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Cartography Love: A Hand-drawn NYC Map

Design & Style

It's been a while since we've featured a cartography related post and it couldn't get any better to make a comeback with this -to say the least- impressive map of NYC. Jenni Sparksis the illustrator behind this project whose main interest and specialty is hand drawn type. I can't even fathom how much work was put into this particular map, but just taking a look at the density of the...

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Typography Love: Friend Not Foe

Design & Style Design Editorial

If you're getting started with studying typography, this would be a great first approach to it. Friend Not Foe is an introductory book about typography intended for students, where both information and study material is included as inspiration material.  Saranna Drury and Haylie Grayare the authors of this project as part of their Degree Project for Computer Graphic Design...

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Beautiful Findings: Vintage Christmas Inspiration

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Still looking for some inspiration to get started with the holidays' spirit? Well, it's always nice to look back on our past and where the traditions come from. In this case, Jennifer from Letterologyhas created a very good collection of toy catalogs from yore, some of them Christmas catalogs. It's funny how times have evolved into different aesthetics and how some of them tend to...

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Beautiful Branding: Bookworld

Design & Style Logo & Brand review

Here's a lovely branding process inspiration for you. Australian online book, music, and video retailer Bookworld is a very popular platform that competes head to head with Amazon because of their low prices and free shipping. Their main focus goes to Australian authors and artists and to match up their good reputation they recluted Interbrand Australiato redesign their brand...

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Cool Findings: Mythical Beasts Travel Destinations

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Today I bring you this very awesome prints by LA based designer Fro. This particular set of prints bring a twist to the trend of movie posters/quotes/etc illustrations, by creating a collection of pieces inspired in the style of old posters of travel destinations. You may recall those ads, oh so very common at travel agencies, that feature the beauties and attractions of countries...

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