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The print campaign

Below you’ll find ads for the “print campaign” targeting pet stores and the like. Two similar ideas, I preffer the white-on-black text however it doesn’t work well in print since ink spills over as paper absorbs it thus severely limiting text legibility. Of course it would be better, even completely eliminated, with a different kind of paper but I just don’t want to complicate matters more than they already are.

ad version 1 ad version 2

Incidentally… ink absorbtion in high speed printing on low quality paper for newspapers and such is dealt with using ink traps. Learn more in the article by Nick Sherman – Bell Centenial Form & Function

Typographica favorites

Type designers at Typographica just served the ’06 edition annual review of their favorite new fonts. Also mentioned are a number of “honorable mention” entries you also might want to check out.

Longboards

Sweet longboards of Series 1 by Boardeli. Along with the video below it almost made me want to get one.

via: Land+Living

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