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My 10 Best (and One Worst) Design Items of the Half-Year

by Michael Dooley December 30, 2010

My editor told me, "Everyone likes an end-of-year list, right?" Well, I don't. But this one's for you, James. Happy 2011! These date back to early July, when Imprint officially launched. First the Worst. The worst "Mad Men / Creative Revolution" quote during the last half of this year ~ "So fuck you, Mad Men, [...]

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The Future of Web Fonts Is Sooner Than It Used To Be

by Michael Dooley August 31, 2010

In his opening keynote, Roger Black couldn't have been more succinct: The future of typography is "all about screen fonts." So naturally, for  TypeCon 2010's "The Future is Now” panels, the topic was “Web Fonts.” And for the second half, the stage was packed with 14 typography-related business people. Okay, businessmen. The full session ran [...]

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Roger Black Discusses Future Potential for Type Design

by Michael Dooley August 16, 2010

Roger Black is currently embroiled in design disputes ... again! At New York's Type 1987, Roger went head-to-head with Paula Scher over ITC's version of Garamond. At AIGA's Miami conference in 1993, during his stint at Esquire, it was him against David "Raygun" Carson, fighting about publication design. But hey, that was way back when [...]

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The Template Brouhaha Haha

by Steven Heller July 21, 2010

Every couple of years graphic design is threatened by devaluation or extinction because our standards are being attacked by the forces of evil knights templates. Remember the commercial where Apple claimed that with a Macintosh computer designers would no longer be necessary? Alas, it never came to pass, despite the persuasive 1984 ad campaign (above). [...]

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ICON Reax, Part 1: Is Animation the Future of Illustration?

by Michael Dooley July 21, 2010

So Print – as in "print" – has launched its daily blog (the good news is that it's not called "Out Of Print.") But what else can be said about publishing's future? This issue was the primary topic of discussion and debate throughout the ICON 6 illustration conference. Held at the Langham Hotel – formerly [...]

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