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UK-based Cut-Click Magazine is small, fun and edited by Caroline Twidle.

Number 13 is the ‘Text issue,’ download a free copy here.

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Interesting article over at Web Designer Depot on the differences between art and design.

As I like to reiterate in my classes, ‘Graphic design isn’t an art field, though it can contain elements of art. It’s a communication field.’

Big difference.

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LAIKA from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo

Traditional fonts are static. For their bachelor thesis, Michael Flückiger and Nicholas Kunz created a dynamic typeface called LAIKA.

LAIKA isn’t static. Style, weight, size, kerning and other properties can be adjusted on the fly using a control panel, as seen in the video. LAIKA can also respond to outside stimuli, such as people.

To test drive/interact with LAIKA, go here.

Interactive online interface for LAIKA

Found via Twitter.com/frank000

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This has been a favorite for awhile. Premise: You’re time-honored Helvetica and you get to beat the crap out of sneaky Arial. Unless Arial gets to you first.

Go here.

And call me crazy, but this game seems to go a bit faster these days. That bastard Arial has gotten even more aggressive!

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Take the quiz.

It ain’t easy. I actually got 19/20 and I supposedly know what I’m doing.

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Sick of overdesigned interfaces? Go Swiss!

Emily Chang does a roundup of Helvetwitter, Helvetical and more.

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A bunch of Helvetica posters here.

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Ethereal, acrylic

The work of Erin Cone. Love her simple asymmetric compositions, framing, color, restraint. Subdued elegance.

Outlook, acrylic

The Line, acrylic

Liminal, acrylic

Found via Fatima Ronquillo

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Alexa Chung’s chatfest returns to MTV this afternoon (with new logo and futurist-like set) – but who would’ve thunk she had a career before arriving in the States? (I say with tongue-in-cheek merican tude, y’all)

Here’s some 2008 reports by Alexa on couture icons Karl Lagerfeld, Roberto Cavalli (with his parrots!) and Jean Paul Gaultier – for UK-based Gok’s Fashion Fix.

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Here’s the new bag that Mulberry named after Alexa  . . .   (click on the bag for details)

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‘ . . .  WW is Walt Whitman.’

Ina Saltz wrote THE book on typographic tattoos, Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh. You can snag a copy by clicking on the image below.

But there’s even more at her website here.

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Here’s a collection of some of the best work by UK-based graffiti artist Banksy.

Found via Twitter.com/gingdd

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