Sony has announced three new models in its Cyber-shot line of point-and-shoot. The most impressive is the $500 DSC-TX200V, which captures stills and HD video with an 18.2MP sensor. It can focus in as few as 0.13 seconds when you’re shooting in daylight; when the light’s low, it still needs only 0.25 seconds to focus. […]
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Typography The most popular fonts of 2011, according to sales at MyFonts.com, cover all categories — serif, sans, slab, script — so it’s hard to detect a single typographic trend. (I’d venture hand-lettered fonts.) But what is clear from this list of bestsellers is that terrific type is available from international boutique foundries, such as […]
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Many of us are intrigued by the idea of free fonts. However, the reality can be a little complicated. For example, if you use a free font on a client’s project, you want to be sure that the use is legal. There’s nothing worse than a type foundry calling your client with the news that […]
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Photoshop’s senior product manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, gives you a glimpse into Photoshop CS6. Although Adobe hasn’t officially announced when CS6 will be released, the fact that this sneak peek is out in the wild makes me think it won’t be, say, 2013! Using a photo he shot with his mobile phone, Bryan demonstrates some […]
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When railroads became a dominant form of transportation, and especially after the completion of the trans-continental railway in 1869, it was possible for farmers to ship their goods great distances. And with the advent of the refrigerated rail car, the concept of nearly year-round availability of produce became a reality. Fruits and vegetables were shipped […]
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For many years, I made the tables of contents for my books manually. I would finish the book and then, one by one, I would open the file for each chapter and write down the name of the chapter, the name of the A Heads, and the page numbers for each. It averaged 200 entries […]
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Eleven months ago, J.C. Penney rolled out a new logo created by third-year graphic design student Luke Langhus: While some of you thrashed the redesign, I thought it was a serviceable attempt that at least didn’t throw out decades of brand equity. And it was certainly more successful than this short-lived redesign fiasco (created not […]
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From Cthulhu to InDesign eBooks, this list of links has it all!
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The stereotypical student stretches out a too-short paper with wide margins and large type sizes. But this trio of graphic design students from the University of the West of England had so much material after working on a professional practice project, they made a zine with the extra material, which includes interviews with designers and […]
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