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DGV Free Font: Basic Light
An offering from Büro Boris Dworschak, it's a spare, structural line with curved corners, and it's free from Dei Gestalten Verlag.
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You Don’t See That Every Day: The Interrobang
A mark designed for efficiency.
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Photoshop Is Now One Big Happy “Familyâ€
The Photoshop line of products is now the "Photoshop family." What does that mean for everyday users?
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Adobe Delivers Font Folio 11
Complete OpenType Solution For Any Medium Now Available
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Call for Submissions-The Gallery of Unfortunate Type
Got pictures of type that leave you weak in the crossbar? Send it in, and we'll share it, have fun, and learn a bit. We share your pain!
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Campaign Bumper Sticker Wisdom 2008
The 2008 US Presidential campaign bumper stickers as a Rohrschach test
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Presenting The Mugs Of Pantone
Unique gift not quite as good as a swatch book–sadly, unavailable stateside
A range of Pantone-swatch-themed drink mugs, offered by British gift house W2 (photo copyright W2)And here we have the ideal gift for the designer, the color-obsessed, Pantone fans, or anyone fond of designers.
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Another Good Reason Not To Crack Graphics Software
A program called a keygen will let you use Photoshop CS3 for free–and also turn your production machine into an IRC-botnet zombie.
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Life, Death, and Garbage Collecting
If you are reading this as someone thinking of a career choice, about getting into design or creativity professionally, hopefully this story will inspire you to follow your dream.
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InDesign CS3 Bug When Printing Multiple Copies
The more copies you print, the longer it takes to queue. For those printing hundreds of copies, this is a pain.
I recently helped out on InDesignSecrets.com by troubleshooting a new bug in InDesign CS3. It appears that it takes InDesign longer to queue a print job in proportion to how many copies you are printing. If printing one copy takes one second, printing 50 will take 50 seconds, 100 copies will take 100 seconds, and so on. This is not normal behavior compared to previous versions and it’s a potential logjam for those printing hundreds of copies of documents. I think it is affecting only Macintosh users, since it seems it’s the combination of Universal Binary and Intel Macs that is causing it (see the workaround below).
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InDesign CS3: Welcome to the Big Time
Adobe’s CS3 release of its electronic layout warrior sparkles, shines, and impresses; it’s gone from page layout tool to Power tool.
Box Shot courtesy Adobe.The cat is out of the bag.
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INTERVIEW With Tom Hogarty, Photoshop Lightroom Product Manager
I had the opportunity to talk with Tom Hogarty, Lightroom’s product manager, about the Lightroom application, its creation, and his two favorite tips (among other things).
Here’s the results of my Q&A:
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Destroy Your Pantone Swatchbooks And Film It For Prizes
Pantone doesn’t want you to just discard your old swatchbooks—they want you to annihilate them. Do it in a spectacular way and you may get some cool prizes.
Pantone really wants you to replace your swatchbooks (called “PANTONE FORMULA GUIDES”) annually. They are offering the PANTONE COLOR INSPIRATION/2007 and COLORIST software to make the decision easier. If that isn’t enough for you, how about an opportunity to destroy your guides and get an Apple® iPhoneâ„¢ and Apple TVâ„¢ for your troubles?! Here’s the story: Pantone just launched the PANTONE Color Kill Contest on YouTube, where you can view people destroying their swatchbooks in all kinds of creative ways: hanging pages on the Christmas tree and shredding are popular. Post your video on YouTube and you get a 35% discount off the purchase of a new guide (you’ll need one, since you destroyed your old one…).
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GetMobio Mobile Lifestyle Portal Now Available
I keep getting press releases from Mobio about their GetMobio Mobile Lifestyle Portal—but I don’t work much with mobile devices, so I haven’t given it much thought. Until now.
THE PRESS RELEASE
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Photoshop World, Day 2–3: Photo Gallery
Jeff Schewe, teaching at the Peachpit Press theater on the trade show floor.
Terry White, teaching at the Adobe booth on the trade show floor. Adobe provided some good sessions during Photoshop World, and not all of them were CS3 promos. -
Photoshop World, Days 2–3: More Cool Sessions, Surprises
If you haven’t already, read my coverage of Photoshop World here.
