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A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2
Features: Written by James Felici on November 16, 2009
Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.
A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1
Features: Written by James Felici on October 26, 2009
As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.
Create Better Marketing Postcards
Features: Written by Jared Tanner on October 22, 2009
Postcards are like freeway billboards: You have a very short time to communicate your message. Here's how to create effective postcards that get the response you want.
Flickr Friday: October 9, 2009
Features: Written by Terri Stone on October 9, 2009
Derek Powazek is a Web guru and a lover of print and fine photography. And recently, he became an instant publisher, going from Flickr to a print magazine in 31.5 hours.
Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game
Features: Written by James Felici on October 5, 2009
The vocabulary of type is mysterious at best, and nowhere is this more true than in how typefaces are labeled. Yet knowing how typefaces are named and categorized has very practical benefits.
Free For All: Textures
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 30, 2009
This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.
Free For All: Harvest These Freebies
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 23, 2009
Summer has officially given way to fall, and in the northern hemisphere, that means it's harvest time. Fill your basket with this delectable sampling of free tools, fonts, and services.
Free For All: Halloween Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 31, 2009
Halloween in August? It's not too early to start thinking spooky, especially if you'll be sending out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.
To Double-Space or Not to Double-Space...
Features: Written by James Felici on August 24, 2009
A thought-provoking disquisition on the thorny issue of how much space should follow a sentence-ending period.
Free For All: Just What You're Looking For
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 13, 2009
Be free with Web 2.0 Photoshop layer styles; fire and flame textures and backgrounds; an InDesign image library plug-in; easy scheduled emails; and a service that displays a Web design in 90 different browsers.
Critique This!
Features: Written by Lauren Krause on August 12, 2009
Studying other people's design helps us improve our own. Plus, it's fun.
In White Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
Features: Written by James Felici on August 10, 2009
Think you're in total control of your type? Truth is, you're on a short lead, in the tight grip of your typeface's designer.
Design As Child's Play
Features: Written by David Blatner on August 6, 2009
People all over the world know and love the characters created by Sesame Workshop: Big Bird, Grover, Elmo, Boombah (in India), Putri (in Indonesia)... But very few people think about the design behind the Muppets. Here's the story.
Free For All: 103 Free Fonts!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on June 15, 2009
Script fonts, modern fonts, grunge fonts, funky fonts -- what's your pleasure? We have them all, and they're all free!
Spec Work and Crowdsourcing: Gambles that Don't Pay Off
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 27, 2009
The economy's in the toilet and you're hungry for jobs, so you're working on spec or posting designs to sites like CrowdSpring. It's understandable. The problem is, spec and crowdsourcing can lower your value and hourly rates so far that minimum wage looks like a fat paycheck. Here's what to do instead.
InDesign Magazine: Tip of the Week Archive
Features: Written on April 24, 2009
This is a compilation of all pastInDesign Magazine Tip-of-the-Weeks.
How to Choose Colors Everyone Likes
Features: Written by Igor Asselbergs on March 30, 2009
A time-tested formula may not determine the difference between good or bad taste, but it does predict common taste. And that makes the formula quite useful when you're choosing colors.
Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive
Features: Written on March 23, 2009
November 16, 2009 Recently discovered diaries of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre reveal a man obsessed not with the void, but with food. Read excerpts here. http://www.pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html November 10, 2009 Whoops! Someone's birthday is today and you forgot to send a card? Go to this site (created by Mat Honan), type your message after ".eu/" in the Web browser address field, and hit Return/Enter. Then send the resulting URL to the birthday boy/girl.
Free For All: I Can't Believe They Give This Away!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on March 18, 2009
Are you looking for a fast, free way to resize a bunch of images? How about free templates for CDs and DVDs? Or free vector art? Could you use a designer-friendly diagramming and flowcharting application? Then this, my friend, is the article for you.
Twenty Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers
Features: Written by David Sommers on January 22, 2009
Get inspired with this global roster of designers who go far, far beyond simple illustrations and three-color logos.