Why Your Walls Can’t Match your Business Card
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If you aren’t yet familiar with John McWade, take this opportunity to get to know him. McWade is the founder of Before & After, and is now on the staff of Lynda.com. He has a bi-weekly series of videos for...
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Grab Your Musket, It’s a Ponsi Revolution (Or…More Free Fonts)
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It’s Friday, so that means more free fonts.Our first pick this week comes from the talented folks behind Nomo Studio in Sevilla, Spain. Musket is a condensed slab serif font with some subtle curves to soften the heft. This clean...
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Catch this NYC Type Exhibit this Summer
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Oh wow, have we got a treat for our East Coast typography fans. The New York Times Magazine has put together an exhibit of outstanding typographic examples at the Type Directors Club in NYC. It runs through September 5, according...
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Enjoy a Superlative Arctic Chill with This Week’s Free Fonts
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As we head into the dog days of summer, we thought we’d break the ice with a little chill this week. Arctic by Matt Ellis is a slab serif font with strong and thick lines that give it an amazingly authentic cold...
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Picturing Unity, Picturing Resiliency in the Evening Standard
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The Evening Standard, the dominant local newspaper for London and the surrounding areas, has found one way to deal with recent horrific events in their city, from terror attacks to the horrible high-rise fire. “Six leading artists including Sir Antony...
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Two Friday Fonts, Geared Up for Good Design
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I don’t like to get all hyperbolic with our Free Font Fridays; after all, artistic tastes vary so widely that it’s rare we can say definitely that this is a best-ever choice. But this week, I can’t resist. We are...
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Great Band Name, or Awesome Font?
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Atletico Foglihten just might be the best band you never heard of…or not. We like fonts so much around here we get a little punchy about it. Take this week’s offerings, for example. You gotta admit both of these fonts...
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Tall, Skinny and Honest Free Fonts
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Inspired by playbills and advertisements of 1800s, Abraham Lincoln font by Frances MacLeod is a humanist display face font with sturdy serifs. Tall skinny, and honest, you can download it at Lost Type.This week’s second font is Serrific, an absolutely terrific...
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The Revolutionary Visualization of Data
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  Data – its future isn’t in volume, infallibility and predictive. The next wave of data intelligence, according to information designer Giorgia Lupi, will be smaller, imperfect and serendipitous. And it will be humanized for our understanding through visual design....
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Legibility and Versatility in this Week’s Free Fonts
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Lately, we’ve been sharing some amazing fonts that look great in graphic design, especially posters, covers and large works. This Friday, we’ve got two more free fonts for you, perfect for the editorial side of your design game.Created mainly for...
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