AiGD Weekly Insp Dec14th

Introduction & Updates

Hey guys, hope your quarters are ending well. We had a great meeting last week with Seth, Lisa and Kolean who had very good arguments for Joining AIGA, (along with some sweet swag, which in itself could be reason enough to join). Thanks guys!

On a side note, we are thinking of doing a tour of some of the local design firms. If anyone is interested and has any ideas on where we should go, let us know! We’ll do some talking about it on Thursday, so if you want some more input, try and be there!

Weekly Inspiration

If you guys are interested in illustration and/or screen printed art, check this site out! Withremote is a Minnesota based design company started by Nate Nolting. Their intense graphic pallet focuses on bringing high quality design to the masses. Check that shit.

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If you guys have ever seen a font online or in a book, wondered what it was, and was never able to find it, than these two sites are for you. WhatTheFont is a website that takes your uploaded png or jpg of a font, and discerns what typeface it is. Incredibly useful when you are browsing the web. If you’re using a magazine or a book however, then Identifont is for you. You find a large body of text of whatever typeface you’re looking for, then Identifont will ask you a series of questions about this typeface (ex., if the lowercase “g” is one story or two, “g“). Once it has narrowed it down for you, it will produce the top matching fonts. Again, incredibly usefull.

Outroduction

We hope you guys have a fantastic Christmas vacation, and don’t stop exploring type/design.
This weeks meeting is again in P113, Thursday Dec17th at 1pm