Free Font Friday…Still Going!
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Okay, this week we’ve got two interesting picks. Free font Fridays are still going strong and this week’s choices are solid. STILU is a family of sans serif typefaces with a decidedly friendly point of view. While it may be...
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An Ode to the Beauty of White Spaces
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How do you want your readers to experience your publication’s content? That’s the key question that a managing editor needs to ask before each issue, according to the folks at Picante Publications in their article “Magazine Design and the Beauty...
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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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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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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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Risky Design in the Contemporary Art Niche
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Contemporary art magazine Frieze is undergoing a redesign, according to Sarah Dawood in Design Week. The magazine, which regularly includes art news, features, reviews and listings, is moving award from gorgeous and toward a more honest representation of current contemporary...
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What Paper Means to Those Who Design For It
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Last week we wrote about the way print irrevocably altered the way humankind remembers its collecting knowledge. And now, we look at some thoughts on why the choice of paper continues to have importance in our digital age. In The...
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