Die besten Schriften 2011

Verlieren wir auch diesmal keine Zeit mit langen Vorreden: wie zum Ende bzw. Anfang eines jeden Jahres präsentiere ich die besten typografischen Neuerscheinungen des vergangenen zwölf Monate … aus meiner ganz persönlichen subjektiven Sicht: 1. Verlieren... 

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Using webfonts to insert characters or symbols in a website

Using webfonts to insert characters or symbols in a website—Or why is Opera screwing up my font stacks? Back in 2008, shortly after Apple started the new webfont revolution with the release of Safari 3.1, I wrote an article about how the webfont technology... 

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Zehn Weihnachtsgeschenke für Grafikdesigner

Markus Albers – Meconomy (Foto: Martin Mai) Oh Tannebaum, oh Tannebaum. Markus Albers – Meconomy (Foto: Martin Mai) Oh Tannebaum, oh Tannebaum. Wohl dem, der bereits alle Weihnachtsgeschenke beisammen hat. Für die Nachzügler bietet Fontwerk,... 

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Ready. Aim. Chat!

Released in 1997, AIM , short for AOL Instant Messenger, was the original IM-ing choice for the first mass generation of internet users, making it the one socially acceptable product from AOL one could use without losing his or her cred. Even with the... 

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Rand v Jobs: when egos collide

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is full of examples of the latter’s ‘challenging’ behaviour. But when Jobs asked Paul Rand to create the identity for his Next business, he finally met his match Isaacson’s book... 

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Who designed the Apple tribute logo with Steve Jobs’ silhouette?

Photo: Reuters/Bobby Yip Here’s a bit of trivia to know: A Hong Kong design student named Jonathan Mak is the person behind the very popular Steve Jobs silhouette Apple logo which circulated around the internet after Steve Jobs’ death. The... 

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IBM THINK Exhibit: a Review

This post was written by Mimi Rojanasakul . She is an artist and designer based in New York, currently pursuing her MFA in Communications Design at Pratt Institute . Say hello or follow her @mimiosity . This post was written by Mimi Rojanasakul. She... 

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The Guardian iPad App

The Guardian now has an iPad app . Previously if you wanted to read Guardian content on an iPad you could read the website , use the iPhone app or attempt the Digital Edition . I used to subscribe to the Digital Edition, a downloadable PDF of the paper... 

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Steve Jobs: The man who changed everything

Steve Jobs, who has died aged 56, was at the heart of a revolution that turned the creative industries upside down. After Apple, our world was never the same again When I first started at Creative Review, in the mid-90s, we used to hammer out our stories... 

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