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Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2014

The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition – which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software – honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, game developers and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.

Both individuals and groups may enter up to three unique projects. There are a total of eleven categories divided in three main segments:

• Interactive Experience Media Segment :
Web and App Design, Game Art and Design, Installation Design, Digital Publishing

• Video and Motion Meida Segment :
Animation, Editing and Post-Production, Motion Graphics

• Traditional Media Segment :
Illustration, Packaging, Photography, Print Communications

Submitted projects must have been created after 1 May 2013 .

There is no entry fee . Eligibility Contest is open to all individuals age 18 years or older who are students, or faculty in an accredited institution of higher education.

Due to the U.S. export regulations this contest is not open to any resident of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Prize Grand Prize Winners will receive Adobe software and a cash prize up to US$5,000 . The top three finalists of each category will be announced in September 2014 .

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ÜberFontFont FF Nexus

For the first ÜberFontFonts of 2014 we take a look at FF Nexus.

The hottest superfamily of the moment (and the highest climbing in our popularity charts) is the creation of Martin Majoor, the designer of FontFont favourites FF Scala and FF Seria. When Martin designed FF Scala and FF Scala Sans between 1988 and 1994, the idea was to design a serif, humanistic typeface from which a sans serif version would be derived. Martin called it: ‘two typefaces, one form principle.’ This became the basis of his type design philosophy. However ten years later he expanded it to ‘three typefaces, one form principle’, a Serif, a Sans and a Slab – and so the FF Nexus type system was born, consisting of FF Nexus Serif, FF Nexus Sans, the slab-like FF Nexus Mix – plus the additional monospaced FF Nexus Typewriter.

‘FF Nexus is, in my opinion, the best typeface I have created so far,’ says Majoor. ‘With FF Nexus Mix, I introduced a third family member in my type design philosophy, and I am happy that this slab version is not a stand-alone typeface; it feels best when accompanied by serif and sans.’

And as one of our top rated ÜberFontFonts, it is clear that FontFont users agree!

Warsaw Autumn Festival 2008 booklet designed by Martin Majoor.

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Japan – Nippon

Japanese graphic design is characterized by a unique aesthetic, oscillating between its own pictorial tradition and Western visual culture. In Lars Muller’s lastest release, Japan-Nippon they explore the Japanese poster and how it functions most notably as a highly aesthetic image advertisement, presupposing the designer as an artist.

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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre by Boris O’Hara, Dell Books

Photo on Flickr.

Based on a screenplay by Howard Browne. Dell Books 7586, 1967

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Printed Web #1

Contributed by André Mora

Printed Web presents new web-to-print work by artists who use screen capture, image grab, site scrape, and search query. Published twice a year by Library of the Printed Web.

This is 64 pages and limited to 1,000 copies. For more information and to purchase, go here.

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