Category Design

Kelly Thompson: Design & Illustration

Kelly Thompson, a Texan designer/illustrator based in Seattle, has combined her southern spice and northwestern quirkiness into a wide range of noteworthy work. Her charming hand-drawn aesthetic has become a distinctive style that she translates beautifully across a number of…

Kevin Cantrell: Terra Poster

Kevin Cantrell just completed the next poster in his 7 Days series, Terra, and it is—as expected—just plain gorgeous. This time around he has printed the poster in fourteen different ink/foil and paper combinations (7 are available now with more to come…

Meagan Tidwell Design

Meagan Tidwell has a beautiful portfolio filled with work that is sophisticated, elegant and often soft, light, airy. Below are a few projects that particularly caught my eye. Nathan Willis Something Beautyfull Nina & Wes

Neenah Env Papers Notecards + A Giveaway

Neenah Paper recently worked with Design Army to reinvent their line of Environment papers, including the development of a new color palette and textures. Here’s a look behind the scenes: To promote the new range, Design Army also developed a set of notecards, dubbed “Delightful Species,”…

The Fascinating World of the Global Web

If you haven?t had a chance to click through the 113-slide deck on The Emerging Global Web yet, you?re seriously missing out. 25 years on and the web is finding new ways to be awesome, and here?s just a few…

Triboro: Narcissa Identity and Collateral

Triboro recently relaunched their website with a ton of beautiful, new work. One project that particularly caught my eye is their identity and collateral work for Narcissa, a new restaurant at The Standard East Village.

KNOCK Inc: We Heart Trees 2014

This year, for their annual Arbor Day initiative, KNOCK Inc put together a Buzzfeed-style quiz that tells users what CelebriTree they are. Results are rewarded with a shareable illustration—sometimes animated (see below). And for every entry KNOCK will donate $1 to help save…

A Few Fuzzco Projects

It’s been a little while since I checked in with what Fuzzco was up to, and since I always love their work, I figured now is the time. Here are a few projects that caught my eye when I took…

Quick Links: 05.23.14

Looking for some new color inspiration? Check out The Day’s Color, a daily color digest. If you’re looking for icons to use in your next design project, try using IconFinder, which searches through 347,128 icons and 3,003 icon sets. Last Photo…

Etsy Finds: Hooray Today

Illustrators Alyssa Nassner and Allison Beck just recently launched Hooray Today, a new line of colorful greeting cards and paper goods. They have lots of products on the way, including notepads, recipe cards, and party invites and more, but right now…

ASCD: 2013 Annual Report Website

Every annual reporting season, companies and nonprofits alike step up their design game to create a solid impression of the past year’s progress. Education nonprofit ASCD knocked their 2013 annual report out of the parallax park with their dedicated report…

Sense: Oblica Catalogue

Bask in the warming glow of beautiful design found in this catalogue for Oblica fireplaces created by Sense, a creative agency based in Melbourne, Australia. In making collateral for such unique products as Oblica’s fireplaces, Sense did a masterful job of designing around the…

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 Poster Project, featuring a collection of inspiring posters created by thinkers around the world. The posters employ a simple color palette that…

BLOW: Project Charisma Teaser

New from BLOW is their work for Project Charisma, a teaser promotion for Polytrade Paper. To promote their range of eight papers, BLOW developed eight sets of cosmetic packaging, each representing one woman’s unique charisma.