Design Citizens

Graphic Design Study of the Snowflake by Andrei D. Robu.
(Via: Swissmiss)

I’m fairly certain that Michael Osborn has a heart made of pure gold. He has an obsession with design, a true-love for it that keeps him designing round-the-clock for some amazing charitable organizations.
This is a picture of Michael Osborn and I moments after I met him for the first time. It was a unseasonably warm [...]

or those of you typography (and illustration) bloggers out there, you have a new resource: Daily Drop Cap. Jessica Hische creates a new, gorgeous drop cap every day that you can copy and paste into your own posts. (Expect to see more of these on Design Citizens… I love this idea!) So far she’s made [...]

Bud Caddell, of whatconsumesme.com (what a great name for a blog, by the way) posted a fabulous Venn diagram (below) on how to be happy in your business and do the kind of work you want to do. It’s so simple and I think that’s the great thing about it; people spend way too much time [...]

My coworker, Jill Spaeth, recently turned me on to GOOD magazine. Each Tuesday they post a new infographic under Transparency, a graphical exploration of the data that surrounds us. Regardless of the subject, they transform complex data into dynamic and comprehensive visuals that engages the reader—at least for this right-brain reader. Below are just a [...]

The Visual Dictionary is a searchable collection of word photography. It’s similar to welovetypography, but instead of searching the typographic style by topic (like “wedding invitation”), you search for the actual word you want to see in a photograph. Perfect for those of you who might need to write a quick ransom note or something. 

Recently I.D. Magazine in Italy and Moleskine (the company that makes those fabulous little journals that I always want to buy and then am scared to actually write on) teamed up to distribute 13 blank notebooks to 13 artists, thinkers and designers. The artists then spent a week filling the notebooks with little notes, sketches and bits [...]

The Washington Post held its third annual Peeps Diorama Contest over the weekend. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the contest, it involves depicting recent news stories, famous works of art and other recognizable scenes with marshmallow Peeps. The entries are always creative and funny. The grand prize winner, submitted by  Melissa Harvey [...]

A new exhibit of fashion illustration has opened at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. The collection on view includes almost a century of work from some of the greatest fashion illustrators of all time (well, of all the time that fashion illustration has actually been a career.)
It’s true that illustration and graphic [...]