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Carl Bender's studio Okay builds distinct brands from client stories, including packaging for Bender's Whiskey Co. on Treasure Island.
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Carl Bender's studio Okay builds distinct brands from client stories, including packaging for Bender's Whiskey Co. on Treasure Island.

Meg Hitchcock glues thousands of individual letters from religious texts into drawings that dissolve the words into pure form.

Pineum's Warsaw posters play with photographic imagery, type and colour, sitting between the gallery and the street.

Hack is a free, open-source typeface made for source code, drawn by more than 60 contributors. The specimen shows four cuts and the glyphs programmers use.

Yvonne Moser's AURA water packaging suspends a different gemstone in each bottle and prints the label directly onto the glass.

Jeremie Claeys draws geometrically charged, comic-influenced scenes — a pink hair salon, a day at the races — in a tight red and navy palette.

Editorial illustration from Japan's Kaido Kenta, made for a range of publications.

makebardo gives five beer bottles one label structure, five colours and a copper medallion on each.

Studio Una, based in Germany, aimed for flexible, high-quality stationery with a pleasant touch, in various printed materials.

Eniko Deri and Nora Demeczky run de_form, a Budapest studio known for art direction, branding and editorial design.

Karolis Strautniekas draws in two registers: a monochrome silhouette that folds a landscape into a body, and a deep blue interior lit by one yellow window.

Ortolan refined rather than replaced Kennedy Nolan's identity, contrasting a bold mark with delicate typography.

Tomohide Ikeya photographs people holding their breath underwater: a woman with her hands over her ears, and a mass of bodies in dark water.

Anagrama rebuilds Sally Beauty in one colour at a time: red bags, red and white cards, a silver name and a dry brushstroke across the small print.

A Nuits Sonores 2015 programme cover of torn colour bands, and a poster whose organic mass shifts from orange to blue.

Toshinori Mori sets cats on walls and station benches, drawn in flat colour under orange trees and cherry blossom.

Brief gives Mister a blue pentagon on white cups, jars and a coaster, plus a pair of cards in blue and white.

IWANT pushed Nutritious Delicious, later Sweet Virtues, to rethink the whole brand; a year later it was winning awards.

Maite Franchi builds kitchen and fruit scenes from bold grain, turning leaves blue and laying a kettle, bread and eggs over pale green.

Design Facts collects design trivia — Frutiger's three years on Univers, Glaser's National Medal of Arts — under a two-line serif wordmark.

Nicole Gustafsson paints angular planets and crystalline ecosystems in Acryla Gouache, applied directly onto wood panel.

Tezzo Suzuki's 2015 poster for The Dinosaur Expo.

German artist Menja Stevenson sewed clothes from city bus and train upholstery — including an outfit cut from Stuttgart's bus seating.

David Biskup crowds a magazine cover with isometric figures, then fills a green field with a pink box and party poppers.