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"He saw the type designer as a kind of public servant" By tepidmonkey on marksimonson It's easy to talk about Adrian Frutiger in the past tense, since his most influential fonts – Univers, Egyptienne, and the eponymous Frutiger – are all at least thirty years old. But he is still alive, and in the summer of 2006, as he was presented with the Society for Typographic Aficionados' annual Typography Award, type designer Mark Simonson gave a presentation on how Frutiger [pdf, 18 MB] affected, and continues to affect, him and all others who benefit from good typography.

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Image Seam Carving, Online. By flibbertigibbet on imageediting Remember this? It's content-aware image resizing. Well, now it's aliveonline. Links to plugins, the paper, etc. So far there's only one plugin, for GIMP, but it also has the link to some actionscript about it.