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Today Julianna Brion-
Julianna Brion is a Baltimore, MD based illustrator with a wonderful eye for details and beauty. She creates memorable images, such as this book cover illustration for Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach. I love the way she uses pencil in all of her work, which has a nice textural quality that I can’t get enough of.
To see more of Julianna’s work, check out her website and be sure to pick up a print or two from her shop.
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Yesterday Brad Woodard-
Fresh work coming from Mr. Brad Woodard in sunny Southern California. Brad’s an accomplished designer/illustrator and an info-graphics whiz to boot. I love his color palettes, form-making and how deliciously his illustration style bleeds into his information graphics. The two play very nicely together.
Currently, Brad is a designer at the very cool design/data vis studio Column Five Media, and a writer for Visual News. And he’s got some prints for sale up in his shop.
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Page 1: Great Expectations-
Page 1: Great Expectations is a typographic experiment designed to explore the relationship between graphic design, typography and the reading of a page. The book features contributions from 70 leading designers and typographers, all of whom have reinterpreted the first page of Charles Dickens’ novel. The text was chosen in part because it directly references lettering as Pip searches for clues about his family from the letterforms inscribed on their tombstone. The brief encouraged the c... (more)

Herbie-
Meet Herbie, the latest display font from Morten Iveland at the Infamous Foundry. As the name might indicate, Herbie is inspired by Herb Lubalin’s work and the decorative style and kerning of his era.
Download Herbie here.
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Matt Chase-
I’ve been a fan of Washington D.C.’s Matt Chase for quite a while now. Matt has a lot of versatility as a designer/illustrator and I’m always impressed with his ability to work with a gamut of styles. He transitions so well between smart identity work, engaging, colorful illustration and on-point lettering.
Be sure to check out his shop, too.
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Ping Zhu-
Photo: Nobrow Press
Ping Zhu is an illustrator from Los Angeles, now calling London her happy abode. Most recently, she released a beautiful Swan Lake concertina published by Nobrow Press, which features images of the performance and all the happenings behind the scenes as well.
The concertina is just one of the many wonderful projects Ping has worked on. Some of her other clients include the New York Times, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The New Yorker, and Jamie Magazine. Her playful and c... (more)

/Sponsor/ Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2012- A Huge thanks to WMC Fest for sponsoring this week's RSS Feed!
Now in its third year, the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest is a must-attend event for creatives in the Midwest. Its goal is to inspire and enable the creative mind and will feature 20 speakers, 20 designers, and nearly 30 bands over the weekend of June 8-10, 2012. Put on by the Cleveland-based creative agency Go Media and an army of volunteers, WMC Fest has a homegrown, indie vibe that sets it apart from other national-caliber cr... (more)

Gratuitous Type / No. 2-
I was sent this really cool book--or “pamphlet”, as they call it--called Gratuitous Type / No. 2. A self proclaimed “pamphlet of typographic smut”, this small anthology of current interesting typography, lettering and fonts really runs the gamut of interesting new styles. With an advanced design and extremely impressive printing, the publisher/designer and editor (Elana Schlenker) has done a wonderful job putting everything together.
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Judging The Best of Newspaper Design- I'm in Syracuse assisting with the judging of the Society for News Design’s Best of Newspaper Design competition through Monday. There’s comprehensive live blog coverage, as well as Twittering and Flickring....... (more)

New York Times Sells First Front-Page Display Ad- The New York Times will sell display ads on its front page and, in fact, already has, as you can see in the above image of Monday’s front page. The Times would not disclose the rates it charges for...... (more)

Save NewsPageDesigner- NewsPageDesigner, the venerable newspaper design portfolio site, is in need of new servers and programming to redesign the site from the ground up. And they need to do it soon so they don't lose the thousands of portfolios that are...... (more)

Election Front Pages- Here are the front pages from the top U.S. papers this morning. I’ll add some smaller papers and international ones as they reflect the results in Thursday’s editions. Update: I’ve added a few more pages, including some international pages....... (more)

Chicago Tribune Redesign- The Chicago Tribune launched its long-awaited redesign today. A bunch more pages after the jump. The SND site has a look into the project in slideshow and video form, and Poynter has a Q&A with Design Director Jonathon Berlin....... (more)

SND Vegas Backchannel- The aforementioned SND Vegas workshop begins Sunday, and I've hacked together a page that collects some of the online conversations generated by the workshop. Content from blogs, Twitter, Flickr, etc., should show up on the page in a timely...... (more)

Sarah Who?- The Society for News Design annual workshop is about to kickoff in Las Vegas, and the online polling stations are open for members to vote for officers. But before you discharge that most sacred duty, the Concerned Union of Designers...... (more)
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3 days Free Video: iOS Blocks and Categories- In this 5:30 minute video, you will learn that a category is used to define additional methods of an existing class without subclassing. And blocks are simply a block of executable code that have access to local variables and can be stored or passed around.
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Free Video: iOS Property Lists- In this 6:46 minute video, you’ll learn about property lists also known as a “plist”, a structured data representation used as a convenient way to store, organize, and access standard types of data.
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Free Video: Ruby Hashes- In this 7:18 minute video, you’ll learn what hashes are, how they work in Ruby, and how to create them yourself.
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Tony Hsieh and Zach Ware of Zappos -- Speaking at FILive!-
We have an amazing late addition to our Future Insights Live show taking place in Vegas in less than 2 weeks time…. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Lead Developer, Zach Ware - will be joining us on stage for a special extended Keynote!
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Free Video: Building Accessible Charts- In this 6 minute video, you’ll learn how to create a simple bar graph from scratch by using HTML and CSS. This bar graph is made with screen readers in mind, and doesn’t make use of images or browser plugins.
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How to be honest: An interview with MailChimp UX lead Aarron Walter-
With our new show Future Insights Live less than a month away, we’ve been getting more and more excited about all the great content our speakers will be delivering.
Longtime Future of Web Design favourite, Aarron Walter (UX design lead at MailChimp) is presenting a keynote on "Honest Customer Relationships," an approach to communicating with customers that weaves through nearly every activity of the business, including UX and social media platforms.
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Free Video: iOS5 Appearance: Tint Color- In this 6:25 minute video, you’ll learn how to modify the tint color for some of the UIKit controls.
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Free Video: Intro to Layers- In this 3:34 minute video, you’ll learn the basics of what Photoshop layers are and how they work together to create a completed graphic.
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