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Live Brain-storming and Vis-u-al Re-search…

These are a few of my favorite things.

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Understated, Humanist, Sans- and Great with Fish

Designed by Jos Buivenga, Fontin Sans is a both a complete type family and completely free. You can do anything with it but sell it. Check it out.

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Moveable Feast, The Morning After

Inspiration, that quick breath of insight, aligns not with clocks or calendars. How then should one build a creative career? How will deadlines be met? How can deliverable schedules even be written? It’s all a bit like whispering to no

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Typographic WTF!

Design is about clarifying information and, gasp, ideas…

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Your Screen Lies.

You can soft-calibrate your Mac OSX computer’s monitor color without fancy gizmos or excessive cost. But wait! There’s more! Once you see just how little your screen represents printed reality you will come to the realization that, like a philandering politician, your screen lies.

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