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Typography is vital to graphic design, yet it has a tendency to be overlooked and undervalued. Tees For Your Head puts it front and center on new graphic t-shirts. Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 Typography fans are never going to sit in the bleachers cheering and waving a giant hand, but they just might spend some time analyzing the font used on the scoreboard: typography is part of the hidden-in-plain sight secret behind good visual communication. Typography, layout, and graphics...

CHICAGO, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Recycled Paper Greetings is sweeping the nation with a lighthearted perspective on the political hijinks surrounding the upcoming election. Grab a breath of fresh political air from one of the birthday cards in their Election Collection. The equal opportunity humor in Election Collection spares no party, with a tongue in cheek nod to any political inclination - democrat or republican, neutral or clueless. From honey badgers to I heart Barack...

Environmental scheme funded by the German REWE Group aims to create 'floating islands' of recycled plastic bottles, containing the plant used to make the first paper Plans are being implemented to create plastic floating islands containing papyrus plants to help protect the ecosystems of a renowned lake in the Rift Valley, Kenya. The German REWE Group is funding a papyrus restoration partnership between UK-owned tea producer and flower grower Finlays and Dr David Harper, a Senior...

CHICAGO, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Recycled Paper Greetings puts a fresh spin on the classic card as the sponsor of Lollapalooza's Rock & Recycle program this year at Grant Park in Chicago, August 3-5. Rock & Recycle encourages festival-goers to collect recyclables throughout the park in exchange for prizes and swag. The four Rock & Recycle centers will be located throughout the Lollapalooza grounds and will be open all three days of the festival. The creative...

A University of Cincinnati-based journal devoted to research on papyri from Egypt sheds light on job training, prayer, dream interpretation and belief in magic in the ancient world. Education, jobs, religion and even the cultural effects of bilingualism were as topical in the ancient world as they are today. All of these topics and more are featured in translations of ancient papyrus in the University of Cincinnati-based journal, “Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists,”...

Deciphering ancient papyri is like trying to read a doctor's handwriting, and that's what researchers are asking people to do. Oxford University is asking for help deciphering the ancient Greek texts written in fragments of papyrus found in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of these papyrus fragments are now on display on a website for the general public to view, and, to hopefully translate them. Researchers are hoping the collective effort will give them a unique insight into Egyptian life 2,000...

The Holiday Collage Dress, made exclusively of PAPYRUS papers and materials, will be worn by Model Nadia Alexandria PAPYRUS Embarcadero / 2 Embarcadero Center, Lobby Level Champagne Reception / Tuesday December 14, 2010 / 6:00pm-8pm SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ - About PAPYRUS PAPYRUS, a unique paper store with over 150 locations in the U.S., was founded in the family kitchen of Marcel and Margrit Schurman in 1950 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The brand name originates from the...

A University of Cincinnati-based journal devoted to research on papyri is due out Nov. 1. That research sheds light on an ancient world with surprisingly modern concerns: including hoped-for medical cures, religious confusion and the need for financial safeguards. What's old is new again. That's the lesson that can be taken from the University of Cincinnati-based journal, "Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists," due out Nov. 1.The annually produced journal, edited since 2006 by...

CLEVELAND, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM) today announced its second quarter results for the quarter ended August 28, 2009. Second Quarter Results For the second quarter of fiscal 2010, the Company reported total revenue of $356.4 million, pre-tax income of $34.1 million, and net income of $23.1 million or 59 cents per share (all per-share amounts assume dilution). Included within these results was a pre-tax benefit from an insurance program...

ATHENS, Greece -- A collection of charred scraps kept in a Greek museum's storerooms are all that remains of what archaeologists say is Europe's oldest surviving book - which may hold a key to understanding early monotheistic beliefs.More than four decades after the Derveni papyrus was found in a 2,400-year-old nobleman's grave in northern Greece, researchers said Thursday they are close to uncovering new text - through high-tech digital analysis - from the blackened fragments left after the...