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Alphablog Overview
So 2012 is well underway now. A quarter of the way in already, in fact.
It seems like a good opportunity to remember the shenanigans of the previous year and look back on the Alphablog series I wrote throughout the year.
Alphablog: F is for Font Websites
I long for more opportunities to buy fonts. I can honestly find myself spending hours browsing and perusing the internet and its vast ocean of sites dedicated to providing fonts of all specifications, forms and prices.
In all honesty, so far in my career I haven’t found I can really afford to invest in fonts as much as I’d like, but it’s not for lack of interest. As a graphic designer I believe that one of my main responsibilities is to appropriately apply typography to communicate a client’s message. Choosing the correct font is much more than scanning the fonts that come with my mac or others that I’ve accumulated over the years – if I can include font purchase within the budget of a job I will always try to do so.
Alphablog: C is for Church Logos
When I designed the new logo for Mutley Baptist Church in Plymouth I was able to confirm through my research something that I’d long suspected. A large proportion of logo design for churches around the world is terrible!
We’ve all seen the cheap and cheerful parish newsletters and welcome cards and the cheesy picture message postcards or bookmarks from Sunday School. Church logos often follow a similar, amateur theme.
Alphablog: B is for Blogs
Since it’s inception in the late 90s, the trend of blogging has become a worldwide phenomenon, and a hugely valuable tool in many situations, both corporate and personal. To start with, blogs offered individuals the chance to write and publish their thoughts in a diary that could be read and followed across the globe. They have subsequently grown and diversified to become, in effect, magazines, corporate brochures, inspiration walls and even daily news feeds.
For graphic designers specifically, both owning and following blogs can be really beneficial. Owning and writing for blogs is generally recommended as a tool to improve your web presence, and encourages research, writing and evaluative skills which can also be beneficial to your client (and other creative) work.
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