Rabona Magazine: Hello Beautiful 
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When a magazine can take a sport and turn it into high art, you know you have something worth looking at. PaulOV2 introduces us to Rabona, and it stuns. “Rabona is a celebration of great football journalism, iconic photography and...
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A Brief History of Typography, via Print
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[responsive][/responsive]Yesterday we told you about Print magazine’s 75th anniversary issue; today we expand on one of the articles, The History of Typography in Print Magazine by Paul Shaw.According to Shaw, “Print has been chronicling graphic design for 75 years, yet...
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Smithsonian Announces Photo Content Winners
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Vibrant, surreal and magical: just a few of the words that spring to mind as we look through the winners of the Smithsonian’s 2014 photo contest. The grand prize is something out of a dystopian fairytale; two seamstresses half-buried in...
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Print Captures a Unique Moment in Digital Arts
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[responsive][/responsive]Creative designers and graphic artists from around the world use the portfolio platform Behance to showcase their digital talent. Not only is it a terrific way to build a digital portfolio you can share with potential clients, it’s also increasingly...
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Growth Stalled? Try a Brand Refresh
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[responsive][/responsive]A stagnant brand can do more than bore your audience. It can hamper growth and kill your sales. Branding plays in increasingly important role in our multi-channel marketing environment. As your prospects decide within seconds if they want to read,...
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Design News: The Top Visual Trends for 2015
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[responsive][/responsive]This time last year we were talking about the epic design battle of flat vs. realism. It was a trending visual topic in 2013 for designers, and sparked hilarious and heated discussions in the graphic world. Today’s visual trends are...
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For the Font Geeks: A Course in Scriptology
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[responsive][/responsive]Creating logos and script marks is a heady design challenge. If you can do it well, giving your client’s logo and brand instant recognition, you’ll be in high demand in any market. “When approaching the ideation process for brand identity...
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What Works in Digital Cover Design?
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[responsive][/responsive]One of the criticisms we hear of replica digital magazines is that they don’t leverage any of the interactive benefits of digital but simply recreate the print magazine. Readers aren’t loving this solution, and simply reproducing the print magazine cover...
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Can an Algorithm Design a Typeface?
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[responsive][/responsive]Can technology replace the creative hand of the font designer? According to Lizzie Plaugic in The Verge, we might be close. “Methods of type design have shifted over the years — from moveable type printing presses to copper plate engraving...
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Photoshop: The Bad, the Ugly and The Ridiculous
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[responsive][/responsive]There has been a lot of discussion in the media lately on Photoshop. Used well, it gives graphic artists an edge in creating stunning images. Used poorly, it presents us with the ability to radically alter our perception of body...
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