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10/11/2008
Purple accents, bold prints and gray wood are some of the buzz-worthy trends in fall home decor (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Ready to make some changes in your home decor? Consider these five hot trends for fall ’08. Gray wood Gray has taken a starring role in interior design lately, becoming the go-to shade for paint, upholstery, wall treatments and flooring. Now it’s appearing on wood finishes. "We see gray as the new neutral," says Kate Mulhearn, a spokeswoman for West Elm. "It’s crisp, clean and elegant, and ...
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10/11/2008
It's the newspapers' fault (Isthmus)
Recently, Isthmus news editor Bill Lueders appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio and before the Downtown Madison Rotary lamenting the decline of newspaper readership. He suggested that our newspapers are really quite good and those who complain about them are inventing reasons to justify their own laziness and lack of effort to stay informed.
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10/10/2008
Sabres find style: Team's new clothing line is fashion forward (The Buffalo News)
The Buffalo Sabres have a new third jersey this season, but something else has been brewing he inside Buffalo HSBC Sabres Arena have the last few months: plans for a new fashion clothing line.
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10/10/2008
Alan Aldridge (Computer Arts)
“The Who came to see me for a job. Then Cream. Then the Stones. And then The Beatles.” Tom Dennis talks to the man John Lennon called ‘His Royal Master Of Images’
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10/10/2008
Grad student's ink drawings focus on politics (Daily Nebraskan)
The dark, unforgiving Sumi ink drips down the 6-foot canvas as Sam Rapien hurries to form it into a detailed image, faintly reminding him of a Jackson Pollock. He pauses to consider what he wants to be conveyed. This time, it might be a president's face. Next time, it might be a visual commentary on the corporate world. It's artistic expression; he's telling a story about our surroundings, our ...
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10/10/2008
Frac Bourgogne (Teknemedia arte)
For his first solo show in France, Stefan Brüggemann (born in 1975 in Mexico City) has brought together a selection of works which subversively upset the rules of the art game, in particular, here, those governing representation and its content.
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10/08/2008
The New Canon: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Blogcritics.org)
House of Leaves breaks almost every rule of fiction, from the typographical to the metaphysical. The New Canon is a regular feature, contributed by Ted Gioia, focusing on great works of fiction published since 1985. These books represent the finest literature of the current era, and are gaining recognition as the new classics of our time. In this installment of The New Canon, Gioia looks at ...
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10/08/2008
Square offers XPress 8 seminar (Macworld UK)
London reseller the Square Group has announced a free QuarkXPress 8 seminar at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden.
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10/06/2008
Ten Rich Internet Applications Perfect for Web Designers (SYS-CON Media)
Adobe AIR - a cross-platform runtime environment for rich Internet and desktop applications - is just starting to get popular outside of the early-adopter circles, but there’s already a growing amount of tools and utilities that can help web designers with various design-related and managerial tasks. If you’re a web designer that’s into experimenting and trying out new applications (they don’t ...
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10/06/2008
Poster service: The RCA Film Club's Left Handed Gun (Guardian Unlimited)
Paul Rennie on a rough-and-ready, student-designed poster for Arthur Penn's revisionist take on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
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  • ABC Typography - Virtual Museum of Typography.
  • All Good Things Typography - Information about typography: history, classification, type choice and the fontpool.
  • Alphabet and Letter - Information on alphabets from around the world, with chapters from
  • Alphabytes - Dedicated to excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography, calligraphy and the lettering arts.
  • Arabic Type - Research on Arabic typography, its relationship to calligraphy and culture, and the development of new Arabic fonts.
  • Arabic typography - Arabic typographical experiments.
  • ATypI - The site of the Association Typographique International, the organisation of the international type community. Information on events, ATypI publications and conferences.
  • Ban Comic Sans - Download and print stickers and flyers to campaign against the font, also free comic fonts to use instead.
  • Cary Graphic Arts Press - Publication arm of the Melbert Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, offering publications on the history of the graphic arts.
  • Cavendish Typography - Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through the ages.
