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Avería – The Average Font

"I am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer. The field of typography has long fascinated me, and I love playing with creative programming ideas, so it was perhaps inevitable that the idea came to me one day of “generative typography”. A Google on the subject brought up little, and I put the idea to the back of my mind until it occurred to me that perhaps the process of averaging, or interpolating, existing fonts might bring up interesting results. Luckily at this point I didn't do any more web searching – instead I grabbed my laptop and came up with an initial idea for finding what the average of all my fonts might look like – by overlaying each letter at low opacity. The results can be seen in the below image."

typography type-design typeface generative-art design graphic-design
4 weeks ago by Vaguery

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Home - Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

"I’ve been analyzing my process (and the process of those around me) and figuring out how best to structure code for projects on a larger scale. What I've found is a process that works equally well for sites small and large.

Learn how to structure your CSS to allow for flexibility and maintainability as your project and your team grows."

css tutorial best-practices graphic-design via-trek
5 weeks ago by Vaguery

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A List Apart: Articles: Artistic Distance

"While I’m sure that someone will disagree, these sites have proven that very few “professionals” have the ability or courage to provide a well-constructed analysis of someone else’s work (whether or not the evaluation was solicited). My opinion has nothing at all to do with either website, but rather with industry professionals’ inability to challenge, or fear of challenging, the status quo. Far too often, honesty is met with ridicule, shame, or outright rage from people hiding behind electronic media. As a community, if our goal is to continue raising the bar for design, we need to get to a place where objective discussion is welcomed, not scorned or drowned in obsequiousness. I would love to see discussion of basic design move past the superficial trendiness of emerging web technologies."

critique collaboration advice graphic-design not-just
6 weeks ago by Vaguery

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Kartograph – rethink mapping
via:arthegall mapping cartography beautiful visualization projections graphic-design
8 weeks ago by Vaguery

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greaterlipsum - Tired of the old Lipsum? Try Lovecraft!
lorem-ipsum cthullu library via:arsyed graphic-design amusing
9 weeks ago by Vaguery

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Visualization series: Insight from Cleveland and Tufte on plotting numeric data by groups | Solomon Messing

"A good visualization conveys key information to those who may have trouble interpreting numbers and/or statistics, which can make your findings accessible to a wider audience (more on this below). Visualizations also give your audience a break from lexical processing, which is especially useful when you are presenting your findings–people can listen to you and process the findings from a well-designed visual at the same time, but most people have trouble listening while reading your PowerPoint bullet points. Visualizations also convey key information embedded in massive amounts of data, which can aid your own exploratory analysis of data, no matter how massive."

visualization data-analysis communication graphic-design argumentation statistics ggplot2
11 weeks ago by Vaguery

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The Arabic and Eurabic scripts — Saqer's few notes

"I highly recommend you spend the next half-hour watching this very interesting and highly informative talk…"

typography language cultural-assumptions grammar typesetting graphic-design
11 weeks ago by Vaguery

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Perceived color brightness

A little color theory for you

hsl hsv lab colorbrewer design graphic-design color-theory color visualization via:nelson
december 2011 by Vaguery

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Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web project
via:zspencer graphic-design library downloads patterns
december 2011 by Vaguery

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Hebrew Typography

beautiful lettering

typography hebrew graphic-design calligraphy lettering
november 2011 by Vaguery

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Adelle - Desktop font « MyFonts

"While Adelle is a slab serif typeface conceived specifically for intensive editorial use, mainly in newspapers and magazines, its personality and flexibility make it a real multiple-purpose typeface.<br />
The intermediate weights deliver a very legible and neutral look when used in text sizes, providing the usual robustness expected in a newspaper font. The unobstrusive appearance, excellent texture and slightly dark color allow it to behave flawlessly in continuous text setting, even in the most demanding editorial applications.…"

typeface typography font graphic-design from delicious
april 2011 by Vaguery

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Novel Sans Pro™ - Webfont & Desktop font « MyFonts

"NovelSans Pro is new humanist grotesque typeface family matching the award winning serif typeface Novel Pro.<br />
NovelSans' carefully attuned character design, well balanced weight contrast and the classic proportions show many similarities with the serif version and enable designers to combine those two families and reach highest quality in typography.…"

typography fonts typeface graphic-design from delicious
april 2011 by Vaguery

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22 movie making techniques that always work... - Boing Boing

"Anne Lukeman's "22 frames that always work" transmutes the Wally Wood comic classic, 22 panels that always work," into a film-making equivalent."

film cinematography direction storytelling graphic-design guidelines
july 2010 by Vaguery

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The Age of Graphical Computing « Rod Carvalho's web notebook

"Ron Doerfler has created a truly gorgeous 2010 calendar titled The Age of Graphical Computing. Ron has transformed nomography into a form of art."

nomograms calendar mathematics nanohistory engineering graphic-design
june 2010 by Vaguery

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SigmaPi Design

"Image Effects With Cellular Automata (PDF) Abstract:This paper presents some techniques for creating various artistic effects on digital photography using the concept of cellular automata. All examples in this paper are created by “Image Infector” program, which is a plugin for Pixopedia 24 image editor and painter (www.sigmapi-design.com)."

nudge-targets cellular-automata image-synthesis image-processing visual-effects graphic-design nonphotorealistic
may 2010 by Vaguery

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Streamgraph code ported to JavaScript

"Lee Byron open-sourced his streamgraph code in Processing about a month ago. Jason Sundram has taken that and ported it to JavaScript, using Processing.js.
The algorithms are the same as that in the original, but of course the natural benefit is that people don't need Java to run it their browsers. Jason has also added a few features including dynamic sizing, more straightforward settings, and some interaction with zoom and hover control. Really nice work."

