w-o-r-d-u-p.biz

w-o-r-d-u-p.biz is a fun new project by Nicole Lavelle. In just three easy steps, you can purchase a bespoke piece of text art. Simply choose your size and paper color, and enter the text you’d like Nicole to hand-letter, and…

Hello Black Friday

In case you’re planning on doing any shopping today and looking for ideas, I just wanted to stop in and suggest that this year’s Gift Guide might be a good place to start. Don’t forget to check out our awesome sponsors, who…

Happy Thanksgiving!

We’re taking off today and tomorrow to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family. We’ll be back bright and early on Monday with regular posts. Enjoy!

Brooklyn Makers

I just got my hands on a copy of Brooklyn Makers, a new publication from Princeton Architectural Press. The book features the photography of Jennifer Causey, who first began documenting “makers” through The Makers Project, which she started in 2010. The resulting…

Hamilton Wood Type Needs Your Help

Calling all designers and typography afficionados: The incredible Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Wisconsin, needs your help. The owners of their building have given them a short amount of time—approximately 60 days as of now—to vacate the premises.…

Type Love: Trithart

Trithart is a playful, hand-drawn, Open Type font by illustrator Emma Trithart. You can pick it up right here at You Work for Them.  

Cardon Webb: Ralph Ellison Book Series

Speaking of vintage-inspired design and illustration, I am also loving Cardon Webb’s colorful design for a series of texts by Ralph Ellison. For each cover, he drew inspiration from record art and typography from the mid-century jazz era.

Type Love: Worthe Numerals

Worthe Numberals is a set of fun set of decorative numerals from House Industries. The set of two fonts includes both the standard and drop shadow versions. And if you want more control without purchasing the entire font, customization is available via Photo-Lettering.

Print Aid NYC

Print Aid NYC is an artistic initiative in support of Hurricane Sandy relief. Various NYC-based artists were asked to create a poster design based on the theme of “light.” The media coverage of the hurricane’s impact has sort of dropped off…

2012 DWL Holiday Gift Guide

Woohoo! The 2012 Holiday Gift Guide is here! You can flip through clicking on the image above or following this link. A special thanks to this year’s awesome sponsors: Artist Hardware The Best Part Follow that Faun Good Fucking Design…

Marfa Contemporary

Oklahoma City studio Ghost recently completed this beautifully quiet and minimal identity for Marfa Contemporary, a Marfa, Texas-based extension of Oklahoma City’s Arts Center. Here’s a bit of insight into their thinking and process: The rectangular and square shapes of the…

Type Love: The New Tungstens

Yesterday HF&J launched the new and improved Tungsten family, which now boasts 32 styles. Improvements include four new lighter weights, the addition of new widths including Tungsten Narrow, which is 15% more compact than the original, Tungsten Condensed and Tungsten Compressed. Pick…