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New digital archive provides invaluable insights into the evolution of Canadian type

Creative Boom

The project is dedicated to documenting and preserving typographic history – from every corner and community across Canada. Future phases will bring the stories up through the 2000s, documenting the seismic shift in communication that began with the introduction of computers and digital fonts. And this is just the start.

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How to Write an Advertising Brief (With Free Advertising Brief Template)

Canny

For any project involving advertisements of any shape or size, writing an advertisement brief is vital for success. Whether you’re looking to advertise on TV, on the radio, in newspapers or on billboards, every piece of advertising needs to be based around your goals and planned before they can be executed. download now.

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Brighter Later: Lettering and typography at the British seaside to be celebrated as the clocks spring forward

Creative Boom

His research resulted in Resorting to Type, a recent exhibition in Margate that documented the influences of nineteenth-century bold advertising typefaces such as Serifs, Slab Serifs, Fat Faces, and the under-documented Tuscan in its decorative and chromatic flamboyance.

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Go Public With Privacy

Straight North

Data breaches, ad tracking, misuse of personal data and other issues have rattled the public, justifiably so. While many data breaches occurred without much media fanfare, enormous attacks on major brands such as Capital One and Evite raised public awareness — and fear. Differentiate Your Small or Midsize Business.

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Showcasing illustration work: how to create your best portfolio

Creative Boom

If you're looking to court advertising and branding projects, I suggest you create more lifestyle-focused illustrations. Depicting happy, beautiful people in aspirational surroundings will always make your work more likely to be chosen for advertising campaigns." List brands, agencies and publications you want to work with."

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The Evolving Legacy of Ken Garland’s First Things First Manifesto

Eye on Design

The late Ken Garland ’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public meeting, has become a tradition of enduring protest that its originator could never have predicted. Garland visited Adbusters in Vancouver and agreed to add his signature to the revised document.

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“Exploring Unfamiliar Histories of Visual Culture” — Four Corners Books Shares Its Favorite Publications

Eye on Design

In Footnotes and Headlines , she does this thing that she does with the screen prints, where she’s using language and words and advertising slogans in a very sort of playful way, where she uses them as much for their visual impact as for the message that’s being communicated. It’s called The Clown Egg Register.