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December 14, 2007

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT…

Struggles of a small design studio (in a small city) to do good work.

Some background:
If you are a friend of the studio or a regular visitor to our blog, you already know this, so you can skip to the “To the Point” section. The rest of you can get filled in here:

I am Design Director of a small full service design studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While Widgets & Stone began as a partnership between 3 college friends (Brian May, Scott Touchstone and Brian Woodlief) and myself in 1995, we decided to part ways in 1998 for both creative and business differences. Since then Widgets & Stone has been solely under my direction.

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December 3, 2007

The GOOD TYPE

Tips, Tricks and Tools of the Trade 2.5

There’s nothing quite like a great typeface to help your design. If I had more talent and patience, I would be a type designer. Things being what they are, I must content myself to only put great type designs to good use. Here are our typographic links — the good, the bad and the ugly, all have their uses.

But first I will list (in order) my top 5 favorites:

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