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Looking for the perfect gift for the designer in your life? All graphic designers are familiar with Pantone, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries. Anyone with a design background would want something from the Pantone Universe Mug Collection from W2.

The design of a wine label is crucial, especially when a new wine is being introduced to a very particular and fickle market. The quality of the wine plays a huge part in it's success, but like all new products, the label and packaging plays a major role in the minds and hearts of consumers. With some much competition in the wine world, vineyards and wineries hire some of the best graphic designers to focus their attention on making the very best in creative and compelling labels to connect a bottle of wine with its buyer. To showcase the stellar work of these wine label designers, we have selected some of the most interesting wine label designs we've seen lately. Enjoy!

American movie posters, for the most part, follow some pretty basic style guidelines and showcase the standard corporate imagery. Things in Poland couldn't be more different. Polish designers take movie poster design to a whole new (and often bizarre) level with incredible dramatic license. This creativity, which is helped by not having to get corporate approval, results in some of the most surreal and beautiful film posters out there. Some designs are obvious, and some seem completely abstract, with images that have virtually nothing to do with the original picture. We love them.

Google Art Project is the latest announcement from the search masters, and it is an incredible one. The site takes you to a museum, offering high-resolution close-ups of approximately 1,000 works of art and tours of at least 17 museums. So far, the impressive museum roster includes the Tate Modern in London, the MoMA in New York City and the Palace of Versailles outside of Paris.

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In Logo Design Love, Irish graphic designer David Airey brings the best parts of his infamous blog to the printed page. Just as in the blog, David fills each page of this simple, modern-looking book with gorgeous logos and real world anecdotes that illustrate best practices for designing brand identity systems that last.