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The Best Design Conferences in 2018 (and beyond)
Find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people at these design festivals.
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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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28 creative lettering and type tips for artists
Leading illustrators including Inkymole, Supermundane, Melita Berg, Daisy Emerson and Alex Fowkes reveal their techniques for creating lettering in your illustrations and designs.
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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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24 brush lettering tips and techniques
Five leading illustrators on how to create brilliant brush stroke lettering - including what brushes to use, where to find inspiration, dry eraser and acrylic paint techniques, and how to paint onto an object.
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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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Lettering artist Justin Poulter on working for National Geographic, Little White Lies & moving into Print Club London's studio space
We unpick Justin’s array of lettering projects and how he hopes to set up his own studio in the year ahead.
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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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Best Free Fonts: 43 Free Typefaces Every Designer Should Have
Whether you want a beautiful vintage typeface, a smart sans, an elegant serif, a script or an interactive font that turns itself into bar graphs, find our pick of 43 free fonts you want to download.
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Adobe CC buying guide: pricing, new features, discounts & free trials
Adobe released Creative Cloud (CC) in October 2011, in a move towards becoming more of a software-as-a-service provider (though you can use CC products offline as well). If you’re considering a shift to the cloud as well, but aren’t totally sure where (or how) to start, or if it’s worth it, here’s what you need to know.
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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.
