Eye on the Prize in Graphic Design
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To have and to hold; according to Steve Heller writing in Print Mag, that is the penultimate value of a printed title. Heller has worked on the team at Eye for almost 20 years now and feels no apologies are...
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On a Quest to Pitch You Some Cool Free Fonts
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Fonts – love 'em, gotta have 'em, and we are committed to our ongoing quest to pitch you our Free Font Friday posts. Pitch Display by Kate Wiliwinksa is a condensed modern serif with a geometric feel, making it ideal...
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An Industry-Wide Call for Photoshop Ethics
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Image retouching has been getting a lot of attention in recent years, as advertisers seek to model absolute perfection in their imagery. It’s not only verging on the ridiculous but the unethical. Celebrities and models alike are speaking out about the...
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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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Empire: Turning a Title into a Brand
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Ask Empire Magazine’s Terri White to define her overall goal, and she pulls no punches. “To make the world's biggest film magazine the world's biggest film and entertainment brand,” she recently told Mary Hogarth writing in InPublishing. She’s well on...
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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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Malyarov’s Open Letter to Everyone Looking for Real Journalism
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“Standing up for facts is a kind of patriotic act, and a necessary one.”Those words from Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan close a thought-provoking piece by Nikolay Malyarov in Fipp.Malyarov’s “open letter to everyone looking for real journalism” makes the...
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Teens and Tweens are Hungry…for Print
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The younger market offers a unique opportunity for publishers to offer an escape from the digital life. Any parent of teens or tweens will tell you they are always hungry. And it seems they aren’t just hungry for food. According...
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How to Build a Media Brand that Works
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“Always, always do your own thing.” That’s rule number one of Skift’s Rafat Ali when it comes to building a reliable media brand. An unabashed fanboy of Monocle magazine, Ali offers ten rules to brand by in this post in...
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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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