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Prototypo is an open-source fontography app that allows you to create typefaces by using sliders that allow you to refine spacing and outlines manually. Now on Kickstarter.
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• Quipsologies, is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
• Quipsologies uses TypeKit to render P22 Underground, Skolar Web by TypeTogether, and Coquette by Mark Simonson.
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• Search through our archives (starting with Vol. 45 September 2010)
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Brand New / Displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work.
FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
Brand New Classroom / Providing a space for critique and opinions on student identity work.
Speak Up (2002 – 2009) / Discussing, and looking for, what is relevant in, and the relevance of, graphic design. Archives Only.
Word It (2003 – 2010) / Encouraging creative diversity in the community through monthly, one-word challenges. Archives Only.
publishing
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work / 2010, self-published.
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design / 2009, Rockport.
Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers / 2008, HOW Books.
The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted Words / 2007, HOW Books.
live events
2010 Brand New Conference / A one-day event on the development of corporate and brand identity projects by some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
graphic design
Department of Design / Designing corporate and brand identities and full development of printed and digital matter for clients.
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by armin
Type Tees from Threadless lets you order one-off designs of your typographic bon mots straight from your smartphone.
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by armin
Louis Paquet reimagines the opening titles for Forrest Gump as if they were for a Wes Anderson movie.
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by armin
A little more visually engaging than Stack Overflow, Code Babes, teaches you HTML, CSS, PHP, and more with the help of five sexy-librarian-type instructors. Odd.
04.30.2014
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by armin
A multinational typeface by and for Grey Singapore featuring 106 letters based on national flags.
04.29.2014
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by armin
Leica has created a 45-minute ad that shows a single body of one of its cameras being polished. For 45 minutes. Amazing.
04.29.2014
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by armin
Lacking some abusive, passive-aggressive, unhelpful feedback from a creative director? Let Critique That Shit fill the void with a Siri-like voice. Project by Ryan McLeod.
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by armin
Another day, another great new website redesign, now from our Brooklyn friends at Hyperakt.
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