Type Tuesday

A Rapidly Growing Font for Fast Times

Name: Zoom Pro Designer: Florian Paizs Foundry: The Designers Foundry Release Date: October 2019 Back Story: It’s pretty much universally acknowledged that type design…

Type Tuesday

A Rapidly Growing Font for Fast Times

Zoom Pro balloon and builds between different sizes and widths fast as a rocket

Words by
Madeleine Morley

Published on
November 19th, 2019

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Design Diary

A Cover Design for American Psycho Made Using Actual Pig’s Blood, an Animation Imagining Tinder Swipes IRL + More

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Graphic design

Overheard on Design Twitter: Designers vs. Design Media, Psychedelic Graphics Delight, and Gradients Make A Comeback (Again)

Welcome to this week’s installment of Overheard On Design Twitter, our new series for which we sift through all the…

Magazines

Design for Sale: A Template for Magazine Design 16 Years in the (Re)Making

Late in the winter of 2005, Dutch contemporary art magazine Metropolis M ran an unusual ad in the back of…

Type Tuesday

How to Release Your Debut Typeface with No Formal Type Training

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Op-ed

Designers, Please Pay Your Interns

I teach design at a public university in the American south. I also serve as the internship coordinator, connecting students…

Design + Gender

We Surveyed Gender Equality at the World’s Biggest Design Conferences—and the Numbers Are In

In early 2018, a designer posted on Facebook that only around one-third of the speakers at Brno’s International Biennial of…

Design + Money

“Epically Long”—How Pentagram Chooses Its New Partners

For many of us, the intersection of brands and data brings to mind issues of privacy; it can stir up…

Design History 101

The Cost of Free Love and the Designers Who Bore It—Meet the Women of Psychedelic Design

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Books

In Defense of Beautiful Design

Ask the nearest designer for an example of good design, and they’ll mostly likely name drop some big brand logos,…

Design + Sexuality

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This year at AIGA’s Design Conference, industrial designer Ti Chang shared how she’s built her career around designing for social…

Op-ed

The Design Industry Needs to Take a Stand Against Free Pitching

Sarah Boris is an award winning graphic designer and art director based in London, where since 2015 she has run…

Branding

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About a decade ago, a designer at trading card giant Panini America was tasked with performing a resurrection. The goal…

Design + Politics

What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?

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Design + Mental Health

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About Creativity and Mental Health

When I started on this series of Design + Mental Health features, I’d assumed it would be fairly straightforward: I…

Design + Money

Gone Phishin’: What Graphic Designers Need to Know About a Weird Internet Scam Targeting Creatives

Most of us have seen phishing emails—maybe a dodgy e-mail address asking about details for a bank you don’t even…

Design Diary

Typographic Tiling, a Behind-the-scenes Look Into Making the New Lapalux Record Artwork + More

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Graphic design

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Typography

3 Predictions for the Future of Typography (and 1 We Hope Doesn’t Come True)

There’s a new trend report out from Monotype, the mother of all type foundries (they own Helvetica, for starters), that…

Design History 101

The Bauhaus Master Who Saw Photoshop Coming, 90 Years Ahead of Time

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Eye on Design City Guide: Mumbai

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This is the second piece in our series that weighs the pros and cons of living and working in Mumbai’s…

Eye on Design City Guides

Mumbai’s Growing Creative Scene is Luring in Graphic Designers

Following in the footsteps of our London City Guide, this is the first in a new series that weighs the…

Eye on Design City Guides

The Realities of Running a Design Studio in Mumbai

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Eye on Design City Guides

Being a Mumbai Type Designer is About More Than Great Work—You Gotta Get the Lingos, and There’s Hundreds of Them

This is the third piece in our series that weighs the pros and cons of living and working in Mumbai’s creative…

Type Tuesday

A German Typographer’s Homage to Mid Century American Calligraphy Masters

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Design + Money

For Creatives, the American Dream Is Becoming Less Sexy and More Pragmatic

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Design Diary

Fukt the Design System, Graphic Mag’s Berlin Issue, A Farewell to Anxy + More

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Op-ed

The New Horror Movie Poster Aesthetics Reflect Our All-too-real Modern Day Dystopias

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Branding

Researchers Want to Help You Design More Successful Logos, But Do They Have Good Advice?

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Design History 101

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Design + Education

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Design + Education

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Design + Education

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Design + Education

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Design + Education

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Design + Education

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Design + Education

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Type Tuesday

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Design Census

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