Helvetica, Only Not – One of This Week’s Free Fonts 
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When your design project is text-heavy, it’s tempting to go with tried and true Helvetica. But really, we’ve seen it so often it might be nice to mix things up a bit. Try Aileron by Sora Sagano, a Japanese artist...
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Color On — The 51 Best Color Sites for Designers
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A big thank you to PrintMag’s Jude Stewart for this list of the 51 Best Color Sites for Designers.  Stewart’s list kicks off with Color Hunt, a site that offers “a curated collection of color schemes for any purpose” in...
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What We Can Glean from the Closing of NME in the UK
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The closure of NME magazine, a 70-year-old British title, says something about the magazine industry. According to Mark Sweeney in the Guardian, this news “is the latest warning sign that the shift to digital media is threatening to kill the...
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Search is Back as the Top Referral Source
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Well, this is interesting. According to data from Shareaholic, last year marked a turning point in the search vs. social traffic debate. “After a year fraught with terms like ‘fake news,’ and headlines centering around brand safety issues and extreme...
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On the Rebound from Facebook, Publishers Turn to Pinterest
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This year’s sweeping changes to Facebook’s newsfeed have proved to be the final straw in the social platform’s relationship with many magazine media brands. From the publisher’s POV, dealing with yet another algorithm change that will drive even less referral...
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AIGA Launches a Print Magazine and Answers the Big Question — Why?
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If you follow this blog at all, you know we are pretty big fans of the folks at AIGA, the professional association for design. We often share or cite their Eye on Design blog, which offers interesting and insightful online...
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GQ Editor Sees Magazine Industry “Turning a Corner”
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Dylan Jones, the long-standing editor of GQ, believes there has been a “genuine sea change” lately in how consumers look at the value of good journalism. At a recent UK media summit, Jones spoke on what he’s seeing in the...
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PIA Launches “Print Powers America” Initiative, Something We Can All Get Behind
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The membership association announces its new initiatives to support our industry in three key ways. From tariffs to safety legislation, from consumer education to environmental stewardship, the PIA has just announced a new set of initiatives to support the printing,...
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Structure Meets Creativity in This Week’s Free Friday Fonts
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This week, our font choices demonstrate how focusing on balance and structure leaves room for tons of creative expression on all channels. You might think a typeface can’t be all about balance and structure and still embody tremendous personality. This...
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Bonnier Corp Doing a Lot More with Less These Days
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When a publishing company has been around as long as Bonnier Corporation, it’s maybe easier to take the long view instead of getting caught up in the moment. For Bonnier’s CEO Eric Zinczenko, two hundred years of the company’s history...
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