30 New Free Fonts for Headlines Today’s round-up focuses on clean, distinctive and easy-to-read free fonts that designers may not necessarily crave, but will always need. Those types (no pun intended) of fonts, whether that be for a web page or print, that are perfect for headlines and titles. All of the fonts below are free (some requiring a tweet) and for the most part the fonts can be used in both personal and commercial projects, but please do check the licenses of each before using them. Here they are: Free Fonts for Headlines ALEO (Free for Personal & Commercial Use) Mathematical (Free for Personal Use) Mathematical → Langdon (Free for Personal & Commercial Use) Langdon → Hapna Mono (Free for Personal & Commercial Use) Hapna Mono → Muchacho (Free for Personal & Commercial Use) Muchacho → Calendas Plus (Free for Personal & Commercial Use) Calendas Plus → Mission Gothic (Free for Personal Use) Mission Gothic → Lovelo (Free for Personal & Commercial Use) Lovelo → Varela (Free for Personal & Commercial Use) Varela → Musket → Mecca →
Free 27 Page Type Classification eBook Congratulations on finding your way here. Obviously you are after the Free 27 page Type Classification eBook. What is it? For a full visual preview scroll down and for a description read on… This book has been made to help you learn the 10 broad classifications of type. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn to learn typography and it is essential for any designer to know how to classify type. This book goes through the 10 type classifications with a brief history as well as the key characteristics of each. >> Download Comments? Please leave comments on the announcement post. Thank you! A special note of thanks to John Magnik for supplying the copy & several images inside. The joy of finishing Rita's quilt 100 Best Independent Magazines Print, they say, is dead. Which is true — for the monthly glossies and newsprinted dailies that once dominated checkout lines and city-corner kiosks. Their relevance, page counts and editorial staffs are dwindling with a quickness, advertisers shunning them in favor of the (largely unfounded) promises of the all-consuming and data-driven world of digital. But in their place, a new form of print journalism has risen, and even thrived. We’re talking about the world of independent magazines, the unlikely hero of the 24-hour news cycle. So what are they doing differently? An independent magazine, as far we can tell, no longer refers to a staple-bound packet passed around in rock ‘n’ roll venues or high-school hallways, but rather any work of “slow journalism,” which can be thought of as the spiritual antithesis of clickbait. Independent magazines also — vitally — tend not to depend on ad dollars for their sustenance. Sneak peek: What is American soccer? Sneak Peek: Pantelleria TREATS! Shindig!
Walking to infinity: my virtual odyssey through Britain's finest art | Art How important is art? It’s not as important as life or love. I recently found that out the hard way. My relatively comfortable lockdown was blown apart when I started haemorrhaging and was taken to hospital. From lying on the bathroom floor covered in blood to losing consciousness in the operating theatre as PPE-wearing doctors injected me with ketamine, I can’t say I thought about art once. I just thought about my wife and daughter. But this might not be the full picture. Great art is not life or love, but it’s the best way we can share life and love with one another. Every time I teach a Guardian Masterclass at Tate Modern, I always end up in the room that’s hung with these mighty black, dark red and purple abstract canvases – the Rothko room. These are masterpieces for the end of world and a true treasure of Britain’s stupendous art collections. In the hospital, I ended up imagining my own museum. I set myself to make a mental museum. That’s why I love the Rothko room.
A Beginner’s Guide To User Journey Mapping | by Nick Babich | UX Planet ‘How do people actually use our product?’ is a fundamental question that every product creator must answer. In order to answer this question, product designers need to understand the essence of the whole experience from the user’s perspective. User journey mapping is an excellent exercise that can shed light on that. User journey map is a visualization of an individual’s relationships with a product/brand over time and across different channels. While user journey maps come in all shapes and formats, commonly it’s represented as a timeline of all touch points between a user and a product. User journey map is an excellent tool for UX designers because It visualizes how a user interacts with a product and allows designers to see a product from a user’s point of view This fosters a more user-centric approach to product design, which ultimately leads to better user experience. User journey map helps a product team to find the answer to the “What if..?” 1. 2. Who is your user? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Areas of Focus: A week in Manhattan with the Nikon Z 7 - Sponsor Content - Nikon Joe McNally is the kind of photographer who makes a picture as opposed to taking one—the kind that feels a picture before seeing it. His works have appeared on the covers of Fortune, Life, and National Geographic. McNally began as a copy boy for the New York Daily News, processing film, cleaning prints, and running them to the newsroom. A newspaper strike in the late ’70s led to his first staff job at a fly-by-night paper that cropped up after the Daily News temporarily closed shop. Since then, some of his most memorable work—from scaling high rises with Nepalese window washers in Dubai to lighting up entire city blocks—has been recognized multiple times. On buying your first professional camera: “You have to think about how the camera fits into your workflow and your interests. On best practices in the field: “You have to know your craft. On when it’s OK to lift the camera On his process “When I’m doing a story, it helps me to cut it down to size. On the Z 7
20+ Inspiring Handwritten Typography Quotes by Joao Neves Every day begins with new sunrise, new hopes, new dreams and new tasks to perform. The energy should be good enough to kick the bucket and carry out the best of yourself. Creativity comes out after long term contemplation, manipulation of ideas and then the final implementation. A graphic designers meet various puzzling & perplexing pursuits every day, it is the demand of his profession, he has to deal with various sort of people, diverse minds of clients, different demands, numerous requirements and all he has to react in return is to be calm, patient, be a good listener and be a total professional. Each day he is to clear of the plenty of piles lined up on his desk, each task requires his best nerves and mind, for this he is to be open headed, on the receiving end and having a fresh brain. Art has different forms and all such forms are distinct in their properties and traits.