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14 Web Design Cheat Sheets

 This article provides a very useful list of downloadable cheat sheets for Photoshop, Adobe Tool Cheats (useful in multiple Adobe products), CSS and more. If you’re a web designer, or any designer who uses Adobe products (and who doesn’t), these…

Life & Times of Paul Rand

 Lovingly executed and chocked full of features, the new paul-rand.com offers a very thorough gallery of this master designers work (including hard-to-find prototypes and fabric designs), an historical timeline of the designer’s work, and thoughts from this 20th century master.

Times Redesign

 On Saturday, January 24, 2009, The Times appeared in its new incarnation. The new broadsheet design (maybe we call it “retro”) harkens to its past and leaves today’s info-byte/tabloid skimmers with something to sink their eye teeth into. Though the…

Shepard Fairey Obama Poster

 Shepard Fairey, the artist behind President Obama’s HOPE iconic art, has released a new Obey poster to commemorate the inauguration. Fairey’s critics have detracted from his style of art, where he works from 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s iconic art and…

Zapf Turns 90

 This year celebrates the 90th birthdays of Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse and Hermann Zapf! Most of us use more of the fonts they’ve designed than we realize. From Hermann’s first typeface in 1928 to his new Palatino® Sans, he and Gudrun…