Nina Azzarello: Icon Ink

For those of you who prefer to something more interesting to your default computer icons, designer Nina Azzarello has a solution. She’s recently designed a second handmade icon set—see the original one here—in which each icon is made entirely from…

Shantanu Suman: Horn Please Musical Boxes

As part of his Horn Please exhibition, Shantanu Suman created a series of beautiful music boxes to demonstrate the various horns found in Indian trucks. Each hand painted box was included four buttons that produce different pitched sounds when pushed—check…

Type Love: Klinic Slab

I have a bit of a weakness for slab serifs, so Lost Type Co-op’s latest release, Klinic Slab, is right up my alley. Designed by Joe Prince, the typeface includes four weights, plus italics and many Open Type features, all within…

Merit Animation

Jim Leszczynski sent over this great little animation that I’m happy to share with you this morning. The animation was developed for Merit, an online application that helps customers get attention for their schools and their students via social and local media. Merit…

The Blksmith Design Co. Shop

The Blksmith Design Co. is the Southern California-based design studio of David M. Smith. He has some excellent work in his portfolio (which you should check out here), but on a recent visit to his site I was also excited to discover…

Type Love: Adriane Swash

Adriane Swash, a companion to Adriane Text, includes uppercase, lowercase and small caps, as well as a wide range of OpenType features, including alternate glyphs, stylistic ligatures, ornaments and language support. Pick up a copy at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out…

Passport: Word. Brand Identity

UK-based studio Passport recently developed the identity and collateral for Word., a copywriting company. Word approached us wanting a complete brand identity. We created the concept of “copy with character” and designed a flexible and daring brand around this theme. A…

Sideshow Press Shop

I’m not sure when they launched, but I just discovered that Sideshow Press has an entirely new (to me, anyway) website, blog and shop. The shop is filled to the brim with really fun paper goods, from cards and notebooks…