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Package Design

Package Designer's Toolbox

Yesterday I received this huge box from Package Design Magazine labeled The Package Designer’s Toolbox. It contained numerous cleverly designed packaging such as CD jackets, box template cut-outs, cosmetic containers, beer cans, water bottles, etc. As a designer,…  Read more

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Adobe’s New Rag

Adobe debuts this month Proxy, a quarterly PDF magazine created to help designers “get in touch with and be inspired by peers and experts in the design community.” Adobe’s original foray into magazine publishing was its printed run of…  Read more

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Clarendon, Web Standards and the New DeeBeeDee

Jeffrey Zeldman today discusses the use of Clarendon in his work. I correctly observed his use of the ubiquitous typeface in the redesign of Zeldman.com but I totally missed the initial implementation of it in the Read more

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Zeldman Redesign

The new Zeldman.com looks purty. What’s up with the femme fatales though? I see Jeffrey has employed the Clarendon/condensed-sans-serif typeface combination with this version. A popular choice indeed. I’ve used it here myself.

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Ephemera

April’s been a busy month. The spring cleaning that began last winter is still ongoing. A few yard sales have come and gone but the garage seems as full as ever.
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