Commercial free fonts abound on the internet, but for the professional designer they are more a source of inspiration rather than of practical use (this does occasionally occur) due to a few mitigating factors. Namely, especially for magazine design, the limited amount of typeface forms in a family, ie hard to design a ‘feel’ to product with only Roman and Bold faces (come on at least give us the italics too!).

Their major benefit is for titling purposes, use a funky typeface along with your standard trusted body text and you can get some great results (just check they all export to postscript and PDF correctly first though!). Also they are usually free, negating the huge expensive of modern faces (c.€300 for a family of styles).

So the benefits are of creating a more original work, saving some finances and just enjoying the design experience by researching them in the first place.

Some good sites:

http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.urbanfonts.com

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Formed in 1990, this typographical based design magazine has been very influential in many ways, especially in the promotion of new typefaces and implementation of new, different approaches to layout.

World Hospitals and Health Services: the official journal of the International Hospital Federation

First launched in 1929 as Nosokomeion, World Hospitals and Health Services is published four times a year. The journal includes features such as surveys, country profiles, case studies, feature articles from leading figures, academic articles focusing on practical operational matters together with advertising. It also features news of global events and IHF activities and conference diary. All IHF members receive World Hospitals and Health Services free of charge. Its readership in over 100 countries includes managers, architects, engineers, doctors, nurses, members of hospital boards, ministries of health, hospital associations, libraries and commercial firms in the health field.

A briefing on health issues for G20 leaders: Sustainable healthcare

The G-20 grouping of states play an important role in shaping in the global public health agenda and financing the initiatives that are helping to improve public health. This publication is aimed at this influential group and the finance and health ministers who working alongside them. Healthcare and finance are inextricably linked and Health: G-20 briefs ministers on the essential facts and proposed courses of action.

Major health issues, such as Malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, NCDs are analysed to show where we stand and what policy decisions are needed to drive forward improvements. The publication also reviews cross-cutting issues which impact health financing such as migration, pandemics, cost reduction and pricing issues, and health systems strengthening. Within the G-20 grouping there is a wealth of experience that can be shared, with insights into how the fast moving healthcare agenda is being formulated.

Health: G20 will be distributed at the G-20 Summit Meeting in Cannes, France in November 2011 and circulated to 5,000 selected parties involved in this debate.

WORLD OF OPTICS is the magazine and online media platform produced for Silmo in cooperation with its organisers, created exclusively for its visiting executives as well as for those specifiers and decision makers within the International eyewear and optical business and trade communities.

SILMO 2011 brought together more than 50,000 professionals from the entire International optics and eyewear sector, delivering them a highly effective platform from which to make new business as well as learn about the latest trends, products and solutions available in the International sector.

World Travel Market magazine 2011

• Magazine design origination
• Layout (200 pages)
• Production for print/press
• Imposition of magazine/advertising
• Supporting material: Mediapacks, Business Cards and promotional items

The OFFICIAL magazine for the world travel market 2011 Meridian Club

WTM Business is the official magazine and online media platform produced for the World
Travel Market, created exclusively for the members of the Meridian club, the VIP business
community of the World Travel Market.

The Meridian Club is made up of the travel industries key buyers, executives and business chiefs, all
of whom have the direct responsibility, influence and power to purchase travel products and are the
most influential and significant executives that visit the WTM exhibition.

The Meridian club membership has been extensively built over the last 30 years of WTM and in 2009
were responsible for more than $2,000,000,000 worth of new business contracts with the WTM
exhibitors and is expected to far exceed that figure for 2011.

WTM business is created exclusively for this precise audience and provides them with special reports
on their market sector as well as advice and recommendations on which travel products to buy,
which suppliers to source those from and which companies to visit and meet during the WTM 2011.