Baron Fig: The Poster Project
Baron Fig, a small business making “sketchbooks and notebooks for thinkers,” just launched a lovely new side project simply titled The Pos...
Tag: Side Projects
Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean
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...
Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs
I’m loving the delightfully clever GIFs that designer Dimas Forchetti has put together as part of an ongoing personal project of random creati...
Chris Dedinsky: Monster Alphabet
Halloween may be months away, but I’m in love with Chris Dedinsky‘s personal project Monster Alphabet, a screen printed poster featuring...
Little: Ephemera
We recently featured Little‘s lovely identity and collateral work for Fair State Brewing Cooperative, and now I’m quite taken by Ephemera...
Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty
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...
Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime
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.
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...
Studio JQ: Weather Dashboard Design
Jonathan Quintin, of Studio JQ, is currently working on a self-initiated project that immediately caught my eye: a weather dashboard that will displ...
Matt Stevens: Carolina Panthers Daydream Rebrand
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...
Telegramme: Hawt Sauce
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
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&#...
Unfamous Pirates
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 ...
Haikuglyphics
Haikuglyphics is a collaborative side project between designer Anne Ulku and haiku-writer Michael Derus. The project began in January of this year a...
Jeremy Loyd: Branding Bad
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 ...
Tyler Adam Smith: 100 Books that SHOULD be written
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...
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 ...
Reagan Ray: Signs of Austin
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
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
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
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,...
Bond: Santa Claus Rebrand
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...
Orion Janeczek: Sauvie’s Hard Cherry Packaging
I’m loving this self-initiated packaging project from Orion Janeczek. His inspiration for Sauvie’s Hard Cherry, an organic soda, was Sauv...
Jenny Volvovski: From Cover to Cover
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...
Braden Wise: Good Day CA Revisited
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...
Jeremy Payne: Project49
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...