Good design can be important for many reasons. It can be critical to the success of your business, your career, and your sense of creative fulfillment. But you probably don’t often think of design as critical to your survival. But when it comes to automotive displays, and how they affect driver distraction and reaction time, […]
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Pros: Can find and edit anything in a PDF. Cons: Pricey for an average designer. Rating: 9/10 Adobe Acrobat Professional provides some fairly powerful features that can help you find potential problems with PDF files, such as fonts that aren’t embedded or images with substandard resolution or color spaces. But if you’re working with PDF […]
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As election day nears, you pretty much have to hide under a rock to avoid political messages in any and all media. A lot of time and effort go into crafting the brand images of the candidates. Chief among these efforts are the campaign logos that adorn everything from lawn signs and bumper stickers to […]
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If you love history, architecture, or just walking around with your camera taking photos of interesting places, check out the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest. It is an international photo contest created to "improve the number and quality of photos of historic monuments and places" freely available through Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The project started […]
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If you’ve ever wished you could document a party, a vacation, or even just an ordinary day without having to interrupt the proceedings to take a photo, a new product may be just the thing you’re looking for. OMG, a company specializing in in motion capture and computer vision technology, has released the details of […]
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Is there a hotter topic in the creative realm than digital publishing? The success of iPad, Kindle Fire and other tablets has opened up an exciting new platform for all kinds of publications, from magazines and books to catalogs, brochures, and portfolios. EPUB ebooks and interactive PDFs seem to be everywhere. And just this past […]
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The Autumnal Equinox was Saturday, 22 September, and you know what that means! Right! WalMart goes wall-to-wall with the Christmas stuff! Er, um… That may be true, but that’s not the holiday the Autumnal Equinox brings to my mind. For me, that magical first day of Fall begins the countdown to Halloween. It’s when my […]
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Another fun stroke style example, that sets a black keyline with a white gap.
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You have hundreds of images to import into InDesign and limited time? It’s easy to automate it!
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