July, 2001 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: Type Tradition in a Digital Age

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 […]

Too Much Flash on the Brain

The last time I touched pixel to paper I mentioned attending a talk by Web doyenne Lynda Weinman during the HOW Design Conference in San Francisco. I’d guess anybody the least bit interested in learning about Web design or production has a book by Weinman in his or her library. Furthermore, I’d argue that Lynda […]

Burn Your Own Movies with Apple’s DVD Studio Pro

In January 2001, Apple unveiled its new SuperDrive, a CD reader/writer that can also write to DVD-R media. In addition to providing 4.7GB of data storage, the SuperDrive’s facility for creating DVD Video discs offered the promise of affordable, desktop DVD video authoring. To fulfill that promise, Apple soon released iDVD, a consumer-oriented, drag-and-drop DVD […]

The Art of Business: Six Ways to Drum Up Business, in Good Times or Bad

The phone hardly rings anymore, your Web traffic counter stays unchanged unless you visit your own site, and that queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach doesn’t go away when you shut down the computer for the evening. If these symptoms sound familiar, take solace in knowing you’re not alone: These are the sure […]

dot-font: Making Art of Zeroes and Ones

Under the Desktop: The Monitor is in the Eye of the Beholder

Move over Haley Joel Osment. You may see dead people, but I see monitors. Years ago, it was songs that would rattle around for days in my brain, like when my family made pilgrimages to the Small World ride at Disneyland, with its maddening theme song, “It’s a Small World.” Now, following my recent road […]

Out of Gamut: Five Cheap Tricks in Photoshop 6

Curves, Levels, and Hue/Saturation are vital Photoshop tools I use on almost every image, and you probably do, too. But here are five cheap tricks (in fact, as long as you already own Photoshop 6, they won’t cost you a cent) that can make your image adjustment work go a whole lot faster. Cheap Trick […]

The Digital Dish: The Mystery of the Vanishing Whites

The jarring ring of the telephone rattled through my office like a tin-lizzy bouncing down an ancient cobblestone street. Pixel, the cat, stirred on the windowsill. The voice on the other end was one of my best friends, a top-flight artist whose clients are some of the biggest companies in the world. I knew instantly […]

Thad McIlroy on the Future of Print

Few industries have suffered as much of late as the printing industry. Even before the recent economic downturn, printers and related services saw their profits slip away to the Internet, and before that to television. Hence, at print trade shows and seminars around the world, the question often arises, “Is print dead?” The answer is […]