By Douglas Bonneville on June 15, 2010
“Font Combos” for the iPhone is on sale at the iTunes store now!
From today until June 22nd, Font Combos will be on sale for .99 cents, which is 50% off the list price of $1.99.
- We want to increase awareness of the Font Combos app in preparation for the publishing of our graphic design resource book “The Big Book of Font Combinations” which is the expanded print companion to Font Combos.
- Font Combos is an iPhone app that makes is very easy to create interesting font pairs from 45 of the most popular typefaces of all time. You can match fonts to create over 2000 variations.
Read the full description, see the screen shots, and consider taking Font Combos for a spin at 50% off for this limited time!
Posted in Graphic Design |
By Douglas Bonneville on June 8, 2010
Here is a sneak preview of our font combination resource book for graphic designers. The book has one simple goal: to make finding interesting font pairs as easy as possible. We are designing the master template with the intention of setting as many useful examples as possible on one page.
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Posted in Books, Font Combinations |
By Douglas Bonneville on May 23, 2010
Is less really more when it comes to blogging? There seems to be a pattern with many independent design blogs that have a substantial numerical following, be it on Twitter or Feedburner subscriber stats: the more popular they are, the less they blog. Is there a principle at work here?
Continue reading “How to grow your graphic design blog with less posts”
Posted in Graphic Design Blogs |
By Douglas Bonneville on May 20, 2010
Just a little horn-tooting: we crossed 100,000 visits last week. It’s not much, but our first 6-digit tally of visitor totals feels significant for some reason. Unique page views crossed 160,000 too. We started in September 2009, and in general get 300-1000 unique visitors a day, but have the odd day of 3000-7000 hits if we post something that gets re-tweeted like mad. That’s happened a dozen times or so.
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By Douglas Bonneville on May 18, 2010
I’m collecting references for an article about graphic designers who are also artists, fine or otherwise.
If you have a favorite graphic designer who also has an online portfolio of artwork in addition to their design work, I’d like to see it. Why?
Continue reading “Request: Graphic Designers who are also Fine Artists”
Posted in Art |
By Douglas Bonneville on May 16, 2010
I don’t find passion in graphic design, but I’m very interested in it, even after 20 years in the field. It’s always more interesting to do something purely artistic, where solving client problems isn’t a factor. I’m passionate about Fine Art, yet only very interested in Design, enough to keep doing it with a measure of delight after 20 years. It’s much more fun to write a song or sketch a painting concept than it is to analyze a client’s competitor and his branding. But as a designer, I must deliver work with a certain measure of inspiration or else I’ll cease to get work in this field. Right?
Continue reading “Design Inspiration Series #1: Pressure as Inspiration”
Posted in Creativity, Graphic Design Books |
By Douglas Bonneville on May 15, 2010
I’ve done the homework for you so that you don’t have to! Let’s take your blog from bad to worse, like a slow train wreck, over the next 12 months. All you have to do is follow these 10 steps:
Continue reading “10 ways to make your graphic design blog irrelevant in 12 months”
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