Janine Vangool of UPPERCASE gallery in Calgary, is celebrating the old-school typewriter all week on her blog. We featured UPPERCASE in HOW's recent profile of designers who create and produce their own papergoods, and we love Janine's stuff.

This colorful calendar by SuperKonductor is just the thing to get you in the mood for 2009.

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Graphic Designer
American Eagle Outfitters

Responsibilities:
• Oversee design, concept and on-time creation of Marketing materials, including items like in-store signs, direct mailers, magazine advertising, brand tools, etc.
• Maintain archival creative job files.
• Maintain graphic design equipment including computers and software.
• Audit organization for brand consistency.
• Launch special design projects when assigned
• Perform other duties as assigned

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Sure, we've all had fun bashing Papyrus and Comic Sans (heck, some designers even love to trash Helvetica). Now another font comes in for a good smackdown: Trajan. That's right, Trajan: the movie font.

Our fave T-shirt site Threadless is offering one lucky HOW reader a free shirt and a $50 Threadless gift certificate. The shirt is the winner of their recent Threadless Loves Lomography competition, which was designed by Sebastian Guadarrama Gomez. To win, sign up for the HOW E-mail Newsletter and look for entry instructions there.

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Deroy Peraza is the man behind one of the many well-designed Barack Obama posters you may have seen this election season. His "New Hope" poster was exhibited in Denver during the Democratic National Convention, where it caught the eye of Cynthia Odier, founder of the Switzerland-based emerging-art gallery Flux Laboratory. Odier tapped Peraza to showcase work from his firm, Hyperakt, at the Flux Laboratory's Dark Room in Geneva.

Peraza offers free downloads of the posters (a signed, screen-printed version is also for sale) on the Hyperakt website.

A huge thanks to the Orange County chapter of AIGA, which invited me to host a panel discussion about marketing and promotion on Friday evening as part of their annual Ultimate Promo Show. Everyone I met was terrific, and of course I loved presenting with my friends Peleg Top, Steven Morris, Petrula Vrontikis, Michael Hodgson and (new friend) John Travis. Plus, I got to meet in person several folks I "know" from the HOW Forum: Prax, Cal and Sheri.