HIGHLIGHTS
The trade show. It didn’t seem as large as it had in the past, but there were some really neat products out there—it makes you realize the creativity of everyone working hard making products in this industry. Media Lab, creator of SiteGrinder 2, was on hand—and Tom Summerall was so busy demoing the product for attendees that I couldn’t say hi. One company who had an unusually large presence was Microsoft, who wasn’t showing any products but had their name on one of the trade show theaters. I thought that was cool, but will anyone ever embrace Microsoft as a company devoted to creative professionals? A notable absence from Photoshop World was Apple, the company that puts out Aperture. I have to assume that the conference was so heavy with Lightroom seminars and promotions (at almost any given time, a Lightroom session was going on somewhere), Apple either didn’t feel it was worth it or was not even accepted (or allowed) into the show. Lightroom is just getting off the ground, and I and others thought Photoshop World was used to promote Lightroom as well as CS3.
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Photoshop World, Day 1: Photo Gallery
I finally got my Photoshop World photos imported into Photoshop Lightroom and posted the best bits here.
The theme for this Photoshop World was lounge act singers, so Matt Kloskowski (left) and Scott Kelby, among others, were part of a skit about a group called the Histograms. -
Photoshop World, Day 1: Cool Keynote, Great Sessions
I am at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, attending Photoshop World 2007. The last time I attended was in 2004, and I was ready to get back to the event.
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One of the most anticipated Adobe Illustrator upgrades ever is right around the corner. Gone are Venus and the Illustrator flower icons, and in their place is a simple “Ai†icon denoting Illustrator’s default file format. The rest of the changes in Illustrator, however, are not simple, and features like better Flash integration and new Live Color, as well as lots of improvements in interface and efficiency, make this a must-have upgrade. Things that make you go “hmmm†they aren’t…these are things that make you go “Wow!â€
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Oregon Employer Insurer Rebrands With Expressive New Logo
Oregon’s Saif Corporation implements logo and branding meant to express the market it serves
In the state of Oregon, the leader in workers’ compensation insurance is the oddly-spelled SAIF Corporation (the name originating from the acronym for State Accident Insurance Fund), an organization which began as a state agency and, by the company’s own history, helped its first injured workier in 1914. The modern SAIF dates from 1980, when the Oregon state legislature chartered it as a public not-for-profit corporation, reportedly the first such entity in the United States.
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Cut Through Telephone Voice Systems–To a Real Human!
The GetHuman Project is a volunteer Website devoted to improving the quality and speed of telephone support and service systems in the US. The Website offers general tips and advice for speeding through and getting the most out of dealing with any company over the phone. For instance, did you know that most companies’ Spanish support queue is often a potentially much shorter wait than the English queue, and that most operators on the Spanish queue are bilingual, offering support in English as well? Chose uno and maybe you’ll be helped and off the phone faster than you would if pressing two.
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Introducing Book 1.0
Any new technology carries a learning curve, as demonstrated in this YouTube video, “Introducing the Book.”
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McDonald’s Coffee Beats Starbucks: Official
Consumer Reports does a comparison that will open your eyes: A personal reaction
We don’t know about you, dear reader, but to us, whether writing, editing, or even double-clicking the QuarkXPress icon, work just doesn’t happen unless we have a little of Vitamin C (that’s caffeine, of course) coursing through our body. The delivery vehicle, of course, being that wonderful black brew.
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Found Item: The Stuckenberg Digital Map Collection at Gettysburg College
Free digital collection showcases antique map images from noted late-19th C. scholar
John H.W. Stuckenberg was a scholar and theologian (and even an American Civil War solider) who split his life between pursuits academic and spiritual, and between America and Germany. From his bio at the online Stuckenberg Collection mounted by Gettysburg College:
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INTERVIEW With Mike Soucie, Electric Rain CEO
I spoke with Mike Soucie, Electric Rain CEO, to discuss the announcement of the STANDOUT presentation application and the strategy behind the product.
For those who haven’t heard, STANDOUT is a new presentation application—see the press release here—that attempts to provide Flash-quality graphics tools to designers and the ease-of-use of PowerPoint to non-designers. I scored an interview with Mike Soucie, CEO of Electric Rain—the company that produced STANDOUT—and learned a great deal about the new application.
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