One dozen years of fonts festivals in the Design Center...
Fonts Festival: Designers talk about Type & Fonts
For our 12th Annual Fonts Festival, we asked readers in the Design Cafe to reflect on type, typography, fonts or lettering. We struck a fine chord and have an excellent line-up of comments, tips and goodies for... The Fonts Festival.
The Official Type for the 12th Anniversary
Our good friend and master graphics expert Michael Doret provides us with this year's official typography -- and you can bet we'll be using it a lot because it's so wonderful-- Michael Doret's fabulous Metroscript font!
SPECIAL EVENT: Signs & Centuries
This article, excerpted from Allworth's "DESIGNING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS Creating Contexts For Clarity and Meaning" -- expert Rubén Fontana embodies the very essence of what it's all about when he asks these important questions about typography
New Typography: What difference does it make?
With the new generation of desktop publishing software, it has become much easier to set professional quality typography. Design & publishing expert David Bergsland takes a brief look at the New Typography
Graphic Design: LOGOs back to basics
Dan Antonelli is back with another thoughtful look at logo design. In this article, Dan asks if we are over-designing logos, and demonstrates a low-cost, two-color approach that takes Logo Design Back to the Basics
PowerStation from Alphabet Soup
This is the debut of Michael Doret's Alphabet Soup font collection -- and along with Metroscript, we're proud to present this unique font that actually is eight fonts in one! Get two-color power with PowerStation
People in Fonts
This was the year for icon and dingbat fonts. Here are two people fonts, one provides great pictograms for signing systems and the other highly usable, high quality outlines from actual photographs of People in everyday life
The Year of the Ornament Font
Here comes Gerald Gallo again with a collection of ornamental icons and dingbats fonts that span from antique flowers to Art Nouveau ornaments to modern-day swirls... Gallo Ornaments Fonts
Banner year for P22
Yes, P22 and the International House of Fonts (IHOF) have been busy coming up with all kinds of new fonts for you... Michael Clark's Peanut font; P22 Zaner and P22 Allyson, by Paul Hunt; and Constructivist in the tradition of Revolution era artists... P22 joins the Festival
Patterns Tips from Artlandia
Artlandia brings this article with valuable tips on producing patterns... particularly in their awesome program SymmetryShop -- you no longer have to endure the tedious process of making patterns Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator Tips for Patternmakers from Artlandia
Photoshop Madness
Stupid Photoshop Web Pages * Photoshop Pro of the Month: Nicolas Noben * Post processing * Another Missing Photoshop Guru * Photo Journalism Ethics * COOL STUFF: Vertus Fluid Mask * VIDEO tutorial: Saving Color Swatches * QUESTION OF THE MONTH: Torn Paper Edge Effects * Free Stuff and much more... in Photoshop Madness
FALL FONTS FESTIVAL CONTINUES
... through next month with anything and everything for lovers of fonts, type, typography, logotype, typographs, monograms, and more.
Better yet, you can win some valuable prizes, perhaps even the all new "Fall Fonts Festival" just for sharing your reflections, tips, or treasures in fonts, and typography... make sure you register to WIN
& ELSE...
This month's &Else includes: some good mailbag items, Digital Photo Blow, Digital Camera bookshelf, Designer's Guide to Mac OS X Tiger, Practice of Design Inside/Outside, Digital printing reports, HumanEyes PrintPro 2.0, and more &Else!
SEARCH: The Design Center or the WEB
MORE: continues on the next page...
Photoshop Questions Need Answers
Photoshop 911 has been overwhelmed with questions from readers -- looking for answers! If you are a Photoshop guru, we urge you to stop in and tackle some of the many Photoshop and Photoshop Elements questions from the Photoshop 911 Help Line. Help us Answer Questions from Readers
Previously:
- Graphic Design: Back to (Design) School
- Field Trip: Looking for Art in all the right places
- Photoshop: MORE Photoshop, Photography & Multimedia books...
- Web: MORE Web Design & Content Management Books
- Photoshop: Photoshop's Ink Outlines Filter
- Graphic Design: Complex Tables in Adobe InDesign
- Photoshop: Realistic, complicated shadows in Photoshop
- Graphic Design: Spiral Binding using Adobe InDesign
- Field Trip: The perfect photo subject
- Reviews: Movie Editing Made Easy... Movie Edit Pro
- 60-Second Window #188 AOL Gone Bad
- Photoshop: Selective Coloring tutorial with Tim Shelbourne
- Photoshop: July Photoshop (PHOTO) Madness
- Graphic Design: Logos: The Apple Core vs. Linear Logic with Maggie Macnab
- Graphic Design: Logos: An effective logo is easy to grasp with Dan Antonelli
- Graphic Design: Logos: Grand Brand Theft with Susan Kirkland
- Photoshop: Using Photoshop to Whiten Teeth and Eyes with Barry Huggins
- Photoshop: Awesome Patterns generate spectacular patterns for web or print
- Fonts: The Declaration font set 1776 alive and well
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60-Seconds #187: NET NEUTRALITY... or, The Bandwidth Wars - Net Neutrality: UGNN Reports on Net Neutrality: pro and con coverage
- Photoshop: June Photoshop (SURF) Madness
- MORE: on the next page...
Got Photoshop Questions? Who do you call?
Visit Photoshop 911's blog -- now you can comment on posts, and even lend a helping hand where needed... who do you call?
Photoshop 911 Call Reports
Here comes this month's batch of reports from the Photoshop 911 call line. The most interesting is how one user solves the problem of removing the background from multiple shots of a rotating product for a 3D video... there are seven others, and you'll want to read them all:In the Photoshop 911 FAQ department
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