Next year 'Helvitica' celebrates its 50th birthday and, as a tribute, filmmaker Gary Hustwit has created a movie that celebrates the font's integral role in graphic design in the last half century. Joe Russ finds out more.
"A lot of packaging is just decoration its typefaces and colours and backgrounds. There needs to be a conceptual heart" Richard Murray explains the ethos behind Williams Murray Hamm.
Confidence and creative energy continue to rule the heavens, but will the gods of financial reward finally return in 2007? Mark Penfold talks to a bunch of busy designers about their predictions and gets a surprisingly positive response...
Dave Curd reveals how to create custom brushes and use them to emulate calligraphic strokes and create quick flourishes, before demonstrating how to use these skills to create an image in the vein of classic Greek pottery.
"I'm not an Erik Spiekermann type who can spend years and years and years perfecting an ampersand."Type fanatic Swifty talks to Ed Ricketts about independence, boredom, and his pioneering acid jazz style...
"i'm suddenly surprised by the thought that it might actually be possible to make a living from type design. Wouldn't that be something?" Finnish font designer Emil Bertell describes the experience of starting out.
Stefan Gandl's typographic skills have developed from playing around with black marker pens and Letraset as a kid to producing one of today's best-selling design books.
and share many common features, which makes for a fluid workflow. JJ Johnstone reveals how to create an impressive title animation using the two applications side by side.
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