2011 | CreativePro Network

Create a Keyboard Shortcut for Preview Mode

It’s not hard to define your own keyboard shortcut that works even when your’e editing text in a frame!

TypeTalk: Font Games Galore

Several type and font games are making the rounds on the Internet. Most are meant to be both entertaining and educational, but not every one hits that mark. KernType This is the game everyone’s talking about. The goal of KernType is to slide the letters of a word to the right and left to create […]

Photoshop Plug-in Adds Google Webfonts

Here’s an excellent demonstration of the rapid rise of webfonts: In May 2010, Google Labs rolled out a beta with 18 typefaces you could use on websites. As of today, Google has 288 webfont families, all freely available for you to use on any site. And that’s great. But many Web designers begin their process […]

2012 Salary Guide Now Available

Whether you’re wondering how your current compensation stacks up to your peers, or you’re looking for a new job and unsure what salary range to expect, The Creative Group’s annual Salary Guide is a good place to start. (The Creative Group is a staffing agency that finds positions for people with creative, advertising, marketing, and […]

New Printer Promises Accurate Color, Fast Output, Media Flexibility

The $4,599 Xerox Phaser 7800 is a laser printer aimed at graphic design agencies and other companies in need of color-accurate output at high speeds. The 1200 x 2400 dpi printer comes with the PhaserMeter Color Measurement Device, which makes it as easy as possible to calibrate your printer for accurate color matching. Xerox says […]

Best of the Blogs: November 4, 2011

Typography There are many opinions as to what constitutes “best” and “worst” typefaces. But this list of “the eight worst fonts in the world” has the distinction of being written by Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type. If you haven’t yet read Garfield’s book, this post on Fast Company Design will give you an […]

Scanning Around With Gene: Animals in Advertising

Animals have long been a regular theme in advertising, especially when anthropomorphized. Except for obvious ties to products like dog food and pet products, animals usually have nothing to do with the goods or services advertised, but we connect with them and the products nonetheless, and we get a good feeling when a company is […]

Get Steep Discounts on Instruction from Peachpit

In honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary, Peachpit is knocking 25 to 50 percent off certain titles. Although the discounts don’t include printed books, they do extend to ebooks and videos. Here are some of the titles you can get for 25% off or, if you order two or more, 50% each: Photography Black and White: […]