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Between the endless Euro drama and the Bitcoin brouhaha, currency has been much in the news of late. Most people would probably name the US Dollar as the dominant currency in this day and age. Via janlgordon 
janlgordon's comment,
June 19, 2013 12:38 AM
Mithu Hassan Sorry I'm so late in getting back to you - you're very welcome, happy you liked it!!
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September 5, 2013 3:11 PM
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janlgordon's curator insight,
November 9, 2013 11:10 AM
Angela Dunn has written a great piece on one of my favorite topics, curation - it was the lead post on our launh of Curatti last night. What makes a good curator? "You need to have the eye of an editor, a sense of taste like a chef, and your own unique Point of View. It is this Point of View – your taste – that can lead to authority and influence". Jan Gordon:
Curators who are driven by passion and purpose will be very important to the business community in their chosen niche - it's crucial that we preserve this information for the future. That is why the future of curation is definitely evergreen. Here are some highlights that caught my attention: The amount of content is growing exponentially, but our time is limited. Curators are our filters for information overload – the editors of chaos. The slew of content curation tools that emerged gave way to algorithms. Can a machine have a Point of View? Machines can influence your Point of View. The danger is they can also create a filter bubble. It is human insight coupled with machine results that can define the very best information edited from a trusted curator’s Point of View. Evergreen posts, such as “Curating Content for Thought Leadership”,, written by Angela in 2010 are important in that they stand the test of time. All good blogs need some such articles. The above, along with all of Angela's posts on the now defunct Postereus, have evergreen links due to a new tool for archiving the web – Permamarks. Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond Read more here: [http://bit.ly/1ewOFR1]
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Robin Good: "Would you like to join a select group of designers from around the world to curate what you would consider fonts from our Monotype collection for use in editorial publishing?"
This is what James Fooks-Bale, from Monotype (the largest type foundry out there) initially wrote to Mario Garcia. The email went out also to several other designers around the world, who were all invited to participate in curating a set of type collections to inspire and help designers re-discover what fonts and typefaces to use for their next project.
"The unique challenge of this project was developing type palettes.
Each set of type families had to make sense for the hypothetical publications we proposed.
But the families in each palette also had to complement each other: in finish, attitude, or historical reference.
It was not about selecting interesting typefaces, but choosing those that could work as part of a system..."
Monotype calls these curated sets of typographic faces "collections" and it describes their function and meaning as: "The Monotype Collections are a series of personal font selections curated from the Monotype library by leading figures in the print and digital design worlds.
Each one takes a theme that corresponds to real-life briefs or trends, such as Heritage, Publishing, Branding or Web Fonts, and all fonts selected by our curators are available to license from Monotype.
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The sheer volume of font options now available to designers and creative directors can be daunting and time-consuming to explore, leading designers to settle for tried-and-trusted go-to fonts.
The purpose of the collections is to widen their palette, and offer a range of entry points to the Monotype library, which contains thousands of fonts covering every application, and has its origins in the late 19th century.
The Collections contrast contemporary alternatives and reveal hidden gems from the archives, and invite designers to delve deeper."
This is a great example of how curation can be used to market, inspire and help great artists discover and re-discover tools they may have not been using for a while.
Fascinating. Innovative. Inspiring. 9/10
Full story + samples from all curated sets: http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/articles/the_page_is_the_stage_curating_a_monotype_type_collection
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This post was written by Andy Capaloff for Curatti
I love this article because as curator and a business owner being a provacateur is essential in instigating conversation and taking a topic to another level which can lead to all kinds of opportunities. There's an art to asking questions and this just first of many pieces on this topic that you'll find on Curatti
Something to ponder.......
How can you use leverage questions to benefit your business?
Can monetary value be placed on questions? Not really, as there are too many variables involved. But depending on the timing and manner of delivery, questions can be the ingredient that spurs innovation and growth.
Here's are a few highlights:
The rhetorical question can spur conversation and wake up a
slumbering ideas process
The joking question can lift a mood
The incisive question can take a brilliant idea into a different stratosphere
The personal question can tell a person struggling in solitude that someone in the world cares
Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond
Read more here: [http://curatti.com/the-value-of-questions/]
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