Opinion: Why Pentagram's new Windows 8 logo is pure genius
Microsoft has unveiled a new look for the Windows logo for Windows 8. Here's why I think it's a brilliant move.
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Adobe reveals more on CS6 and Creative Cloud launch plans
Adobe will launch its Creative Cloud software-and-services bundle alongside CS6.
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>> Promotion: Learn how to design a brilliant animated web banner
PROMOTION: HOW TO DESIGN A BRILLIANT ANIMATED WEB BANNER
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How Bram Vanhaeren turned an idea every day into typographic designs
The digital artist's latest project is to produce regular type-based artworks based on positive quotes, under the banner of An Idea Everyday.
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Skyrill makes type explode
Skyrill took every letter of the alphabet, extruded them in 3D and then blew them up as if under extreme pressure to create a series of inspired CG artworks.
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Interview: New Designers Hallmark Award winner Lucinda Ireland
At the New Designers exhibition, Lucinda Ireland picked up the Hallmark Award. We interview her, and find out why 'Girls Like Type Too'.
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Illustrators recreate 70s movie posters for Little White Lies exhibition
A new exhibition in London has artists including Joe Wilson, Autumn Whitehurst and Craig Redman recreating classic 70s movie posters by creating some stunning illustrations.
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Nadine Chahine creates typeface in memory of assassinated Lebanese newspaper editor
Linotype type designer Nadine Chahine has created the Gebran2005 typeface for An-Nahar, Lebanon’s leading Arabic-language daily newspaper, as part of a major redesign of the publication.
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First Look: QuarkXPress 9
QuarkXPress 9 is due to ship later this month, promising more contextual automation to simplify the creation of complex documents.
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ADC Young Guns 9 competition for creatives under 30 open to entries
The Art Directors Club (ADC) has opened its ADC Young Guns 9 competition for creatives and designers age 30 or younger.
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Nina Tara taps classic graphic design for covers of comics based on Agatha Christie murder mysteries
Nina Tara takes us through the design process of her outstanding covers for a series of graphic novels based on the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie from publisher HarperCollins.
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Six Brits pick up ADC Young Guns gongs
Six British creatives, including Gemma Correll, HelloVon, Martin Nicolausson and Mark Ward, have picked up ADC Young Guns awards from the Art Director's Club.
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Get free fonts as used by Seb Lester, Thomas Brown and Tsang Kin-Wah
Arjowiggins and Typofonderie have launched five free typefaces to promote the new Conqueror range of papers, and has got designers including Seb Lester to create artworks from them.
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How the Arabic version of Helvetica was created
Redesigning and updating classic fonts is always a challenge -- but how do you reimagine Neue Helvetica for a completely different script?
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Font tips: Printing type samples
Clever developers have come up with several useful utilities for printing font specimen pages -- not only for active fonts, but also for those you haven't yet installed.
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Veer adds dozens of new fonts
Stock library Veer has announced that it has added a raft of new fonts to its typeface collection, including a number of exclusive faces and designs by cult designers Alejandro Paul and Rian Hughes.
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Radim Malinic details explosively colourful work on London Film Museum rebrand
Radim Malinic discusses his vibrant rebrand of the London Film Museum, which transformed the South Bank-based exhibition with a riot of colour.
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Font talk: Have we written off Verdana too easily?
The typeface Verdana was released in 1996 as an easy-to-read font for Websites, and in the intervening years, it has been used and misused in just about every imaginable way. For example, the Swedish furniture retailer Ikea recently began using Verdana in its printed materials, which caused an uproar among designers around the world.
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DEADLINE APPROACHING: D&AD Awards 2010
The deadline for entries to the D&AD Awards is in one week's time (January 27). The awards recognise the best of international creativity in a range of disciplines, from illustration to environmental and product design.
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DEADLINE APPROACHING: ABC Dimensional book
Creatives have until this Wednesday to submit their 3D typography projects for the chance to be included in a new book, ABC Dimensional, by London-based studio [email protected]'s designers Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek.