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Archive: 2006 June
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Don’t Yellow and Blue Make Green?
Bias: it’s not just found in opinions, it’s also found in your paint Traditional RYB Color Wheel (courtesy Wikipedia) Red-Yellow-Blue; primary-secondary-tertiary...
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Freeware Friday: Technorati Magical Sheep Bookmarklet for Firefox
Making Technorati tags irritating? Drag this to your bookmarks. Though I’m fairly technically savvy I’ve been a rotten script student. Oh, one time I had programming down pretty cold...
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Freeware Friday: Desktopple
Desktop, Desktop, wherefore art thou, Desktop? With Desktopple from FoggyNoggin Software, you can clear your desktop fast! My desktop is messy. I admit it...
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Collector Chronicles Berlin Through The Years
Amateur mounts personal exhibition of Berlin in maps, from 1738 through 1989 A part of central Berlin (the “Mitte” district) from an East German map publshed in 1989, as exhibited at Mirko Tamkus’s Berlin City Map archive...
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Yahoo! Maps Goes Hi-Rez In Some Global Markets
New, sharper satellite imagery available for a handful of cities worldwide, with list to grow When the new Yahoo...
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British Publisher Faces Big Fines Over Unlicensed Fonts
Health and financial publisher Campden faces large penalty for having over 11,000 fonts out-of-rights Frequently the digital font user and designer hears of the possible effects of using font files and programs they don’t actually have a license to...
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A Powerful Suite of Free GIS
GIS Librarian Blogger provides links of free, powerful utilities GIS can be a sprawiling subject, and systems can run very expensive–usually at the government/enterprise level...
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OpenType Trend: Monotype Reports Demand Up By Almost Half
Typefounder suggests OT fonts getting ever more popular As we move foreward into the typographic future it would seem that the OpenType format is going over well...
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Typography Word of the Day: Stress
Refers to the thick-thin tendency of the strokes–an indication of typographic legacy Stress, of course, can be good or bad. This sort is a good sort. A word drawn in Uncial...
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Cartography Word of the Day: Plat
They work “behind the scenes” to provide precise property plans The map that is our Word-of-The Day this week, plat, is a map you won’t see without having to go to the local city or planning office, but it’s one that works behind the scenes to determine who owns what, and where everything from your fences to your streets go...
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Forbes Smiley Pleads Guilty to Map Thefts
Established rare-map dealer admits to stealing more than $3Mil worth of antique maps from Yale University library; sentencing due 21 Sept. As reported by the Hartford Courant today, E...
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The Basics on Technorati Tags
If you’re a Designer who blogs, you need as much connectivity as you can get. Technorati tags can connect you into that greater community...
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The Basics on Technorati Tags
“Tagging” posts is one of the hottest current ways to be connected to other content and to be noticed...
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Use Photoshop’s Script Events Manager
Do you use scripts to improve your Photoshop workflow? Do you wish you could, but don’t know a thing about scripting...
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Altering Photoshop’s Unalterable Image Size Presets
This little trick allows one to edit the presets that appear in Photoshop’s New dialog box. If you’ve ever wanted to change Letter size from 8.5 x 11″ to 7...
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Type Rules!
New introductory text by Ilene Strizver combines clear, accessable writing with solid design, well-chosen illustrations, and tips and tricks for an apt into for the designing typographer Ilene Strizver has an impressive résumé; creative director at U&lc, director of typeface development at ITC, worked with Eric Speikermann and Sumner Stone, amongst others, studied type under Benguiat...
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Printer’s Spread, Definition of
To save on costs and speed up the printing process, books, flyers and so on are printed on parent sheets...
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Reader’s Spread, Definition of
When you open a magazine you see all pages in order, from first to last. The pages that are next to each other are called spread, also known as “reader’s spread” in printing terms...
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High Logic Releases Font Creator 5.5 for Windows
High-Logic, a worldwide leader in font editing and font management software, is furthering its commitment to the typography community by announcing the release of FontCreator™ 5.5...
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Ways to save tab design
As I see it, there are three ways to do good tab design if you’re a newspaper and want to leave the broadsheet behind. There may be more ways to do good tab design...
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Hoefler & Frere-Jones Introduces Verlag
New font with 30 weights recalls the Guggenheim, Mid 20-C modernism, and the Bauhaus Samples of Verlag (copyright H&FJ Digital Typefounders Hoefler & Frere-Jones has just released Verlag, a new OpenType font in 30 weights...
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Freeware Friday: Barry’s Clip-Art Server
Do ya need some? Barry has all you’ll want. In this article a couple of weeks back I philosophied on the use of clip-art in logo design...
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Some Blacks Are “Blacker” Than Others
When is black a rich black? When do you use it...
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Freeware Friday: MorgueFile
Need a photo fast? Try MorgueFile.com and have thousands of high resolution images at your fingertips. MorgueFile.com is one of the best places for free and royalty free photos...
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CorelDraw X3
With 40 new and enhanced features, CorelDraw X3 is a substantial update. Would coming out and calling CorelDraw X3 “CorelDRAW 13” have jinxed it...
