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Arbenting’s Best of the Week (09/28 - 10/04)

Once again we have another weekly wrap-up coming at you, and with the end of the month falling this past week, we had several ‘best of the month’ posts to feature. And this next week on Arbenting we have a fractal photoshop brush pack for our readers, the final installment of our typography series, and a look at social media all on the way so don’t forget to check back!

Anything you, our readers, would like? brushes, article topics, freebies, etc? Just leave us a comment, and let us know.

10 Icon Sets for Social Media

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Talking Typography Part 2: Good Type Gone Bad, Tutorials and Tools

Part 1 - Afterthought Typography, Blogs and Websites
Part 2 - Good Type Gone Bad, Tutorials and Tools
Part 3 - The Kerning Curve, Free Fonts and Other Resources

If how you say something is often times more important than what you say, then more focus needs to be paid to the how and less to the what. And it seems, most designers have this figured out.

In some cases, as above, the entire piece is a flawless collection of type and words.

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We have a winner…or two!

So our contest has come to close and the numbers have been randomly generated and applied, giving us our pair of winners. Each will receive 500 business cards courtesy of UPrinting. And the winners are…(you can’t hear it, but I’m doing a drum roll right now for effect. If you’d like, you could do a little one on your own as you read this. Just make it tense and dramatic, cause that’s totally the one I’m rockin’ right now. Sorry…)

And the winners are…
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Weekly Wednesday Spotlight #10

The team at Arbenting is back with another installment of the Wednesday Weekly Spotlight to inject a bit of inspiration into your mid-week humdrum.

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Final Day of the Business Card Giveaway!

Just a reminder that today is the last day to get your name in the drawing for the free business cards we are giving away tomorrow, compliments of UPrinting. Two winners will be randomly selected from the list of commenters on the original post linked here. 500 business cards to each of the selected persons who left some feedback for us, and there is still time for others to get their name in for consideration. We will be using a random number generator to select the winners, so everyone’s chance is equal at taking away the prize. Winners will be announced tomorrow!