I’m always on the lookout for new fonts, they can say a lot more than just plain words alone.  Typography is an artform its-self, started by the newspaper industry carving out letters for the daily newspapers – most of today’s modern fonts owe it to these original purveyors of stylistic word-sculpting.

Taking a fresh look at things once in a while is a great thing, breaking away from the norms and “Web 2.0” as its coined is one of those evolutions in consciousness that was just waiting to happen (to this day we’re still waiting for Economy 2.0, since you can’t ignore to see the downturn kicking in).

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Vectorization is the process of converting a raster image to a vector (scalable) image. Raster images are pixel-based, while vector images are represented by geometric shapes such as lines, circles and curves. Vector art is useful as it allows you to scale/resize an image with no blur or pixelation.

Stanford University has launched Vector Magic recently that is a auto-tracer online tool and converts typical bitmap images into vector format. The tool works perfectly with logos and other images that need to appear both large and small. Vector Magic supports the various uploading format like JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, and TIFF, and can export its as EPS, SVG, or PNG files. Simply upload the images with quickly configuration step, you get the ideal images easily.
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

GoMedia just released Vector Set 9 Package with one low price to download. You would get 160 high quality and detailed vector pieces. At the same time, they also gave away a sampler of Vector Pack Set 9 first for you. Download the GoMedia latest vector pack AI file here.