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HOW Singles: A Cure for the Common Font
A type guru offers 9 alternatives to typefaces that are overused and underwhelming. Plus, he shares 9 better options for those awful system fonts your clients love. (Sorry, Comic Sans.)
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Behind the Design
Behind the Design: Naturally Smart
A natural cereal-maker wanted to grow their shelf presence, so they turned to HartungKemp to update their branding and packaging design.
Categories: Behind the Design, Featured, Projects & Profiles
Tags: illustration, My Best Work, packaging design
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Designer’s Self-Promo Lands him TV Cameo
Designer Ty Mattson, creator of the LOST poster series, found similar inspiration in Showtime’s Dexter. The poster designs he created went viral and attracted big buzz. So much that Mattson found himself rubbing elbows with Michael C. Hall.
Behind the Design: Energetic Space
Go Behind the Design of this dynamic environmental graphic design project, featured in the September issue of HOW. Poulin + Morris renovates the corporate offices of MSG Media, the sports, entertainment and media arm to Madison Square Garden.
Categories: Behind the Design, Design + Creativity, Featured
Tags: Behind the Design, Environmental Graphic Design
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Sidelines: Alexandra Charitan and Blue Carrot
Designer Alexandra Charitan parlayed her love of vintage printed ephemera and accessories from the 1940s through the ’60s into an online store, the Blue Carrot Shop. Explore this designer’s side business.
Behind the Design: Sagmeister Teams with BNS
Sagmeister, Inc. gave the renewable energy subsidiary of Energias de Portugal (EDP), a growing wind energy company, a strikingly fresh brand identity. The renowned designer and studio partnered with Brand New School to create an animated storyline.
Behind the Design: Escape Artist
Australian creative services firm Houdini landed a magical name, but needed an identity to bring it to life.
Categories: Behind the Design, Design + Creativity, Get Inspired, HOW May 2011
Tags: Behind the Design, Design Firm, Identity System
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Behind The Design: HOW’s Cover
In 2005, HOW magazine debuted a new bold cover design onto newsstands with a larger than life logo. This cover setup for the then 20-year-old magazine presented interesting opportunities for art directors and illustrators to push the creative envelope and …
Categories: Behind the Design, Design + Creativity, HOW Magazine
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Adobe: Flash Catalyst
To introduce you to a new world of design possibilities, HOW and Adobe asked some of their favorite designers to convert their static print work to fully interactive projects—without writing code!—by using Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, part of Adobe Creative …
Sidelines: A Modern Eden
Designer/illustrator Ryan Clark and his colleagues at FORGE in Dayton, OH, turned decorative items for Clark’s son’s nursery into a growing product line, A Modern Eden.
Behind the Design: Radio Stars
“This is NPR” was designed by Design Army to celebrate the 40th anniversary of National Public Radio.
Categories: Behind the Design, Design + Creativity, HOW March 2011
Tags: Behind the Design, Design Army, NPR
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