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30 Web Designs Featuring Vintage Style Typography

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30 Web Designs Featuring Vintage Style Typography.

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Minimalist Graphic Interpretations of Philosophical Concepts — Prints by Genis Carreras | Society6

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Art Prints by Genis Carreras | Society6.

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My tween found this creative use for an extra iPad stylus

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How to create a magazine: 5 tips from top designers

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Creative Bloq.

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UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package

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What we know: The package contained an incredibly detailed replica of “University of Chicago Professor” Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks only sort of like this one, but almost exactly like this one, so much so that we thought it might have been the one [...]

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A Quick and Comprehensive Guide to Type

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A Quick and Comprehensive Guide to Type

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Crazy-looking keyboards that never caught on

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As the typewriter become popular, it was sometimes referred to it as a “literary piano,” or “the sewing machine of thought.” But the piano and the sewing machine both require a more complex interaction between fingers and machine parts than does the keyboard, which essentially requires you to press whatever button features the letter [...]

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I like Zite, but what’s with the slogan?

What was the quality control process behind the creation of this logo?

Should that be “Discover Your Interest” or “Discover You’re Interesting”?

I’m not sure I associate owls with curiosity. Owl from the Christopher Robin stories is pompous and oblique. The owl from the Tootsie Pop commercial is impatient and destructive. The Owl in [...]

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A Message from Hester Prynne (Student Video)

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Have I mentioned lately that I have awesome students?

For a “Creative Critical Presentation” in my online American Literature survey, English major Tyler Carter created A Message from Hester Prynne, a 9-minute video that explores Hester’s psychology and spirituality, through music, dance, poetry, and cinematography.

All the technology Seton Hill offers to its students [...]

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Let there be light

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Folio 180r: Text referring to St Peter features the body of a hare, symbolic of timidity.

The Irish have a weakness for puns, and this is as evident in the Book of Kells as it is in Finnegans Wake, although in the former the puns are for the most part visual, for no monk [...]