Design student Sergey Grigoryan has been receiving some buzz around his Vitale Dog Food packaging designs.

His minimalist packaging and animals closeup with a wide-angle lens is a winning combination.

Check out more shots of the packaging here.

Tommy Perez designed this entire set of complementary items for the leavers Prom for the school his wife teaches at. Designed around the theme ‘Flying First Class’ tickets were designed like airline boarding passes, with t-shirts and paper airplanes to help with promotion for the event.

Check out the whole set of photos here.

London ‘ideas’ agency Hat Trick have just published their book ‘In Brief’ chronicling past projects in a volume limited to 1000 copies.

During my time in Falmouth we had Jim Sutherland (founder) make it down for some fantastic lectures.

Check out the book here.
Check out the company’s work here.

Designer Felix Sockwell shared a fascinating rundown of some rejected icon designs for the Apple iTunes logo.

Take a look at the sketches and mockups here.

Kern Type, the kerning game made it’s way around the internet a week or so ago. If you didn’t see it yet be sure to have a go here.

This pack of Space Invaders playing cards is impeccably and faithfully designed to the video game that inspired it. Be sure to check out the packaging as well (pictured below).

Designed by russian design house Art. Lebedev Studio.

More like a type specimin book than what it actually is, 160over90 is the branding agency that put together this lovely acceptance packet for students attending Loyola University, Maryland.

There’s a real ‘golden era school spirit’ about the employed style.

See more photos here.

Check out the company’s site here.

The logo design for multi-platform digital notes tool ‘Evernote’ caught my eye a while back. A distinctive visual which also makes suitable reference to what the software actually does is surprisingly difficult to execute well and this one manages it quite effortlessly…

On top of that the software looks great, check it out here.

Garcon Grotesque is an up and coming font by Thomas Jockin - designed to be a more usable version of Copperplate Gothic, or as Jockin puts it

Garcon takes artistic license on Copperplate Gothic to make a grotesque for today’s designer.

He gives a brilliant rundown of the design and thinking behind the new font that you can take a read through here.

Much design discussions has touched on the potential in the iPad for bringing a very fresh and originally designed approach to reading.

Created by author William Joyce and director Brandon Oldenburg ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore’ is an interactive story with beautiful animation and dynamic storytelling that lets readers really dig into the narrative.

Would highly recommend you check out the trailer here.

Fonts In Use have put together a nice breakdown of the recent Fortune 500 edition. Lots of typographic work, some better than others - but interesting to see a good variety of typefaces working together on the same page. It doesn’t always work but the overall effort pulls it out the bag judging by the pictures.

Take a read here.

CHEVROLET Viking truck (1960)

Graphic Designer Christian Annyas has put together a small retrospective of Chevrolet speedometer designs from the history of the car manufacturer.

There’s an amazing consistency amongst the designs until you hit the digital age. It’s a real shame I can’t find higher-res versions…

Enjoy the set here.

This iPhone stencil kit is perfect for any app doodler out there…

Bought to you by UI Stencils.

Michael De Pippo designed a whole set of posters celebrating a retro muppet concert of in-house muppet band Dr-Teeth & The Electric Mayhem.

I always forget how great so many aspects of The Muppet Show are. Animal drumming for Rita Moreno is a must see if you never have.

See the whole poster series here.