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A Cardboard Digital Camera?

IKEA, a pioneer in do-it-yourself, inexpensive, flat-box furniture, has taken that ethos into a new direction: a cardboard digital camera. The camera is literally a cardboard box that’s held together with two plastic screws. It’s fueled by two AA batteries and has a pop-out USB connector for downloading images. The viewfinder? A hole in the […]

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Free For All: Infographic Freebies

Infographics are all the rage. If you don’t know the term, it refers to a type of information presentation that uses symbols, text, and rich design to communicate concepts, ideas, and statistics in a highly engaging way. In other words, it’s the result of a client handing a designer a spreadsheet full of data and […]

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Reviving a Victorian-American Typeface

Today’s Fonts on Friday is a little bit different: we’re letting you know about a Kickstarter project for a typeface design. Kickstarter, for those of you who may not know, is a way to get money for product development through what’s called crowdfunding. Everyday people like you and me provide the funds to “kick start” […]

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Font Bureau's Readability Series Goes Retail

The Font Bureau announced that it’s much coveted Readability Series of typefaces will be joining its retail collection. Previously, the fonts in the Readbility Series were sold exclusively to select Font Bureau customers like Sports Illustrated, the Poynter Institute, and the Boston Globe, among many others. The Readability Series was created with changing technologies in […]

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First Look: Adobe Photoshop CS6

Once again, with Creative Suite 6 the Photoshop team has surpassed itself. Photoshop CS6 is a serious release that brings specialized improvements targeted at specific types of users: painters will like the new Airbrush tips that project ink and the Erodible Brushes; photographers will be pleased with the new tool for correcting wide-angle images; and, […]

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