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HOW July 2012
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You’ll want to get your hands on the July 2012 issue of HOW! Don’t miss this issue of HOW magazine that ‘s full to the brim with the latest typography trends and featuring designers who take type to a whole new medium. Was your college type course a little lean? Expert Denise Bosler assembled a typographic crash course, packing in loads of information on typography terms, history of typography and web typography. As if that wasn’t enough enticing content to reel you in, the July issue also spotlights web design and debuts the winners of the Color in Design Awards. You’ll find all this and more in the July issue of HOW.
Top Coverlines from the July Issue: Typography Fads and Fashions, Web Type Revolution, Making Sense of the Data in web design, A Stitch in Type explores embroidered type, 20 Color in Design Award Winners, Information Architecture: Crafting an Experience, The Most Secretive In-House Department: Inside the CIA.
Get inside this issue. Plus, win cool products for designers featured in HOW magazine. Dig in below to explore this issue’s web extras!
Top Designers Divulge Guilty Pleasure Fonts
Yes, it’s true, graphic designers have guilty font pleasures. Even the most sophisticated type users can’t help themselves. See which fonts these famous designers secretly pine after.
Typography Crash Course
Get typography tips and tricks from the author of Mastering Type. Learn about everything from kerning to font pairing.
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.
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.
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.
Tattly Takes a Stand Against Ugly Temp Tattoos
Tina Roth Eisenberg (@Swissmiss) and her team are partnering with top designers and freeing the world of rancid clip art one temp tattoo design at a time.
The Upside of In-House Design: 11 Perks to Consider
Corporate creatives are becoming a booming segment of the design community as more companies build a strong internal creative team. Working for these entities can have some serious perks that may contribute to a solid work/life balance.
Type Foundry Index
Each year, HOW magazine compiles a list of type foundries to help graphic designers find the best fonts for their projects.
