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...
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...
The wavy lines on weather maps, topo maps, and others...
That slanted script–don’t fake it...
Freemind is the ultimate free planning tool for designers...
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...
Everything’s In PDF format or can be downloaded these days. So what is the compulsion to go to the bookstore? A personal reflection...
The ins and out of a layout artist’s right-hand power tool; a paradigm defined...
For quick spring flowers to kick up a spring illustration, try Illustrator’s polar grid and wrinkle tool along with Illustrator’s brushes...
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.
My illustration for the How-To on conditional actions uses a variety of Photoshop techniques...
If your newspaper is anything like my newspaper, you would have noticed stirrings of change coming down, surprisingly this time, from above...
Acquisition Further Extends 3D Visualization and Collaboration Technology and Expertise for Manufacturing Industry PRESS RELEASE SAN JOSE, Calif...
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...
This edition: Online Map Wars!; Yahoo Maps has Satellite Views...
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...
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...
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...
Photoshop’s batch processing abilities make mammoth tasks into laughably easy ones, and the time saved can be significant...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
“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...
A press release dated 12 April announced that PhotoLight version 2.5 is now shipping for Mac OS X and Windows...