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The World of Movie Props, Letterpress and Design

April 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

A while ago I got an email from Taxi inviting me to check out their 100th issue celebration. I poked around the site a bit, particularly reading all the quotes on design and I found one particularly intriguing by a guy named Ross MacDonald.
“Often the ‘perfect’ font is too big or too small, or won’t fit […]

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Designer Interview: Ian M

April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Toon over at Estetica Design Forum (you’ll remember him from his great article on Is There a New Trend in Logo Design? here on Creative Curio last month) initiated a neat project among a few of the forum members who also run design blogs. You saw the interview Alex from Crazy Leaf Design blog did […]

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Free Vector Resources

April 7th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Photo: Free by PsychoRatDog
I just wanted to share some of the ways I work with Illustrator, some have been useful, some didn’t produce much, but people “tick” differently, so heres a couple of ideas.
by Esben Thomsen
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Dingbats
Font dingbats can be an excellent source for finding vector artwork. Here are […]

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