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How The Designers Foundry went from side project to global type provider

Creative Boom

Bisel by The Designers Foundry The New Zealand type foundry has been offering quality, accessible and interesting typefaces to designers since 2012. The company was launched by Daniel McQueen as a side project back in 2012. Looking back now, that launch year feels like a different era. I think it'll be a mixed bag," he predicts.

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Alan Kitching: London's Building Blocks brings letterpress mastery to Madrid

Creative Boom

His career spans decades, from co-founding the experimental printing workshop at Watford to establishing The Typography Workshop in 1989, where he continues to champion movable type in the modern era. Theo Hersey, now the director of The Typography Workshop, continues Kitching's tradition of teaching and printing.

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The hottest typography design trends for 2012

Creative Bloq

We look back at our predictions for type from a decade ago.

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Wildish & Co. rebrands Spacemade, a flexible workspace company

Creative Boom

is an independent creative studio established in 2012. Logo, typography and colours Spacemade's new logo takes the form of a simple rectangular shape built into its 'S', creating a shape that references the idea of an open doorway to invite people into the workspaces. Based in Clerkenwell, London, Wildish & Co.

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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

And if there's one obsession that designers feel truly passionate about, it's typography. It was created in January 2020 by Laic , a graphic design studio based in Warsaw, Poland, that specialises in typography and type design. But while font choice may be deeply personal, that doesn't mean you can't play the field once in a while.

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Paula Scher and Jonathan Yeo launch online courses in design and painting with the BBC

Creative Boom

In a typical project in 2012, Scher created a new logo for Windows 8 that took it back to its roots as a window. Across her lessons, Paula will explore the power of typography, logo creation and collaboration with clients. Early in the development process, Scher asked: "Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?"

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45+ Websites with Creative Design Trends For Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

There are lots of new thing we can saw in web industry like more complex parallax scrolling , huge and louder background sound and videos , gradient color , hand-drawn typography , live streaming , SVGs and of-course more creative and style menus. Agency portfolio focus in minimal design, 3D animation and typography.