Fontfabric offers a small, but interesting, collection of geometric typefaces. Several are available for free download, including 2 weights of Oval, an aggressively contemporary font family.

Fontfabric is an independent type foundry , which was launched at the close of 2008 by designer Svetoslav Simov who is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our goal is to create high-quality fonts which stand in a unique class of their own, and which will serve as a good base for any designer project whether it be web, print, t-shirt design, logo etc.

via OK Great

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Designer Andrea Pippins (who runs Fly, one of my fave blogs) just announced a project she recently completed for Free People: hand-embellished high-top All-Star Chucks! It looks like they worked with a handful of different designer to make these super short run shoes. If you want to nab some truly unique kicks, check them all out here.

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Design Director/Graphic Design Manager
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

This combined role of design director and manager of the graphic design team within SRI International's Corporate and Marketing Communications Department involves managing activities of the graphic design function and staff in support of SRI's business objectives. The successful candidate will be able to handle multiple projects and deadlines deftly, meet customer expectations consistently, and direct designers effectively, and will have excellent interpersonal, time management, and project management skills.

In collaboration with other members of the Corporate and Marketing Communications Department and staff throughout SRI, you will interpret communications strategies into creative approaches and treatments. As a brand champion, you will express and apply the brand effectively across multiple media through visual design and corporate identity standards.

Providing strategic leadership and design direction, you will initiate, inspire, and stimulate creative ideas and approaches; develop creative briefs; and direct and execute appropriate solutions to deliverables such as brochures, presentations, displays, tradeshow exhibits, web sites, signage, identity systems, illustrations, and more.

As manager of a small, in-house team of designers, you are responsible for the completion of work within budget, schedule, and design parameters, and for ensuring that results are consistent with corporate objectives and image and are current with regard to trends and best practices.
Responsibilities also include individual performance reviews and coaching, and providing appropriate professional development opportunities.

Job duties include developing and implementing project plans, including scopes of work, budgets, and schedules; serving as project manager; managing work processes including work assignment and work flow; reviewing work to ensure quality; developing and managing digital assets; identifying and managing vendors; directing photo shoots; ensuring team has appropriate computer systems; and partnering with an in-house print shop.

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Regional Creative Director
Carlson Marketing Worldwide, Troy, MI

Our services include everything from interactive, creative, loyalty, employee engagement, channel marketing, events and meetings, decision sciences and analytics to seeing a smile on our clients' faces.

The Regional Creative Director serves as a senior representative of Carlson Marketing’s creative standards, beliefs and reputation working with the VP, Creative-US. The position is located in our Troy, MI office.

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Interactive Designer with Print Experience
Miles Media, Sarasota, FL

Miles Media is America's leading publisher of high quality tourism destination print guides, websites and other interactive media. This SARASOTA FLORIDA HQ opening is for an Interactive Graphic Designer with exceptional experience in web page layout, and knowledge of print design.

Our designers contribute to concept development and production of award-winning travel websites that inform and inspire potential visitors. These websites are content rich and balance beauty and usability. In print our design team uses modern layouts of editorial content with intriguing typography, innovative info graphics, eye-catching covers and high quality photography (think Wired, Metropolis, Esquire Magazines)

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The Font Bureau has combed through its collection to highlight a few faces that are perfect for the upcoming holidays. Dress up your studio's holiday party invitation, client gifts and seasonal greetings with these novelties ...

Narcissus is based directly on a 1921 German revival of Fournier's celebrated 18th-century ornamented types and conveys an organic charm.

Niagara Engraved, on the other hand, recalls the crisp, elegant, soaring geometry of the early 20th century.

Ironmonger Inlaid may have been originally inspired by wrought iron and perforated steel, but in the right context it can be surprisingly festive.

The Zingha Deco styles apply the engraved technique to more contemporary letterforms, in both upright and swash italic styles.

And Nutcracker is a design unto itself—conceived, as the name implies, especially to express the character of the season.

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Graphic Designer
Abercrombie & Fitch, Columbus, OH

Graphic Designers are responsible for creating brand specific artwork and interpreting current trends into A&F's handwriting. Through trend/vintage shopping, marketing and internet research, Graphic Designers develop seasonal graphic concepts for a wide range of apparel categories. After a concept is initialized, A&F Graphic Designers will work with the Research and Development team in our state-of-the-art Innovation and Design Center to develop cutting edge print, applique, and embroidery techniques. Collaboration with Design and Merchandising is also a constant in order to put the most trend-right products into our stores.

