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01.04.09

Vilmar

It’s either a joke or a hoax

I was gobsmacked when reading about the [real] possibility of Comic Sans being chosen as the official typeface for the 2012 London Olympics. Read the rest of this entry »

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Business, Design

18.02.09

Matt

Kern, baby kern

Finally an iPhone game aimed squarely at designers. Created by FORMation Studio, KERN is a game for typophiles in which you have to correctly place the missing letter into the descending word. A bit like typographic Tetris. KERN is available in the App Store now for £0.59 ($0.99). Read the rest of this entry »

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Design, Technology

03.06.08

Vilmar

Offf to Lisboa

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Offf festival in Lisbon, as a Dusted correspondent. The event, in its 8th edition, is one of the most exciting digital design festivals in Europe at the moment. It showcases top talents from web design to typography, motion graphics to installations, in a 3day marathon of talks, performances and workshops, lasting 10 hours each, uufff.

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Design, Dusted, Technology, Travel, Web

30.04.08

Jack

Helvetica on film

Gary Hustwit has announced the DVD release of his documentary Helvetica. This is a feature-length documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the rapid increase of one typeface which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

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Design

22.02.08

Vilmar

Gentleman’s Quarterly for President

The use of hardcore marketing tactics during political campaigns is notorious, specially in a country like U.S. But what role have graphic design and visual identity techniques been playing in setting the cues to support communication strategies for potential candidates? Read the rest of this entry »

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Design, Life

13.12.07

Matt

PROviding Season’s Greetings

Once again Dusted was asked to produce the Christmas E-card for PRO Insurance. This year we went for a snow-themed typographic treatment. See the full animation after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

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Design, Dusted, News

20.08.07

Matt

Interrobang‽

Why have I never heard of the Interrobang before‽ Neatly encompassing a question mark and an exclamation mark, this piece of punctuation has been around since 1962 and this is the first I’ve seen or heard of it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Design

18.04.07

Matt

Which ever way you look at this, it’s pretty cool

Check out this new ambigram doormat from the SuckUK team. It’s a tremendous piece of typography lovingly crafted to make sense which ever way you walk over it, pure genius.

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Design