Creattica: Your source for design inspiration. Top Design Resources for Non-Designers. So you aren’t a professional designer but still want to create beautiful presentations — don’t worry, that’s the majority of us. Without having to shell out thousands of dollars in years of training or outsourcing, there are some resources that can help you hone your eye (and ability) for great design. I sat down with my design team a few days ago and compiled a list of some of the best presentation design resources on the planet. These resources are no substitute for a well-rounded education in design, but they can serve as a compass that will help guide your presentation to a tropical island of success.
They certainly serve that purpose for professional designers, too. Creattica This is a beautiful online inspiration gallery that showcases web/UI design, logo design, print design, photography, and artwork from around the web. Design Taxi This site is a new favorite of Ethos3. Designinspiration Designspiration is an amazing resource for any designer.
Abduzeedo Fuck Yeah, Book Arts! Dribble. Blog. Some Updates from Typedepot Although it's already february it is not that late for new years resolutions. So here they are - all the projects we are working on right now and we hope we finish in 2013. The first one (which is almost ready) is the updated Corki typeface. We didn't only add lowercase letters but also refined Corki to look even better. You will find it ... Centrale Sans Update It's almost a month since we released our last typeface - Centrale Sans, and we just released an update. Glide – revision I'm pleased to announce that our new font is finished and its already sent to our distributors Myfonts & Fontspring. Banda in Typodarium 2012 It's a great pleasure for me to inform you that we've been honoured to take part in the Typodarium's 2012 edition.
Typedepot.com redesigned One year after the birth of typedepot, we finally managed to find time for the so wanted redesign of typedepot.com. The Release of Banda and what’s to come… Banda is released! Bluebird typographic poem. Leyes de la Tipografía. Estos son algunos procedimientos que hay que tener en cuenta a la hora de manipular una tipografía. Obviamente no son leyes rigurosas que no pueden romperse, pero que son importantes conocer. 1-La altura de las letras debe ajustarse ópticamente. Las alturas de la letras curvas como la C – G – O – Q y las que tienen vértices como la A – V – W deben ser dibujadas ligeramente más allá de la las líneas guías para que no parezcan más pequeñas que el resto.
Se aplica tanto en caja alta como en caja baja. 2- El ancho de los palos debe parecer concordantes entre sí Los anchos de los palos deben ser coherentes entre sí, tanto en los verticales, los horizontales y los oblicuos. 3- Aumentar el ancho de los palos en las partes curvas para ajustar visualmente el equilibrio de la tipografía. En las tipografías romanas se aplica este procedimiento. 4- La “mitad” de la letra está siempre un poco más arriba para lograr que estén ópticamente centradas. Aquí estas palabras están alineadas de manera automática: The poster designs of Sven Brasch | Words and Eggs. Sven Brasch (1886-1970) is undoubtedly the most highly revered Danish poster designer.
From his movie posters to his commercial designs, here’s why: All images borrowed from Confetta’s Sven Brasch Flickr set. Click over to see more than 60 other Brasch goodies! Like this: Like Loading... This entry was posted in art, Design & Paper, Type, Vintage and tagged 1920s, advertisements, art, Casino, Charlie Chaplin, Confetta, Danish art, Denmark, Design & Paper, film, film posters, flappers, Greta Garbo, illustration, Jazz Age, magazine covers, magazines, movie, poster art, posters, Sven Brasch, Type, Vintage, World Cinema. Support – OpenType. OpenType es un formato tipográfico desarrollado conjuntamente por Adobe y Microsoft durante la década de 1990.
Las primeras especificaciones se publicaron en 1997. Los primeros tipos de letra OpenType llegaron al mercado en 2000. En la actualidad, la mayoría de fuentes nuevas se publican en formato OpenType, que se puede considerar, con seguridad, el nuevo estándar de la industria. El formato OpenType es compatible Unicode™. La compatibilidad con Unicode, permite a las fuentes OpenType mayores oportunidades de compatibilidad lingüística que PostScript o TrueType. OpenType pone a disposición de todos los usuarios funciones tipográficas y lingüísticas avanzadas.
