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10 Steps to Using Grids for Sketching (on Lunch Break)

As I’ve said elsewhere on the blog, I believe designers should draw as often as possible. One of the best exercises, time-tested over hundreds of years of fine art tradition, is copying the Masters. But can you do this on lunch break? Sure—with a little help from a grid!… [Read More]

Mistral: Font choice of the gods

What better topic for Mistral to be an appropriate font choice for, than a spoofy Italian movie about Hercules fighting against assorted masters of Karate, circa 1973? Perfect! … [Read More]

How to fix the Firefox memory leak on Mac OS and Windows, once and for all, like a boss

Some of you will love this, and some of you are going to flame me. I don’t care about the haters though. Even though a fellow TYPO3 developer friend pointed out regarding my solution, “There has to be a better way. There probably is”, I’m posting this as a help to all the Firefox users of the world who are sick to death of the phantom Firefox memory leaks. We all know Firefox leaks memory for one reason or another. It’s been years. Plugins have come and gone and Firefox just leaks all the time. Period. What to do? It’s time to hit Firefox with a sledgehammer. Like a boss. … [Read More]

All-new Font Combinations App 2.0 released to iTunes App Store

Just a quick note to everyone know the all-new Font Combinations 2.0 App has been released and is available on iTunes! Please take a look at the new interface design and list of features! If you bought version 1.0, your free update is on the way! Let us know how you like it! And don’t forget to try out the new Twitter and Email functions while you are at it!

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