July, 2000 | CreativePro Network

For Position Only: Looking for Books in All the Wrong Places

I conducted a little experiment this morning. There’s a book I’ve been wanting to read for ages — Lithium for Medea, by Kate Braverman — but I haven’t been able to find it, not in the library, not in the local bookstores, not online. When I got the “This title is out of print” message […]

dot-font: Type Show-offs

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro. If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

Illustrator 9.0: Change is Good (Mostly)

It’s been a long time since Illustrator, Adobe’s venerable vector-based illustration package, has seen an upgrade as substantial as the new version 9.0. Some of the improvements — such as the new Transparency palette — are catch-up-with-Macromedia Freehand additions, but other changes — such as the new Styles palette — are innovations in their own […]

The Web Wizard: Make Web Text Appear the Same on Macs and PCs

Here’s a paradox for you: Most people who design for the Web use Macs, but most people surfing the Web use PCs. This fact would be mere trivia if Macs and PCs displayed Web pages in exactly the same way — but they don’t. Two key areas of difference — fonts and color representation — […]

Q & A: Rick Belluzzo Discusses Current Success and Future Challenges as MSN Becomes World’s #1 Internet Destination

REDMOND, Wash., — Following a year of rapid growth, MSN is now the world’s leading Internet destination, with 201 million unique users worldwide. To learn more about the importance of this current milestone and what lies ahead for MSN, PressPass spoke with Rick Belluzzo, group vice president of Microsoft’s Consumer Group, who joined the company […]

Highlights and Shadows: Polaroid’s Latest Multi-Format Film Scanner

Polaroid’s new SprintScan 45 Ultra multi-format film scanner looks a lot like its respectable predecessor — the SprintScan 45i — but Polaroid endowed the newer model with notable improvements, including increased resolution and optical density. The upshot is that this $7,495 (suggested retail) scanner is a capable choice for buyers who need a film scanner […]

Eye on the Web: On the Road Again

Author Douglas Adams recently said that the people who lived during the Renaissance probably didn’t know that they were living during a period of enlightenment, while people today are pretty darn sure they’re living during a significant, exciting, and changing time. Appropriately enough, Adams made these comments while introducing a new wireless service, based around […]

A Photographer Who Paints with Light

Brad Rickerby had a camera in his hand before he could walk. As a child he traveled the world with his father, a photographer on assignment for Life magazine. From his father Brad learned the craft of photography and inherited a visual aesthetic that would later infuse his own career as a photographer. After getting […]

Little Wonder: Canon’s Pocket-Sized Camera Travels Light

Let’s dispense with the obvious right off: The Canon PowerShot S100 ($599, street price) is tiny, and its size is a key selling point. Canon has managed to cram an entire 2-megapixel digital camera and integrated 2x zoom lens into the Elph form factor used by the company’s popular APS film cameras. The result is […]