HeyHey Apps

There’s some joyful noise, color and ideas coming out of Ghent, Belgium, where HeyHey Apps is making iOS a more creative space for children. HeyHey Apps, a three-man software studio based in Belgium, focuses on bringing creativity to children through…

Westwerk Design: Yeti Spotter

For this year’s holiday card, Westwerk Design went the non-traditional route and created Yeti Spotter, an interactive contest. The team sent out paper yeti masks to a list of recipients who were encouraged to come up with creative ways to capture…

Laura Wood Illustration

Laura Woods, an Italian freelance illustrator living in Melbourne, Australia, has only been in the illustration game for a year and a half, yet her impressive work shows she’s got the talent of a seasoned vet. Laura’s first 1.5 years…

Inspiring Instagramers: christiangideon

Username: christiangideon Name: Christian Gideon Info: Portrait photographer located in the Missouri Ozarks Christian Gideon is a professional portrait photographer based out of Springfield, Missouri. His Instagram account not only shows a sampling of his portrait work, but also captures…

Fred Schaub: BurdgeCooper Holiday Card and Gift Tags

This colorful holiday card was created for LA-based printer BurdgeCooper by CT-based designer Fred Schaub. The set of engraved and stamped cards were each produced on three different colors of paper, and accompanied by a set of a dozen striped and foil…

Misty Manley: First Birthday Infographic Invitations

Misty Manley created these super fun infographic-style invitations for her son Jude’s first birthday, which is coming up in January. More than just your typical party invitation, Misty really turned this piece into a keepsake, by including a series of…

Quick Links: 12/20/13

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Beyoncé’s recent surprise album release. I haven’t actually not listened at all, but I have enjoyed the lovely title cards from the videos. Vulture compiled them all in GIF format…

Streamline Icons

Designer Vincent Le Moign of Webalys recently introduced Streamline, a set of over 1600 icons for designers and developers. Yes, you read that right, 1600. The collection has been optimized for iOS and Android, and each icon was designed using a precise grid to ensure consistency and crisp display…

Kickstarter Spotlight: Foldio

As someone who takes mobile photos quite a bit, I understand that lighting is a constant challenge. Enter Foldio, a compact, portable, foldable photo studio built specifically for your smartphone. Genius! The team behind the product, Orange Monkie, has already…

Alliteration Inspiration: Lights & Lions

Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s theme combo: lights & lions. LIGHTS As the holidays roll along, your neighborhood is likely outfitted in festive,…

The 2014 Studio On Fire Desk Calendar

Studio on Fire‘s letterpress desktop calendar is always my favorite calendar to purchase. Each year they work with a group of designers and illustrators who take on the design for two months of the calendar, working within a unified theme.…

KOMBOH: School’s Cool Print Series

KOMBOH just came out with an amazing little series of “School’s Cool” illustrative prints, meant “for the schoolkid in all of us”. It’s clean and clever design like this that makes me think “why didn’t this exist when I was a schoolkid!”. Check…