December 2018 - Freeport Press

From the Far East to the Deep South We Bring You This Week’s Free Fonts

21 December 201809 November 2021|design

Rugged. Masculine. Vaguely vintage. Moonshiner by Georgia-based designer Mattox Shuler features a condensed design inspired by vintage whisky bottle labels. It includes regular and oblique styles with alternate characters. This would be fantastic for logos and packaging that emphasize old-fashioned...

Finger in the Air or Fully Accountable?

20 December 201820 December 2018|Digital, Magazine, Print

There’s plenty of evidence that print “still” works, despite the rise of digital. We see digital-first brands launching magazines, Amazon mailing a print toy catalog, and a shift in the fashion industry from mass market to branded print. Yes, it’s...

Google’s Print Ads are Anything But “Clear and Conspicuous”

19 December 201819 December 2018|Advertising, Magazine, Print

Google – the one brand with arguably the most digital clout on the planet – is in hot water over an ad partnership in print. Yep, you may not have realized it (very few did) but recent magazine covers in...

The Shift in Fashion Publishing from Mass to Branded Print

18 December 201818 December 2018|Magazine, Print

Glossy pages, heavy cover stock, ads touting fashion that may be haute couture look more like something out of Whoville … mass market fashion magazines over the past few generations have strayed away from the “what should I wear” and...

Joanna and Chip Give the Magazine Industry a DIY Lesson

17 December 201817 December 2018|Magazine, Print

When The Magnolia Journal launched in print just over two years ago, we knew it would be a smash. With 4.7 million followers on Instagram, half a million Twitter followers and a hit TV show on HGTV, striking out into...

Well Bless Their Hearts, It’s Free Font Friday

14 December 201810 November 2021|design

Straight out of the Old South is Julep, the first of our offerings on Free Font Friday. Created by Missouri-based graphic designer Jeremy Ross, the font features outline-style design with multiple layerable fill options. The set includes overlay fill shapes...

It’s the Most Wonderful Time … For Pantone’s Color of the Year 2019

14 December 201814 December 2018|design

It’s finally here!!! And no, I don’t mean Christmas ... The sights and sounds this time of year always lead to that one moment of bliss for design geeks and print fans everywhere. No, we aren’t talking about those presents...

D. Eadward Tree Riffs on 6 Trends that Sum up Publishing in 2018

13 December 201810 November 2021|Magazine, Print, publishing

It was quite a year to be in publishing. Or as D. Eadward Tree writes in Publishing Executive, “What a crazy, up-and-down year this has been in publishing!” The always interesting (and often prescient) Tree points out three pairs of...

A Mouse-eared Bottle Opener? Only in Print

12 December 201812 December 2018|Magazine, Print

TThe Mouse is 90. And for German publisher Egmont Ehapa Verlag, that meant a one-off print magazine devoted to everybody’s favorite rodent. He asked magazine consulting group We Like Mags to create the special issue Micky, and they dove in....

Life at the Treeline Gets Its Own Magazine in Strung

10 December 201809 November 2021|Magazine, Print

There’s a new magazine on the newsstands that definitely not for anyone who’s afraid of heights. Strung Magazine, published by the same folks who put out Tail Fly Fishing Magazine, shows its readers a look into “life at the treeline,...

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