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Call for Entries: Finding Forte

Fonts in Use

Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Microsoft licensed the digitized version and bundled the font with their Office software, starting with Publisher 97. A selection of the most interesting in-use examples will be published on Fonts In Use. License: All Rights Reserved.

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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

During the eight months since the UK declared the first of its nationwide lockdowns, writers have still written, publishers have still published and book designers have continued to produce an ever-varied range of covers for new titles.

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City Lights Cast an Aura of Anonymous Mystique Over Keita Morimoto’s Streetscapes

Colossal

In Keita Morimoto ’s paintings, soft yellow streetlights, LED shop signs, and clinical beams of a public transit stop expose the discomfiting nature of perpetual surveillance. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. All images © Keita Morimoto, shared with permission.

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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging. First, he began experimenting with digital design and desktop publishing software as an early adopter of the Apple operating systems.

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

The term branding used over here mainly refers to the visual outputs that a company/individual would publish. Everyone could use a giggle now and then when they see a tacky shop sign seemingly made with Powerpoint. Nothing was overlooked. And also, maybe, don’t look at Behance too much for inspiration.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$8.00 $72.00 How did the Middle Ages use signs and signifiers for communication? Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R. When did the concept of abstract logos emerge?

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Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences

UX Collective

For example, the act of buying coffee is driven by the desire for caffeine, the presence of money and a nearby coffee shop, and the coffee shop sign serving as a prompt. A parallel theory, FBM, simplifies behavior into a function of motivation, ability, and a prompt (or trigger).

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