Hazuki Miyahara Illustration
Feast your eyes on the vibrant illustration work of Hazuki Miyahara—I especially love the layered blocks of color found in each piece.
David J Weissberg: Jane Mayle Identities and Collateral
I’m loving this pair of sophisticated identities that David J Weissberg developed for Jane Mayle.
SkyFonts Service Launches
Yesterday Monotype’s new font rental service, SkyFonts, officially came out of beta and released publicly. The service gives users access to over 8000 fonts, allowing them to try any font for free for up to five minutes within any desktop application…
3 Advertising: Michael Barley Identity and Business Cards
The folks at 3 Advertising created this impressive identity and business card for photographer Michael Barley. Beyond all of the intricate production details, the cards also serve a practical purpose—each one functions as a miniature portfolio sleeve to show off…
Daniel Howells: siteInspire Redesign
This week Daniel Howells relaunched siteInspire, which if you’re not familiar, is a showcase of great design for the web. Overall the new design isn’t a tremendous departure from the previous one, but it includes various updates that make the…
Type Love: Minot
Earlier this week Jessica Hische launched her latest font, Minot, a beautiful ornamental display face. Minot includes three styles—Outline, Fill and Box—meant to be mixed and matched together to create multi-color headlines. Pick it up right here.
Lo Siento: Tenerife Design Festival
Barcelona-based studio Lo Siento developed this fun and playful identity and collateral for the Tenerife Design Festival, a design festival held in the canary islands.
Type Love: Trend
The layered type trend has certainly taken off in the last year or so. (See Detroit, Valuco, Frontage.) Now Latinotype has contributed their version to the pool, with the appropriately named Trend, which features both serif and slab serif styles. Pick it…
Bleed: Aker Brygge Identity and Collateral
Bleed—who recently launched a beautifully redesigned website—developed this sophisticated identity and collateral for Aker Brygge, a popular area in Oslo, Norway: The identity will be the new face of Aker Brygge after a complete remake of the area that is…
TOKY 2012
This year the creative team at TOKY took a different approach to their year-end assessment. Faced with the dilemma of a year flying by with no time to reflect—I know I can relate!—they chose to create a piece of design that…
Invisible Creature: Toth Construction Architectural Blocks
Invisible Creature designed this beautiful set of architectural nesting blocks for Toth Construction as a holiday gift for their clients. The blocks are contained within a laser-etched wooden box and each set also includes handmade letterpressed cards as an accompaniment.…
Type Love: 2012 Favorites
Before I took a look back, I thought I might have a hard time finding ten really great typefaces from 2012 to feature. But once I actually explored the DWL archives a bit, I realized that was clearly not the…
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Gearing Up for Business
I don’t know about you, but for me the new year means taking a fresh look at my business, assessing what’s working and what needs to change, and determining goals for the coming year. I wouldn’t say I particularly enjoy the…
Darrin Higgins: Sprout Up Identity and Website
Designer Darrin Higgins developed the brand and web experience for new site Sprout Up, which aims to provide children with environmental education: Environmental Education for the Next Generation. Kids can do more than we think. They can solve problems creatively,…
Carnevale: 2013 Desk Calendar
I’ve got one more 2013 calendar to share with you this week (and likely for the year). Designed by Megan Sullivan of Carnevale, this desk calendar features twelve monthly cards printed with neon ink, held together in a one-color printed box…
Cory Say: Cattle Baron’s Ball Catalog and Ticket Package
You may remember the stationery designed for the Cattle Baron’s Ball by Cory Say that was posted back in August. Well today he’s been kind enough to share with us the lovely catalog and ticket package designs that were developed to supplement the…
Type Love: Quarzo
This morning I’m loving Quarzo, an elegant, traditional script by Corradine Fonts.
Mottis: Mottisimals Interactive Story
This year, North Carolina-based ad agency Mottis developed a really fun interactive story for their holiday promotion. The story revolves around Jellybean, who is based on a real tiger at Carolina Tiger Rescue, a wild cat sanctuary that is doing…