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Type Classification Demystified: 11 Kinds of Letterforms
Don’t know your old style letterforms from your transitional or your sans serif from your slab serif? Get a brief type classification primer.
Categories: Fonts + Typography, HOW July 2012
Tags: fonts, letterforms, type classification, typefaces
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How To Have Fun at Work
Are you having fun at work? Your responses to the following 11 questions can help you keep the fun at work flowing when you start to slump.
Categories: HOW July 2012, On the Job: Advice & Tips for Designers
Tags: career, inspiration
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3 Fun Team-Building Tips
Following are 3 team-building tips to set the tone for lively, playful engagement during design team-building gatherings.
5 Tips to Help Designers Avoid the Summer Doldrums
Design work seems to either come to a crawl or become insanely busy during the summer. Either way, you can avoid the summer doldrums with these tips.
“Your Best Work”—Graphic Design Award Winners 2011
Check out the amazing design work from the 10 runner’s up in HOW’s “Your Best Work” Design Awards. Get inspired by this award-winning design work.
Categories: Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Design Projects, Designer Spotlight: Famous Graphic Designers, Design Firms, Featured, HOW May 2012
Tags: award winning graphic design, design awards, design competition, design contest, design winners, Your Best Work Design Awards
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Creative Bliss Day 12: Inspiring Poster Featuring Gandhi Quotes
Want instant inspiration that looks great, too? Download a free poster featuring Gandhi’s 10 fundamentals for changing the world.
Behind the Design: Yeah Burger! Restaurant Branding
YEAH! Burger is a quirky burger joint that needed in store graphics and restaurant branding. Tad Carpenter drew inspiration from vintage newspaper cartoons and illustrations to craft branding elements.
Design Firm Heat Moves to New Digs
When the team at Heat had outgrown their San Francisco office, they embraced the move, less than a mile away, as an opportunity to create a new kind of office, one that almost feels like home. Read the full story …
Categories: HOW Magazine, HOW May 2012
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Designing Buttons: 8 Tips from Busy Beaver
Designer Jason Caldeira loves buttons. “They’re just one of those little things that make people smile,” he says. “They’re whimsical, impactive, affordable, and most importantly fun.” Caldeira is a veteran button designer. You can add this design skill to your …
