Happy Town Menagerie

Lorena Siminovich, the artist behind Petit Collage, recently opened a new exhibition at San Franciscos’s The Curiosity Shoppe. If you’re in the area, Happy Town Menagerie, a series of hand-turned, painted dolls, will be on display through December 12th. Otherwise,…

Monday Quick Links: 11.22.10

Normally this would be a light posting week since we have Thanksgiving on Thursday. However, because I didn’t get everything up as planned last week, you’ve lucked out. I have several posts scheduled to go up each day this week,…

Type Love 118: 718

Terminal Design’s 718 is an ode to the outer boroughs of NYC, or “the real New York”, as they refer to the non-Manhattan area code. The sans serif family features 24 fonts in 6 12 weights and all of the…

Letterpress Designers Calendar

If you also read one of my favorite design blogs, Graphic Exchange, you may have seen several posts about a 2011 Letterpress Designers Calendar. Following the success of the graphic designer posters, Fabien Barral created a calendar featuring a deisigner-ism…

Housekeeping

Good morning! Just a couple of quick updates: SITE STATUS The site is back up to speed at this point (aside from missing the posts that were meant to go up yesterday, which will be added back to the site…

A Quick Update

For now, we’re back up—we’re just unfortunately a few days behind. We’re still working on fixing everything, and we’re aiming to have the site completely restored later today. Unfortunately, this still means a delay on the posts for the rest…

Michael Wertz: Dog Dreams

Bay-area illustrator Michael Wertz came up with the idea for Dog Dreams while watching his own dog, Olive, sleep. And the result is an amazing, 2-color letterpressed chldren’s board book that was produced at the San Francisco Center for the…

2010 Jazz Posters

You may remember the posters Martino&Jaña designed for the Guimarães Jazz 2009 event. I was blown away by the gorgeous hand-lettering they featured. Well, they’ve recently completed the 2010 designs. This time around the series has an entirely different look…

30 Covers 30 Days

30 Covers 30 Days is a current project of The Office of Letters and Light, in which 30 designers are paired with 30 participant authors and tasked with the challenge of designing a book cover in 24 hours (read more…

Dorian

Barcelona-based Dorian has just launched a brand new site. This particular project is a poster series inspired by various synthesizers and some of the music these pieces of equipment influenced and inspired.

Typejockeys: Philippine Welser

Philippine Welser is a modern housing complex in Austria with a friendly, lively vibe. To help realize that atmosphere, Typejockeys contributed an original typeface, as well as various bold, geometric graphics that adorn the architecture. Get a closer look right…

By Force the Book

By Force is a book that accompanied the Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics, an event held in Belgrade the past two years. The book features a series of interesting, two-color infographics and illustrations created by various of designers. Check out…