June, 2010

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Learning Typeface Design

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Learning to draw letters is hard enough, but learning to create typefaces is something else entirely. For those with an interest in both, H&Co’s Sara Soskolne will be teaching “Turning Letters into Type,” a week-long workshop at New York’s School of Visual Arts, July 12–16. Registration is now open , and seats are limited.

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ARTISTS IN LOVE, part 16

Illustration Art

In 1863, artist Albert Bierstadt and writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow left New York on a camping expedition into the great American wilderness. Bierstadt dreamed of painting western landscapes while Ludlow dreamed of writing about them. The two men also had something personal to work out between them: Bierstadt was in love with Ludlow's wife, Rosalie. The men traveled together for nearly nine months.

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The Murderer Wore Serifs

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Typeface designers live with the permanent possibility of encountering their work at unexpected moments. Your old college now uses a font that you designed; in a movie, whose story takes place before you were born, your typefaces are used for prop newspapers and storefronts; the intimidating signs that scold you in public places now address you in your own handwriting.

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New from H&Co: Whitney Greek & Cyrillic

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

We’re pleased to introduce an expansion of our Whitney® typeface, for our friends in Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. We’ve taken the fonts that already serve more than 140 languages, and extended them into the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets to satisfy sixty more. All editions of Whitney now feature both the Greek alphabet and our Expanded Cyrillic character set, accommodating not only major Slavic languages such as Russian and Ukrainian, but o

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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New from H&Co: Whitney Greek & Cyrillic

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

We’re pleased to introduce an expansion of our Whitney® typeface, for our friends in Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. We’ve taken the fonts that already serve more than 140 languages, and extended them into the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets to satisfy sixty more. All editions of Whitney now feature both the Greek alphabet and our Cyrillic-X™ character set, accommodating not only major Slavic languages such as Russian and Ukrainian, but o

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Lettering of the WPA

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Our creative director Brian Hennings stumbled across a great resource this morning: on the website of the Library of Congress, a collection of 926 posters from the Works Progress Administration. The LOC has done a nice job with this collection, providing for each poster not only the relevant archival information, but high-resolution TIFF files that are free to download.

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THE NEXT GREAT ARTIST

Illustration Art

Anyone curious about the identity of the next great artist will surely want to tune in to the new TV reality series, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. In last night's debut, host and judge China Chow (ranked #54 on the Maxim list of the Hot 100 Women of 2001) welcomed a gaggle of artists who will be pitted against each other as they claw for celebrityhood.

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