Inspiring Instagramers: josecabaco

Username: josecabaco Name: Jose Cabaco Info: Mel. Ana. João Pedro. Jack. Portland. Lisbon. Maputo. Creative Director at Nike. José Cabaco is Nike’s Concept Creative Director at the C.O.D.E. (Center of Design Excellency) in Global Design . What else needs to be said? His Instagram account…

Nicole McQuade: Kitchen Stories Identity and Collateral

For the past three years, Nicole McQuade—designer and photographer—and Judi Cutrone—writer—have been collaborating on Some Kitchen Stories, a blog that combines food and fiction. They once worked together in the West Loop of Chicago. They cook, then Nicole mans the…

Quick Links: 03.21.14

The VSCO Artist Initiative is a “$100,000 USD scholarship fund providing artists the resources to pursue their creative vision.” More info here. I came across two interesting Tumblrs this week: Wes Anderson Palettes and Humanæ, which showcases a series of portraits whose backgrounds…

Alliteration Inspiration: Reading & Royalty

Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s thematic combo: reading & royalty. Reading Stephen King rightfully states that “books are a uniquely portable magic.” And…

Student Work: Clarke Harris

I’m quite fond of the work Clarke Harris has put out as he cuts his (Gator) teeth in the University of Florida’s graphic design program. If this collection of work is just a preview of what’s to come, I’m very excited to see where…

Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year

Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes serving as “part motivation, part fun.”

Type Love: Result

Result is a grotesque sans serif designed by Cloud9 Type Dept, an independant type foundry based out of Helsinki, Finland. Result features three weights, an extended character set to support Central, Eastern and Western European languages, plus OpenType features like fractions and…

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 invitation” for her 50th birthday party, Gabby channeled her wit, love and design chops…

Where Food + Technology Meet

The intersection of photography, social, and our insatiable desire to eat tasty animal parts and vegetables means that there is a constant stream of delicious apps, websites, and businesses making food increasingly digital. Here are 6 tasty digital dishes to…

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 project for Adam to “illustrate my response to daily life, situations and people I come…

Inspiring Instagramers: abeachcottage

Username: abeachcottage Name: abeachcottage Info: I love old furniture, coastal vintage things, clouds on the sea & a sweet pup in our old white cottage on Sydney’s beaches Australia blogging at  It has been a frigid, dismal winter in the Northeast, and with…

Quick Links: 03.14.14

I’ve always been a fan of Nicholas Felton‘s personal annual reports—so much so that I own every single one, in all of their data-heavy, infographic, print glory. Which means I was incredibly excited to see him featured in the latest…