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Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design by Aarron Walter

Branding, Business, Graphic Design, Marketing, Social Media, Typography

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Aarron Walter covers not only how users benefit from bringing emotion into design, but also the business case.

Source: Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design

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Jonathan Hoefler at Pivot AIGA Conference

Education, Graphic Design, Typography, Web Design

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Jonathan Hoefler is always incredibly articulate about his relationship to letters and fonts. In this case, he does an entertaining and detailed job of spelling out the challenges, concerns and considerations a type designer faces when creating fonts for the web.

via Frank Chimero.

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A to Z Archipelago Books: by Agra Satria

Education, Graphic Design, Typography

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books by Agra Satria
Alphabet by Agra Satria
Letter A by Agra Satria
Letter C by Agra Satria
Letter N by Agra Satria
Letter Z by Agra Satria
voyage by Agra Satria
exotic by Agra Satria

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How Ligatures are Made: by David Schwen

Graphic Design, Typography

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fl ligature
ff ligature
Th ligature
ct ligature
fi ligature

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Sweat the Details

Education, Graphic Design, Typography

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“There is no room for sloppiness, for carelessness, for procrastination. Every detail is important because the end result is the sum of all the details involved in the creative process, no matter what we are doing. There are no hierarchies when it comes to quality.” –Massimo Vignelli

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Seth Godin on Typography

Advertising, Branding, Business, Graphic Design, Social Media, Typography, Web Design

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“Typography is what sets Apple, at first glance, apart from just about everyone at the mall. Typography is what makes a self-published book often look pale in comparison to a ‘real’ one. Typography (or the lack thereof) is a safety hazard on airplanes (who decided that all the safety labels should be in ALL CAPS)?

The choice of a typeface, the care given to kerning and to readability—it all sends a powerful signal. When your business card is nothing but Arial on a piece of cardboard, you’ve just told people how they ought to think about you… precisely the opposite of what you were trying to do when you made the card in the first place” From Seth Godin

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Target at Hamilton Wood Type Museum: Cool Never Fades

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The Target design type visits the Hamilton Wood Type Museum to develop new products from ephemera.
via COLETIVO SIMPLLES

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