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100 Funny Typos from my Graphic Design Blog Stats

By Douglas Bonneville on November 27, 2009

Part of the fun of running a graphic design blog is getting to see how people find the site through Google. I recently took a look at my analytics, and found some crazy typos and hilarious search strings! While most of my traffic comes from other designers through Twitter and other graphic design related sites, [...]

Posted in Graphic Design, Print Design, Typography, WordPress Blogging | Tagged Graphic Design, monitor resolution, printing press, Typography | 31 Responses

Why is the web 72 dpi and print 300 dpi?

By Douglas Bonneville on October 6, 2009

In early 2008, a great question was posed on a midwest Adobe User’s Group list I belong to: “A question just came up at the happy hour, and none of us know the answer. Standard resolutions in the web and print world are 72, 300 and 600. None of these are natural squares, which assuming [...]

Posted in Print Design | Tagged monitor resolution, Print Design, printing press | 14 Responses

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