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Floundering in fonts

How do graphic designers do it? I’m working on a new logo, for personal rather than business use. Or rather, Zoë Shuttleworth of Rude Goose is working on it, and I’m no doubt driving her round the bend with my contradictory input. This probably sounds like a vanity project but there’s a motivational reason behind …

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Posted byMarian Dougan22 October 20118 July 2014Posted inLanguage, Life and work and everything elseTags: Architecture and Design, fonts, graphic design, Life and work, logos, typography6 Comments on Floundering in fonts

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