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What The Font?!

Cant figure out the typeface? The free What The Font?! system is now available as a free iPhone application. Simply take a photo of your mysterious typeface and BLAMO you’ve got some sort of type answer. Joy! Don’t worry the helpful utility still exists for free online here.

Posted in Course Related, PrePress, Resources, Typography, Vocation & Profession

The best camera is the one you have with you.

Just as a reminder to the gallery, you get better by working on your work. You emphatically DO NOT improve the quality of your work by looking at equipment, researching grad schools, or reading about the latest software update. You have to get your hands dirty as much as possible.

Posted in Course Related, Design Theory, Editorial, Education, Resources, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession

Ken Rockwell, thee I adore.

It’s true. I adore Ken Rockwell. Who is he, you ask?! He is one of our generation’s most influential photographers! If you need an introduction, start here.

Posted in Artists & Designers, Course Related, Education, Resources, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession

Cooper-Hewitt, Museum of Design

Cooper-Hewitt Museum is the official design memory of the United States. Did I mention it rocks?

Posted in Amusement, Course Related, Design History, Education, Resources

Eat, Pray, Make: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity

What keeps creatives from giving up, deciding that our best work is behind us and “drinking gin at nine in the morning?”

Posted in Amusement, Artists & Designers, Education, Resources, Vocation & Profession