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Dear Cover Design Team…We Need to Talk
31 May 2017|design, Magazine, Newsstand
Joe Berger has a request. Okay, make that a plea. An impassioned plea. “Why won’t you let someone from the newsstand in on the cover design meetings?” he asks in this recent blog post. “Why don’t you accept some of...
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The Perfect Free Font to Go Big and Take Home
26 May 2017|design
Need to go big, with posters, magazine covers or other large-size projects? Inspired by Garamond legacy, Cormorant is a display font by Christian Thalmann that has been optimized for high resolution and large sizes. With its razor sharp serifs and smooth...
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The Colors of Life Turned into Pantone Art
26 May 2017|design
If my mother ever met Italian graphic designer Andrew Antoni, I believe she would enjoy some of these beautiful destinations. “Italian graphic designer Andrea Antoni searches the world for Pantone colors, reminding us to embrace the colorful nature of our...
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A Little Whimsy, a Little Elegance for Free Font Friday
19 May 2017|design
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
19 May 2017|design
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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10 Real Life Lessons for Designers
16 May 2017|design, Print
“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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This Week, Fonts with a Flourish
12 May 2017|design
This week’s font collections come from the wildly creative minds at Mikrojihad Inc. in Indonesia. They specialize in “unformal” typefaces with a hand-lettered feel, and the results are striking. One of our favorites is Blackfat Script, a bold font family...
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A Whole Extended Family of Free Fonts This Week
05 May 2017|design
What’s better than two free fonts? Two big font sets with plenty of in-laws. Source: Behance This week’s free fonts start with Butler, by Belgium designer Fabian De Smet. Inspired by the Bodani and Dala Floda font, the serif typeface...
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Two more Free Friday Fonts – Langdon & Roboto
28 April 2017|design
There’s just so much to love about this week’s font pair … including a fantastic Friday audio virus (read on). This week, we’re pairing Langdon & Roboto, two font families with decidedly bold looks. Langdon, available free from the good...
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This Week’s Free Fonts: Ostrich and Amble
21 April 2017|design
Inline fonts – typefaces that contain a narrow stroke inside the thicker font body – have been around for centuries in print. Lately they’ve become really popular for online design too, especially in flat design situations. I think almost everyone...
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