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Fontisizing Trajan
So these posts are to display, ogle, applaud, examine and objectify fonts that have crept out of my dreams and onto my designs. Go ahead: fontasize about Trajan.
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Regina Clark on Southland
Out of all the leading ladies sparkling on TV today, one of them is leading the charge without fulfilling some sort of character mold or being overly weird. Regina King plays Detective Lydia Adams on TNT’s hit police drama Southland, a show already known for breaking the rules.
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ESPN Rise’s Video Game Issue with Alvin Lee
During the holiday season over at my shop in ESPN Rise we decided to do something a little bit different with our National Video Game Issue: get an illustrator. Usually we use awesome photography by the industry’s best, but this time we wanted to tap the talent of Street Fighter video game acclaim Alvin Lee…
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More Perfect Typography
Tim Brown – More Perfect Typography from Build on Vimeo. (HT: SwissMiss)
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Fontisizing Impact
Like an old yenta, a designer is often found matchmaking design projects and fonts. With so many designs, the designer ensures they have access to as many possible matches as possible. But that doesn’t always work out. After all, the designer, like the yenta, has a certain vision of the ideal font matches. They don’t…
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Two Design Websites to Watch
Occasionally I like to link to some random stuff and call it “links n’ junk” but I have two sites here that are so not in the junk sphere that I couldn’t properly label this post in that way. First, we have Designers & Books which describes itself as: devoted to publishing lists of books that…
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The Constitution: Three Fifths
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all…
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Goodbye 2010: Decade in Review and Junk
In our lifetime we’ll only get a few moments to wax poetic and review things from our narcissist pinnacle, and with MCF now being gone from the blogging world, I am left picking up the slacker’s slack. In this post, I want to flashback over the last ten years and declare, as only a person…