Their own alphabet

The State Library of New South Wales in Australia embarked on a customized alphabet project with Frost, in an attempt to bring more awareness to various objects in their collection. Exquisite! via Human Resources

It floats!

From the always inspiring but does it float.

Gosh, Kate Wilson

For Marc by Marc Jacobs. via {frolic}

Rasmus Emanuel Svensson globes

This kind of imagery is a bit trendy nowadays, but still so rad! Globes by Rasmus Emanuel Svensson. via carly waito

Let no one unversed in geometry enter my door

Evil Twin Publications and the book and record design work of Stacy Wakefield Forte.

Color fields

By Impactist (the rest of their site is worth checking out, too; they've done amazing visual work, both motion and still)

Logos & trademarks by Stefan Kanchev

Stefan was a Bulgarian graphic designer. This is a marvelous website collecting and celebrating his work. via swissmiss and Human Resources

Wedding invitation by Jason Killinger

Jason Killinger.

HBR Classics

A handful of books from the Harvard Business Review Classics collection.

Oh heck

Very much addicted to Friends of Type.

Stamp work by Karl Nawrot of Void Wreck. (via ~>O<~)

Erik Nitsche for General Dynamics, 1950s. (via Coudal Partners)

Top to bottom:
Desktop wallpaper download from Kate Spade's behind the curtain, Summer 2007
Opening image on Coralie Bickford-Smith's interim website of books she's designed for Penguin
A few covers from The Pelican Project by things magazine

Cuban graphic design

mmm... graphic design from socialist countries is always so good.


[posted by Alki1 via Flickr]

Can't find anything on this poster's designer, Ñiko Pérez, though.

By the cover

These are from Housing Works Used Book Cafe's Open Air Book Fair in SoHo a couple weekends ago. $1 each, so they were more like purchases for design research based purely on their covers, though the Turabian writing manual, Othello and The Dud Avocado (apparently, the O.G. Bridget Jones of the 50's and just reissued) are classics. Yen helped me find a couple of these.



I love all the clean lines (especially the stripes), simple color palettes and no-nonsense typography. The writing manual is my favorite. Graphic designers were such pioneers back in the day. It's also no surprise that Constructivism is one of my favorite art movements.