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DT&G : Design, Typography & Graphics for September 2014 (PART ONE)

September 2, 2014
Fred Showker

01 Hello September and kick-off of the 20th Annual Festival
02 This Year’s Fonts Fest Poster
03 20th Annual Fonts Festival : fonts, lettering and typography surf
04 Fonts, lettering and typography surf TWO
05 Fonts, lettering and typography surf THREE
06 Photoshop Fonts, type, lettering effects tutorials Madness
07 Major bundle : 1000s of PSD and Ai files for pennies each
08 P22 respecting traditional typography values with today technology
09 60-Seconds #156 : Freelancing Pitfalls
10 JumboZilla: Thousands of Super Premium Design Resources
11 Marketing Update : End of Summer, on to big marketing season
12 Creative Update 178 — Design, Typography and Graphics for September
13 &Else: Photo Editing App Insta Split for Instagram Released
14 &Else: Perfect Auto-Updating Photo Frame Using Unbound And Dropbox
15 PART ONE … keep watching for PART TWO

DTG Newsletter ~ Vol. 24, #9 ~ September

  1. Hello September and kick-off of the 20th Annual Festival
  2. This Year’s Fonts Fest Poster
  3. 20th Annual Fonts Festival : fonts, lettering and typography surf
  4. Fonts, lettering and typography surf TWO
  5. Fonts, lettering and typography surf THREE
  6. Photoshop Fonts, type, lettering effects tutorials Madness
  7. Major bundle : 1000s of PSD and Ai files for pennies each
  8. P22 respecting traditional typography values with today technology
  9. 60-Seconds #156 : Freelancing Pitfalls
  10. JumboZilla: Thousands of Super Premium Design Resources
  11. Marketing Update : End of Summer, on to big marketing season
  12. Creative Update 178 — Design, Typography and Graphics for September
  13. &Else: Photo Editing App Insta Split for Instagram Released
  14. &Else: Perfect Auto-Updating Photo Frame Using Unbound And Dropbox
  15. PART ONE … keep watching for PART TWO

Hello September and kick-off of the 20th Annual Festival

DTGnewsYes, it’s that time of year again — it’s the most anticipated and most widely read issue of DT&G, and the most traffic in the Design Center. Here comes all the fun with type, lettering, calligraphy, fonts and typography all over the world. But wait…

PROBLEMS THIS YEAR : Our 20th year edition is too big to send in a single email. Even when we send ascii text only, it won’t fit through many gateways. And you know we always say : “You know your email sucks if it’s HTML” . . . so this month’s newsletter will come in TWO PARTS. This is PART ONE . . . read and enjoy!

Don’t forget, the Fonts Fest is two months — it runs through October! So if you missed getting your portfolio seen by millions of readers, there’s still time to let us know you’ve got something to say

This Year’s Fonts Fest Poster

Of course we have an all new poster for this year! But we did it just a little differently — we pulled from all the 20 years of festivals in the Design Center. We’ve even provided you a hot link to generate your own, unique, Fonts Festival results in Google’s image search. Please enjoy! But let me tell you a little secret: If you pin that poster in your Pinterest or share it in your Facebook, then send me a screen proving you did it, your name will be in a drawing for a matted and FRAMED version of the poster, signed as “ap” by me, ready to hang — carefully packaged and shipped to your door! This offer is ONLY available in this newsletter, nowhere online. Period. Good luck.
GO This Year’s Fonts Fest Poster

20th Annual Fonts Festival : fonts, lettering and typography surf

My favorite part of the annual fonts fest is just searching for cool entries and resources to share with the DTG readers! If I ever give up the internet publishing thing, this is probably one activity I’ll continue in my 60-Second Windows blog. With Pinterest, Tumblr and all the various social image sharing medias, there’s no shortage of hunting grounds. You could easily make a full-time job of discovering cool stuff, all day, every day, without seeing the same things twice.

In this first surf for 2014, I’m filtering to the unusual, and off the beaten paths. Much of the surf so far is more about the human interaction with lettering, fonts and typography than the fonts themselves. And of course, that’s the most important end result of typography in the first place!
GO 20th Annual Fonts Festival : fonts, lettering and typography surf

Fonts, lettering and typography surf TWO

As we continue our 2014 fonts and lettering surf, we now visit some studios of extraordinary visual communicators! This is where we enjoy seeing fresh, inspiring uses of fonts, typography and lettering. On this page we’ll be visiting the polished clean works of * Matthew Tapia, then off to the Design and creativity * TYPEFIGHT Letter vs. Letter, and the * studios of Design and creativity Ruslan Khasanov! So follow along …
GO Fonts, lettering and typography surf TWO

Fonts, lettering and typography surf THREE

We always meet some awesome talents during the Fonts Festival … as we do all year long. The next talents were actually suggested by DTG readers throughout the year. We often ask for your suggestions, tips and favorites — and while we sadly don’t get a lot of response, we have gotten some real winners. These are just a few examples of some of the visits we’ll be making along this year’s surf. * Courtney Jeanette; * Julia Ruetten; Design and creativity * Erik Marinovich; and Design and creativity * The wonderful world of Karen To! So follow along …
GO Fonts, lettering and typography surf THREE

