Containing 100 geometric pattern fonts for Mac and Windows, Geometric is a book which gives designers a mountain of resource material. The book comes with a CD containing the 100 pattern fonts – the most extensive pattern font collection available from any foundry.

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Kudos to the team at Winsper in Boston for a brilliant ad campaign for Stihl products. Above is one of the magazine ads which is part of the campaign, with great copy highlighting the bad economy. It’s rare in today’s advertising marketing, with tighter and tighter budgets, to actually write briliiant copy for such a visually-based ad that will only be blown away. See more ads after the link.

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One of the Typophile folks is selling his stunning collection of wood type blocks. This collection includes an array of unusual fonts, including historic, fancy, gothic and 20th Century modern wood blocks. You don’t find collections this vast very often and hopefully someone will purchase it in its entirety. Click here to learn more about this historic collection.

It’s rare to find a contemporary book with such clarity which details the details of typography. This book serves as a handy desktop reference book yet is chocked full of details for a more in-depth study of typography.
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This article provides a very useful list of downloadable cheat sheets for Photoshop, Adobe Tool Cheats (useful in multiple Adobe products), CSS and more. If you’re a web designer, or any designer who uses Adobe products (and who doesn’t), these cheats are for you.

Lovingly executed and chocked full of features, the new paul-rand.com offers a very thorough gallery of this master designers work (including hard-to-find prototypes and fabric designs), an historical timeline of the designer’s work, and thoughts from this 20th century master.