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Typographic findings: Dotsies, a new alphabet

Design & Style

Craig Muth is a designer with a particular interest in type. He has noticed that the latin alphabet has been perfected for writing but not particularly for reading, as it takes more space in the page/screen. To change this he has come up with a completely new alphabet called Dotsies, one that's purely visual and abstract, one that favours the maximum use of the screen. The 26 letters of...

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Graphic design classics: Vintage Propaganda

Design & Style

Since the early starts of humanity there's been a need of communicating through visual language. Throughout history diverse media have used these graphic resources in their favour as a way to alienate people. Propaganda is fundamental for the imposition of ideologies and one clear example of this, are the propaganda campaigns that different versions of fascism used at the time in...

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Beautiful branding: Baker D. Chirico

Design & Style

Daniel Chirico is Australia's most famous traditional baker and for the opening of his 2nd store he worked with the design studio Fabio Ongarato Design who came up with amazing results. The basic concept was to keep a traditional look with an updated design twist with a couple of surrealists details. (A wink to De Chirico's surrealist art, i.e. the checkered tiles,maybe?) I...

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Beautiful illustrations: geometrical philosophy

Design & Style

Genis Carrerasis a London based graphic designer that has some very interesting work under his arm. In the midst of minimalistic suprematism (pun intended) in the design trends, he took a whole different direction. His focus is a fairly complex subject to take from a graphic point of view, even more in a minimalistic-geometric form. This particular projectconsists in a...

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FontXS Free Fonts: Gothic Style

Free Fonts

Today's free featured fonts (courtesy of FontXS) are a perfect resource for your darker designs. The gothic style that was so characteristic of the early printing times and germanic calligraphy is still as valid for contemporary work. This gothic style fonts vary from traditional to modern and squared-angle ones. Take a pick and make the most of them! And remember that you can...

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