On the Power of Great Design
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Advertising has a bad rap, according to Paul Belford writing in Creative Review. “Despite its many detractors, there is nothing intrinsically evil about advertising per se. (Online advertising is a different story but we’ll save that for some other time.),”...
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Adobe and their Amazing Print Magazine
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“What you hold in your hands is a new Ninety Nine U magazine, a quarterly design publication brought to you by Adobe Creative Cloud. In these pages, Ninety Nine U invites you to explore the creative world through the lens of...
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Whatchasay? Another Free Font Friday?
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This week, we’re mixing up two very different fonts, adding a little wattauchimma with your liquide. Whatchasay to that? Wattauchimma font is a techno family of fonts designed by Peter Wiegel. He’s made something really special here, a unique font that...
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Risky Design in the Contemporary Art Niche
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Contemporary art magazine Frieze is undergoing a redesign, according to Sarah Dawood in Design Week. The magazine, which regularly includes art news, features, reviews and listings, is moving award from gorgeous and toward a more honest representation of current contemporary...
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What Paper Means to Those Who Design For It
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Last week we wrote about the way print irrevocably altered the way humankind remembers its collecting knowledge. And now, we look at some thoughts on why the choice of paper continues to have importance in our digital age. In The...
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If Typefaces were Race Cars
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“Some time ago I read an article by the excellent Indra Kupferschmid with a title that drew a bold parallel between Novarese and Ferrari, when the digital version of Forma was launched,” writes Luciana Perondi in Foundry’s blog. “For those...
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Let’s Get Medieval with this Week’s Free Font
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Here’s another great font, this week from the folks at The Font Squirrel. According to their site, “Junicode font is designed to meet the needs of medieval scholars; however, it has a large enough character set to be useful to...
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Another Free #Font Friday…!
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“There is something about letters, of all shapes and forms, that has always gotten my attention, even from a young age,” writes Nicky Laatz on her MyFonts profile. “I remember at about 10 years old having a little novelty rubber...
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It’s Another Free Font Friday!
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It’s Friday, it’s February, and we’re continuing to share the free font goodness this month. This week’s fonts come courtesy of Larsenwork design. “A minimal, narrow and yet friendly typeface,” is how her site describes Larsen’ Gidole font. “Gidole is an open...
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It’s Font Friday! It’s Free! You Feeling It?
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Fonts are amazing; we talk about them all the time. And free fonts? So good. So we are super happy to share Mosk, this free font family from an amazing designer, Iulian Maftei, on Behance. Called a noble, clean and...
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