Adobe has announced that it is making the Adobe Web Fonts available for use on the web. This is welcome news to designers that want to control the presentation of fonts using the @font-face css code. You can read more about the history of web type on the web type wiki for a perspective of how to specify type that adheres to all copyright issues.

We are actively seeking suggestions from Digital Design students as to how you would like to share work with each other. Right now, I have added links in the menu above to Digital Design groups that have been created on Tumblr, Flickr and Vimeo. Please join the group if you have an account at any of these sites. We plan to limit membership to UCD students or alumni and we hope that it is a place where you can all see what kinds of work students are in the Digital Design program. My hope is that works in progress would be shown as well as finished designs, or that class projects would be posted to the groups as they are developing.

Each of the groups I linked to have their advantages and disadvantages, and are linked up in different ways but they are all free. I had not heard of Tumblr before, but it is nice that the pages can easily be redesigned, either by selecting a template or writing the code from scratch.

For now, I will keep all of these up and we’ll see if a site emerges that works best. Feel free to contact me if there is another group you would like to see in the menu.