iainclaridge.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Caution should be exercised in elevating the status of a practical discipline (more akin to plumbing) to an elitist, esoteric pursuit. Typography is utilitarian and belongs to everyone.” Tony Pritchard: A response to the TWP definition of typography Share/Bookmark This
The FontShop FontFeed (Free subscription) | yesterday
This year’s ATypI’s gathering, deemed Typ09, was clearly different from previous years for many reasons. First, Mexico City provided a vibrant, new world backdrop for a conference that is usually held in Europe. Second, the main program was held on a single track in a presentation hall that is anything but conventional. But most palpable [...]
WordPress Planet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Glassical Two column, fixed width theme with support for the WP Pagenavi plugin. This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity. Coffee Lite Coffee Lite Theme is a minimalist blogging theme modded from the popular premium theme Coffee Break from WooThemes . New York Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme with inbuilt support for Twitter and 125×125...
Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | yesterday
Next week the famous Carsonified Event "Future of Web Design" takes place in New York City and here you will see what to expect from this great event. The best web designers in the world will take place to talk about different topics that will bring up your web game to the next level. Check it out! First you need to visit the event page http://events.carsonified.com/ to get a good felling...
Tony's Kansas City (Free subscription) | yesterday
A rather sweet lesson in Typography, Adobe After Effect and The Kansas City Shuffle from a Vimeo Internets clip.
tabitha emma (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Sydney festival logo and look was released last week, and I really like it. Lovely typography and logo. The yellow balloon that ties it all together is a nice concept , created by Saatchi Design, acting as a symbol of hope, optimism, renewal and ideas after what has been a tough year for many. Very beautiful..
The FontShop FontFeed (Free subscription) | yesterday
In 1989 Joan and Erik Spiekermann founded FontShop. That same year the Berlin Wall came down. On a visit to Berlin Neville Brody – who would co-found the FontFont library with Erik one year later – chipped away a fragment of the Wall, a moment immortalised by Joan. FSI FontShop International and its Berlin-based type foundry FontFont [...]
Daily Blog Tips (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you have the habit of visiting social bookmarking sites you probably know how popular web design related stories are. Every single day you can find a list with "the best collection of free textures," "free icon sets," "examples of stunning typography" and so on. Original Post: Are We Obsessed With Aesthetics?
SitePoint Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This week, Matt Magain catches up with Mark Boulton at Web Directions South 2009 to discuss web design, typography, and why they aren’t the separate things they may appear to be.
Cheth studios (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Glassical is a glossy two column, widget ready and WordPress 2.8 compatible WordPress theme designed for passionate bloggers. This is Originally a WordPress theme designed for SmashingMagazine Readers. So we decided to bring it to blogger to support our blogger readers and users. So as promised yesterday here it is. We will try to convert more and more wordpress themes to blogger. So do suggest some...
The FontShop FontFeed (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Two identical pictures of two maverick type designers, almost 20 years apart – Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum then and now.
PicoCool (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Discover through this article, 50 identities graphic styles oldschool vintage and retro inspired patterns for years 20 to 50. From typography to colors, packaging the website through numerous hard copy, the revival of those years we plunge into graphic worlds nostalgic pastel hues. 2 Vote(s)
Say Hi! To Design (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Submission for Alphabet: An exhibition of hand-drawn lettering & experimental typography. Curated by Post Typography in Baltimore. My idea was to explore the relationship between type and colour. To support my entry a type specimen was created. By Marc Alcock .
UK Handmade (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
UK Handmade owes it's clean, modern look to the talents of our designer, Jo Askey. Please tell us who you are and what you do. My name is Jo askey and I am 'askey illustration'. I am an illustrator - I create artwork, illustrations and greetings cards. I am also a graphic designer specializing in branding and corporate identity. How long have you been creating for? It all started when I returned to...
Smashing Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
We love our readers . We respect the hard work of designers and developers across the globe. And we do our best to make the web design community stronger and the Web a little bit prettier. Therefore we ask talented artists and creative professionals to showcase their skills and release something unique and beautiful as a gift to the community. And when designers agree, impressive works see the light...
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raneeq | 08/12/2009
Do you have a PDF file that you would like to convert to text file? You may wonder why might this be useful? Most PDF documents are not editable and copy and paste text manually can be a tedious process.What is worse, after the process the text file may mess up. You can use free PDF to Text Converter to extract text from a PDF file so that you can use it in word processing applications, within PowerPoint...
Sanjana Sharma | 07/23/2009
Technology is a campfire around which web designs are evolved and build. Tampa web design is one that brings out the renaissance attitude, combining technology, creative thinking, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing. Web designing is an art, which glides high on human imaginations. To start with web designing first the interest of client should be shifted...
spinxwebdesign | 01/29/2009
Graphic design has become essential part of website designing making the process of communication much easier to accomplish. Diversified typography can be used for creating online images in whatever way customers want. A whole lot of skills when segregated together lead to creation of images that are aesthetically superior, cognitively ahead, attractive page layout, etc. These advanced methods have...
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