March, 2014

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USPS Stamps

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Even when “communications” meant an e-mail campaign delivered to 317 readers, Journey Group of Charlottesville, VA recognized that stamps have a story to tell — and not just to collectors. Stamps are built on typography, making the web a natural place to share their rich visual heritage, and making web fonts an important part of the experience.

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CLARIFICATIONS

Illustration Art

Last week's series on the importance of good drawing prompted the following observations from other web sites: "Apatoff is always infuriating." "He seems to have a real bug up his behind. " "[F]or f**ks sake." "You dont understand comics." "cartooning isnt drawing," "[Y]ou invariably write nonsense." "Chris Wares comics. do not employ drawing. " Others might rest on their laurels at this point, but I have three additional clarifications to offer on the subject of good drawing: 1.

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Pied Piper Work In Progress

Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

Hoping to finish this tomorrow.

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How to be rich like me

Paul Jarvis

People assume that if they’ve heard of you, you must be raking it in. The theory goes something like this: If you work for yourself and make things that other people buy, your income magically skyroc.

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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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Introducing Surveyor

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

We’re delighted to introduce Surveyor, a new family of fonts for print and web, and sizes large and small. I love maps, and not just for their vintage charm. I admire them as highly functional pieces of design, packing extraordinary amounts of information into small spaces, and invisibly educating readers about how they’re meant to be read.

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New paintings on the drawing board.

Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

I've started work on two of these ideas this week, the lamplighter and the pied piper fox. The others are an old fashioned rag and bone man (these days it seems scrappers looking for metal have taken their place) and a record keeper which will be loosely based on Autumn Scribe. The top two are for later on but first I have to master multiple hens dancing and the awkward perspective created by medieval buildings on a hill in the pied piper.

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

We’re marking the change to H&Co with some updates to our font library, some new features on the site, and some good news for app developers. Improved mobile fonts. We’ve remastered all 1,094 fonts in our library to deliver even more consistent performance across desktop, web, and mobile environments. In the past, we’d supplied app developers with special “mobile” versions of fonts built for iOS and Android — but starting today, any fonts you purchase for

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