February, 2000 | CreativePro Network

Canvas 7: Jack of All Trades

Because Deneba’s Canvas 7 endeavors to be all things to all people-illustration, image-editing, web-design, presentation, animation, and page-layout software-it could be compared to at least 10 or 15 other applications. But I’m going to resist that temptation for two reasons. First, a features war is moot, as upgrades are continually leapfrogging one another, copying the […]

Eye on the Web

Yesterday found me in a quandary over what my inaugural column on Web design should cover. Should I examine different approaches to navigation? Sites that effectively use animation and streaming media? Or perhaps the burgeoning importance of written content on the Web? Luckily, I listen to the radio while I work, and that’s where I […]

WWWeird Science

Confused and misguided physics geek forced to spend long hours roaming the Internet finds temporary sanctuary at a few science related Web sites utilizing new technologies and approaches to web design. The real beauty of the Internet to a knowledge junkie like myself is that it is a seemingly endless resource of information available at […]

Out of Gamut: The Proof is on your Monitor

During the recent Seybold Seminars, one of the few topics on which pundits and practitioners agreed is that Adobe Photoshop’s soft-proofing mechanism is broken. It is possible to produce accurate soft proofs in Photoshop, but the means of doing so aren’t particularly intuitive, and normal users are unlikely to stumble across the correct settings by […]

Still Life with Gelatin

Jason Horowitz is a freelance commercial photographer specializing in stock, still life and conceptual illustration. Initially specializing in black-and-white scenes of people, Horowitz has recently turned to color still life, in which the accumulation of everyday objects results in a rather surrealistic tableau. His images are available through Stone. Horowitz earned a Bachelor of Arts/Photography […]

Invasion of the .coms

Boston — The show floor at Seybold Seminars this week demonstrates the ever growing infiltration of the internet into the publishing world. There are new companies at every turn offering everything from workflow enhancement to online proofing to new ways of connecting businesses to their customers. These new businesses, all of them internet based, are […]

Web Designers Debate Their Role

BOSTON — New terminology is needed to describe the role designers play in Web site development agreed a panel of designers and technologists at Seybold Seminars. Spurred by a debate over the convergence of design and programming, the proposal didn’t generate any new terms – yet. “As Web teams grow up, we realize that ‘designer’ […]

Creating Brands in an Interactive World

Boston — As more companies extend their services to the Web, designers are being challenged to create a unique online identity that not only supports the company’s corporate brand, but that does not undermine the user’s experience, according to two creative directors who spoke at Seybold Seminars here today. “Brand is not simply about identity […]

Trailer Trash

O.K., I’m no movie critic. I can’t tell you why Titanic was ridiculous, I can only tell you that it was. There were no gargantuan box office receipts to back up my love for cinematic wallflowers like "Six String Samurai," "Blade Runner" and (writer clears throat slightly and admits) "The ‘Burbs." And enough already: I […]