremy Loyd: Branding Bad

Courtney • Sep 3, 2013Sep 3, 2013
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 ...
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Tyler Adam Smith: 100 Books that SHOULD be written

Courtney • Jun 18, 2013Jun 17, 2013
As part of SVA’s Masters of Branding program, the students are each currently participating in a self-initiated project that spans the course o...
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Luke Skinner: Luxury Rap

Courtney • Apr 2, 2013Apr 1, 2013
As a personal project, UK-based designer Luke Skinner created Luxury Rap,  “a hand-lettered A-Z of fashion references in Hip-Hop.” More ...
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Reagan Ray: Signs of Austin

Courtney • Mar 13, 2013Mar 12, 2013
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...
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Michele Rosenthal: Criterion Affection

Courtney • Feb 28, 2013Feb 28, 2013
I just came across this really fun personal illustration project by Michele Rosenthal, Criterion Affection. Through the project, Michele is visually d...
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Michael Haddad: Mid-Century Canada

Courtney • Feb 1, 2013Nov 3, 2013
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...
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Ty Mattson: Homeland-Inspired Vintage Record Covers

Courtney • Dec 19, 2012
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,...
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Bond: Santa Claus Rebrand

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
For Icon Magazine’s re-design section, Bond bravely took on Santa Claus. Faced with the challenge of a dwindling number of believers, they g...
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Orion Janeczek: Sauvie’s Hard Cherry Packaging

Courtney • Nov 9, 2012Nov 9, 2012
I’m loving this self-initiated packaging project from Orion Janeczek. His inspiration for Sauvie’s Hard Cherry, an organic soda, was Sauv...
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Jenny Volvovski: From Cover to Cover

Jenny Volvovski: From Cover to Cover

Courtney • Jun 15, 2012Jan 16, 2014
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I am very much interested in designers’ personal projects. So naturally, my interest was piqued by From Cov...
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Braden Wise: Good Day CA Revisited

Courtney • Feb 6, 2012Feb 6, 2012
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 d...
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Jeremy Payne: Project49

Courtney • Jan 19, 2012Jan 16, 2012
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...
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