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Inspired By #54

November 13, 2020

A weekly newsletter with designy things 🤠 Ted Lasso Jason Sudeikis (SNL) stars as an American football coach that is hired to coach a professional soccer...

Inspired By #53

October 30, 2020

A weekly newsletter with designy things 🧢 What I’ve Learned Since March 15: Changes, Lessons, and Enlightenments In this talk Aaron will relate how he...

Inspired By #52

October 23, 2020

A weekly newsletter with designy things 🚇 New York City has a new digital subway map Work & Co has launched the first major redesign of the MTA subway map in...

Inspired By #51

October 16, 2020

A weekly newsletter with designy things 🤓 The Noah Kalina Newsletter Through David Friedman's (excellent) newsletter, I discovered another excellent...

Inspired By #50

October 9, 2020

A weekly newsletter with designy things 🤩 Timothy Goodman Timothy Goodman is a designer, illustrator, muralist and author. Grandma calls him an artist. ✏️ 📷...

Inspired By #49

October 2, 2020

📷 Do Photo - Observe. Compose. Capture. Stand out. Something to read this weekend: "By sharing 10 practices honed over a lifetime spent behind the lens...

Inspired By #48

September 26, 2020

🇺🇸 Rise up. Show up. Unite! Jessica Hische initiated a campaign to help Joe Biden and Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election....

Inspired By #47

September 17, 2020

🤞 A Promised Land — The Presidential Memoirs “This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from...

Inspired By #46

September 5, 2020

A weekly newsletter with cool and random stuff 🔥 3K Sharp Type, a digital type foundry based in New York City, released a lovely new high-contrast typeface...

Inspired By #45

August 27, 2020

👹 Lovecraft Country Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman as he meets up with his friend Letitia and his...

Inspired By #44

August 22, 2020

📚 Readng — a global community of book lovers and some-time readers Readng is opening its beta access. It looks really nice! And you can import your books...

Inspired By #43

💻 The UX of LEGO Interface Panels These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52...

Inspired By #42

🚐 BEAST MODE ADVENTURE VAN I’ve been watching a lot of vantours lately, where they show how they converted a normal van into a campervan. Many of these...

Inspired By #41

👂 New Van Gogh Museum website The Van Gogh Museum has dramatically redesigned its website. The website now features more ways of inspiring people with Van...

Inspired By #40

🥣 Off Limits OffLimits is a cereal and culture brand (🤷‍♂️) built around emotionally unstable, counterculture cartoon characters. We offer a unique approach...

Inspired By #39

😍 Young Jerks A creative studio run by two hyper-intelligent golden retrievers, Dan Cassaro and Dan Christofferson. Don’t you just love those logos? 🥰 Be...

Inspired By #38

🏙 Milton Glaser, Co-Founder of New York Magazine and Creator of ‘I❤NY,’ Dies at 91 "He loved New York City, and celebrated it in multiple ways: with a...

Inspired By #37

🦹‍♂️ Design Like a Supervillain: An Ode to Chaos and Creativity David Navarro, Executive Creative Director at ueno swoops in to tell us how we can take...

Inspired By #36 — Black Lives Matter

After a week of global protests against racism and police violence, I did not feel like sharing a list of happy design items. So instead I’m sharing some of...

Inspired By #35

🎨 Claudio Guglieri on Creativity In this 30min video Claudio talks about the Myths, Conditions, Enemies and Techniques of Creativity. Good stuff! (And pretty...

Inspired By #34

🐝 Bee Home In close collaboration with SPACE10 and designer Tanita Klein, Bakken & Baeck launched Bee Home, a digital platform that makes it easy for anyone...

Inspired By #33

🆒 Back to the Future Playmobil I’m more of a LEGO fan myself, but I have to admit that this Back to the Future Playmobil set looks pretty great. (Even better...

Inspired By #32

🔥 Lincoln Design Co Whoa, just came across (via Draplin) this amazing portfolio by these six guys from Portland, Oregon. Illustrations, lettering, logos,...

Inspired By #31

🧗‍♂️ Free Solo I recently saw this Oscar winning documentary from 2018 on Disney+ and what a incredible achievement. This guy climbs the 2.307 meter high El...

Inspired By #30

Thai Harry Potter Covers Wow, if these were released as posters, I'd buy them immediately. For my daughter. Really. 😶 Nanmeebooks Reveals Stunning 20th-...

Inspired By #29

🏔 New Patagonia website Big visuals, video and lovely little details make this a cool example of merging storytelling and commerce. I sometimes just browse...

Inspired By #28

🐯 Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness This true crime series traces the rise and fall of Joe Exotic, who was sentenced to 22 years in jail after being...

