Archive: 2006 January

Dynamic Flash doesn’t have to hurt, I promise...

2006-Jan-31 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Tutorials | TOP STORIES

Don’t believe everything you learned in journalism school; becoming great at headline design is a learning process with a lot of room for flexibility and creativity...

2006-Jan-31 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Tutorials

Basic how-to information on three tools in your typographic toolbox. If you use them right, you aren’t using them all the time, but when you need to use them, you ought to know how...

2006-Jan-31 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | Tutorials

A few quick tips for common tasks Designers and Desktop Publishers perform many typographical tasks while designing...

2006-Jan-31 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | Tutorials

Frank Sinatra did it “his” way. Other crooners across the decades have done it “their” way”...

2006-Jan-30 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

Adobe Acrobat gets better and better at preflighting PDF files for resolution, fonts and color...

2006-Jan-30 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | Illustration | Photoshop | Tutorials

Macs running Intel-chips have hit the market, but where are the applications to run super fast natively on the super fast Macs? Is Adobe dragging its feet? Some say yes, but Pariah S. Burke says no

2006-Jan-30 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Have You Seen

Ask Designorati is a new feature at Designorati.com devoted to answering readers’ questions...

2006-Jan-29 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Tutorials

We have had a great week at Designorati:Illustration; all this week we’ve been drawing names for a copy of Xara Xtreme compliments of Xara Ltd and Designorati...

2006-Jan-29 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Features

The subject of certain policies and guidelines relevant to product reviews has been a hot topic around the Designorati conference table over the past week. We would like your input on some of it...

2006-Jan-29 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Graphic Design | Reviews

More news brief carographical goodness In this edition: The Chinese World Map of 1418, did they or didn’t they...

2006-Jan-28 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

What would you say to gain access to 1,300 graphic designers?

2006-Jan-28 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

The Great Compositor in the Sky keeps kicking ‘em out News briefs this time: Typographic derivation results in a settlement for FSI Fonts, another celebrated typographer passes beyond the veil, Quark 7 public beta gets the shakedown cruise from type lovers, Monotype’s just wild about Saffron, and a regional newspaper’s growing pains are assuaged by…losing Helvetica...

2006-Jan-27 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

Xara Xtreme Winner Number 6 for Friday, January 27 has been drawn! I am pleased to announce Friday’s winner of a copy of Xara Xtreme from Xara LTd and Designorati is Dennis! Congratulations, Dennis...

2006-Jan-27 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Features

Five days of this first Xara Day week, and five copies of Xara Xtreme have been given away: Ian is the latest lucky person...

2006-Jan-27 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Features

Flyers, business cards, letterhead an so on are not usually printed on sheets of paper of the size we see them every day...

2006-Jan-27 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Major animator joins the Mouse House; Steve Jobs to be board member and largest shareholder

2006-Jan-26 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Have You Seen

Newest version of free, open-source layout application includes native Mac OS version, improvments

2006-Jan-26 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Have You Seen

You pay for magazines and newspapers, would you do so for news sites and blogs...

2006-Jan-26 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | News

It’s the first Xara Day here at Designorati:Illustration...

2006-Jan-26 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

Winner number 3 for Wednesday, January 25 has been drawn! Mike Smick, come on down...

2006-Jan-25 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Features

Software Allows Artists to Create Digital Manga and Comics Press Release Scotts Valley, Calif., January 25, 2005 — e frontier announces the release of Manga Studio 3...

2006-Jan-25 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Illustration | News

Disney acquires erstwhile computer animation partner famed for cartoon hits such such as ‘Toy Story’; Steve Jobs to become member of Disney board The Walt Disney Company have just announced that they have aquired Pixar Studios for an asking price of USD$ 7...

2006-Jan-25 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

Scribus, the open source DTP program formerly only for Linux, is now available for Windows and Macintosh Egalité is the name of Scribus version 1.3...

2006-Jan-25 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Winner number 3 for Tuesday, January 24 has been drawn! I am pleased to announce Tuesday’s winner of a copy of Xara Xtreme from Xara LTd and Designorati is Nick Gagne. Congratualtions, Nick...

2006-Jan-24 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Features