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Typographic love: ZWEI Plus

Graphic design reviews

We've already seen the newest trend in logo design: permutations. But how would that translate into type? Berlin based designer Jacopo Severitanohas come up with what would be the lovechild of this two concepts, it's called ZWEI Plus. Basically, he proposes that working on a base grid you can do all the changes you want to create different letterings. The base grid consists of a...

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Great Illustrations: Vitruvian Men (or cartoons)

Graphic design reviews

The Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci's (allegedly) iconic drawing has been a classical reference for human anatomy's drawings. From then on, many artists have taken it as inspiration for other work, but this finding right here sure takes the cake. Can you think of pop culture characters dissected in this geometric proportions? (poor Cartman can't even fit there!) Apparently...

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Graphic design resources: Diagrammer

Graphic design reviews

We've all probably had to stand a boring powerpoint presentation or two, and more often than not the design plays against any content they're trying to present (probably thanks to the use of clipart images). Now thanks to Duarte Design, Powerpointers of the world can find more attractive design resources for their presentations in their recently launched Diagrammer. Basically, they have an...

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Typography resources: an extensive glossary

Tutorials

Playtype is a danish 'online type foundry' that embodies all that is typography love. They have worked both for commissioned work and type design for sale. Needless to say their fonts for sale are great and a clear example of Danish type design (as themselves state on their website). As type lovers they've made a visual explicative glossaryof everything typography- from the different...

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta release!

Industry News

After two years since its last update, Adobe has finally come up with a new version of Photoshop. For the first time this beta version of the software is free to downloadjust by signing in with your Adobe ID account so you can test run the new features yourself. But what's new in this version? Most of the changes were made based on user's feedback which is a smart move on Adobe's side....

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