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Three Great Typography Tutorials From Veer

Jan 31, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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If you’ve been read­ing this blog for any length of time you’ll notice I am a big fan of the stock photo/illustration/font site Veer. They have great resources for all design­ers. They also have pro­duced some out­stand­ing videos. For today’s Typog­ra­phy Tues­day I’d like to share 3 great tuto­ri­als they have pro­duced for work­ing with fonts.

Veer Fonts Tuto­ri­als: How to adjust fonts

Veer Fonts Tuto­ri­als: How to install fonts

  Veer Fonts Tuto­ri­als: Open­Type introduction

10 Best Video Series on the Internet for Self Education

Jan 30, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

The inter­net is an amaz­ing resource for learn­ing new things. If you want to put in the time, there are many great things you can learn. The fol­low­ing are ten great free video series that you should really check out.

These are sites and series that I reg­u­larly watch, so it is a per­sonal list. Hence the rather ran­dom, nature of the sub­jects. I am very curi­ous about pretty much every­thing from my pro­fes­sion of graphic design to sci­ence to pop cul­ture to reli­gion. You’ll have to for­give the rather scat­tered nature of the list, but I per­son­ally attest to the great­ness of each of the listed shows.


TED: Tech­nol­ogy, Edu­ca­tion and Design
The great­est col­lec­tion of experts wax­ing poetic on their fields. A must watch for anyone.


The Peri­odic Table of Videos
Video Jour­nal­ist Brady Haran cre­ates videos about chemistry.


Sixty Sym­bols
Video Jour­nal­ist Brady Haran cre­ates videos about physics.


Bibledex
Bibledex is a project by the Uni­ver­sity of Nottingham’s Depart­ment of The­ol­ogy and Reli­gious Stud­ies in con­junc­tion with video jour­nal­ist Brady Haran. The videos are by no means com­pre­hen­sive — rather they’re a curi­ous assort­ment of aca­d­e­mic insights into what is prob­a­bly the most famous col­lec­tion of books in history.


Back­stage Sci­ence
Great videos about sci­ence by Brady Haran.


Deke’s Tech­niques
Deke McCel­lan is my Pho­to­Shop hero. I find him the most enter­tain­ing and excel­lent teacher of dig­i­tal com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools ever. Here are dif­fer­ent sites to check out this great series:
blog.lynda.com/tag/dekes-techniques/
deke.com/
youtube.com/user/lynda


InDe­sign Secrets Video Cast
Quick tips on secrets from the mas­ters of InDe­sign. A must for any­one work­ing in pub­li­ca­tions design.


Global Pub­lic Square with Fareed Zakaria
My favorite liv­ing intel­lec­tual and polit­i­cal thinker has an amaz­ing show on CNN which is broad­cast on the inter­net. His show is what news should be, a thought­ful exam­i­na­tion of events and issues with the lead­ers and great thinkers.


Ontwink
A great resource for web design­ers and devlop­ers. It is a repos­i­tory for talks on the tech­ni­cal side of design.


Watch Free Doc­u­men­tary
A col­lec­tion of great non-fiction films. Though I would quib­ble the site about many of the pseudo-science and con­spir­a­to­r­ial bent of many of the doc­u­men­taries. So buyer beware on some of them.

Extra Series to check out!


After Hours on cracked.com
I had one extra one, it is more a humor­ous look at pop­u­lar cul­ture. I am not sure if it belongs with the other videos in this list, but I highly rec­om­mend it.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-29

Jan 29, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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How They Did It — Nancy Duarte Edition

Jan 29, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

I’ve writ­ten about Nancy Duarte before so you know I am a big fan. If you get to work on the design of pre­sen­ta­tions, do your­self and your audi­ence a favor and fol­low her advice in these videos:

Duarte Design’s Five Rules for Pre­sen­ta­tions by Nancy Duarte.

Pre­sen­ta­tion Tips: Storytelling

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A Random Design Quote

Jan 26, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

A ran­dom quote from a famous graphic designer on design, cul­ture and art.

One has not under­stood until one has for­got­ten it.
D.T. Suzuki from the book The Zen of Cre­ativ­ity by John Daido Loori

Good Read: Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte

Jan 25, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

This week’s install­ment of good reads, you should check out slide:ology: The Art and Sci­ence of Cre­at­ing Great Pre­sen­ta­tions by Nancy Duarte. I’ve talked a lot about Nancy Duarte and her amaz­ing design work with her com­pany Duarte Design and for good rea­son. Her group is show­ing all of us what can be done with most peo­ple think is a ter­ri­bly bor­ing task, pre­sen­ta­tion design.  Her work is truly a revelation.

I highly and heartily rec­om­mend this book, it shows you the best prin­ci­ples for design­ing great look­ing, well orga­nized and most impor­tantly effec­tive pre­sen­ta­tions. The hard­est part about this book is that once you start read­ing it is putting it down.

Typography Tuesday: “Go Wild With OpenType”

Jan 24, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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For this install­ment of Typog­ra­phy Tues­day I had to share Veer Presents: “Go Wild With Open Type.” This clever ad mixes some of my favorite things, fonts, mid-century mod­ern esthetic and clever pro­duc­tion. Fantastic!

“Go Wild With Open­Type” is the third in a series of retro sci­ence films about fonts, from Veer. In this install­ment, the nar­ra­tor explains Open­Type tech­nol­ogy, the man ben­e­fits of Open­Type fonts, and how to access their spe­cial fea­tures and expanded char­ac­ter sets.

An Unfortunate Film By Kurtis Hough

Jan 23, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

Yikes! This is very a very sad yet funny (sort of) film by Kur­tis Hough. “how to lose $2400 in 24 sec­onds” Sorry Kurtis!

regret­tably filmed by Kur­tis Hough

KH Stu­dios, 2011

www.khstudios.com

Twit­ter: twitter.com/kurtishough

happy 40th anniver­sary North­west Film Center

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-22

Jan 22, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

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How They Did It — Ed Emberley Edition

Jan 22, 2012   //   by Devlin   //   Blog  //  No Comments

For this week’s How They Did It, I had to share another great gem from Lynda.com. They have pro­duced a fan­tas­tic doc­u­men­tary about artist and author Ed Ember­ley. He is an icon for chil­dren and adults around the world. I love his books and they are an inspi­ra­tion to all artists of all ages.

Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/tutorial/86560?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=viral&a…

Award-winning children’s book author and illus­tra­tor Ed Ember­ley is truly a national trea­sure, hav­ing drawn nearly 100 books. The warmth of his fam­ily and his 17th cen­tury home are an essen­tial part of his work. In this install­ment of the lynda.com flag­ship doc­u­men­tary series, we go to Ed’s home in Ipswich, Mass­a­chu­setts, to meet him and all of the mem­bers of his tal­ented fam­ily, includ­ing his wife and author, Bar­bara; chil­dren, illus­tra­tors Rebecca and Michael; and grand­daugh­ter, record­ing artist Adrian Ember­ley. A gen­er­a­tion of chil­dren have learned to draw using Ed’s draw­ing books and we watch as a new gen­er­a­tion puts crayon to paper. At 80 years young, Ed is push­ing ahead and we meet with his team as he works on his newest iPad app—with graphic artists that, as chil­dren, learned to draw with his books.

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