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Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:37:32 -0700

February 14, 2012
This site relives the 1970s one catalog page at a time, with a special emphasis on fashions and toys.

http://www.plaidstallions.com/

February 7, 2012
At some point, everyone needs to know how to paint a mammoth on a cave wall.

http://www.primitiveways.com/paint_a_mammoth.html

January 31, 2012

TypeTalk: The Anatomy of a Character

IleneStrizver99 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:18:50 -0700

TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above.

Q. Why should I care what the names are for parts of a character? Does it really matter?

Scanning Around With Gene: Best in the West Graphics, 1970

GeneGable — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:50:00 -0700

In 1970 I was a freshman in high school. Although I wasn't aware of graphic design as an art form, I was beginning to notice the effect design had on me as a consumer. Book jackets, billboards, record-album covers, and magazines were an important part of my life. In a few more years I would begin to appreciate the talent they represented.

Best of the Blogs: Old School and New Skills

Editor in Chief — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:23:31 -0700

Typography

Best of the Blogs: August 1, 2011

Editor in Chief — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:31:01 -0600

Don't have time to read scores of blogs every day? Don't worry, I've done it for you, and picked out the best posts you shouldn't miss.

Typography

Cutting-Edge Conference for Print and Digital Publishing

Editor in Chief — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:25:20 -0700

The lengthy session list at the 2012 PEPCON print and ePublishing conference could be boiled down into one sentence: Attend this event or fall behind.

Seriously, just look at these session titles (which are only a sampling of the full list):

• InDesign to iPad and Android Apps
• Making Your Folio Come Alive: Embedding HTML and RSS
• XML for Print and Digital Publishing
• Stay on the Cutting Edge: Five Tools to Learn Now

What's That Web Font?

Editor in Chief — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:56:43 -0700

Chengyin Liu, an undergrad in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, has developed a handy web browser add-on for people who want to identify webfonts in a jiffy. The add-on, called WhatFont, is compatible with Firefox 3.6 and later; Chrome 9 and later; Safari 4 and later; Internet Explorer 9; and, to a lesser extent, Internet Explorer 8.

dot-font: Seven Principles of Typographic Contrast

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 03:59:08 -0600

The late Canadian typographer Carl Dair was one of the great typographic designers of the 1950s and 1960s, and he may have been the best of them all at explaining the nature of typography. In coordinated projects that he both wrote and designed, he managed to describe -- and show -- the ways in which manipulating and using type make typography happen.

When It's Safe to Use Free Fonts

Editor in Chief — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:17:27 -0700

Many of us are intrigued by the idea of free fonts. However, the reality can be a little complicated. For example, if you use a free font on a client's project, you want to be sure that the use is legal. There's nothing worse than a type foundry calling your client with the news that the font wasn't licensed for commercial use.

Yves Peters has written a handy guide to keep you on the right side of the law. Called "Licensing 101," the guide is distributed by FontShop as a PDF.

Type Is Everywhere

Editor in Chief — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:02:27 -0700

For typophiles, just walking down a city street can be a source of joy and despair. We can find beautiful typography everywhere, but often, it's on old signs, buildings, or storefronts that are about to make way for something new and, often, generically dull.

TypeTalk: Hand-Drawn Type

IleneStrizver99 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:33:52 -0700

TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above.

Q. Do you have any inspirational suggestions for creative type treatments to start off the new year?

A. Hand-drawn lettering is an excellent alternative to a traditional typeface. I’m not (necessarily) talking about fancy calligraphy or professionally drawn hand lettering, but informal letters that look like (or are) actual handwriting.

Try These Type Webinars from Ilene Strizver

Editor in Chief — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:50:43 -0700

Long-time CreativePro.com columnist and type expert Ilene Strizver is offering a series of online seminars. The first, "Troubling Typesetting Mysteries: Solved!" debuted in December. Don't curse us for telling you about it too late: You can watch the entire webinar for free! Just register as a member on the Type Studio site (that's free, too), and you can be enlightened whenever you have the time.

Kerning: A Master Class

Editor in Chief — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:15:38 -0600

I've just finished reviewing two rounds of printed page proofs from the second edition of my book The Complete Manual of Typography (Adobe Press/Peachpit Press), in the course of which I hand-kerned some 150 passages of display type as well as scores of instances in text and captions. I am in the perfect frame of mind to expound on kerning, going well beyond the "Kerning 101" basics I outlined 18 months ago in the article One Good Kern Deserves Another."

Hand-Lettering Lovers, Rejoice

Editor in Chief — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:42:04 -0700

You may have heard Lisa Congdon's name before. She's an artist, illustrator, and an avid collector, and in 2010, she documented 365 of those collections. You can see them all on her Collection a Day website.

Free For All: Give Yourself These Gifts

Editor in Chief — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:09:37 -0700

Photo Mosaic Software
Jimmy Carter once said, "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." In that spirit, this month’s first freebie is an application for Windows and Mac that literally combines people into a mosaic.