December 2011
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November 2011
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2011, the year dedicated to GQ Brazil
My one-year consultancy as Art Director at GQ Brazil magazine comes to an end. It was a great experience and a privilege to work with great designers, photographers and illustrators. Now it’s time to get back to my design consultancy agency. On January, I’ll reactive some projects I’ve postponed when I accepted the challenge to hire the art team and implement the project of the...
Nov 22nd
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October 2011
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 6th
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September 2011
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Sep 27th
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The new layout of Facebook
Will people get used to the new layout of Facebook? Only time will tell. My opinion is that yes, people will love it after a while. But one thing you can take for granted: people tend to reject major layout changes by default, because they know where things are. The challenge is to make people embrace the new way to get access content. But when you redesign magazines, newspapers or websites,...
Sep 22nd
August 2011
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Aug 15th
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Aug 15th
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Aug 15th
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May 2011
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May 26th
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March 2011
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Mar 23rd
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November 2010
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Nov 30th
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February 2010
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Wordle online app →
Nice tool that uses tags or texts to generate illustrations with type. This is a sample I’ve made. I only wish they had a PDF or vector file that could be downloaded.
Feb 3rd
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January 2010
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“Imagine an icon on your iPad. When you tap it, it’ll open up your favorite...”
– John Herrman / GIZMODO / Jan 29, 2010 http://gizmodo.com/5459834/more-apps-more-problems-how-the-ipad-will-change-the-app-store
Jan 29th
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FontCast #8 — Crystian Cruz →
My interview to FontCast, during the ATypI conference in Mexico.
Jan 27th
August 2009
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Aug 7th
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Reading MATD 2009: type projects released →
{MATD’09} SPECIMEN BOOKS :: The type specimen of our class in Reading are now available for your appreciation.
Aug 7th
January 2009
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Jan 21st
December 2008
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Pedestrian Signs in Paris
The pedestrian signs in Paris are made with small dot lights that together create the shape of the pictogram. They are very distinguished from most of the pedestrian signs around the world. During the week I was in Paris I spotted four different shapes for each sign. Three of the red ones are almost the same, they just present slightly differences in the placement of the dots (sorry for the 2...
Dec 27th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
November 2008
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Nov 29th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 11th
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October 2008
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Oct 29th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 2nd
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Oct 2nd
September 2008
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Tell me more about Reading-Uk... →
Well, I will let Wikipedia answer you… But I can show you some pictures of Reading at my Flickr’s Reading set: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystiancruz/sets/72157604480245826/)
Sep 30th
Sep 29th
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Typeface Design Master in Reading, UK
{MATD’09} With a solid background in editorial design after working for 8 years as art director in magazines and type consultant for other publications, I decided to take one year off to improve my typographical skills. In October 2008 I started a Master in Typeface Design at The University of Reading. Check some photos of this experience at my Flickr’s MATD...
Sep 28th