A Little Whimsy, a Little Elegance for Free Font Friday
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We've got fancy fonts this week! Maybe it’s the warm spring weather, who knows, but we think you’ll like our two free font choices for this week. Athene is a traditional font with a Greek classical feel, designed by Matt Ellis from...
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Raise Your Hands for Type Revivalism in the Digital Age
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Traditionalists vs. modernists exist in just about every aspect of our culture. Their preferences and beliefs shape their work, their creativity and their careers, often with polarizing effect. This is evident in the world of font design, as this article...
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Is Amazon the Next Big Thing for Magazines?
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Amazon has been notoriously unfriendly to magazine publishers, with precious little in the way of magazines offered on the retail giant’s site outside of what’s offered digitally with their Prime membership. According to D. Eadward Tree, that could all be...
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What Luxury Brands Know about Print Ads…
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David Arnold knows a thing or two about the high-end consumer. As managing director of The Robb Report, his day job involves breathing the rarified air of the world of luxury cars, travel, watches, fashion and “the good life.” Like...
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Kids These Days … Love Print
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Kids these days.  It turns out, in spite of increased access to digital devices, our youngest readers still prefer reading print books. “A study by researchers in Australia found that kids who had access to e-readers like Kindles and iPads...
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How an Algorithm Might Reverse the Crisis of Trust in the Media
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Fake news. Fakebook. It’s gotten beyond absurd. The damage being done by fake news – “news” that is shared as truth, regardless of the veracity of its contents – is having a massive impact on our society. Businesses, non-governmental organizations,...
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10 Real Life Lessons for Designers
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“Fall in love with something that was designed." That was one of the 10 life lessons for designers shared by Paula Scher during her recent talk at the Royal Geographical Society’s lecture hall in London. The hall, according to Mark...
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Better Than Ever – the Modern Print Catalog
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The doorstop – that’s what we called the huge “wish books” that hung around our kitchen table every holiday season. We’d pour over those pages, dog-earing the good stuff and making our lists for Christmas. Those days of 1,000-page catalogs...
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7 Great Reasons to Launch a Customer Magazine
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The category is still fairly new, so you might be forgiven for not recognizing the term. But “customer magazines” represent a huge – and growing – portion of our industry. As this article in Print Power notes, customer or brand...
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SI Embraces Augmented Reality in a Big Way
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In a stunning example of the use of technology in a print publication, Sport’s Illustrated is unveiling its first augmented reality (AR) issue. “Sports Illustrated is trying to breach the gap between paper and digital with its first interactive issue,...
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