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The Best Art and Design Conferences of 2020
Find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people at these festivals across subjects from concept art and illustration to branding, and from graphic and UX design to animation and VFX.
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Elderly worries over Christmas are exposed in exquisite lettering by Alison Carmichael for Age UK
New adverts remind us no one should have no one to turn to this winter.
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The Berlin Wall inspires a new font for the 30th anniversary of its fall
Words can stop walls when written in this free font.
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Kristina Bold is a font based on a stroke survivor's handwriting
A new font is designed to take over websites and newspapers for World Stroke Day 2019.
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How to print 90% of Pantones without paying for spot colours
This extended gamut guide offers a cheaper alternative to spot-colour printing.
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Best Tattoo Fonts
Most 'tattoo' fonts are crap. Check out these 10 that you might actually use.
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The 'world’s most boring typeface’ just got an update for 2019
The days of manually readjusting the font are over as Helvetica gets one hell of a reboot.
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Feminism meets type as female lettering artists from around the world unite
Typing Feminism showcases exquisite and empowering slogans, just in time for International Women's Day 2019.
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How two designers maintained a long-distance relationship through typography
Valentine's Day is here and it's time to remember the story of two designers in love and the beautiful self-made postcards they made and sent when worlds apart.
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Adobe takes the limits off Typekit, renames to Adobe Fonts
Adobe replaces its Typekit feature for Creative Cloud 2019 with a streamlined fonts service available on all CC plans as of today.
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Stick it to the man with this fun, free font made out of corporate logos
The famous logos of Google, Netflix and more make up this anarchic new typeface.
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Moleskine's new range of notebooks for artists includes concertina & landscape pages
Moleskine's new art collection offers landscape sketchbooks, watercolour support, concertina pages, storyboard frames and more.
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This typeface mixes Braille with visual letters to help make existing public signage more inclusive
Designer Kosuke Takahashi’s Braille Neue concept typeface combines Braille with Latin and Japanese characters enabling visually impaired people to read current public signage.
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Dalton Maag on designing custom typefaces for brands like Netflix, the BBC and Nokia
Type design studio and foundry Dalton Maag explains how a custom typeface is created – and why major brands are increasingly commissioning their own fonts.
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8 digital brands that designed custom typefaces to save millions
Following Netflix Sans, we take a look at digital companies moving away from font licensing in favour of custom typefaces.
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Lettering artists Jessica Hische, Martina Flor, Craig Black & more have designed prints to raise money for arts education
Art and design non-profit WeMake commissioned 26 local and international artists to design a print for Design Week Portland.
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Monotype launches two sans serif typefaces designed for modern brands
Unitext and Madera are legible sans serif fonts for logos and small text in print or digital.
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See Thirst Craft and illustrator Jack Daly’s celebration of Scottish land for Loch Lomond Brewery
A localised collaboration between two Scottish creatives for a Scottish brewery results in an elegant rebrand true to the Loch’s natural beauty.
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Learn digital design techniques with these new, free online video tutorials
MediaMonks senior digital designer Adrian Somoza covers UI design, typography, layout and more on his YouTube channel, Bont Co.
