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The birth of Design & Art Direction
David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Alan Fletcher, and Colin Forbes, a group of designers an art directors, grouped together and created Design & Art Direction. Thus dedicated to advertising, giving out awards, and promoting design. -
The Face
Neville Brody's legendary designs for The Face over the course of 5 years. Revealing his out of the box typography and page layout. -
Raygun
David Carson became what Brody was to the 80s to the 90s. Using Raygun, a alternative rock magazine, he showed off his chaotic and illegible way of typography. -
MyFonts
In September, an online marketplace, owned by Bitstream, started selling digital fonts. Selling type made by anyone in one place. -
Online Flash Film Festival
A festival first started in Barcelona that now occurs yearly, it brings together many creative minds and inspires multiple works. -
HOPE
Shepard Fairey's stylized HOPE design, now one of the most iconic illustrations, gained traction as a visual representation for Brock Obama's presidential campaign. Created in only a day, the design quickly became a digital phenomenon -
OFFSET
A Dublin creative festival, that started as a intiative of The Small Print but currently has 24 world inspiring speakers in attendance over the course of 3 days.