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99 Free Valentine’s Day Fonts
Designorati romanced every free font resource, sampled every heart-shaped box of chocolatey, type treats, and arranged this bouquet of 99 ways to type "I love you."
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Comparing the HP EliteBook 8540w and the MacBook Pro
Apple is known for its product design—and for putting form over function sometimes. However, the HP EliteBook shows that Macs aren't the only PCs that are well-designed.
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Interview with Heavenspot’s Chevon Hicks
I wanted to distill some of Chevon's ideas and comments into tips you can easily remember and apply to your own creative work or life.
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Adobe MAX: Notes From The Press Party
I was able to have some good discussion with three important Adobe insiders at the Adobe MAX press party.
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Royalty-Free, Guarantee-Free: The Case For Warrantied Images
Designers take care to use legal stock photography, but what if it's not legal before it even reaches your hands? Vivozoom, a new UK-based provider, thinks they have the answer.
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300+ Free Halloween Fonts
In honor of this year’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. We found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–and they’re all free!
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Positive Procrastination: Getting Things Created
Can procrastination actually benefit creative work? Bryan Tamayo, Art Director at Fossil, thinks so.
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Adobe CS4 and ROI: Is Productivity The New Killer Feature?
Research suggests efficiency may be worth as much as the cool features.
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Strange Mailboxes Around the World
Creatively designed and decorated mailboxes around the world serve as offbeat inspiration.
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The subject of working on spec is so polarizing that some people don’t even want to talk about it—it incites too much anger on both sides. Some people believe it’s okay to produce designs and deliver them to the client, with the hope that they’ll get paid if the client likes it. Others feel a designer’s work is his product and no business will be treated with respect if they give it away.
Read more on crowdSPRING’s Attempt to Make Spec Work Acceptable…
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A Charlie Brown Ad Agency
Laugh at yourself with this hilarious send up of the advertising business via a spoof on "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
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What I’ve Learned from Emptying My Dishwasher
Bruce Colthart is a creative with a morning ritual. one that plays a vital role in Bruce’s work and day. And he’s not alone. What’s your dishwasher? What have you discovered about yourself doing low-concentration chores?
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New Spring 2009 Colors Debut; Download Exclusive Swatches Palette
As New York Fashion Week begins, Pantone once again releases the 10 hottest colors for the upcoming season. Download exclusive ready-to-use palettes of the Spring 2009 colors.
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INTERVIEW: Jim Petersen, Adobe Branding Director, Speaks About Acrobat 9 Design
After years of the "running man," Acrobat's branding has experienced major shifts with every new version since 2004/2005. I talked with the man in charge of Adobe brand strategy to learn what it means.
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Designing Responsibly, Sustainably
Designers sign pact to be environmentally and socially responsible.
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Photoshop Express First Impressions
A web-based Photoshop application has been rumored for a long time and even demoed last year, but it was only in March 2008 that the beta version was released. Here are my first impressions....
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Quark Quitting Desktop?
Quark to discontinue desktop products, move entirely to server-based publishing systems? That's the rumor.
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Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
Maps playing on geographical ignorance provide laughs, address issues.
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Extensis Unveils Universal Type Server
Extensis unveils all new, blazingly fast server-based font management system--Universal Type Server. Last week I got a sneak peak. It was like going from dialup to broadband all over again.
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Experiencing Production Video For The First Time
My professional work has almost never extended into the realm of video, despite easy access to camcorders and production software. But now I've made my first project with Adobe CS3 Production Premium, and it was a blast.
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xTrain.com Combines Quality Training With An Online Community
Everyone knows that learning isn't just about the knowledge but the instructors and the fellow classmates, sharing a common quest for self-improvement. xTrain.com is the only electronic training source I know that fosters a real community.
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Identity Crisis! Has Broad Appeal
Portland logo designer's book illustrates ins and outs of brand rethinks in format that pleases both the logo maven and at least a few members of the public at large
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The Gallery Of Regrettable Type: We’ll Pass On This Party
Contributor Jeff Marshall sends along this example of a party for the eyes, proving, sometimes, too much is indeed more than enough:
All those type sizes! All those colors! I was still drowsy from sleep when I looked at that; that scene of the two all-fruit fruit juice nugget factory workers fleeing in terror from the explosion at the factory cleared that up. I just hope they made it out okay. Reuters, are you on this one?
Read more on The Gallery Of Regrettable Type: We’ll Pass On This Party…
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The Gallery Of Regrettable Type: Some Dashes Are More Equal Than Others
This text ain't big enough for both of us
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DGV Free Font: Basic Light
An offering from Büro Boris Dworschak, it's a spare, structural line with curved corners, and it's free from Dei Gestalten Verlag.
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