MAFH Prints a Gorgeous Magazine
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When the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) realized their monthly membership magazine wasn’t engaging its readers, they called in Austin design firm Pentagram for a reboot. The result is h Magazine, a stunning title that builds its editorial content...
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Meet Unica, the Urban Legend of Fonts
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It was a perfect example of the right thing at the wrong time. Back in the ‘70s the Swiss type foundry that created Helvetica set about making a follow-up font that would translate to phototypesetting and fix some of Helvetica’s...
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Readers Not Loving the Content Treadmill
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The goal is sound: to keep the reader on the site, forestalling their inevitable bounce by feeding a running supply of story after story. To achieve this kind of stickiness, many publishers have incorporated the idea of the “infinite scroll”...
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Rabona Magazine: Hello Beautiful 
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When a magazine can take a sport and turn it into high art, you know you have something worth looking at. PaulOV2 introduces us to Rabona, and it stuns. “Rabona is a celebration of great football journalism, iconic photography and...
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A Brief History of Typography, via Print
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[responsive][/responsive]Yesterday we told you about Print magazine’s 75th anniversary issue; today we expand on one of the articles, The History of Typography in Print Magazine by Paul Shaw.According to Shaw, “Print has been chronicling graphic design for 75 years, yet...
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Smithsonian Announces Photo Content Winners
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Vibrant, surreal and magical: just a few of the words that spring to mind as we look through the winners of the Smithsonian’s 2014 photo contest. The grand prize is something out of a dystopian fairytale; two seamstresses half-buried in...
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Print Captures a Unique Moment in Digital Arts
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[responsive][/responsive]Creative designers and graphic artists from around the world use the portfolio platform Behance to showcase their digital talent. Not only is it a terrific way to build a digital portfolio you can share with potential clients, it’s also increasingly...
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Growth Stalled? Try a Brand Refresh
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[responsive][/responsive]A stagnant brand can do more than bore your audience. It can hamper growth and kill your sales. Branding plays in increasingly important role in our multi-channel marketing environment. As your prospects decide within seconds if they want to read,...
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Design News: The Top Visual Trends for 2015
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[responsive][/responsive]This time last year we were talking about the epic design battle of flat vs. realism. It was a trending visual topic in 2013 for designers, and sparked hilarious and heated discussions in the graphic world. Today’s visual trends are...
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For the Font Geeks: A Course in Scriptology
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[responsive][/responsive]Creating logos and script marks is a heady design challenge. If you can do it well, giving your client’s logo and brand instant recognition, you’ll be in high demand in any market. “When approaching the ideation process for brand identity...
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