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the design annual ’06, Festhalle Messe Frankfurt →Some big names in industrial design will be at The Design Annual, inside: urban, May 6th–10th, 2006, Festhalle Frankfurt am Main. Link: the design annual |
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De Morgen Redesigns, from Tabloid to Berliner →Belgian’s broadsheet De Morgen—won Europe’s best designed newspaper in 2004—gets a redesign to a larger format with full color and new typography. The new typefaces are Gotham for section headers and the flag, Capitolium for headlines and body text, and ITC Conduit for summary decks, photo credits, graphics, etc. Link: News Designer |
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Call for Entries: Iranian Proverbs →5th Color organizes Iranian Sayings, The Third Iranian Typography Exhibition 2006. It will be held at the Tehran Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran on June 8–21, 2006. Call for entries link |
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RIP Richard Eckersley →“Good design is the process of solving the problem posed by the manuscript.”—Richard Eckersley Richard Eckersley, an award-winning graphic designer who introduced unconventional typography to staid-looking university-press books, died on Sunday at his home in Lincoln, Neb. He was 65. — New York Times |
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Monotype Clones Frutiger For Microsoft →Microsoft will be using a font named Segoe UI, for their new Vista operating system. Agfa Monotype created Segoe UI for Microsoft. Agfa Monotype claims to have designed it, but it’s actually a copy with minor modifications of Linotype’s Frutiger Next font. In January 2004 Microsoft applied to register multiple designs of the font with the […] |
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Thumb-speak Short-hand →We’re seeing an evolution of communications where written and spoken dialog are merging into some strange sort of thumb-speak shorthand. Negative or positive, it’s happening.Link: Internet Linguistics |
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