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Archive: 2005 August
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How a Camera and Film Company Changed its Stripes, From the Inside-Out
Paul Giambarba was Polaroid’s in-house Art Director, and later a consultant, from the late-50s through the late-70s. In that time, he helped redevelop their brand to better compete with the likes of Kodak and created a identity recognized the world over. Giambarba, a writer and lecturer with many credits to his name, has chronicled his story in The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 – 1977, a blog devoted to the face of Polaroid many of us have come to know.
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Prepress Tutorial: Preparing PDFs Made from Microsoft Word for Offset Printing
Can you use Microsoft Word for Desktop Publishing?
You just received this wonderful PDF from one of your clients. It was made from Word. On top of that, the client who gave you that PDF wants you to make some changes to the text. How do you make those changes using the PDF itself and what do you have to do to make that PDF press ready?
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QuarkXPress QuarkXPress’ Work Area
This is the first of a series of tutorials on Quark 6.x. It will cover the work area to give an orientation to new users.
QuarkXPress is a high end program which has been used by DTP professionals for years. Even though it now shares the “industry standard” status with InDesign, QuarkXPress is still a powerful program.
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Book “The Non-Designer’s Design Book”
Robin Williams will tell you how CRAP design can actually be made into a good one.
The Non-Designer’s Design Book cover
(enlarged version)When CRAP means Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity. These are 4 very important elements of design. Without them, a layed out page will look amateurish and might not deliver the message you want it to deliver.
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Useful links and information all in one place
This is an overview of InDesign CS 2 designed to help you get started with Adobe’s top layout program. It mainly referrs you to different pages of the Adobe site, but it will save you from doing some time-consuming searches in your quest to get up and running with InDesign CS 2.
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InDesign InDesign’s Work Area
This is the first of a series of tutorials on InDesign CS. We will explore the work area and the palettes.
InDesign CS is Adobe’s latest layout program. It was to be a re-write of PageMaker, Adobe’s layout program which is now discontinued, but it then became a different layout program on its own. Adobe InDesign is now one of the most powerful layout programs for professional desktop publishers and graphic designers.
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InDesign CS2: Improved Productivity Features
The jump from InDesign 2.0 to the CS version was a no-brainer. The move from CS to CS2, however, required a lot more thought on my part. Is it worth it? Is it a justified expense? Is there anything new that I really need, or is it all luxury?
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About: Designorati:Photoshop
D:Photoshop strives to be a well-written source of news, information and techniques for intermediate and advanced users of Photoshop. Users who have a few years of Photoshop experience and a good grasp of its basic tools and tactics will benefit from this ongoing source of production techniques, step-by-step tutorials, reviews of upcoming Photoshop-related products and industry news.
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About: Designorati:Typography
Established September 2005
Words communicate. Before there were words, however, there had to be letters.
Type does more work than merely forming words. Every type face has weight, mood, import, and emotional impact. For centuries, since the time of Gutenberg and the monks who hand lettered before him, Type has changed and evolved, influenced by natural and artificial sources. Styles have ebbed and flowed.
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About: Designorati:In-House
Established September 2005
Designorati:In-House is intended as a resource and road map for creative professionals working from within the corporate office structure to communicate your company’s message to the outside world. With few direct resources available for the in-house designer, Designorati:In-House will try to fill that gap by collecting and commenting on issues most important to the corporate creative.
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About: Designorati:Illustration
Established September 2005
From Your Mind to the World with Designorati:Illustration!
Welcome to Designorati:Illustration! Our goal is to provide you with information that you need about your profession, and about new and updated products as well as the products you’ve come to depend on. Watch these pages for reviews and news on Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Macromedia FreeHand, Microsoft Acrylic and more.
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About: Designorati:Graphic Design
Established September 2005
Graphic design is everywhere, in every product, package, poster, and product of the modern world. Although the graphic design discipline was created less than a century ago, the world has since come to rely upon it. The world simply cannot function without graphic design and graphic designers.
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About: Designorati:Cartography
Established September 2005
Cartography is the art and science of map design.
Maps take many forms, many themes, and many expressions, ranging from the straightforward city street map to the specialized terrain and statistical displays used by scientists and sports affectionados to highly sophisticated cartograms used by researchers and thesis-writers.
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