Jon Contino made some really great letterings and illustrations for Waterloo Gin, a Texas-based gin brand. More images here.

The Netherland-based graphic designer and illustrator Tim Boelaars designed a beautiful series of icons. The themes are ‘Buildings’, ‘Furniture’, ‘Tools’, ‘Guns’, ‘Woman’s Garments’, ‘Men’s Garments’, ‘Weather’, ‘Camping & Hiking’, ‘Transport’, ‘Nature & Outdoor’ and ‘Devices’. They are available in harvest, mint green, azure blue, black and a size of 18″ x 24″ at Tim’s print store. The posters are limited to 75 prints and numbered. More images here.

Duct Tape and Glitter gave their business cards a new look. The letterpress beauty in ‘Rubine Red’ was printed by Studio On Fire. More images here.

The story about the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’-poster who’s story started 73 years ago as a propaganda poster and is celebrating a fulminant comeback, since its been found in the bookshop Barter Books in 2000.

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Stunning new illustrations by Dan Cassaro: Dan was asked to create a series of 6 (full page) illustrations for a new issue of GOOD Magazine. All illustrations here.

Colorful and powerful. Love it. Drawn and digitized by Erik Marinovich (Friends of Type).

The invitations for the upcoming (May 4th 2012) AIGA Design Show 2012 are out. As every year the winner of last year’s ‘People’s Choice’ is responsible for the design of the upcoming year. 2012 the design was in the hands of Studio On Fire who made an amazing job. See more images here.

The new business cards of the DIY-supplies-shop LAVA stationery are simply beautiful. They are designed by ninet6.

Great idea of making an annual report more interesting: the new annual report of Austria Solar has a great design that is only visable in the sunlight. Creative Credit: Serviceplan

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For all the retromaniacs out there: Serie 1 Retro TV doesn’t only have a great design but you can switch to sepia- and black & white-view if you want to get even more retro. Two thumbs up!