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The Best Figma Fonts of 2024 

Noupe

Created by Andrew Paglinawan in 2008 with geometric shapes as its foundation, it underwent significant revisions by Thomas Jockin in 2016 to enhance its quality. Tilt is a font family that’s all about the visuals, drawing inspiration from city landscapes, especially the bold lettering seen on shop signs.

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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

The Olympics is a major television event – the 2016 Rio Olympics drew in 3.6 Look out for the shop signs and logos that use pictograms originally designed for the Tokyo 1964 Olympics as well as a music video inspired by US gymnast Simone Biles. billion viewers worldwide.

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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. “And what’s happening now is that people are starting to sit in the little boxes that people outside of India have created for us.”

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

As Mark Sheerin describes it in his review of Banner’s 2016 show Buoys Boys , Font “combines an old-fashioned ecclesiastical look and feel with an au courant encounter with the computerized glitch.”

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