What Font Is It Anyway?

March 31, 2009| All, Articles |

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Have you ever come across a great font in a book, a magazine, t-shirt, sign, poster, WHATEVER? Imagined how great it would look on your work but have no way of finding out what font it is? Fear not, WhatTheFont! to the rescue. WhatTheFont! is a great little web app that allows you to take a picture of that perfect font, upload it to their server, let their system do some fancy equations, mull it over for a while, then spit out the name of the font pictured in your file, fantastic. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone you can get this as a portable app too.

Genius! Do you have one?

March 15, 2009| All, Articles |

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There are some fantastic videos online from TedTalks. It shows talks from some pretty switched on people from the TedTalks Conferences. This one gives a nice insight and some food for thought.

In the video the talker, Elizabeth Gilbert, discusses how we view creative people, and how we ‘burden’ them with their creative achievements by giving them full responsibility for them. She talks of the way it used to be believed that we had a genius rather than being one. The genius in this circumstance being some otherworldly being, so to speak, that comes to give us our inspiration and ideas.

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