Filters are what makes Photoshop so much fun. Author Sherry London shows how to use and—in some cases—abuse filters to achieve some wild effects...
Dan Margulis announced recently that the next edition of Professional Photoshop will be larger, mostly rewritten, and—unfortunately—the final edition...
Recent book chronicles history of the periodical, explains why it was important My favorite spreads in the recent book from Mark Batty Publishers, U&lc: Influencing Design & Typography, edited by John D...
Adobe has released another beta that seems to stand against a similar Apple product. I just saw the news that Adobe Labs had released a beta of a new sound editing application called Soundbooth...
Interesting change in Lightroom’s name. Is it a branding tactic, or does it foreshadow a Photoshop/Lightroom combination similar to the old File Browser...
A few weeks ago Quark VS InDesign...
Excellent author. Timeless material. Well-written. A few mistakes. All in all, a good book
I think Nigel French’s InDesign Type is one of the best design books of 2006—great knowledge of typography in general, InDesign in particular and well-written to boot...
The “Four-Color” problem sprang from a map, but is really about mathematics...
Quite Cool, but we don’t think it’s going to replace the scroll wheel… Using the Onomy Tilty Table (image copyright Onomy While surfing The Map Room we came upon a most delightfully interesting display device...
New blog exhibits the weird and the interesting I like maps. I like weird maps, the kind you won’t find in a regular atlas. Maps of countries that never existed - or never will exist...
In Which The Budding Type Designer Finds Himself At A Sort of Impasse Two weeks ago, when we made a decision to go with FontLab Studio as our tool of choice, we’d thought the hard part was over...
I often look to the Adobe Design Center for the best in tips, tricks, tutorials and freeware...
The king of American map publishing comes back strongly after being passed up by online mapping The Chicago Sun-Times gives us a snapshot of America’s preeminent paper map publisher, who grew into the undoubted titan on American map publishing, even to the point of acquiring Thomas Bros maps in 1999 only to enter bankruptcy in 2003 after mounting a failing effort to keep up with internet mappers such as Mapquest and Google...
Valuable resource changes its URL Via a short message to the Maphist mailing list, Paul Anderson advises us that he’s moved his Gallery of Map Projection to a new URL: http://www...
Winner Gavin Hollis Scores for paper on on map literacy in early modern England The Washington Map Society have recently announced the winner and Honorable mention for the 2006 Walter W...
The Leventhal Center and Yale University both seek employees Notice of a couple of opportunities for professional map librarians have landed in our inbox via the MapHist mailing list in the past week or so...
What do you get when a design & publishing workflow guru teams up with a developer with a history of building productivity enhancing InDesign plug-ins? You get the Holy Grail of layout...
Rob Sheppard’s 2005 book on Camera Raw does a wonderful job of demystifying the technology and developing a workflow that is simple and effective...
And how do you compensate for it...
Britain’s Conservative Party launches a new identity, with a logotype in Lucida Political parties perhaps understand as well as anyone else that the medium, many times, is the message...
New “BBC One” font replaces stalwart Gill Sans The new-look typographc style for BBC One Television, divised by Fontsmith Gill Sans, developed by Eric Gill, inspired by Johnston’s Underground, is a quintessentially British font–so much so, in fact, that it has did yeoman’s duty in graphics for the BBC for decades...
In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts—living or dead...
Library of Congress researcher blogs about scientific method, historical accuracy John Hessler is a researcher whose interests run to the application of analytical methods to historcally significant cartography...
In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts—living or dead...