Archive: 2006 March

Little brass discs with a lot of legal weight In computing, the benchmark is a test run to determine the baseline performance of a component or system...

2006-Mar-31 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

It looks like a 3, but it isn’t…A “lost” letter, it recently made news The yogh, in Lucida Grande As the English language came forward from its Old and Middle English origins, evolution occurred...

2006-Mar-31 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | Features

New contest deadline now 1 May, also open to Canadians Recently we reported that, in celebration of thier new API, OpenAPI, Mapquest called all masters of the mashup to battle; The Mapquest OpenAPI Developer’s Challenge seeks the most innovative mashup of the new OpenAPI–not merely plotting points on a map but delivering value over and above to a non-commerical audience...

2006-Mar-30 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

CreativePro.com is reporting the Universal version of Adobe Photoshop will not be seen until CS3 is released in Spring 2007

2006-Mar-29 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Have You Seen

CreativePro.com is reporting the Universal version of Adobe Photoshop will not be seen until CS3 is released in Spring 2007...

2006-Mar-29 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | Photoshop | Features | News

PRESS RELEASE Worldlabel.com Incorporated, New York, N.Y...

2006-Mar-29 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Graphic Design | News

At the end of 2005, Xara announced they would be releasing Open Source versions of their popular drawing application Xara Xtreme for Mac and Linux. That day has come...

2006-Mar-29 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | News

A showcase for designers, new and old, to help them have more presence in the creative world Recently I came across a site called Fakecircus...

2006-Mar-29 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

In four simple words, this t-shirt, a first from Playground of the Stars, makes a statement all graphic designers can jibe with. Thanks BoingBoing for pointing this out

2006-Mar-28 | Vadim Litvak | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

No need to fear these Jaws: they bring PDF production under the XPress hood. One of the most praiseworthy additions to QuarkXPress 6...

2006-Mar-28 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | Tutorials

Want a happy relationship with your printer? Follow the guidelines in the first of a series of articles about preflighting with InDesign...

2006-Mar-28 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | Tutorials

Here’s how to make a grapevine in Illustrator, complete with winding tendrils of vine and juicy grapes! For this week’s How-To we’ll construct a grapevine in Adobe Illustrator...

2006-Mar-28 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

This edition: A look into FontShop...

2006-Mar-25 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

This edition: Experts not convinced on Mi Yo Tong Map; Extremely Small Scales; Google expands in a Big Way...

2006-Mar-24 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

This free little duckie will help you waddle the FTP pond painlessly and graphically The Cyberduck Icon Are you using Mac OS X? Are you on dialup? Do you have poor connectivity...

2006-Mar-24 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

There is nothing gimpy about this week’s robust Freeware Friday offering, GNU Image Manipulation Program, other than its nickname: The Gimp...

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

This week featuring two freeware downloads: Ghotscript and the ReplaceInPlace Xtension fror QuarkXPress I am seeing scripts… err… ghosts...

2006-Mar-24 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Liu Gang releases carbon-dating results of the so-called “1418/1763″ World Map, rebuts critics On Thursday, 23 March 2006 (Beijing time) Liu Gang, the Chinese attorney whose uncovering of a map that is reputed to prove the so-called Menzies conjecture, which claims that the Chinese mariner Zheng He circumnavigated the world almost 70 years before Columbus did, released the findings of a radiocarbon-dating analysis of the map to an invitation-only audience at The Bookworm, a cafe in the Sanlitun section of Shanghai...

2006-Mar-23 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features | News

Get yours quick; these tend to go fast...

2006-Mar-23 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

With Xara Xtreme’s Live Effects, you can use your Photoshop-compatible filters on both bitmaps and vectors; and because they are applied as Live Effects, they are completely editable and reversible...

2006-Mar-23 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

Intended as a developer preview, is released for testing purposes only Statring today, the first developer previews of the next generation of Mozilla’s Firefox, codenamed “Bon Echo”, are available from Firefox’s Bon Echo site...

2006-Mar-22 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Web Design | News

A fun new way to improve your artistic craft and garner some notice along the way. The 3 Thumbs Up badge, available for display from the site “Threethumbsupaward...

2006-Mar-21 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

Traditional newspaper coverage is your local area. Are you using the Web to increase your reach? Your competitors just might be…

2006-Mar-21 | Dhyana Sansoucie | Filed: Have You Seen

Training for both designers and printers will be available at the Ipex exibition The release of QuarkXPress 7 is near—at the Ipex Exhibition in Birmingham, UK, Quark will demonstrate their latest and yet-to-release version of their layout program, and will offer training for both designers and printers...

2006-Mar-21 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | News

Are you ignoring the town next door? Newspapers live in the land of terra firma. Each newspaper primarily covers the communities it can reach, with a car and a print subscription...

2006-Mar-18 | Dhyana Sansoucie | Filed: Graphic Design | Features