The Independent

The Independent has just launched ‘i’, its new daily newspaper “designed for people with busy, modern lives”.  But what exactly is it for?
Editor-in-chief Simon Kelner claims that the 20p title is “the first quality daily paper to be launched in Britain for 25 years”
I have to say that the results are however a little confusing, [...]

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A Nice Publication

This is the catalogue that accompanies artist Kamil Kuskowski’s exhibition, The Truth of Painting, which ran earlier in the year at the Piekary Gallery in Poznan, Poland. Seven different stocks, coated and coloured, were utilised to accentuate several techniques used by the artist within his work. There are four chapters in the catalogue, each with [...]

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Pentagram – What type are you?

Ever wondered what font symbolizes you? If so, you should have a go with Pentagram’s novel application to identify what typeface best suits your character.
Having answered the four simple questions I was more than a little surprised to be identified as Cooper Black Italic! It is growing on me but very slowly!
Try it out for [...]

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MK12 Motion Graphics

As part of the “Issues” class project, for which I’m putting together a kinetic typography piece, I’ve been looking for inspiration on the superb Vimeo.com. Whereas there are hundreds of good examples on both Vimeo and Youtube, I came across one studio in particular whose work just blew my mind. Motion Graphics studio MK12 have [...]

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Learn Too Fucking Spell

Amusing and informative article by web designer, Paddy Donnelly that really hits the nail on the head. The article is a semi-rant at those designers who don’t bother to learn the differences between “too” and “to”, “it’s” and “its”, and “affect” and “effect” (These last two in particular I see people mixing up all the [...]

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Merry Forrester

Blog post: http://winnieshek.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/merry-forrester/

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Painless and quick are rarely associated with successful

This is my contribution to the Viscom Chalkboard. The quote comes from marketing guru Seth Godin, but I thought it was just so applicable given how hard we’re all working currently. And with 18 hours of work overnight, from printing and cutting out all the letter stencils with a hobby knife, measuring my leading, blutacking [...]

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I live for what i do

Quote on blackboard!! A lovely little day project between a few of us second years! Turned out really well if i do say so myself. The next question is will some jerk come along and ruin it? Only time will tell. Anyway below is a link to my site which contains a few more photos! [...]

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