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‘Brand by Hand: Blisters, Calluses, and Clients: A Life in Design’ by Jon Contino
Jon Contino has spent more than two decades elevating pen and ink into an award-winning portfolio of graphic design work for high-profile clients and his own brands. Whether you're talking about his clothing work for CXXVI, beer cans for 21st Amendment Brewing or the Word. Notebooks The Standard Memorandum, Contino has…
10 Home Features You Never Knew You Wanted
The whole point of buying a house is to make your mark on the place. You’ve shelled out the cash (or, more likely, taken out a mortgage) to get your own home, so naturally it should be a reflection of your own interests, likes, dislikes, and preferences. Most of the…
Our Favorite Craft Beer Logos
One of the most important decisions a new brewery will make is their logo. Design impacts how we perceive things, and you never get a second chance to make a first impression. The wrong logo can easily tell beer drinkers you're out of touch with what they're thirsty for. So before…
12 Online Furniture Stores for Good-Looking, Affordable Furniture
When you're in the market for new furniture and you're not looking to break the bank, there are a few tried and true options that come to mind. But surely there have to be alternatives to IKEA, Overstock, Target and Wayfair, right? Yes. Absolutely. Here are the 12 online furniture…
The 9 Most Interesting Metro Cards Ever Released
New York City is one of the most art-influenced and art-influencing places in the entire world. Aside from being packed with museums, art houses, theaters, galleries, and music venues, it’s the kind of city whose streets ooze with creativity—from Subway platform bands and back-alley b-boy crews, to street art galore…
60 Years of Logos: Chermayeff & Geismar
Only a couple of days ago, we shared with you Identity, a new book profiling the legendary design firm of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Well get ready for another dose of epic logo design because Dress Code recently dropped this brief documentary about the same team. "60 Years of Logos"…
‘Identity’ Profiles One of the Most Legendary Design Firms
For the uninitiated, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv is a New York-based design firm that's responsible for some of the most iconic logos you see every day. What logos? NBC. PBS. Showtime. Mobil. Chase Bank. We could go on. Now the legendary firm is getting the retrospective it deserves. Identity: Chermayeff…
The Electronic Alphabet Features Some of the Most Well-Known Brands
Vinicius Araujo is a Rio de Janeiro-based designer who has taken a collection of well-known brands and turned them into a font. While it's not exactly usable for drafting a Word document, it is fun to look at. The first letter of each brand's name is used to spell out…
‘Gadgets, Games and Gizmos’ Shares the the Blueprints for Famous Inventions
Every great invention starts as a simple idea. That simple idea needs to be conveyed to others, and that's where sketches and blueprints come in. Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: 122 Inventions that Changed the World is a compendium of those original designs, sharing them for everything from the iconic Coke bottle…
Famous Brand Logos Redesigned to Use Less Ink
You can’t buy a coffee, put on a pair of sneakers, have a quick meal or walk more than a few blocks in most cities without being exposed to the logos of some of the world’s largest brands. How much can those famous corporate logos be changed and still be the…
The Best Book Covers of 2016
If you were to judge a book by its cover, each of these would win the Pulitzer. AIGA Design Archive, which has been cataloging great design since the '20s, teamed up with Design Observer to crown the best designed books of last year. Two lists were released. One of the lists includes…
The Office Building Made of 900 Plastic Chairs
Office buildings are always struggling to define themselves and when they finally achieve it, most of the time it's after a multi-million dollar renovation. But sometimes, with a little creativity and budgeting, you can get a distinctive facade without spending the GDP of a small island nation. CHYBIK+KRISTOF did exactly…
Absolut Hangsmart Makes Hanging Art Easy
When it comes to putting up art around your place, we've tried all the tips and tricks. Few of them work. Using a patented design, Absolut Hangsmart makes hanging art easy. The product itself might look like a combination of a hockey puck and a squeegee, but it's going to revolutionize…
Bang & Olufsen’s New Speaker System Looks Like a Piece of Art
Bang & Olufsen is known for its consistent ability to produce sound systems with both great sound quality and outstanding design. Now, the BeoSound Shape system solves a problem you didn't even know they had. If you've ever had the privilege of listening to one of their systems, undoubtedly you…
The Most Beautiful Beer Cans of 2017
The beer bottle is dying a slow death. Today's hottest breweries are ditching the glass and turning to the convenience and portability of the can. While we've mentioned a few can designs we've loved in the past, today there are more stunning examples than ever before. If you want a great…