  • Character Design Standards - General rules for character shapes in Latin based languages in digital fonts. From Microsoft.com.
  • Commonly Confused Characters - Unicode and graphic examples of proper quote, hyphen, and space encoding and typographical mistakes.
  • Creative Pro : Fonts Department - Font news and software reviews links. Exclusive feature articles on typography from Creative Pro's staff of graphic design writers.
  • daidala - A weblog by Jon Coltz. Features reviews of typefaces and observations from the life of a type lover.
  • DigitalThread: TypeHaus - Contains featured foundries, honorable foundries, type resources, and typography links.
  • Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room - MFA thesis project by Erin K. Malone explores the history of typesetting firm located in New York City.
  • Encyclopaedia of Typography and Electronic Communication - A short-subject encyclopedia and glossary covering typography, printing, electronic publishing, and electronic communication.
  • The Evolution of Type - Information on the main characteristics of the letterform, styles and elements of printing types, and the history of the alphabet.
  • Font Lover - Font news from around the globe and A+ font links.
  • The Glory of Chinese Printing - Online exhibit that details history of printing in China, from block printing through the invention of movable wood type, brass plates, and two-color techniques.
  • Greeking Machine - Lorem Ipsum generator supporting Latin and several humorous choices.
  • Information Design Associates - Corporate, information design, and web design.
  • The International Type Index - A directory of fonts and foundries with the ambitious goal of indexing all existing fonts in the world.
  • LetterPerfect - Design services, lettering tours, publications, and fonts available for purchase and download.
  • Medieval Unicode Font Initiative - Non-profit group of scholars working toward a solution to the problem of encoding special characters in Medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet.
  • Microsoft Typography - Typography news headlines, 'link of the day','book recommendations' and a updated database of type and typography related sites.
  • Name This Font - Encyclopedia of letterforms. Information on the author plus where to purchase the book.
  • National Print Museum - Site of Ireland's National Print Museum. Includes a short tour of the museum, description of exhibits, a brief history of printing in Ireland and visitor information.
  • Pixel Fonts Explained - In-depth look at the history of bitmap (pixel) typography.
  • Planet Typography - This portal dedicated to typography includes directory, news, online manual and free fonts to download. Home of The Typographic Times, a font-related eZine with interviews of type designers and portraits of typefaces.
  • Society of Typographic Aficionados - Rochester, NY based S{o}TA is an International Organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers.
  • Type Books - Resource for publications concerning the letterform arts.
  • TypeRight - Mission: to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual property.
  • Types and Typography - A guide - A complete guide to the history and science of types, fonts and typography.
  • TypoBlog - Medium sized article, subtitled
  • Typo.cz - Information on Central European typography includes foundry listing, software, books and general rules. In English and Czech.
  • Typographic - Information on typography from 3500 B.C. to the present day, including evolution, timeline, anatomy, image gallery, studies, glossary and related information.
  • typogRaphic - Exploration and experimentation between typography and imagery.
  • The Typographic Circle - Membership organization providing information on committee, events, publications and membership.
  • Typographica. A Journal of Typography. - News, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
  • Typolis - In German and English, this site is an ambitious private project which details the history of alphabets, describes type classifications and provides information about designers as well as about the art of graphic design.
  • Typophile - Active discussion board with font identification and type design critique forums. Sporadic features include interviews with typographers, news feed, and type design courses.
  • The Typophiles - Founded 70 years ago by Frederic Goudy, Paul Bennett, and others, an educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking.
  • Typotheque - Information about typography, free type utilities, articles on type and type design, and fonts for sale.
  • Will-Harris House Writing, Design and Typography - Home of Esperfonto, the web's only interactive typeface selection system, TypoFile magazine for people who use and love type, a design office with corporate ID's, business cards and illustrations, and the Point Reyes Chipmunk Observatory and Garden.
  • BBC News: Helvetica at 50 - The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday. You've probably seen it a thousand times today. Why? (May 9, 2007)
  • Fontlover.com - Type news from around the globe. [RSS]
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