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Industry R&R: Brush & Build

Last week (alright, fine, two weeks ago), we looked at a concept-building method I sometimes use that we called Scaling & Shaping, where we used the help of Photoshop to speed the process of iterating and letterform building. We also talked about how your scanner is your best friend, and how in the no-save-button world of analog, creating checkpoints with a qu...
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Industry R&R: Letter-Building Method One — Scaling and Shaping

Over the last few weeks, we've been talking a lot about the things you can do to prepare yourself for getting started in lettering. We've looked at some of the tools that I personally rely on for getting from point A to B in my work. We've also looked at some good sources of inspiration. But I reckon that if we don't start looking at some actual process stuff a...
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Industry R&R: The Kick You Need to Start Lettering

In our introductory post, I mentioned how little there was in the way of resources out there for the aspiring letterer. It's true, it is a bit abysmal out there. But that doesn't mean there's nothing. There may not be a ton of instructional resources out there, but you can find some great sources of inspiration, and a lot of times, these are sprinkled here and ...
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Take Five: The Pentel Color Brush in Use

Let's try this. Since Industry R&R is technically a weekend column (R&R stands for "Rest & Relaxation" for anyone too young or otherwise unfamiliar with the term), it doesn't really lend itself to sporadic, middle-of-the-week posting. But that doesn't mean you don't need a break every now and then, right? So here we go. Take Five will be me interru...
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Industry R&R (and other letters) – Getting Started Gear

With platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Dribbble and the like, designers and artists are able to share their work to so many more people and so much faster than ever before. Given that my particular line of work is so heavily based in the analog, at least at first, a lot of what I post on Dribbble and such ends up being a sketch (I've also found that sketches ar...
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Welcome to Industry R&R (and other letters)

Over the last 10 months or so, you've probably gotten to know The Industry as a go-to source for anything and everything that lives where design and tech meet. Whether you come for the news, the reviews, or maybe the editorials, you know that when you get here, you can expect to find the things you care about being covered by people who love them and are just as p...
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Sketch 2 Available Now

The highly anticipated 2.0 refresh of the popular Mac design app Sketch has officially landed and is available for immediate download. We announced its "coming soon" a few weeks ago, and now Sketch 2 brings a whole new interface and a plethora of amazing new features, making it a very feasible alternative for designers looking to replace Adobe apps altogether, or a...
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Designing for Screens

The design industry is very different today than it used to be. Replace the word "design" in the preceding statement with any other, and you still have a completely valid point, I know. But more specifically, designers today are faced with an increasingly varied set of environments to keep in mind as they plan out their projects. Years ago, you had some very specif...
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