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The Designer’s Guide to Navigating those Reality Checks
21 May 2018|design, Print
An art director offers his advice for dealing with the inevitable speed bumps on the journey from design idea to printed reality. We’ve all been there. We have a fantastic, knock-it-out-of-the-park, show-stopping, idea for the client’s next project, and they...
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A Free Font for Modern Professional Branding
19 May 2018|design
Too stuffy. Too casual. Too … meh.   Anyone who’s created business cards, resumes or personal branding campaigns knows the challenge of finding the right typeface. We might have an answer for you. This week we bring you Atzur by...
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Forma – The Failed Quest for a Universal Typeface
17 May 2018|design
Living in the age of speed-of-light technical progress, it’s hard to remember when innovation and change was slower … much slower. Yet businesses faced some of the same challenges we do now when they fail to adapt quickly enough, and...
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Got Headlines? Get Rakesly, One of This Week’s Free Fonts
11 May 2018|design
A few months back we presented a great font in the grotesque category, a design style that’s straight and uniform rather than inspired by calligraphy. This week, we’ve got another one for you. Rakesly by Typodermic Fonts Inc. is a...
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Celebrating 50 Years Since the Launch of Avant Garde
11 May 2018|design
It was 50 years ago that Herb Lubalin introduced Avant Garde to the world, at age 50. So it makes sense that the Herb Lubalin Study Center would honor the magazine on Day 50 of their 100 Years of Herb...
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One Space or Two … The Debate Rages 
10 May 2018|design, Editorial
One space or two after the period?  For some of us in the industry, this debate ranks right up there with other major life dilemmas like when to eat that avocado (right now), or whether to meet the employer match...
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Can a Free Font Really Kick You In the Chest? 
04 May 2018|design
We don’t know about that, but this week’s pick will certainly add a punch to your design toolbox. Bold, classic and spare.  That’s the overriding characteristics of this week’s first free font, League Spartan. Designed by The League of Moveable...
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Designing a Magazine Like it’s “The Last One on Earth”
23 April 2018|design, Magazine
“We treat every issue as if it’s the last magazine on earth,” says New York Times Magazine Design Director Gail Bichler. “I love that to describe what we do.”According to Sara Dawood in Design Week, Bichler was speaking recently at...
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Fontspring Tools Helps ID Those Obscure Fonts 
20 April 2018|design
You see it, you love … and you have no idea what the name of that font is.  If you do any amount of designing at all, you’ve likely run across this problem. Well, problem solved, according to the folks...
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Removing “Tofu” from the Web with this week’s Free Friday Fonts
20 April 2018|design
It’s time to make “tofu” obsolete. And we don’t mean the kind you might have in your fridge. “When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes there will be characters in the text that can not be displayed because no...
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