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You don’t look at a David Prince photograph, you allow yourself to sink into it slowly, like lowering yourself into a steaming hot spring. For years he’s produced stunning loose-leaf portfolios consisting of several signatures wrapped in a cover sheet, which enables him to insert and remove photographs depending on the potential client receiving them. But with […]

Penny & Rose may be in the business of selling home fragrances, but its true stock-in-trade is nostalgia, and as we all know, there is no drug more potent than that. So when it came time to design everything from the logo and brand design, stationery, packaging, and pretty much everything else, Jess Glebe Design did […]

Car taillights haven’t changed all that much over the last 50 years. So when Audi came up with a fun way to transform the lights on the back of their latest A8 sedan into a magical, animated light show using organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), they wanted to put this fact in front of an […]

Question: When did stickers stop being fun? Answer: They didn’t, we just stopped using them for fun things. This is the first thing that hit me when I came across this recent issue of Novum devoted to exploring packaging around the world. Using a simple concept, clean design, and a new line of colorful labels, […]

Occasionally when a designer appears to be in complete control of their tools, paper choice and inspiration, the art of design arguably becomes something more like science. It was the gorgeous business cards that Chad Michael Studio created for Sespe Creek Distillery that started me thinking along these lines. That’s fitting really because its founder […]

Throughout history, philosophers, artists and visionaries have all taken to the desert in search of a greater understanding of themselves and the world around them. Tapping into that tradition, the biennial Desert X contemporary art exhibition in Southern California’s Coachella Valley entices artists and other creatives to explore the convergence of art and place. The […]

Emergency ‘Everyday Card Kit’ No matter how on top of things you are, there are occasionally those birthdays or other events that sneak up on you, catching you completely by surprise. Knowing this phenomenon all too well, the sympathetic souls at Rohner Press partnered with Mohawk to produce the Emergency “Everyday Card Kit” – an […]

Once upon a time a bear and a bunny decided to wed, and invited their friends and family to celebrate the occasion in beautiful Palm Springs, Calif. They wanted invitations that not only exuded the same sense of fun that they shared together, but that would also celebrate the exotic, slightly kitschy ambience of the […]

Twisty Zara Kids Packaging Young children are notorious for preferring to play with the boxes items arrive in more than the items themselves. And in the case of this clever packaging for Zara Kids, who could blame them? Created with a flush fit paper tube, the eyes of the characters are printed on the neck […]

It’s not often that musical artists push the boundaries of printing technology, but my good friend, singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe, has done it twice now: most recently with “Raw Space,” a limited-edition collection of NFC cards so envelope-pushing, they even taught printer MOO a thing or two. Like how not to melt the delicate technology inside […]