Booklet cover for Librax Roche Recipe Jacques Charette attended schools in Ottawa and Brussels (Belgium) as well as the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal. Before establishing his own firm in 1970, he worked on various materials for Expo 67. He is also responsible for designing the logo for the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada [...]

Justin Fuller (aka Pencil + Paper) has been dishing out some pretty sweet work. He has a fun, comfortable and easy way with typography — blending it well with illustration, identity, and corporate design. I very much appreciate his compositional skills, as well as his ability to work seamlessly between various areas within design. His [...]

GHS / Designed by the House of Burvo We’re big fans of YouWorkForThem and we’re excited to announce that they’ve recently added a slew of new fonts to their shop. GHS / Designed by the House of Burvo GHS is an exciting new typeface from HouseOfBurvo, it comes in 4 styles, each style is sold [...]

Timba Smits, what a name! He also happens to be a very accomplished illustrator, designer, and maker of fine typography. It’s pretty fun looking through his’s work—everything is so juicy! From the textures to the unique typography, to the presentation, to the icons, I was definitely engaged clicking and looking. Overall, it’s nice to see [...]

Opus 73 / Radio Nederland 1973/ Cover design by Dick Elffers Project 33 is a curated collection of vintage album covers all lovingly scanned by the owner of Seattle’s Jive Time Records. The growing archive focuses on cover art with simple shapes and a minimalist approach to the overall design. Enjoy! (via iso50 / AisleOne [...]

“This is my website. There are many like it. But this one is mine.” So goes the headline at Curtis Jinkins’s website. Curtis’s website is fairly standard: links to work on the left-hand side, and a lot of white space. What’s unique and nice to see is the repeating logo and background images; they make [...]

Filmkonst (filmk) March 1998 Simple but beautiful cover for the now defunct Swedish magazine Filmkonst. (via things to look at) —– Also available for your viewing pleasure: Icographic Journal, Classic Film Stills, Enjoy this post?  Sign up for our tasty free grain edit RSS feed. —– No Tags Share This Only a few grain edit [...]

Impressive / 240 Pages / Published by Gestalten Finally got my hands on a copy of Impressive. The book explores the interplay between current trends in graphic design and traditional handiwork such as letterpress printing, hand-cut linotype, chiselled woodblocks, and embossing. In addition to a rich selection of invitations, business cards, stationery, posters, and other [...]

Attention all type fans: Brooklyn based designer and Grain Edit favorite, Jessica Hische has some new prints for sale at her shop! Taken from the first six sets of the Daily Drop Cap project, these individual letterpress prints display the various lettering styles we’ve come to love. For the true collectors out there, Jessica is [...]

Paul Tebbott, a designer and illustrator based in the UK, has a very nicely curated portfolio. Aside from having flat-out awesome work, it’s nice to see a consistency and thoughtfulness within his group of work. I love the quiet minimalism and soft color palette, as well as the smartness contained in each piece. Everything works [...]

Trey Anastasio & Classic Tab at the House of Blues | 18″ x 24″ Print For this week’s poster pick A. Micah Smith (@amicahsmith for the twitter peeps) serves up a slice of 80s retro-ness. Forget the 1980s, he’s taking back to the 1780s. The illustration features a character with all the proper colonial trimmings [...]