International visual arts e-magazine Bak's 14th issue has just been released. In the new issue, there are 8 special interviews (with graphic designers and illustrators Krzysztof Domaradzki, Adam Haynes, Marcell Bandicksson, photographers Carlos Serrao, Urko Suaya, painter Eric Zener and young talent Burcin Esin), numerous artworks related to the theme, '2' and a book review.

Massimo Vignelli released his book about typography for free in PDF readable format. You may ask yourself who is Massimo Vignelli? Massimo vignelli, born in milan, he studied architecture in milan and venice. He travelled to the united states from 1957 to 1960 on fellowships from towle silversmiths in massachusetts and the institute of design, illinois institute of technology, chicago. In 1960, with lella vignelli, he established the vignelli office of design ...

Did you ever wonder how popular Brands look like in Arabic versions? Well, it's really interesting, some of the brands try to keep up original font and shape of original logo. These pictures are taken 01/2009 in the Dubai Mall and the Mall of the Emirates by Jason from graphicology.com Arabic is a phonetic language that reads right to left, and some words or brand names are more difficult than others to ...

In October 2008, Pepsi announced they would be redesigning its logo and re-branding many of its products by early 2009. In 2009, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max began using all lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew has been rebranded as "Mtn Dew", and Diet Pepsi Max was re-branded as Pepsi Max. The brand's blue and red globe trademark became a series of "smiles," with the central white band arcing at different angles depending on the product. The new ...

Font's are basic tool of the trade for every graphic designer, and being that, you always need some fresh new fonts, to spice up your designs. As many of you know font's are pretty expensive and if you want to keep your business legal, and your customers worry-free consider this website: www.fontsquirrel.com At fontsquirrel.com all the fonts are freeware with licenses for commercial work, and they are presented in easy ...

Markzware Announces The Release of InDesign To QuarkXPress (ID2Q v4) Markzware, the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software today released an upgrade to its highly recommended conversion tool ID2Q (InDesign to QuarkXPress). ID2Q v4 is created to provide a quick, easy and affordable method for migrating Adobe InDesign content into a new QuarkXPress document. This new version will convert Adobe InDesign documents up to Adobe CS 4 to QuarkXPress 7 or 8.

As a graphic designer Im always looking for some fresh new fonts to try, but sometimes it's just best to go back to basics. And that is what they did at this German website: 100besteschriften.de. Their list of 100 best typefaces of all times is basically real guideline for young graphic designer's. It's compiled of most popular fonts, and top 10 would be: Helvetica, Garamond, Frutiger, Bodoni, Futura, Times, Akzidenz Grotesk, ...

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