• David’s excursion to find Japanese Dots!
• Behind the scenes at the CS6 launch event on Monday
• Exporting Grayscale PDF
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Time
IKEA, a pioneer in do-it-yourself, inexpensive, flat-box furniture, has taken that ethos into a new direction: a cardboard digital camera. The camera is literally a cardboard box that’s held together with two plastic screws. It’s fueled by two AA batteries and has a pop-out USB connector for downloading images. The viewfinder? A hole in the […]
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Infographics are all the rage. If you don’t know the term, it refers to a type of information presentation that uses symbols, text, and rich design to communicate concepts, ideas, and statistics in a highly engaging way. In other words, it’s the result of a client handing a designer a spreadsheet full of data and […]
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Today’s Fonts on Friday is a little bit different: we’re letting you know about a Kickstarter project for a typeface design. Kickstarter, for those of you who may not know, is a way to get money for product development through what’s called crowdfunding. Everyday people like you and me provide the funds to “kick start” […]
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Lately I’ve been accumulating various comic-book stories of big industry with titles such as “Rubber, a Wonder Story,” and “The Story of Shoes Through the Ages.” These were once popular ways for large companies to educate kids (and adults) on the history of an industry, and were often distributed free to schools. Of course in […]
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The Font Bureau announced that it’s much coveted Readability Series of typefaces will be joining its retail collection. Previously, the fonts in the Readbility Series were sold exclusively to select Font Bureau customers like Sports Illustrated, the Poynter Institute, and the Boston Globe, among many others. The Readability Series was created with changing technologies in […]
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This is one post that’s sure to push your buttons. Or to get you pushing some of your own.
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• Anne-Marie’s Top Underappreciated and Underdiscussed Features in InDesign CS6
• From the Mailbag: Install CS5.5 or wait for CS6?
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Auto-Size Link Information
Once again, with Creative Suite 6 the Photoshop team has surpassed itself. Photoshop CS6 is a serious release that brings specialized improvements targeted at specific types of users: painters will like the new Airbrush tips that project ink and the Erodible Brushes; photographers will be pleased with the new tool for correcting wide-angle images; and, […]
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