Sat.Feb 13, 2010 - Fri.Feb 19, 2010

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Film Inspired Photo Borders

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Introduction In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to convert a flat black on white photo border into a much more usable one in just a few simple steps. The image we’ll be working from comes to us courtesy of Andrea Rascaglia who put together a nice collection of these a few years […].

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Typography Delivered Fresh

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

A friend who teaches typography to undergraduates recently asked an unexpected favor: “can my students browse the e-mails Hoefler&Co sends out?” Apparently he’s in the habit of circulating printouts with his students, when they raise questions that we’ve recently discussed with our readers — how to choose fonts for information-heavy projects like annual reports being an especially hot topic, though he also encourages his students to dig deeply in the character s

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WILLIAM HATHERELL (1855-1928)

Illustration Art

William Hatherell was a Victorian era illustrator who worked for magazines such as The Graphic , Harpers , Scribner's and the Century. Today he is mostly remembered for crudely printed images such as these: The printing technology in Hatherell's day was pretty primitive. Combined with cheap paper stock, it stripped Hatherell's work of much of its sensitivity and expressiveness.

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The Tablet Magazine

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Wired gets it. Today they’re going public with the prototype they shared with us a few weeks ago, and if you’re like me, your reaction will be an instantaneous “neat!” followed immediately by “well, isn’t it obvious it was supposed to work this way?” When something creates and fulfills expectations at the same time, you know you’ve got it right. —JH.

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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