Fabulous Fonts

Posted on November 9th, 2009 in Uncategorized by acalibrary

Are you looking for fabulous fonts for your design projects? Then look no further than Orli Yakuel’s blog post on TechCrunch that lists online font databases. Some of the databases are free while others charge a small fee. Some of these databases contain thousands of fonts, and some even let you create your own fonts! To read the article and try these font databases for yourself, visit the blog at: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/the-font-kingdom-search-explore-create-and-download-fonts-for-free/

Re-thinking Product Design

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 in Uncategorized by acalibrary

Allison Arieff, former editor in chief of Dwell magazine, writes a thoughtful op-ed in The New York Times about improving design by improving materials. She looks at reinventing supply chain management for product design so that chemists, manufacturers, designers, and users can communicate more clearly about what they need economically, environmentally, and aesthetically. For the full article, point your browser to: http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/not-new-but-improved/

Arieff also references the Material Connexion database to which SCAD Libraries subscribe. If this article inspires you to search out new materials, make an appointment with the reference librarian to learn more about this comprehensive database. Contact Sally Fortin via email at sfortin@scad.edu to make an appointment.