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Getting inspiration from nicely designed magazines and books is common habit for graphic designers and art directors. But buying all this stuff is expensive and when you are still a student or in early working years you might not have the financial resources to afford them. Public libraries normally don’t have many magazines you want to use as a inspiration – and most of all you won’t find many international design magazines.

The internet is a great resource for inspiration, but screen design follows other rules than print. But now you can go to Issuu – You might already read about it as the best PDF online viewer – and it sure is – but it is also an online library with a massive collection of design magazines. They have a category called “Visual Inspiration” – exactly what you want. Really neat so check it out.

Here is an example of a publication I’ve found there.

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The Too Small Font Issue

November 22, 2008

in Free Lessons

Are you using too small font?

Are you using too small font?

In the last lessons I talked about the mindset of an art director. It’s different from a graphic designer in many aspects. It is often difficult to explain what is different, so I will try to make an example – a situation that every graphic designer who is working not just for himself has faced. The “too small font issue“. …click here to continue…

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