Inspired By #27 • The 🍕Issue

🍕 **T H E 🍕 P I Z Z A 🍕 I S S U E !** 🍕 🍕 The Pizza Show This is the show for me: two seasons full of great Pizzaiolas and their shops. From New York to New...

Inspired By #26

👨‍🎨 Salvador Dalí’s Rarely Seen ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Illustrations Something I didn’t know: in 1969, Salvador Dalí created illustrations for a limited...

Inspired By #25

🎮 LEGO Super Mario's adventures begin! LEGO Super Mario is ready to run and jump in a new real-life game. Create LEGO brick challenges for you and your...

Inspired By #24

🕐 Andrew Allen made a clock Analog clocks are surprisingly hard for kids to read and require higher cognitive processing (it’s even a common test for...

Inspired By #23

February 21, 2020

🍌 Brice Font Family What a fun typeface! Brice refers to cultural products of the 80s such as music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, that are consumed...

Inspired By #22

February 14, 2020

😍 House Industries Lettering Manual This handy how-to guide is chock-full of everything you need to know to produce professional hand-lettering—whether...

Inspired By #21

February 7, 2020

📺 HBO: Succession The Roy family controls one of the biggest media and entertainment conglomerates in the world. This HBO series tracks their lives as they...

Inspired By #20

January 31, 2020

📱 Play Play empowers you to design, build and launch better mobile products, in less time, with fewer barriers - all on your mobile device. I’m not sure I...

Inspired By #19

January 25, 2020

📸 Peter McKinnon's Bucket Shot I came across this video by Peter McKinnon, a Youtuber with 4.25M subscribers 🧐) that teaches things about photography and...

Inspired By #18

January 17, 2020

🚵‍♂️ Relive Yesterday I was at the 🍸UX Cocktail Hour and saw a very interesting talk about designing with data. Joris van Kruijssen, co-founder of Relive,...

Inspired By #17

January 10, 2020

🃏 Star Wars Playing Cards Emblazoned with iconic characters and breathtaking designs, each deck is beautifully packaged in a vibrant blue or striking red...

Inspired By #16

January 4, 2020

— The First Issue of 2020 — 😳 It’s 2020 and you’re in the future "Remember when Jurassic Park, The Lion King, and Forrest Gump came out in theaters? Closer...

Inspired By #15

December 28, 2019

— The Final Issue of 2019 — 👨‍🎨 Tom Froese Tom Froese is an award winning illustrator, teacher, and speaker. He has a cool mid-century modern style and draws...

Inspired By #14

December 20, 2019

— Issue #14: Enjoy! — 🎄 All I Font For Christmas 31 designers, artists, and typophiles share their favorite fonts on this holiday calendar filled with...

Inspired By #13

December 13, 2019

— Issue #13 — on Friday the 13th — Sure, why not? ☕️ Rocket Espresso × Carhartt WIP Carhartt WIP has partnered with Rocket Espresso Milano to create a...

Inspired By #12

December 6, 2019

👇This way for the cool stuff I saw this week 👇 — JP 😍 Brylski Brylski was designed for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, to be cut as wood type....

Inspired By #11

November 29, 2019

Howdy! Buried beneath stacks of Black Friday e-mails, you found Issue #11 of Inspired By. Good for you! — JP 🍃 Cocoon Cocoon is a special app for your most...

Inspired By #10

November 22, 2019

Hi! You made it to Issue #10 of Inspired By. Thanks for reading along! — JP 🔥 Ohno Blazeface "Ohno Blazeface is a “real” fat fatty of a display serif. Taking...

November 15, 2019

Hello hello! Welcome to the 9th issue of Inspired By. I saw a lot of nice thing this week. Let’s get to it... — JP 🇺🇸 GT America "GT America builds a bridge...

November 8, 2019

Hi! Welcome to the 8th issue of Inspired By. I saw a lot of nice thing this week. Let’s get to it... — JP 👨🏿 Kiwanuka Album Art Remember Michael Kiwanuka...

November 1, 2019

Hi! Welcome to the 7th issue of Inspired By. I saw a lot of nice thing this week. Let’s get to it... — JP 💀 How Stranger Things got its retro title sequence...

October 25, 2019

Hi! Welcome to the 6th issue of Inspired By. I saw a lot of nice thing this week. Lets get to it... — JP 🚩 Oxford Pennant Oxford Pennant is a designer and...

October 18, 2019

Hi! Welcome to the 5th issue of Inspired By. I saw a lot of nice thing this week. Let me tell you about it... — JP ⚾️ Pitch A new tool, made by the founders...