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Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine

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Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. When I began working with the legendary newspaper and magazine designer Mark Porter, I became fascinated by art direction and editorial design. When a magazine has plenty of interesting design elements, I buy it. Avaunt magazine.

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Top Automation Programming Languages of 2021

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There are numerous programming languages available today, with new ones continuously emerging. As per TIOBE Index 2021 and IEEE Spectrum Magazine , Java, C, and Python are the top three automation programming languages on the list. Following are some of the most preferred languages on the whole entire list.

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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

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Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable

Smashing Magazine

Recently, I was browsing a new addition to my library and was captivated by one magazine spread. A selection of covers from Otto Storch’s time as art director for McCall’s Magazine. Publishing can be a cut-throat business, and the magazines Storch worked on weren’t high-fashion. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023 guide: AI transformation and Microsoft Azure

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Latest Dynatrace platform innovations available to customers on Microsoft Azure – press release Learn how Dynatrace empowers teams across organizations to collaborate, create, and share AI-driven analytics, apps, and automations for any business, development, security, or operations use case.

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Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

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The code below illustrates how to use WeakSet() and some of the methods available: const human = new WeakSet(); let paul = {name: "Paul"}; let mary = {gender: "Mary"}; // Add the human with the name paul to the classroom. let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; let arr = [smashing]; // Overwrite the reference. It cannot be looped through.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design

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I became fascinated by the ways magazine art directors including Alexey Brodovitch and Bea Feitler brought images and text together. From early on, he was inspired by print designs, especially magazines, and used this influence to design the college’s yearbooks. Thompson studied at Washburn College in his home city of Topeka.

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