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February 20, 2012
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Around the world, only a few hundred people make a living as fulltime typeface designers. Two of them happen to live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, population 167,000, where they’ve embarked on an ambitious project to distill the city’s artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font called Chatype. The goal is to help the city and its businesses forge a distinct and cohesive identity through custom typeface, sending a visual message to the world that Chattanooga—a rapidly growing city in the midst of a creative renaissance—is “more than just your average Southern town.” From Good.is

Around the world, only a few hundred people make a living as fulltime typeface designers. Two of them happen to live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, population 167,000, where they’ve embarked on an ambitious project to distill the city’s artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font called Chatype. The goal is to help the city and its businesses forge a distinct and cohesive identity through custom typeface, sending a visual message to the world that Chattanooga—a rapidly growing city in the midst of a creative renaissance—is “more than just your average Southern town.”

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February 08, 2012
Like Water for Airport Traffic

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is one of the busiest in the country, with nearly 10 million passengers traveling to or through in 2011. And those numbers are on an upward trend, increasing from just about 9.1 million in 2008.

As these numbers climb Atlanta is happy to absorb the additional economic benefit. But nearby Chattanooga is also interested in capturing some of that growth by luring more Atlanta-region passengers its way.

Normally, this is the point where the two cities would become foes, fighting to claim the right to the millions of dollars that could be brought in by taking on a larger share of the region’s airport traffic. But leaders in Georgia are taking a different approach. They’re not fighting; they’re negotiating.

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