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Victorian Christmas Typeface
For those looking for a traditional Victorian, Christmas typeface, John McWade, the creative director of Before & After magazine, may have found just what you need. The typeface, Aeronaut, is a calligraphic font with some great adornment options. Click here to read more about the typeface and where you can get it.
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Designer Steven Heller interviews author Dave Eggers
I’m a fan of both Steven Heller and Dave Eggers, so I thought I would share this interview from Core77. The two discuss Eggers’ and Spike Jonze’s vision in the film adaptation of “Where The Wild Things Are”, as well as his new novel, “The Wild Things“, which is considered a contemporary, adult reinterpretation of [...]
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The Epic Battle of Crowdsourcing : Pt 1
Peter asked me to write an article regarding crowdsourcing because like Graham Smith, I don’t think crowdsourcing is entirely evil, but I’m a pretty staunch critic of spec-work. Here’s the thing: I grew up on the internet.
Okay. Plenty of people grew up on the internet. I read grandma’s adventures on Wordpress. Internet Explorer is evil [...]
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IxDA 2010 Global Student Competition
The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) has launched a new student design competition as part of their Interaction 10 conference. The theme of the competition is “Excellence in Interaction Design” and is open to any individual student or recent graduate (within 1 yr.).
Below are a few details.
The Competition happens in two stages:
Stage 1: electronic submission of [...]
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Art & Copy Film Trailer
The film, Art & Copy, by Doug Pray (Surfwise, Scratch, Hype!) documents the creative direction and inspiration found in the last fifty years of the advertising industry. While Pray is used to filming the independent, underground side of culture (I mostly think of the Seattle “Grunge” scene covered in Hype!), he finds a similar rebellious [...]
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