Pantone’s Color of the Year Is…
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Pantone’s annual color has been announced…and there’s a wrinkle this year. Pink and blue. To the uninitiated, that’s the reaction to Pantone’s annual color of the year choice. To the design set, they are better known as Rose Quartz 13-1520...
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How Fonts Used to Advertise
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A fascinating look at how typefaces were marketed before the digital age. “Before there was Typekit, before there was Fonts.com, DaFont or Google Fonts, designers had to share their typefaces the old-fashioned way—via print advertisements,” writes Callie Budrick in PrintMag....
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A Year of Gorgeous Books on Design
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A look at the best design books from 2015, chosen by the team at Print magazine. What’s December for if not year-end best-of lists? This one’s perfect reading for the design fans out there…and awesome gift ideas if you’ve got...
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How Pantone Became a Pop Culture Icon
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It’s the universal lingua franca of color. Here’s how it got there. “Unless you work in design, chances are your first encounter with the mythic New Jersey-based color standards company was via a color-coded mug, iPhone case or in a...
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Handling Prepress Like a Boss – Inside the INSITE 7 Upgrade
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The HTML5-based customer interface makes prepress easier, faster and more intuitive. And that means a better printed product. Freeport Press customers are getting a look at the newly upgraded KODAK INSITE System 7 prepress portal, and so far they like...
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Is Flat Design Here to Stay?
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For designers, a flat design concept is incredibly easy to get terribly wrong. Flat design hit the scene just a couple of years ago, and was immediately taken up as the latest trend in web design and a solution to...
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Preflight Like a Pro: The 5-Minute Proof
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Preparing your InDesign documents for sending to print or exporting as digital files shouldn't take up hours of your time. This quick guide will make short work of the job. You’ve sweated the design and all the details; and now...
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Designers, What’s On Your Bookshelf?
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In spite of all the ways we can consume media, designers still love their books. Invision was curious. With all the way designers can now consume media, are books still relevant? And just what books are they reading these days?...
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Are You in the 250,000?
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Time Inc. gets the luxury memo and launches a bespoke U.S. edition of its gorgeous collectible title. Are you on the super select list that will receive one? What do you get when you buy a chunk of business that...
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Type Designer Leaves One Heck of a Legacy
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Adrian Frutiger will be missed, while his work will live on around the world. He’s been called “the best type designer of the 20th century.” Swiss font creator Adrian Frutiger passed away earlier this month, according to this article in...
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