Type Love: National Currency

National Currency is a new font from Decade Typefoundry, which was inspired by lettering found on 19th century stock certificates. In addition to the lettering, the family also includes two sets of guilloche borders. Pick it up at MyFonts.

Typejockeys: Freude Album Packaging

The folks at Typejockeys recently had the pleasure of designing the album packaging for Freude, the second album from Tombeck. Their work included design for everything from the packaging to the book that accompanies it, and includes a custom typeface,…

Russell Cobb: Paintings on Books

I’ve recently discovered the gorgeous work of Russell Cobb, a UK-based illustrator. I’m especially fascinated with his massive series of paintings on vintage books, all of which seem to incorporate natural or human imagery. Below are a few that caught…

Type Love: Quan

Quan is a new release from new-to-me foundry, Typesketchbook, which is based in Thailand. The family features bold and rounded styles—plus obliques for both—in 9 weights, for a total of 32 fonts. Pick it up at MyFonts.

Monument Partners: Beurre & Sel

Monument Partners, the studio of Casey Martin and Kyle Poff, recently completed this extensive project for Beurre & Sel, a line of delicious-looking cookies from Dorie Greenspan. They developed everything from the identity to the website with a bright, joyful…

Aaron Eiland Business Cards

When I spotted Aaron Eiland’s new business cards on Dribbble, I knew I had to share. For this year’s Flatstock in Austin—one of these days I’ll get there!—he hand-printed 24 different card designs with metallic gold ink on 130 lb…

Type Love: Brooklyn and Brooklyn Stencil

Brooklyn and Brooklyn Stencil are two new releases from Village. The pair was originally developed by Chester Jenkins as part of the massive Atlantic Yards architectural project, which is currently underway in Brooklyn.

Allan Peters: ESPN Music Issue Typography

Allan Peters recently had the pleasure of designing a typeface for ESPN’s Music Issue, which is currently on newsstands. The resulting typeface, which was inspired by the grooves on a vinyl record, is appropriately named Vinyl. The letterforms were used…

Eight Hour Day: ADMCi Identity and Collateral

One of my favorites, Eight Hour Day, recently completed the Identity and various collateral you see below for The ADMCi, the American Design and Master-Craft initiative. Beautiful work, as always. Here’s some background from EHD’s point of view: The brand is…

Meenal Patel

Designer Meenal Patel is doing some excellent work at KNOCK. In particular, I’m loving the play title illustrations she’s developed for various seasons at the Children’s Theatre Company, under the Creative Direction of Dan Weston and Todd Paulson. There’s lots more to see in…