UI, UX: who does what? A designer’s guide to the tech industry
Plus: How Apple, Facebook, Google, and more tech-world heavyweights describe their design jobs. A story by Lo Min Ming, Co Design.
Meet Spectral, a new typeface for Google Fonts
Production Type was commissioned by Google Fonts to create a new typeface primarily intended for immersive reading, that is now available from GSuite, Google’s collaborative office-suite for documents, slides and spreadsheets. (more…)
The most efficient way to use icons if you’re a designer or developer
Not just how to do it, but why it’s better than any other way. A tutorial by Jon Moore.
A brief history of technical lettering tools
From Lettering Guides to CNC Plotters – the article by Florian Hardwig and Thomas Maier highlights some major steps in the historical development of lettering tools for drafting.
Newspapers will die. Can good design delay the inevitable?
Jacek Utko, a Polish designer who has reinvented newspaper design, talks to Khaleej Times about the fate of newspapers.
Of branded voices and funny hats: a closer look at Youtube Sans
Nina Stössinger analyzes YouTube’s new proprietary typeface. Read the review at Typographica.org.
Winners of European Design Awards announced
Now you can check the list of winners of European Design Awards. Do you like the awarded works?
What you need to know when making cyrillic typefaces
TypeThursday talks to Aleksandra Samulenkova ahead of her upcoming workshop “Introduction to Cyrillic”.
5 personal branding strategies every freelancer needs to know
As a freelancer, your success depends on your personal brand. A story by Shayla Price.
The second edition of The Insects Project available now
During her talk at Typo Berlin conference, Zosia Oslislo announced the second edition of the book on Central European diacritics is now available.