Font in Progress: Questa
Questo is an in-progress typeface from exljbris font foundry, which also brought us Museo and Anivers. The details look amazing, especially those ligatures—can’t wait to see the full set.
Questo is an in-progress typeface from exljbris font foundry, which also brought us Museo and Anivers. The details look amazing, especially those ligatures—can’t wait to see the full set.
I’m enjoying Kyle Poff’s identity work.
The colors of this image really struck me when I saw them—so fresh and bright. These materials for The Reel were completed by Daniel Freytag while at Why Not Associates.
In addition to being a great designer, Jay Fletcher is also a talented illustrator. I personally love what happens when he combines the two skills, like with this poster for the East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival. I’m impressed by…
Tod Kapke wrote in recently to tell me abou a great contemporary illustration blog, Ape on the Moon. And in the process of checking it out I discovered Tod’s own photography-based illustrations. This post gives some insight into his process…
Designer Jason Gabbert and illustrator Antar Dayal collaborated on the design of C.S. Lewis’s non-fiction works.
Ayco creates these beautifully delicate drawings on old Japanese paper, which you can see in her Flickr stream right here. She also sells prints of many of them on etsy.
I’ve been hearing such good things about Pixar’s Up. And these posters created by Eric Tan make me even more excited to see the film.
FF Dancer, designed by Fontpartners, was part of Typographica’s Best Fonts of 2007. The design was intended to combine a constructed sans serif with an upright script, resulting in a typeface that combined strength and softness.. FF Dancer is available…
Not sure how I’ve failed to mention them before, but Golden Gems is an awesome blog that catalogs all the Little Golden Books we knew and loved as children, and many more obscure titles as well. The images below are…
Jeff Harrison has done some really great work for Rethink Communications, including this fun identity system for photographer Hans Sipma.
Jonathan Daly is another fellow Syracuse grad, as well as an extremely talented artist. He describes his most recent paintings, a few of which are shown below, as “an arrangement of fragmented memories and specific objects derived from past experience,…
The Silent Giants have recently updated their shop with some new poster designs for Fleet Foxes, Flight of the Conchords and more. Pick up a print or two here.
Publisher W.W. Norton is now cataloging all of its covers on Flickr. via The Book Cover Archive
Check out this gorgeous letterpress pretzel packaging by the ultra-talented Yael Miller, of Miller Creative, the Dieline and Share Some Candy.
Fellow Syracuse grad Ben Whitla has some great work in his portfolio. I’m really enjoying the restaurant design work he’s worked on while at Korn Design, especialy this identity system for Mercat Chicago. Ben and I both also worked at…
Our friends over at OK Great have an ongoing experiment creating handmade versions of their logo with various materials. Lately they’ve been experimenting with all kinds of spices, as you can see right here. If you ask me, it’s pretty…
I’ve never actually done any scrapbooking before, but I do enjoy a lot of the patterned paper made for the craft. There’s a huge selection out there, but Cosmo Cricket makes some really great ones, including the few below. You…