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9 Lessons from Designing a $5,000 Document

I just wrapped up designing a complex, 48-page program for the Virginia Festival of the Book. It’s not the first time I’ve created a document like this, but this time I did something a little different. I catalogued my entire …

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7 Essential Typographic Layout Systems

eBook by Lucas Czarnecki Being a designer means solving problems. Your tools to do this include color, type, graphics, images, motion, medium, and layout. Layout, though, often feels like a forgotten step-child. You see the same ones over and over. …

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Type & Color – Free Video Course

Most of Type365 is dedicated to—you guessed it!—type. If you want to become a great designer, though, you can’t live in black and white. It goes without saying: color plays a massive role in our lives. It’s emotional in a …

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Branding the Cville Design Week

Everyone has little crazy ideas. Sometimes they’re crazy enough to forget, and sometimes they’re crazy enough… they just might work. I’ve launched a tiny design festival in my town of Charlottesville, Virginia. It took place in mid-November and it was …

4 Typographic Styles in 15 minutes

This week, rather than going over some high-level concept or very specific tool (like Kerning) I’m going to show you how to do make 4 very specific things. These styles are very in right now. Here are the styles you’ll …