July, 2009

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2 Step Grunge Photo Effect

pshero

Step 1 Obviously a photo effect requires a photo. I find this effect works awesome on photos of people, so here’s a photo of this funny looking surfer I know. Step 2 With the photo open, lets first make sure our foreground and background colors are set to Black & White by pressing the D […].

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Ask H&Co: Fonts for Financials

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Annual reports offer designers a marvelous opportunity to strut their stuff. In the hands of a thoughtful typographer, a dense volume of technical text can become warm and welcoming, its changing rhythm of introductions, statements, analyses, and disclosures calling for a beautiful typographic system to help organize the text. Financial data can be uniquely satisfying to design, offering an irresistible opportunity to work with large type families in intricate ways.

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THE PRICE OF MINT CONDITION

Illustration Art

The world is divided into those who seal their comic books in mylar containers and those who do not. This division is more fundamental than differences in politics, race, religion or gender. At last week's San Diego Comic-Con , collectors with the foresight to preserve their comics in mint condition reaped huge economic benefits. Comic books that had been hermetically sealed, unread, in climate controlled environments sold for hundreds of times the price of battered, well read comics.

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Ask H&Co: Fonts for Financials

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Annual reports offer designers a marvelous opportunity to strut their stuff. In the hands of a thoughtful typographer, a dense volume of technical text can become warm and welcoming, its changing rhythm of introductions, statements, analyses, and disclosures calling for a beautiful typographic system to help organize the text. Financial data can be uniquely satisfying to design, offering an irresistible opportunity to work with large type families in intricate ways.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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In Today’s Mail

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

H&Co designs fonts for print, web, and mobile environments.

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