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.
Seymour Chwast: icon of contemporary graphic arts
We have a short visit with Seymour Chwast during his recent visit to JMU... and take a look at some of the visual design and illustration that helped shape a generation of graphic designers ... meet the Left Handed Designer... Seymour Chwast
Take a Type Tour with Fred...
When I realized this is actually the 12th year we've been holding the annual Fall Fonts Festival, I decided to do a little wandering on the web. I went here and there for almost an entire afternoon of research. Now, I invite you to come along and enjoy some interesting, weird, whacky, cool and entertaining places I visited on my Type Tour...
Chris Costello is ...
the guy who designed the "Papyrus" font, so familiar to Mac users... but it dates back to 1983 with Letraset press type! What's Chris been up to since then? A blockbuster fonts collection, all inspired by Antiquity
Run-in Headlines
David Bergsland sez: "Until very recently, what we used to call run-in heads have been very painful to produce." now, he'll show you how to do it, and give you some very good reasons for making... Run-in Headlines
Thinking In Type
Alex White is the leading authority on graphic design using typography. Thinking in Type, The Elements of Graphic Design, and Type In Use continue to be our top recommendation for learning and applying The Practical Philosophy Of Typography
Textura Blackletters in time for Halloween
Some people call Blackletter fonts "Old English" -- what ever you call them, these new ones from P22 type foundry bring some rather special capabilities to the table... new Blackletters from P22
Designing For Print On A Budget
Thomas McKenna instructor for Sessions.edu talks about the never-ending battle of the limited print budget. If you don't have much money to spend on printing, here are a few of the tricks and techniques you can use when Designing For Print On A Budget
Alien fixes photo faux pas
Can you really enlarge digital photographs in Photoshop? As we've all been taught, you can always reduce a digital image with excellent results -- but what about enlarging one! Follow along and see the proof that you can save a low resolution photo for high-end printing as the Alien fixes this photo faux pas
Web Critique: Art works by Mark Vatnsdal
Beth Rogers shares another of her insightful critiques -- this time a site with great art work, but difficult to understand... join us for this critique of Art works by Mark Vatnsdal
We've posted 70 more reader web sites for your review and critique... some really want your advice! Select a reader-posted site for critique...
Photoshop, Graphics, Design and Digital Photography
This month in the Design Bookshelf, there is too much for a single burst: check out the new Photoshop books with RAW and more;
pickup Deke McClelland's latest Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-one; and you don't want to miss our latest digital photography hits with the holidays just around the corner! The graphic design department has several very good ones this month, and for web developers and designers there are three blockbuster hits! All at The Design Bookshelf...
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
NOVEMBER: DESIGNING THE HOLIDAYS
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& ELSE...
This month's &Else includes: lots of new stuff... and more &Else!
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 up to something good...
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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:
- DTP / Fonts: New Typography with David Bergsland
- Design / Fonts: Logo Design Back to the Basics with Dan Antonelli
- Graphic Design: Tips for Patternmakers from Artlandia
- Photoshop: Photoshop Madness crazy Photoshop Users
- 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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