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Environmental Graphic Designer
Erwin-Penland Advertising, Greenville, SC

Here’s two words that should spark your interest: pro sports. As in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. If you don’t know what those mean, um...sad. If you’re a fan, however, you may be who we’re looking for. You see, we need a highly talented and experienced environmental designer eager to work for a national account partnered with pro teams. Like yesterday.

What would you be doing? Short answer: kick-butt design. Long answer: help us develop dynamic environments, short-term exhibits, and signage systems for stadiums and large-audience venues across the country.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

·3 years minimum design experience, preferably as an exhibit designer.

·Design degree, preferred.

·Project management, budgeting, and construction/installation experience are essential.

·Demonstrated leadership and communication skills.

·Strong portfolio of 3D exhibit designs. Like strong, folks. Wow us.

·The ability to work under pressure and manage multiple jobs at once, all of which may be in various stages of design, installation and maintenance.

·The absence of an ego. We push ourselves. Can you accept constructive feedback and criticism?

·High end user of Photoshop and Illustrator.

·Fast 3D Modeling

·Ability to design 2D graphics for exhibit designs and create basic detail drawings if needed.

·Ability to mentor junior designers.

·A friendly disposition. We like nice, charming, go-getters.

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It's not often that we get wind of a new design organization that's forming, but sure enough, this week marks the debut of the Society of Design. What's the deal? We asked Corie Deshong from the Lancaster, PA design firm Go Welsh (whose founder, Craig Welsh, is behind SOD) for scoop:

The organization was created with the intention to find ways for designers to contribute to the greater community. SOD's members agree to volunteer at least 10 hours of community service each year.

SOD will conduct two exhibits in its first year featuring original works from participating members. In each case, a second non-profit will benefit from SOD's efforts. ... If all goes as planned, SOD should be able to donate roughly $20,000 in its first year to approximately 15 other non-profit organizations. All through the generosity of its members and sponsors.

SOD has an ambitious agenda for its first year:

• The Thank You Project, featuring original card designs by Ken Barber, Tad Carpenter, Jessica Hische and Haley Johnson; half the proceeds go to charities of the designers' choice and half to funding SOD initiatives.

• A commemorative poster commissioned from Hatch Show Print

• A series of lectures featuring Chip Kidd, Design Army and Modern Dog

• A visit to Fallingwater next spring

Learn more about Society of Design and its upcoming events. You can also follow SOD on Twitter.

Copywriter
JDK Design, Burlington, VT

We are Jager DiPaola Kemp Design and we are looking for a copywriter. We don’t require much beyond a grounding in brand strategy and strategic thinking, the ability to write everything from headlines, print ads, brand names, product names, web content, email blasts, hangtags, strategy write-ups, presentation write-ups, entire catalogs, videos, POVs, campaigns, poems, rants, T shirts, stickers, point of sale, posters, and anything else that may present itself. Oh, and you must be unafraid to ask questions, unafraid to drive work independently, and unafraid of winter. A demonstrable appreciation for the great outdoors and enthusiastic participation in the culture and the sports that take place in it are requisite. Know that talent, experience, and intelligence–along with proof of each–are a must.

If you're a packaging designer, you're probably aware of the great packaging site The Dieline. What you might not know is that the deadline for the first ever Dieline Awards is fast approaching (December 21). The awards will be judged by a highly esteemed panel of 10 industry experts, and awarded based on quality of design. Debbie Millman, President of the AIGA and President of Design at Sterling Brands, will be the chairman of the judges.

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Senior Designer
Stella & Dot, Burlingame, CA

We are looking for a Senior Designer to work in our Marketing/Creative Service Department. The Senior Designer will report to the Creative Director.

Join a world-class, profitable, explosive growth company with a seasoned executive team. Stella & Dot is boutique style Jewelry Company that sells online and through work from home, Independent Consultants at in home trunk shows. We are re-inventing the $100 Billion direct selling channel by combing the best of e commerce, social networking and direct sales with irresistible style and exceedingly personal service. Our mission is to revolutionize entrepreneurial opportunities for women (and a few good men) by reinventing the category and creating the modern business opportunity, our social selling platform. Stella & Dot has been featured in the New York Times, on the View, The Today Show and in countless fashion magazines like InStyle and Lucky.