Photoshop Fonts, type, lettering effects tutorials Madness

Okay, we’ve put aside the foolishness and included only acceptable tutorials this month in celebration of the 20th Annual Fall Fonts Festival … text effects go hand-in-hand with fonts, lettering, typography and calligraphy — and Photoshop is almost everyone’s favorite way to accomplish the impossible …
* Create Awesome Splashing Water Text Effect in Photoshop
* Colorful Plexi-glass Text Effect using Photoshop
* Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment
* Create Colorful 3D Text Effect in Photoshop
* Rescue Shadow Detail in Photography
* Create a Silver Style Text Effect
* Create 3D Text Art in Photoshop
* 3D Textured Text Effect
* Curled red ribbon
. . . and MORE
GO Photoshop Fonts, type, lettering effects tutorials Madness

Major bundle : 1000s of PSD and Ai files for pennies each

Help us celebrate the 20th Annual festival! We’re giving away over $4,000 in stock, clip art, raster, vector resources for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, for the paltry license fee of $69. The holidays are just around the corner — here’s Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and all kinds — actually more than 1,000 — vector and raster graphics files under several dozen catagories! How can you pass this up?

P22 respecting traditional typography values with today technology

We’ve been friends with Jimy Chambers and the P22 fonts foundry for nearly 20 years! We’ve discussed article ideas, looked at antique fonts, and exchanged countless emails. I’ve come to respect Jimy and the P22 gang for their interest in preserving the true principles and values of typography and font design.
GO P22 respecting traditional typography values with today technology

60-Seconds #156 : Freelancing Pitfalls

I first published this article in 1996, and then updated and brushed it up in 2001. I was reading an online article by someone else the other day and it copied this article almost word-for-word. So, I thought I would remind everyone that good business practices really don’t go out of style — this is just as valid as it was more than 20 years ago!

JumboZilla: Thousands of Super Premium Design Resources

To celebrate “Back to Design School” and the 20th Anniversary of the Fonts Fest, the Design Center and DTG Magazine has partnered with one of the leading deals websites in the entire design community, with an extended family of more than 300,000 design enthusiasts. But these are not just designers — they’re illustrators, typographers, photographers, journalists, art directors, painters artists, publicists, marketers, scrapbookers, craftspeople, sign painters, fabricators, CnC machine oporators, and visual communicators from all corners of the world. What we’ve cooked up for you — with this coupon — will blow your mind!

Marketing Update : End of Summer, on to big marketing season

We’re through the summer “dog dazze” and now into the biggest marketing quarter for the year, pay attention :
[*] 6 strategies to assess if a bold new idea is worth the risk
[*] Priceline Seeks Results From Facebook as Google Wins Ads
[*] Media relations techniques that don’t involve pitching
[*] 5 ways to build brand awareness through content
[*] 5 Little-known YouTube Features for Marketers
[*] Metrics That Matter
… and more
GO Marketing Update : End of Summer, on to big marketing season

Creative Update 178 — Design, Typography and Graphics for September

From baseball teams to packaging to license plates, designers touch just about everything in our lives. This creative inspiration column hopes to touch on just about everything to, from design, typography and graphics to helping you be better designers! Follow along:
[_] Blitz Media Design Logos Selected for Lewis & Clark Baseball League Uniforms
[_] Tips on Graphic Design for Translation 1: Styles, Layouts, Fonts
[_] DesignStudio creates ‘symbol of belonging’ for Airbnb rebrand
[_] Xara may have the Adobe substitute you’ve been looking for?
[_] Edmonton designers come up with own Alberta licence plate
[_] The Lost Graphic Designs of a Short-Lived Democracy
[_] Stranger lends street artist a helping hand
… and more !
GO Creative Update 178 — Design, Typography and Graphics for September

&Else: Photo Editing App Insta Split for Instagram Released

For all those users of Instagram, Insta Split Photo Editor for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad allows the users to blend several photos in a single frame. The app has many (18) layouts each of which can be adjusted for the size. With this app, maybe we won’t see so many horrible Instagram photos!
GO &Else: Photo Editing App Insta Split for Instagram Released

&Else: Perfect Auto-Updating Photo Frame Using Unbound And Dropbox

Graphic Designers should all know about DropBox, and at least try it. This app will add so much more functionality to your online photo storage. From printing to showing, here’s an elegant way to browse your photos and videos both online and offline
GO &Else: Perfect Auto-Updating Photo Frame Using Unbound And Dropbox

PART ONE … keep watching for PART TWO

With the Fall Fonts Festival under way, we’ll be adding new items all through the month, and into October. It’ll be fun, and don’t forget to share your favorite type and font comments!

The BAD NEWS : The first six years of the fonts fest were build with HTML #1 web pages, and 256 color 640-by-480 monitor depths. 100% of the links in the first 8 years of the fest have gone dead. People just think nothing of letting their links go dead. So, unfortunately we can only go back to #10 or so — and even then, more than half of the links are dead and Google is penalizing us for those pages. But hey, when Google has been online in excess of 25 years, like the Design Center, maybe they will have learned some manners. Maybe not.

We’ll probably get started on the Holiday season during October as well, so get your thinking cap ready to share holiday and seasonal tips, tricks and promotions for November and December.

GO
September is brought to you by the letter “S”

And, as for this month, well, you’ve already wasted a perfectly good hour reading the DTG newsletter. Hopefully all is not wasted and you’ve gained at least one helpful tidbit of info.

Thanks for reading

+FredShowker, Editor / Publisher @Showker

Parting words for September…
      “Be nice to people on your way up…
          you’ll meet them on your way down.”
            – Jimmy Durante


THIS NEWSLETTER CONTINUES WITH PART TWO

 

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