Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for ...
Technorati Tags: ArrayEvery now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for ...
Technorati Tags: ArrayEvery now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for ...
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Droog Design have given their website a much welcome overhaul, it's hard to remember the last version but it was a little too designed with individual hyperlinks on every word in a sentence--very annoying. This one is a huge improvement and does a much better job presenting their impressive collection of work and designers.
With the rising costs of fuel, airlines are taking extreme measures to lose weight. Many companies in the States are persuading passengers to travel light by charging a fee for additional checked luggage. Air Canada's regional carrier Jazz is taking it one step further and removing life vests to lighten the load.
The entries are coming fast a furious now for the latest 1 Hour Design Challenge: Back-to-school Bag.
Picking a few recent highlights, from top-to-bottom are LT21's Hard Shell SquatPak, elliotts21's Le Mondrian, and Bbarn's Campus Media Bag. We also dig Savage's ModPac, nourmalaeb's Velcrometre (LOVE the name!), and idfarmer's totally awesome Nomadstic!
Admit it--when you hear the words "copyright violation," the first place you think of is China; you probably don't think of, say, Home Depot.
Well, check out the two lamps up top. Recognize 'em? Can you even tell 'em apart? Here's the deal, from an NYC tipster:
I have to say I don't love this guy's font, but it's a cool way of thinking about hand lettering. And further proof that architects really just wish they were graphic designers... (BURN!)
A bite-sized list of what's happenin' now:
salon
Ask the pilot: Who cares what planes look like?
wired
Gadget Designers Push the Limits of Size, Safety
brooklyn eagle
Pratt Design Student Recruited To Steer GM Into a Green Future
PureAustrianDesign have relaunched their website just in time for Vienna Design Week. Anyone familiar with the PAD exhibition platform that regularly tours the international design circuit will know these guy's are instrumental in fostering home grown Austrian talent, other countries looking to promote their own design culture should start taking notes.
A bit late on this, but make sure you don't miss Steve Portigal's 4th column at Interactions Magazine, discussing the challenges of delivering design research insights to clients, and the need to take time so that they're wise, appropriate, and meaningful. Tough to pick just one sample from the article, but here's a nice bit on the notorious focus group:
This isn't strictly design-related, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I've got a buddy who writes for the newswires, where it's all about getting breaking news out first. So when they get a whiff that something might happen--say you hear a rumor that a certain CEO has contracted a fatal illness--they'll often pre-write the news of it and put it on ice. When the event comes to pass, they plug in the numbers and post it.
One of the most controversial events on the international creative awards calendar, the results of the 5th Annual Chip Shop Awards were recently announced at the Edinburgh International Festival.
One of our favourite contemporary artists, Paul Insect, has a new site-specific show, Poison, opening at a former bath house somewhere in the Kings Cross area of London on 12 September. The show will feature "twelve skeletal bunny girl sculptures"...
Choosing blogging software can be a scary process, especially if you are new to blogging. There are many different types of engines and content management systems (CMS) that could be used. Picking the software that you’ll need is not an easy task, given the wide variety and types on the Web today.