If ‘mediocrity’ and ‘just good enough’ make you cringe, if you are passionate, driven, an expert in your domain and ready to take charge in a key role, you’ll do nicely at Stella & Dot. Please read more about us at www.stelladot.com. This is a challenging role for a highly motivated Senior Designer with a solid track record for providing administrative support for senior-level executives. You are an intelligent, inquisitive, outgoing individual looking to work in a fast-paced, energetic and inspiring environment.

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I had no idea French Paper had a blog of many of the great things printed on their wonderful paper. It's a great place to get some quick print inspiration.


via The Donut Project

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Attention all designers, I'm looking for great wedding invitations to feature in an upcoming issue of HOW. If you have an invite you'd like to share, please mail a sample (that you can live without) to Megan Patrick, HOW, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236. Please indicate what papers were used in the design.

If your piece is chosen, I'll follow up with more questions about the design.

The deadline is November 25.

Thanks!

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From Scientific American: A study published this week in the journal Brain and Cognition shows that when you boost the level of communication between the right and left hemispheres your creativity increases.

Sixty-two subjects performed a creativity task, where they had to come up with as many alternate uses for common objects like, a paper clip, pencil, shoe, etc. as they could in one minute.

After this initial task researchers asked subjects to move their eyes to follow a target as it moved horizontally left to right for 30 seconds. This exercise is thought to increase the cross-talk between the hemispheres.

Then the subjects completed the creative task again. Results were surprising.  Subjects came up with significantly more unique uses for the everyday items, than the control group who stared straight ahead.

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Senior Designer
Creative Lift, San Francisco

A San Francisco based creative agency has an immediate need for a Designer who can design beautiful print and online creative solutions.

We have a range of clients everything from Telecommunications companies to Cosmetic companies. If you have experience working with Telecommunications companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Direct TV, or Cosmetic companies like Intelligent Beauty or Guthy Renker please note that in your cover letter.

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Moop makes great, simple bags to order, many of which are appropriate for both men and women. The Messenger makes a nice laptop bag and its adjustable strap is available in two lengths for the perfect across-the-body fit. (Check out one of my favorite blogs, Craft, for a Moop giveaway!)

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Digital Art Director
Sullivan, New York City

Sullivan is seeking an experienced Art Director to join our growing digital team. As a communications strategy and design firm with 20 marketing and creative professionals, we offer a hands-on environment where you can get involved at every stage of a digital project. As a B2B magazine top agency of the year and an Inc. 5000 company, we can also offer experience working with high-profile financial services and non-profit clients.

Who you are
You have a minimum of 5+ years of experience designing in the digital space, and understand the limitations and possibilities of designing for the Web or other online media. You balance highly creative and conceptual thinking with sensitivity to user experience and usability. You are detail-oriented, and have a deep understanding of typography, color, composition, page structure, and interaction design. Complex displays of information such as financial dashboards interest you, and you have experience simplifying interfaces while keeping them engaging and interactive. Your written and verbal skills are excellent.

What you do
You lead the design direction for internal and external digital client projects, partnering with information architects, senior level marketers, and writers. When a project begins, you engage with both the users and the content, intent on not just translating a visual system, but using design to create a compelling story about a product or organization. You present your work to clients, and feel very comfortable speaking to senior-level professionals. You report directly to the Executive Creative Director.

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Freelance Graphic Designer
Gap Inc., San Francisco

Description
-Freelance Graphic Designer - Old Navy Creative Team

Qualifications
-High attention to detail, well organized and able to thrive in deadline-driven environment.
-Able to handle a number of projects simultaneously.
-Minimum 3 years professional experience in a design studio or agency
-Able to function both independently and collaboratively
-Ability to generate creative ideas and concepts
-Work efficiently under pressure in order to meet deadlines
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills
-Ability to positively respond to critiques of creative work
-Excellent organizational skills
-Demonstrated typographic skills
-A positive attitude!
-Must be proficient in Macintosh and Adobe CS3 tools

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