August 2009
1 post
Vitamin Boxes →
July 2009
9 posts
Boxed Typographic Water Packaging →
Saving the environment in typographic style!
MyFonts shirts →
Hand Embroidered Typography →
Access the latest design news, conference dates &... →
via the Dexigner iPhone app (iTunes app store link)
Typography that Talks Back →
Book Cover Design Archive →
Hundreds of page of book cover inspiration (and also a nicely designed site/layout)
June 2009
15 posts
Ampersands Galore! →
Nice little ampersand wallpaper by Meagan Fisher. She’s got a great looking site as well. Clean and beautiful design!
Chunk: FREE Ultra Bold Slab Serif →
Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.
rewind coffee packaging
Designed by Studio Bomba
(via Lovely Package)
speech bubble shelves →
domain world map
245 country code domain, typographic map by bytelevel.These 24 by 36 inch posters sell for $35 each. Would look great in my office!
untraditional handmade fonts
Untraditional handmade fonts that you can purchase made from everyday inspiration and found objects. HMF was also recently featured in Computer Arts magazine (issue #157) detailing how they make some of their fonts.
one color, ligature styled book cover
Book cover entry for this year D&AD Student Awards which focused on the book series numbers instead of the titles of the books. Beautiful display of white space, one color and wonderful ligatures.
(via Typography Served)
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custom lettering: the best half of 2009
LetterCult pulls together their custom, (a.k.a. made from scrach) lettering from the first half of 2009. Some brilliant names and examples in this list.
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rss pillows →
Subscribe to these hand crafted, highly sophisticated “stuff-comfy-cotton-in-to-fleece-cover-and-sew” pillows by throwboy
They also have some really geeky Apple icon pillows for all you Mac nerds out there.
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vintage book covers
I don’t know about you but I do judge a book by it’s cover, especially when I’m not actually reading the book. Nice collection of book cover inspiration here.
(via WellMedicated)
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design books by zeixs
zeixs is the collaboration between the publishing house Feierabend Unique Books and the design agency 12ender. Check out these books on design, typography, illustration, etc via Zeixs.
You can also search the titles on Amazon to find good prices and used editions.
uppercase magazine
A fairly new magazine that looks well designed and has promising content via Uppercase.
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scriptless wedding invitations
And who says wedding invitations can’t be beautiful without script fonts? Check out these san-serif invites and awesome letterpress blog via Studio On Fire.