33 Graphic Designers to Follow on Pinterest

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The title of this post is a bit misleading – some of the people listed are photographers, bloggers, etc. The point is that their boards are awesome and full of inspiration and you should follow them.

You can follow Branding / Identity / Design on Pinterest here.

If you know of any other great Pinterest boards – please leave a link in the comments. I love following back great inspiration.

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The Magic Moment

The amazing paper engineer Peter Dahmen from Dortmund, Germany creates magical moving three-dimensional objects from only paper. He has turned his passion for paper engineering and pop-up cards into a full time career.

The Adobe Illustrator Story

Short little documentary on the beginnings of Adobe Illustrator. When Adobe Illustrator first shipped in 1987, it was the first software application for a young company that had, until then, focused solely on Adobe PostScript. The new product not only altered Adobe’s course, it changed drawing and graphic design forever.

Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces

Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you’ll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books — remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.

[via Gizmodo]