Los principales fabricantes de sistemas operativos se han esforzado mucho para que las fuentes OpenType funcionen tanto en las versiones nuevas como en las antiguas de su software. Fuentes OpenType de Linotype. más ... OpenType. OpenType® is a modern font format developed by Adobe® and Microsoft® to provide users with an accessible and advanced typographic toolset.
OpenType improves on PostScript and TrueType just as the DVD trumped the video cassette. When deciding what format to choose, using the latest technology simply makes sense, but let’s dig a bit deeper and explore the ways OpenType makes life easier for typographers and graphic designers. OpenType is Efficient One Style = One File The PostScript format is limited to 256 characters per file. Metrics information and extra characters often need to be stored in additional files. Based on Unicode, an OpenType file can contain up to 65,535 characters or glyphs. As a concrete example of the efficiency of the OpenType format, compare the multilingual PostScript version of FF Meta 1, a package of four type styles, with its OpenType successor. Mac and PC Compatible Best of all, OpenType is a truly cross-platform format. OpenType is Powerful What’s Inside?
Figures. Josep Patau: «Vivir de la venta de tipografía es utópico.» Lost Type Co-op. Ilustres. Ivan Castro. Cómo diseñar un tipo. Vaya por delante que el libro Cómo diseñar un tipo no es un manual para diseñar tipografías. Más bien se trata de una aproximación al diseño tipográfico. Partiendo de la premisa de que “la composición impresa está unida al lenguaje de una forma inextricable”, Cómo diseñar un tipo nos acerca a los principios del diseño tipográfico, la caligrafía y sus raíces. Pero, como digo, olvidaos de un manual al estilo del Diseñar tipografía de Karen Cheng. Al final del libro se incluye una entrevista a los diseñadores de tipos Jonathan Barnbrook y Marcus Leis Allion, del estudio Barnbrook y la fundición Virusfonts, sobre el proceso de creación de una tipografía y, en concreto, sobre uno de sus tipos más reconocidos: Priori (con versión Sans y Serif).
Cómo diseñar un tipo es imprescindible para cualquier aficionado a la tipografía, ya que, aunque no cumpla lo prometido en el título, sí da unas directrices que ayudan a mejorar nuestra aproximación a este mundo tan complejo. Laura Meseguer | Typography & Graphic design. -+-+<<<///_VirusFonts_/_Home_///>>>+-+- Cómo crear tipografías : Tipo e Editorial. Del boceto a la pantalla Cristóbal Henestrosa · Laura Meseguer · José Scaglione ya puedes conseguir tu ejemplar de cómo crear tipografías por sólo 18 euros mas gastos de envío. enviamos a cualquier ciudad y país. venta exclusiva online, pago con tarjeta de crédito y paypal. los envíos, excepto por mensajería, se realizan los jueves. Para pedidos de mas de 4 ejemplares es imprescindible ponerse previamente en contacto info@tipo-e.com. Gastos de envio (atención: los envios no certificados no tienen código de seguimiento y no podemos controlar tiempo de llegada ni localizar en tránsito): ·Envios a España sin certificar gratis 0 € ·Envios a España con mensajería 6,5 € ·Envios Unión Europea sin certificar 3,90 € ·Envios Europa (no UE) sin certificar 3,50 € ·Envios Europa (UE y no UE) certificados 9 € ·Envios internacionales certificados 14 € ¿Cómo se diseña una tipografía?
Capítulos: 1 Motivaciones. 2 Escritura, caligrafía, dibujo y diseño de tipos. 3 Procesos y métodos. 5 Espaciado. Tipografía para descargar - Bonitismos. Paper+ typography on the Behance Network. Blog. Asociación Alcuino para la Recuperación de la Caligrafía Antigua. Friends of Type. The Anatomy of Web Typography. Every conceivable feature of typography can be referred to by its name. Whether you're talking about the typeface itself, or the arrangement of type within a layout, there's a huge glossary of terms which can help you describe things properly. Let's take a look at the elements of typography which are important to you, as a web designer. .tutorial_image img {height: auto;) There are two essential aspects of typography which directly concern web designers: those which influence your choice of typefaceand those which you can manipulate (often through CSS).
