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…

Badass Lady Creatives: Hattie Newman

I don’t know what’s in the water over in London, but the city boasts some pretty serious set design talent. A recent favorite is Hattie Newman, who works primarily with the cut-paper aesthetic. Hattie’s lovingly-crafted paper objects can be found in…

Digital Tales From 2 Days in Seattle

This past weekend we had the great fortune to join the gang from Creative Social for their latest global event in Seattle. For this group of talented creative folk from across the globe, and for the record a heavy emphasis…

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…

Type Love: Urban Grotesk

Urban Grotesk is Suitcase Type Foundry‘s most recent release. A traditional grotesk sans serif, this typeface includes six weights with matching italics and various OpenType features. Pick up a copy at MyFonts.

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.

Recommended Resources: The Design Method

This week’s recommended resource is a book I just finished reading and found incredibly insightful, The Design Method by Eric Karjaluoto. You may be familiar with Eric through his design agency, smashLAB, his thought-provoking essays published on Ideas on Ideas, or his book…

Inspiring Instagramers: chrysti

Username: chrysti Name: Chrysti Hydeck Info: Co-Author of Photo Craft (transform your photos!) Storyteller. Dreamer. Seeker of Light. Wanderer. In Manassas, VA (near DC). As if a beautifully composed photograph wasn’t already a work of art, artist and photographer Chrysti Hydeck has a way of…

Signs of Hawaii

Since Hawaii is my absolute favorite place on earth, I am loving this Instagram photo series of vintage signs found there. Most of the images have been captured by Hawaii-based lettering artist Matthew Tapia, but if you happen to catch one…