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Kurt Weidemann, Designer of Influential Corporate Identities and Typefaces

Kurt Weidemann, Designer of Influential Corporate Identities and Typefaces

Indra Kupferschmid relays the sad news that the great typeface and graphic designer Kurt Weidemann has passed on at age 89. Indra was close to Kurt and has written a short but touching remembrance of her friend; other obituaries of this important designer... 

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Engaging contextuality

Engaging contextuality

BY NICK SHINN There are many OpenType features that can be built into a font, but Contextual Alternates is something special. Swash characters, ligatures, small caps and figure variants are all very well, but they merely duplicate cleverness that was... 

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Brand New Awards, Deadline Extended

Brand New Awards, Deadline Extended

We have a small deadline extension we can offer to anyone scurrying around beyond the last minute to either submit or send us the materials for the Brand New Awards . We have a small deadline extension we can offer to anyone scurrying around beyond... 

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Porn WikiLeaks

Porn WikiLeaks

You would think that they would have gotten more creative with their logo? Porn WikiLeaks ? You would think that they would have gotten more creative with their logo? Porn WikiLeaks ? Excerpt from: Porn WikiLeaks ... 

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The White Review

The White Review

New quarterly arts journal The White Review has serious intentions and an elegant way of expressing them… Launched last month its title is a reference to La Revue Blanche, the Parisian avant-garde journal published 1899-1903, but other than... 

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In Brief: End of March Miscellany

In Brief: End of March Miscellany

I had planned on writing a regular critique today, but the admin tasks of the Awards have overtaken UCllc headquarters. To tide you over for the end of the month here are three juicy bits, two of them involving funny business practices, and not funny-ha-ha.... 

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2011 Brand New Conference, Save the Date

2011 Brand New Conference, Save the Date

Now that we have a contract signed with the venue, we are delighted to announce the date and location of the 2011 Brand New Conference. So, save the date: It will be, again, a one-day event on Friday, September 16, 2011. The conference will come West... 

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A New Type for Bath from Re-Type

A New Type for Bath from Re-Type

? This morning’s inbox contained a short note from Ramiro Espinoza , originally of Argentina, at his Dutch typefoundry Re-Type , best known for Tomate and a number of edgy sans display families: When, in 2010,? David Quay ?was asked by communication... 

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A New Type for Bath from Re-Typ

A New Type for Bath from Re-Typ

? This morning’s inbox contained a short note from Ramiro Espinoza , originally of Argentina, at his Dutch typefoundry Re-Type , best known for Tomate and a number of edgy sans display families: When, in 2010,? David Quay ?was asked by communication... 

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Greg Bogin Minimal Pop Art

Greg Bogin Minimal Pop Art

Greg Bogin ‘s work is committed to American art history and its pictorial world in the 60s in a form that is particularly typical of his generation. Greg Bogin‘s work is committed to American art history and its pictorial world in the... 

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