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Try These Type Webinars from Ilene Strizver
News: Written by Terri Stone on January 10, 2012
If your print or online projects use type, you can benefit from this series of webinars designed by CreativePro.com columnist and type expert Ilene Strizver.
Hand-Lettering Lovers, Rejoice
News: Written by Terri Stone on January 4, 2012
Lisa Congdon (known for her Collection a Day and her work as an illustrator/artist) is at it again. She's committed to creating and posting an example of hand lettering for every day in 2012.
European Design Conference Comes to America
News: Written by Terri Stone on November 16, 2011
The first TYPO conference held in the United States will be in San Francisco on April 5 and 6, 2012.
Best of the Blogs: November 4, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on November 7, 2011
This circumnavigation of the blogosphere includes posts about fonts (best, worst, and missing), color correction (Photoshop curves and/or levels), paper (handmade and mill run), printers (desktop and press), color calibration (monitor and printer), and an impressive if controversial demo of photo-deblurring technology. Plus, job hunting tips and product how-tos.
Make Monograms the Easy Way
News: Written by Terri Stone on October 31, 2011
Inexpensive fonts let you create custom monograms and cyphers from any letter combination. The styles range from traditional to childlike.
Be a Type Designer in New Game
News: Written by Terri Stone on October 27, 2011
These font games are not just fun--they're educational! At least, that's what you can tell yourself when you realize you've been playing them for an hour.
Typographic Rugs Are Real Treasures
News: Written by Terri Stone on September 28, 2011
Whether you're a fancier of fonts, connoisseur of comic books, or an appreciator of art, you'll require these rugs from Linus Dean.
Best of the Blogs: September 21, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on September 21, 2011
Lately, there have been a lot of provocative questions in design and photography blogs: Are there rules for creativity? Can designers embrace fear? What's the difference between looking at and seeing typography? But there's less cerebral stuff, too, like upgrading your camera, understanding image compositing, observing the day of a graphic designer, and filling your layouts with hipster lingo. I bring you all of that content and more in this installment of Best of the Blogs.
If You Like Type then You Better Put It on a Ring
News: Written by Terri Stone on September 15, 2011
Engrave anything you like on high-quality rings. You can choose from any of eight trendy typefaces or send in your own design.
Add Rare Wood Type Faces to Your Digital Designs
News: Written by Terri Stone on September 6, 2011
Wood Type Revival finds old wood type, prints them, turns the results into fonts, and sells the digital typefaces for very reasonable prices.
Download Second Dot-Font Book for Free
News: Written by Terri Stone on September 2, 2011
Topics in the free book by John D. Berry include "the pleasure of old type books," "warm modernism," "industrial cool," and "where type designs come from."
Marrying Types: All in the Family
Features: Written by James Felici on August 24, 2011
For many designs, the typographic variety afforded by a single typeface family is enough. And maybe more than enough.
New Font Creates Charts and Graphs for You
News: Written by Sandee Cohen on August 16, 2011
With the Chartwell OpenType fonts, you can create custom pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs as easily as typing "1, 2, 3".
Best of the Blogs: August 15, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on August 15, 2011
It's an excellent round-up this time, with Photoshop tips, typography tricks, publishing news, and much more. And read to the end to find out why you'll soon be speccing shades of orange as Apu, Garfield, or Tigger.
Web-Only Series Covers Typography, Photography, More
News: Written by Terri Stone on August 4, 2011
"Off Book" is a little gem of a program from PBS Arts. It's available only on the Web, which hopefully means no pledge breaks.
Best of the Blogs: August 1, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on August 1, 2011
Amuse and inform yourself with tidbits from design, graphics, and photography blogs culled from the past few weeks. Find out about Bodoni love, InDesign crashes, Illustrator annoyances, Photoshop freakouts, and how to make Polaroid film and illustrated manuscripts (but not at the same time).
The Typographic Style Bible, 75 Years Later
Features: Written by James Felici on July 27, 2011
A look at the 1937 Manual of Style shines a fascinating light on the origins of today's typographic trends and practices.
Love Helvetica? Love Card Games?
News: Written by Terri Stone on July 18, 2011
Then you need Helevticards, a high-style deck of cards you can use in every situation where you'd use like a traditional deck.
Free For All: Won't Cost You a Penny
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 13, 2011
The amazing Internet once again yields a crop of freebies so good that you'd pay for them--but you don't have to! These free resources help you to make your own fonts, snag stock photos, watermark images, track your to-do's, and annotate Web pages.
Best of the Blogs: July 7, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on July 7, 2011
Mega-retailer Target meets tiny Hamilton Wood Type; Acrobat Pro X users get testy; photographers are called idiots; Photoshop warps girls' minds; and the Web is doomed. Read these and many other interesting tidbits culled from the past few weeks of design, graphics, and photography blog posts.
