March 20, 2023

Smashing Magazine: Free Fonts For Interface Designers

Smashing Magazine: Free Fonts For Interface Designers.”In this post, we compiled some free fonts that we came across and that you probably haven’t spotted before. Some of them shine with their flexibility, some put a special focus on readability, and others are a great choice if you want to make a bold statement. As different as the fonts are, they all have one thing in common: You can use them for free in both personal and commercial projects.”

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March 10, 2023

Smithsonian: Cooper Hewitt Announces Formal Establishment of Digital Curatorial Department

Smithsonian: Cooper Hewitt Announces Formal Establishment of Digital Curatorial Department. “Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the formal establishment of the Digital curatorial department, which will collect and care for born-digital work. This new collecting department will be led by Andrea Lipps, the founding head of digital, who will frame, build and manage the digital collection and its stewardship.”

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February 4, 2023

PRNewswire: Letterform Archive expands its Online Archive to include full, original publications from the Bauhaus School (PRESS RELEASE)

PRNewswire: Letterform Archive expands its Online Archive to include full, original publications from the Bauhaus School (PRESS RELEASE). “Letterform Archive announces a significant update to its Online Archive with the digitization of fourteen Bauhaus books and three years of Bauhaus magazines. The publications are now available online as free resources to anyone in the world. This is the first time these publications will be available in full, using digitization techniques that result in high-fidelity imagery and text that can be read on screen.”

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February 3, 2023

San Francisco Chronicle: 50 years of powerful Bay Area posters collected by Oakland library go online

San Francisco Chronicle: 50 years of powerful Bay Area posters collected by Oakland library go online. “Before the internet age, artists, community leaders and organizations in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood would drop off posters at the library that highlighted educational classes for the community, protests and cultural events in the Bay Area. Over the past 50 years, the librarians at the then-called Latin American branch – the first branch in the U.S. dedicated to the Spanish-speaking community – archived and have since collected more than 250 posters, a majority of them stored in boxes. This year the library unveiled a digital version of the collection on its website.”

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January 16, 2023

Fast Company: New generative AI tool instantly builds presentation decks and PowerPoints

Fast Company: New generative AI tool instantly builds presentation decks and PowerPoints. “This week, Beautiful.ai debuted DesignerBot, a generative AI tool that helps users automate presentation creation. Based on a text prompt, DesignerBot generates full templates, including layout and relevant text, photos, and icons—all editable by the user and exportable to PowerPoint.”

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January 15, 2023

Smashing Magazine: Top Front-End Tools Of 2022

Smashing Magazine: Top Front-End Tools Of 2022. “Who doesn’t love a good front-end tool? In this roundup, you’ll find a nice list of useful front-end tools that were popular last year but are still bound to help you speed up and enhance your development workflow. Let’s dive in!” Some of these are high-level design items, but anybody can get use out of Text Cleaner, Fonoster, and Allinone.tools.

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January 15, 2023

UniWatch: More Research Leads to Incredibly Comprehensive St. Louis Cardinals Uni/Logo Database

UniWatch: More Research Leads to Incredibly Comprehensive St. Louis Cardinals Uni/Logo Database. “Oliver has now created an incredible online database (similar to the Gridiron Uniform Database or Dressed to the Nines), in which Oliver ‘redrew all our uniform models and reincorporated all of our new research,’ to create the most comprehensive collection of the logos and uniforms of the Cards!”

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November 27, 2022

Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago design studio has MAPPED out local community-based resources

Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago design studio has MAPPED out local community-based resources. “MAPPED, a project of Design Trust Chicago, was started because the three founders of the trust realized there was a lack of accessible information about community design programs…. The public site, launched last spring, documents a range of design projects around Chicago. The database allows different designers to submit businesses, organizations, initiatives and spaces to the project, so other designers can view other projects’ cost, funders and partners, [Clio] Lyons said.”

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November 6, 2022

Ars Technica: Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Photoshop

Ars Technica: Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Photoshop. “If you want to use up-to-date versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, you’ve already been paying subscription fees for years now. And if you want to use Pantone colors inside of Adobe’s apps, it’s about to get even more expensive. Starting this month, the Pantone color books in Adobe’s apps are mostly going away, and continuing to use those colors in your files will require a new Pantone Connect extension.”

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September 30, 2022

The People’s Graphic Design Archive: Documenting materials that would otherwise disappear (Creative Boom)

Creative Boom: The People’s Graphic Design Archive: Documenting materials that would otherwise disappear. “It was in 2014 that designer Louise Sandhaus began an ambitious project to create a crowd-sourced virtual archive of graphic design history. This month, eight years later, she launched The People’s Graphic Design Archive (PGDA). We chat with Louise and her co-directors to discover more.”

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