visualization graphic-design processing.js library graphing data-analysis dataviz
may 2010 by Vaguery

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SourceForge.net Repository - [xstarfish] View of /engine/starfish-engine.cpp

" 2168 // We have two choices:
2169 // Create a gradient based on a planar wave.
2170 // Or, composite two other image layers.
2171 // The more complexity available, the more likely it is we will create a composite
2172 // layer instead of a single layer. This recurses, of course, so we can have
2173 // composition layered arbitrarily deep."

via:logista graphic-design algorithms algorithmic-art to-be-reverse-engineered
march 2010 by Vaguery

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JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Demos

awesome

javascript visualization graphic-design programming library Nudge
march 2010 by Vaguery

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ignore the code: Realism in UI Design

"The goal is not to make your user interface as realistic as possible. The goal is to add those details which help users identify what an element is, and how to interact with it, and to add no more than those details. UI elements are abstractions which convey concepts and ideas; they should retain only those details that are relevant to their purpose. UI elements are almost never representations of real things. Adding too much realism can cause confusion."

design graphic-design psychology user-experience user-interface graphics cognition semiotics abstraction
january 2010 by Vaguery

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28 Rich Data Visualization Tools - InsideRIA

"What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight."

visualization web-design software libraries javascript graphic-design charts
december 2009 by Vaguery

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KeynotePro: Keynote Themes: Fuse* for Keynote '09

"Fuse* is unlike any Keynote theme you've ever used before. We began with a structured, layer-driven framework - vibrant color infusing translucent panels from beneath, balanced against high-visibility focal accents - all set into a striking side-dominant arrangement that only hints at the potential energy hidden underneath."

slides presentation templates graphic-design design keynote want
december 2009 by Vaguery

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Stickley Text Pro family

http://www.p22.com/ihof/stickley.html for the actual family

fonts typography graphic-design print book-art craftsman
december 2009 by Vaguery

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Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution

"During the night before the Christmas morning on which Wedge-Wheskit was carried off to the asylum, in 1852, leaving behind a weeping wife and hysterical children, he apparently banged out the designs for a series of six cards, in a frenzy of Victorian sensibility. (He screamed “legs and ligatures, the hideous ligatures!” most piteously, according to an orderly who assisted in restraining the patient.) Tuck and Sons commissioned their man, Haeckel, to add extra legs. Sales were as brisk as the creator’s madness ran deep."

Cthulhu Christmas design graphic-design illustration Cthulhutide
december 2009 by Vaguery

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Typekit Launches its Cloud-Based Web Font Service

"What that means is web designers can get easy access to creative fonts without having to spend the time preparing images or Flash files to render them, ideally resulting in time and cost savings in the design stage. It should also provide a more lightweight experience for your web server, because it won’t have to serve up the comparatively heavyweight image or Flash files to render a variety of design-quality fonts."

fonts typography design graphic-design web2.0 web-design
november 2009 by Vaguery

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kuler
color design graphic-design community web2.0 tools reference themes palette colors
november 2009 by Vaguery

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after Firefox 3.6 – new font control features for designers at hacks.mozilla.org

"Below is the same text rendered in HTML using the Fell Types revival fonts by Igino Marini with OpenType features enabled. Note the ‘ct’ ligature and the contextual form of the ‘s’:..."

typography opentype design graphic-design HTML browsers rendering
october 2009 by Vaguery

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Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq

"PUT THAT PENCIL DOWN
Using Balsamiq Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting."

design graphic-design applications user-interaction user-experience programming software-development MacOS collaboration development productivity graphics interface
october 2009 by Vaguery

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About us | Prezi

"Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin.

It's visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.

Have you ever wondered about presenting your thoughts as free as they come? Ever got tired of creating a slideshow? It's been said, that the best innovations come from people who are unhappy with the tools they use. We realized that our ideas won't fit into slides anymore. Putting together creative thinking and technology expertise, we have created Prezi, a living presentation tool."

presentation visualization graphic-design resources powerpoint online tools
october 2009 by Vaguery

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In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek

"Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are 'sold' to viewers, movie magic is close at hand."

science-fiction set-decoration design graphic-design industrial-design movies detail
september 2009 by Vaguery

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Guilloches | The Ministry of Type

"There are still some extremely frustrating limitations though. First of these is the resolution of drawing the graph. I’m sure for most graphs the default resolution is fine, but when creating these patterns you need tiny increments. Tiny tiny ones. If the line is going from one side of the graph to the other and back again a thousand times in a couple of radians, you don’t want the graph program to start dropping line segments, or corners, or anything really. Grapher does allow you to increase the resolution, but it’s not sticky - change anything in the equation and it pops right back to the default. Every. Single. Time. The same thing seems to happen with the line thickness too - I wanted all the designs to be at 0.1, but it kept changing it back to 1.0. Frustrating! There are a couple of other UI things I’d change, like having an option to keep axes at 1:1 ratio to each other, even when you resize the window."

Processing-much? design graphic-design algorithms algorithmic-art typography programming illustration print engraving patterns money
august 2009 by Vaguery

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SMeltery - Manifest Destiny

"Manifest Destiny: a 4-weight Font Family Approved by God Himself

Designed in 2004 during the American national election."

type typography graphic-design design font
august 2009 by Vaguery

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SMeltery - Soupirs

"This ornamental font family is the result of a long collect through the streets of Bordeaux. From 1489 motifs collected, 310 were chosen to compose Soupirs."

type typography fonts ornament design graphic-design
august 2009 by Vaguery

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Numbers | Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Thinking seriously about how to use this, and how often I might do so. Seems rental might be the way to go....

typography design graphic-design numbers specialties
may 2009 by Vaguery

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Color Scheme Designer 3

("Light page example" is what I have in mind)