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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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Designer Spotlight
10 World-Class Design Firms
When you are in need of new creative stimuli, look to the world and discover design from afar. Get inspired by these 10 international designers featured in HOW magazine.
Designer Spotlight: a verynice design studio
“Our studio was founded on the seemingly naive principle: save the world, and don’t just make money,” admits Matthew Manos, founder of a verynice design studio. The studio is inspired by social, rather than financial objectives, but manages to balance both.
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.
Designer Spotlight: Hybrid Design
The Husband-and-wife team behind San Francisco design firm Hybrid Design has incorporated play into their business plan, an essential tool to unleashing creative solutions.
Categories: Design + Creativity, Designer Spotlight, Featured
Tags: design firms, design team, Designer Spotlight
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Designer Spotlight: Celery Design Collaborative
Celery Design has been a longtime catalyst for social and environmental change with their design work. “Our goal, aside from doing great design, is to positively influence behavior and catalyze organizational change.”
Designer Spotlight: The Daily Taps into the Future of Design
The Daily, a magazine-meets-newspaper-meets-the most wow-worthy technology, is taking design to some crazy new heights. View this in-house design team’s jaw-dropping work.
Categories: Design + Creativity, Designer Spotlight, Featured, Uncategorized
Tags: Designer Spotlight, Interactive 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.
Designer Spotlight: Benjamin Dooling
Benjamin Dooling grew up amidst the shavings and sawdust of his father’s furniture-making business. It’s not surprising that he has a knack for discovering inspiration all around him. Dooling has found a niche in branding and packaging for the food and beverage industry. Spend some time with his stunning work.
Designer Spotlight: Foundry Collective
The Oklahoma boys of Foundry Collective pay homage to the values and drive of their Midwestern forefathers who toiled in oil fields and farms. They do this by infusing simple, hard work into every design project.
Yulia Brodskaya’s Mesmerizing ‘Papergraphics’
Yulia Brodskaya refers to her innovative artwork as “papergraphic.” She uses thin strips of paper to create intricate illustrations full of fluid lines and decorative curls and swirls.
Categories: Design + Creativity, Designer Spotlight, Featured, Get Inspired, HOW July 2011, Projects & Profiles
Tags: Editorial Design, illustration, Paper, typography
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