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Free Font Friday: Bohema
Bohema is an Art Deco font with a modern twist, available in 8 distinct styles and is ideal for headlines, editorial letterings, branding, merchandising and a special occasion that requires a different typeface. By buying the full pack you will receive, as a bonus, 4 alternative styles which include alternative characters.
You can download the regular alternative style demo absolutely for free!
Bohema is currently available for sale at YouWorkForThem, HypeForType and Myfonts.
Buy The Whole Font | Get the Regular Style Free
Monday Report | 07·18·11
Heat Sensitive Ink
I know this may be old hat, but I just discovered this great business card design by the French Studio Murmure. They respond to your body heat to reveal text.
Make Photoshop Faster
Some quick and simple tips from @danrubin to optimize this bloated program. If they work, send your appreciation to twitter.com/@danrubin.
Pour Coffee without Spilling, Finally
Millions of English ladies are wrong: Teapots are gross. Tea inevitably drips on the counter when you pour, then whatever’s left over gathers around the edges of the spout creating a yucky limescale. And it’s not like the stuff is easy to clean off; trying to jam a sponge in a spout is like putting a square peg in a round hole.
Eric Fischer’s Light Maps
I love these lightmaps from Eric Fischer’s photostream. Great desktop wallpaper as well.
Monday Report | 07·11·11
The Beer Making Process
Check out this cool animated GIFs advertising the beer making process.
Are Designers Ignoring Sex?
Women Are 85% Of The Consumer Market. But How Do You Reach Them? Read More
Simon Foster put together a great list of online resources for designers.
Show some state pride!
The 50 by 50 print shop is now open. Remember, Wisdom, Justice & Moderation!
Check it out
Minneapolis’s own Wink just launched an awe some new site.
$1 Wedding
A Vending Machine That Does Marriages For $1. Why not? Imagine what you could spend on the honeymoon! Read More
So glad I came across Newswordy (built and curated by Josh Smith), a site that cat a logs and defines buzz words used in the news me dia. Great design and content.
How much “Marc Jacobs” can you fit on a clothing label?
http://brandmix.blogspot.com/2011/05/jacobs-by-marc-jacobs-for-marc-by-marc.html
Support on Kickstarter the movie about Design Thinking
http://designandthinking.blogspot.com/
Free Font Friday: TOMMASO
AN ELEGANT AND ANGULAR CONDENSED UPPER-CASE.
DESIGNED BY ELI HORN
http://www.elihorn.net/
Beautiful line width variation in this condensed sans-serif. Perfect for an elegant modernist headline.
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Free Font Friday: Canaveral
Another great one from the team over at Lost Type. Canaveral is a squat serifed font for maximum clarity in tight spots. Released on the same day as Space Shuttle Endeavor launches for the last time! Download this free and versatile wide serif.
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Monday Report | 06·27·11
New York finally passed the Marriage Equality Bill. It was also incredibly serendipitous that the announcement was made during Pride Week and when the Empire State Building was lit up like a rainbow.
I have no title for this
a perfect video for anybody considering the latest version of Final Cut Pro
» Watch Now (Vimeo)
Five Things IDEO Taught The Feds About Design Thinking
Metropolis magazine has a good feature this month about IDEO’s Tet Offensive against Washington bureaucracy. Peter Hall reports that the feds, inspired by President Obama’s push to demystify big government, have tapped the innovation whizzes at IDEO to take on everything from web design for the Social Security Administration (SSA) to greening federal buildings. The ultimate goal: Make government more humane.
Optimistic Weather App
Tell yourself some sweet lies about that picnic tomorrow.
Just in time for the fourth of July, Jon Contino offers up a patriotic desktop wallpaper over at The Fox is Black. (thanks designworklife)
Attention young designers — this should be your bible: 34 Typographic Sins.
Free Font Friday: Dateline
So I like the show psych (new season coming this fall). I know, it’s no mentalist, but the slapstick humor in the show is nice when you really don’t want to think too much. The font used in the show logo is a fat little font called Dateline (Bold). I can’t find the foundry or designer that actually created this typewriter font, so if anybody knows please tell me in the comments.
This font is available for free, and other weights seem to be spread out across the web for free as well.
Download it now
Monday Report | 06·20·11
The Sexiest toilet in the history of poop, from Kohler.
Want a domain name at .coke, or perhaps a email address from .apple or .nike? New legislation will allow corporations to better manage their brands with new domain names. Read More
Check out this new font Poem Script Pro
Method & Craft gives us some PhotoShop secrets. Read More
Jared has a sweet website, with cutout paper navigation. Check it out
If you are a typophile like me, you might want to check out the Type]Media11 Exhibition Opening. Do It.
If you are a developer, this site may hurt your feelings. CSS Lint is a sweet online tool to help you clean up your CSS. Learn More
Ladies, this is Futura
Free Font Friday: Liberator
Liberator is from a bygone era, when our grandparents fought for the freedom we enjoy today. Its bomber-inspired face provides a masculine punch to any project or design.
DESIGNED BY RYAN CLARK
Ryan Clark is a designer at Virb (so maybe he can tell me what virb. is for). Be sure to check out his portfolio at ryanvsclark.com, he has some great work. I totally want one of his shirts for the salvation army. Born and raised in the Heartland of America, he is offering up his vintage font for free.
Full Alphabet with glyphs and numerals. Windows TrueType and OpenType formats (.ttf/.otf) included.
Monday Report | 06·13·11
1. Simon & Co.
Our latest CV3 shop design is now live. We had a great time partnering with CV3 and working with Jennifer and her team at S&Co. Be sure to check out the design and grab some Father’s Day goods while your there.
2. Spine Out
John Gall, the art director for Vintage and Anchor books has some very impressive work from his book cover design class. The designs are from third and fourth year students and projects include:
- Design a series of classics for a contemporary audience.
- Design a cover for a How To book.
- Design a cover for the novel Lake Overturn.
- Design a cover for a book that is in desperate need of a new cover.
» Read On
3. Always with Honor
The great talent at Always with Honor has given us a site update. Check out the very simple showcase of their recent work, and try not to be hypnotized by the rotating planet.
» Read On
4. Chinese “Home of the Future”
Stunning images from the soon to be built, “Home of the Future.” This Chinese building will be built on top of a mall.
» Read On
5. Web Planning Guide
So many websites are the product of one problem: failure to plan. Smashing Magazine presents this guide in order to help clients, other designers, businesses and organizations plan and realize successful websites.
This guide is written in relatively non-technical language and provides a broad overview of the process of developing a website, from the initial needs assessment through the launch, maintenance and follow-up.
» Read On (Free.99)
6. Cheers, Dad
To celebrate Father’s Day, EveryGuyed and Moxy Creative House have teamed up once again to deliver the second installment of the ‘Cheers!’. This time we had creative director Glenn Michael raise a glass – and his brush – to 8 iconic animated dads, re-envisioning them as beer cans.
When you were a kid, Father’s Day was a pretty boring affair. Now you’re of age, and all of a sudden you have the chance to do something with your dad that he’ll actually enjoy: share a cold one together.
Whether you’re slaking your thirst with Popeye, or drowning your sorrows with Homer Simpson, these designs are a more mature look at the cartoons you grew up with. Cheers.
» Buy Prints ($37)
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