10 Remarkable Website Typography Designs
Photo: arnoKath Just a few years ago if you used the font Proxima Nova on your website, other designers would marvel at how awesome your “typography” was. It didn’t matter how you actually used the type on your site – just the fact that your site wasn’t using Arial would be enough to make it stand out from the crowd. These days seemingly every new website takes advantage of nice web fonts such as Proxima Nova, Avenir or Open Sans. And that’s no longer enough to make your site remarkable.
Minimalist posters explain complex philosophical concepts with basic shapes
Sure, and sometimes a swastika is just an ancient Greek, Hindu or Native American symbol. But sadly everything exists in a historical context and, as such, some symbols are charged with more emotional and negative associations than we'd like. Am I the only one who never would have thought "gay" except that it was complained about here?
100 Greatest Free Fonts Collection for 2012
Today we'd like to delight you with an extensive list of The Best Free Fonts for 2012. We've made a collection in which you can find Sans Serif, Slab Serif, Rounded, Modern, Display , Art Deco, Geometric, Urban, Futuristic and even abstract style types. An important part of typography is selecting the right typeface for a project.
Philographics — Genis Carreras
Philographics Philographics is a series of posters that explain big ideas in simple shapes. They are the result of combining the world of philosophy with graphic design.
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30 Free Fonts for Designers and Logo Artists
Now you can convey your message in a more elegant way. This can be achieved by the use of a proper typography. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the style and sharpness they deserve. Typography is an essential part for the professional designers and for those who want to make it big in the promotion market. Among other things, effective fonts manage to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing. They are Look, Appearance and Outcome which keeps them apart from the normal wave.
Tribeca Loft / Andrew Franz Architect
Architects: Andrew Franz Architect Location: New York, NY, USA Area: 3000.0 ft2 Year: 2013 Photographs: Albert Vecerka/Esto Interior Design: Andrew Franz Architect, PLLC Structural Engineer: Blue Shore Engineering, LLC Mep Engineer: A to Z Consulting Engineers, PC Landscaping: Plant Specialists Av Consultant: Precision Home Theater General Contractor: ZZZ Carpentry, Inc. From the architect.
The Design Sprint — Google Ventures
The sprint gives teams a shortcut to learning without building and launching. The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use. Working together in a sprint, you can shortcut the endless-debate cycle and compress months of time into a single week. Instead of waiting to launch a minimal product to understand if an idea is any good, you’ll get clear data from a realistic prototype.
Typographer's Glossary
Serif: Serif's are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). Some of the main classifications of Serif type are: Blackletter, Venetian, Garalde, Modern, Slab Serif, Transitional, and Informal. Fonts in each classfication share certain similiar characteristics including the shape or appearance of their serifs. Serif fonts are widely used in traditional printed material such as books and newspapers.
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45 Useful Sets of Photoshop Tree Brushes
With Photoshop tree brushes you can easily add trees, palm and bush forms and silhouettes to your designs. Tree brushes are closely related to floral brushes and may be used together with light brushes for great results. Having a large collection of Photoshop brushes is important and an essential toolbox for speeding up the creative design process.
True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd
According to who explore the complex interplay of color, mood and behavior, blue’s basic emotional valence is calmness and open-endedness, in contrast to the aggressive specificity associated with red. Blue is sea and sky, a pocket-size vacation. In a study that appeared in the journal Perceptual & Motor Skills, researchers at Aichi University in Japan found that subjects who performed a lengthy video game exercise while sitting next to a blue partition reported feeling less fatigued and claustrophobic, and displayed a more regular pattern, than did people who sat by red or yellow partitions. In the journal Science, researchers at the University of British Columbia described their study of how computer screen color affected participants’ ability to solve either creative problems — for example, determining the word that best unifies the terms “shelf,” “read” and “end” (answer: book) — or detail-oriented tasks like copy editing.