It's therefore pretty darn important that you're able to articulate (to clients, or team members) your typographic opinions and decisions. Certain fundamental typographic properties can be manipulated with CSS. You'll often hear discussion about the definition of font versus typeface, so it's important that you know the difference. (You hovered over that, didn't you?) A typeface is what the designer creates; the design. Clever Typographic Designs of Famous Scientists' Names. Mumbai-based graphic designer Kapil Bhagat creatively presents the names of some of the world's most famous scientists, honoring their pioneering line of work in the process for National Science Day in India. His typographical creations playfully hint at each respective genius's breakthrough discovery. From Darwin's theory of evolution to Pythagoras' theorem and Archimedes' principle, Bhagat covers all scientific grounds with a lighthearted look at the names of the men who have greatly shaped the world we live in today.
The artist uses the famous story of Isaac Newton observing an apple falling from a tree, which inspired him to develop his theory of gravitation, to produce a minimalist look at the physicist's name with the "o" in red at the bottom of the frame, mimicking a fallen apple. In a similarly clever fashion, Bhagat uses Albert Einstein's E=mc2 formula to logically replace the "E" in the theoretical physicist's own name with mc2. Kapil Bhagat blog via [Neatorama] 10 top typography resources | Typography. If you are looking for help with fonts or type, these typography resources are for you. The web is a wonderful thing, brimming with resources and tutorials for people wanting to learn about the discipline and see some examples of beautiful and innovative typography to inspire.
But, sometimes, too much choice can be confusing, so we've picked some top sites that will really help you get to grips with it. Check them out - and let us know if we've left out any of your favourite resources in the comments below... 01. We Love Typography We Love Typography is type heaven. 02. Incredible Types is 'a curated collection and showcase of outstanding typography and design from around the world'. 03. The name of this site says it all really. 04. Typefaces are something of an obsession at Copenhagen design agency e-Types, so they set up online type foundry Playtype. 05. Typedia is a brilliant resource for anyone who's interested in Typography but doesn't know where to start. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. Web Fonts. OpenType Control Enable fine typography with kerning and letter spacing controls.
Design with ligatures, alternate characters, fractions and other advanced typographic features. Our technology ensures OpenType features can be rendered, even on older browsers lacking native OpenType feature support. Dynamic Subsetting East Asian languages use thousands of characters making the fonts that support these languages very large in size. CSS Sucker A helpful utility for users of blogs, templates and those not hand-coding their sites, the CSS Sucker identifies CSS selectors used on your site, allowing you to easily apply Web fonts without diving too deeply into the code.
Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. | Font Squirrel. Prensa. Letras Decoración Eventos Alquiler Prensa Contacto Prensa Más información en: Nuevo Estilo 09/2012 Habitania 08/2012 TimeOut 03/2012 Vanity Fair 01/2013 Descargar nota de prensa. Gordo. Ultra Types — Families. Things to look at: Typography. Alan Kitching is a private man. It's not often that you get to see inside his workshop. This is mostly because he's busy and you would only just get in the way, but it only seems to make us all more desperate to see what goes on; to find out how he puts together his complex letterpress work and to delve into his collection of wood type.
Typography Workshop began 1989 with a Stephenson Blake proofing press and some type all purchased from Derek Birdsall's Omnific. Later there were two closing print-shop auctions, plus Herbert Spencer's press and collection of wood-letter, but it was the acquisition of theatrical poster wood block letters from the small village of Wrington that really made an impact. No one would think that you could manage to fit an enormous barnload of type into his workshop, but it's there, it's huge and it's an amazing sight to behold. Eye74 (out next week) has an article telling you all about the history of the workshop, but Alan is also doing a rare talk this week. Nice Web Type. Welcome to Baseline Magazine. UnosTiposDuros > Teoría y práctica de la tipografía. Fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT)
Design & Development: Inklude.com. Sean McCabe on Behance. Typography Served :: Gallery. Design Blog. Valentina Tipografía — Pedro Arilla. Top 10 Fonts of 2012 on Behance. Stereotypes — Type Design and Lettering.