TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference in Long Beach, California. Each year the world’s foremost thinkers get together to give and listen to speeches. The excellent TED website hosts over 200 of these videos and adds more each day. I try to watch at least one per day. They have broadened my mind, […]
10 TED Talks That Feature Great Graphic Design
January 31st, 2009 No Comments
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Can You Guess All These Movies From Just These Letters?
August 18th, 2008 4 Comments
Over at Empire they have a quiz that tests your typographic memory by identifying films from individual letterforms found on their posters.
I got a 22 out of 46, which sounds pretty bad, but it’s HARD… How did you do?
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Tags: entertainment · graphic design · letterforms · letters · movies · posters · quiz · test · typography
My name is James Kurtz III; I am a graphic designer for hire based in Northeast Ohio. Welcome to my website. I invite you to take a look at some work examples in my 
