Spector by Fiona O’Leary
Fiona O'Leary's Spector is a hand-held orange device with a white T emblem and a clear base, lowered onto printed columns of type.
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Stahl R Design Studio
Stahl R sets a Feininger quote in lowercase blue type across a duotone Bauhaus poster and draws FOLK DAYS as copper outline type on white.
Eric Roux-Fontaine’s Dreamlike Paintings
Eric Roux-Fontaine paints a barefoot child holding a white cloth beneath a sky of coloured orbs, and a tightrope walker crossing a gold-lit forest.
Branding & Packaging for Terra de Flora by Parámetro Studio
Parámetro Studio wraps Terra de Flora in a navy hat box with gold foil lettering, cream ribbon and cut flowers, plus sage green and navy cards.
Aloof’s Book Design for Gloria Cortina
Aloof's book for Gloria Cortina refuses the design monograph as brand exercise — circling the work rather than illustrating it.
Brand Guide: Singapore Edition
Brand Guide: Singapore Edition profiles the homegrown brands behind Singapore's design moment, from Foreign Policy Design Group on down.
Elena Éper’s Illustration
Recent illustration work from Madrid's Elena Éper.
Calligraphic Optical Illusion Murals by Astro
Astro covers a building facade in black-and-white calligraphy, then paints a teal rectangle that reads as a corridor receding into the wall.
Gojo Branding by STUDIOYONIS
STUDIOYONIS brands Gojo with white and yellow business cards, a ghosted wordmark and type that stays quietly out of the way.
Quote(s) of the week by Jiani Lu
Jiani Lu's typographic series turns design frustrations into framed prints, from stacked capitals to A S A P against halftone dots and rules.
James R. Eads’s Psychedelic Swirl Illustrations
LA illustrator James R. Eads paints multicoloured, psychedelic scenes that pulse with swirling pattern and a heavy debt to music.
15 Japanese Posters by Nakano Design Office
Fifteen posters made between 2007 and 2016 by Takeo Nakano of Nakano Design Office — a decade of Japanese graphic design from one hand.
Martin Molin Builds Two New Instruments
Wintergatan's Martin Molin has built two new instruments — an elaborate paper-tape music box and a theremin-like device — and performed on both.
Jukebox Print’s Case for the Business Card
Jukebox Print builds its reputation on materials rather than price: recycled stocks, wooden cards, letterpress and coloured edges.
La Tortillería Brands Chicago’s Seven Point
La Tortillería and sister agency Curioso built the identity for Seven Point, a Chicago medical-cannabis dispensary where regulation shapes design.
Bruch’s Identity for Quer Kommuniziert
Bruch—Idee & Form put the content at the centre of Quer Kommuniziert's identity, letting arranged and emphasised text become the visual style.
Mariano Fiore’s Identity for Lumar Coffee Shop
Mariano Fiore's identity for Lumar in A Coruña leans on the name's history — the original coffee shop held the same corner from 1959 to 1993.
James Lewis’s Hand Lettering on Kraft Paper
James Lewis lettered this in white on kraft paper with a paint marker, and left the pen in shot — calligraphic flourish, honest medium.
SP-GD’s Identity for Catseye Bay
SP-GD built Catseye Bay a flexible identity for a Sydney spatial design studio, drawn loosely from the action of floating.
Dave Hall’s Elaborately Hand-Cranked Automata
Dave Hall drives dozens of interconnected parts from a single crank, taking simple wooden automata to an absurd level of complexity.
David Reca’s ‘I Make Graphic Design’
David Reca's self-branding project is an argument that design is a necessity rather than decoration — made on his own behalf.
The Illustration Work of Ben Javens
Flat, folk-influenced vector illustration from Birmingham's Ben Javens — layered woodland scenes built from bold shapes and a tight, high-contrast pal
Michael Tatom’s Metal Animals That Wrap Around Your Finger
Michael Tatom's cast-metal animal rings grew out of stone carving, an obsession with muscle definition and a home studio.
Bobby Doherty’s Still-Life Photography
Brooklyn photographer Bobby Doherty's selected work — saturated, tightly cropped still lifes where cakes and sweets are arranged into pattern.