Archive: 2006 April

Just released, the Rand McNally Atlas is designed to appeal to the Harley rider This week, Rand McNally announced the release of a new publication, the Harley-Davidson Ride Atlas of North America...

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

Beautiful new coffee-table book connects the development of maps to historical cirucmstances We’ve recently noted what we hope is a trend toward truly deep and thoughtful books on cartography for the masses–books that not only make an inventory of historically important or notable maps but also that attempt to connect them, with enlightened and witty commentary, into the history of its time...

2006-Apr-29 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Reviews

The wavy lines on weather maps, topo maps, and others...

2006-Apr-28 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

That slanted script–don’t fake it...

2006-Apr-28 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | Features

Freemind is the ultimate free planning tool for designers...

2006-Apr-28 | Mike Smick | Filed: Graphic Design | Web Design | Features

Xara Xtreme’s right-hand man the Xara Picture Editor—or XPE for short—gives you Xtreme control over bitmap handling in and out of Xara Xtreme This month for Xara Day we will take a look at Xara’s Picture Editor, a nice little bitmap editor that works with Xara Xtreme to give you more control over bitmap images than you thought possible with a vector program...

2006-Apr-27 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

Everything’s In PDF format or can be downloaded these days. So what is the compulsion to go to the bookstore? A personal reflection...

2006-Apr-26 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

The ins and out of a layout artist’s right-hand power tool; a paradigm defined...

2006-Apr-25 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | Tutorials | TOP STORIES

For quick spring flowers to kick up a spring illustration, try Illustrator’s polar grid and wrinkle tool along with Illustrator’s brushes...

2006-Apr-25 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

In any debate--particularly on the Internet--one can count on the participation of two types of people, and they will invariably follow a staged behavior.

2006-Apr-25 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

My illustration for the How-To on conditional actions uses a variety of Photoshop techniques...

2006-Apr-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Tutorials

If your newspaper is anything like my newspaper, you would have noticed stirrings of change coming down, surprisingly this time, from above...

2006-Apr-21 | Dhyana Sansoucie | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Acquisition Further Extends 3D Visualization and Collaboration Technology and Expertise for Manufacturing Industry PRESS RELEASE SAN JOSE, Calif...

2006-Apr-21 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Handy free RSS reader gives Firefox what it should have in a convenient sidebar or free-floating format RSS, even though the jury may be out on it, is mad popular right now, and if it be a work in progress, it’s a wicked useful one...

2006-Apr-21 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Web Design | Features

This edition: Online Map Wars!; Yahoo Maps has Satellite Views...

2006-Apr-21 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

This edition: MyFonts’ Latest–Making it even easier for Wintel users to get fonts; The LinoLetter 2006-04; My Fonts Latest-Just Point And Shoot MyFonts has nominated thier Rising Stars for this month, with three very intriguing offerings...

2006-Apr-21 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

It’s not a Photoshop plug-in, but for renaming large batches of images A Better Finder Rename is a good tool for changing or tweaking file names. Can you tell I have batch processing on my mind...

2006-Apr-21 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features

Does waiting for iPhoto drive you crazy? Phoenix Slides is a lightning-fast photo browser/slideshow program that also does lossless JPEG transformations and can display EXIF data...

2006-Apr-21 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Features

Photoshop’s batch processing abilities make mammoth tasks into laughably easy ones, and the time saved can be significant...

2006-Apr-19 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features | Tutorials | TOP STORIES

Minor bugfix edition available for free download now On 10 April the team developing the free/open source page layout application Scribus (http://www.scribus...

2006-Apr-19 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Doing simple maps in Illustrator should be a snap with this technique Adobe Illustrator is a very apt application for drawing simple maps-street maps, navigational maps and the like...

2006-Apr-17 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

A useful term to know when ordering from the USGS The mathematical site Mathworld defines the term quadrangle thus: A plane figure consisting of four points, each of which is joined to two other points by a line segment (where the line segments may intersect)...

2006-Apr-16 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

Renowned and beloved curator and historian dies at 97 The map community, from academics from affectionados to collectors, have noted the passing of Dr. Walter W. Ristow at age 97...

2006-Apr-16 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

“Double-S”, in German The ess-tset, in Adobe Garamond italic and regular This curious character looks like the Greek glyph for ‘beta’, but is most assuredly not...

2006-Apr-15 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | Features

A press release dated 12 April announced that PhotoLight version 2.5 is now shipping for Mac OS X and Windows...

2006-Apr-14 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | News