Just One Word about this Week’s Free Fonts…
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Our free font Friday series continues. And this week? One word: FANCY.   Dita Sweet is a nice compromise between delicate and bold. Its unique features clearly set it apart from other fonts without completely distracting the viewer. Pair it...
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Ciao, Bella – IL Magazine Writes the Book on Visual Design
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When does design elevate from the ordinary to the sublime?For us, it’s when the design itself is able to convey the meaning of the content without even needing words. We posted a great example of this yesterday with April’s “Water”...
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The Sketchy Birth of a Cover Design
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The mandate was clear – “No glasses of water!” That was the primary instruction from the editorial team at Popular Science to the photography team who would eventually shoot the photos for the recent issue on the global water crisis....
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This Week’s Font Friday Features a Little Summer Sunn
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Our popular font Fridays continue, with two great handwriting fonts this week that are perfect for spring and summer projects. The first is Summer, a handwriting font that comes in six styles and 500+ characters, from the talented hands of...
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Can AI Pick Your Next Color Palette?
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Can a computer really generate a good color palette? Color theory is a massive topic, and good designers can study for years to learn the basics and the millions of nuances of the art and science of color. Now, an...
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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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