Ross Bruggink

Loving the poster designs of Ross Bruggink.

Make Believe

Great shirts by Make Believe (espe­cially lov­ing the anchor design). Purchase them here.

Grain & Gram

The cur­rent iter­a­tion of Grain & Gram, an online “Gentleman’s Journal”, inter­ests me both in sub­ject and in design. The look and feel is sophis­ti­cated and ele­gant, bring­ing a clas­sic print pub­li­ca­tion sen­si­bil­ity to the web.

And recently, they fea­tured a pro­file on Nick Sambrato of the print shop, Mama’s Sauce. I’ve worked with them a few times and they always do an excel­lent job. But we are located about 1000 miles away from each other, so it was great to get an inside look into their shop. They’ve also got a new web­site on the way, which looks like it’ll be extremely easy to use—check out the sneak peek right here.

Kate Spade Behind the Scenes

This album of behind the scenes shots on Facebook is quite the teaser for Kate Spade’s newest campaign.

Monday Quick Links

Quick Links

 

The internet’s lat­est enjoy­able time-waster: Dear Blank Please Blank

Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary looks like a really inter­est­ing read (Buy it here.)

On the wish list: The Inspiration Pad (Buy it here.)

I was pretty shocked by some of the extremely neg­a­tive reac­tions to the new Girl Scouts iden­tity on Brand New. While I can see some of the points, I’m def­i­nitely in the camp that sees it as an improvement.

Looking for­ward to see more of Lookwork, Ben Pieratt’s new visual RSS reader and image-bookmarking ser­vice, when it launches in a few months.

So glad some­one was able to get a good pic­ture of this bill­board, which is actu­ally an incred­i­ble adver­tise­ment for Inception. The bill­board changes every few months or so but I’ve never seen such an inge­nious use of the format.

The World Cup is over as of yes­ter­day, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy this poster by David Watson. Sales of the poster will ben­e­fit Soccer Aid and UNICEF.

Pimp your mac­book” with these fun stick­ers.

Here’s another fun one-a-day project, Lukes Beard’s Lyric a Day.

Nathaniel Cooper: Oak 63

I last checked in with Nathaniel Cooper when I posted about the Julian restau­rant design. So I was excited to see this equally lovely iden­tity for Oak 63 when I recently took another look.

 

Hendo Design

Loving this del­i­cate, nature-inspired invi­ta­tion design by Hendo Design.