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The Art of Business: Another Look at the King of Graphics Business Books

There are plenty of graphic arts business books out there, and most contribute a great deal to the understanding of the business of graphic arts. But like Elvis, there’s only one king, and that perennial bestseller in the category is Graphic Artist’s Guild Handbook of Pricing & Ethical Guidelines. It scored an Amazon sales rank […]

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Framed and Exposed: It's Time to Can Film

Even if you’ve never shot with a digital camera, it’s not hard to see the advantages over shooting with film. Instant feedback, no film processing, speedy transfer to your computer for instant editing, cool new camera designs – all of these factors are obvious to even the most die-hard film fanatic. No, for years now, […]

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dot-font: Afrikan Alphabets

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 […]

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Heavy Metal Madness: Treasures From Scrap

Perhaps it’s the voyeur in me, or maybe it’s a desire to live in the past, but one of my favorite sources of pleasure is looking through other people’s old scrapbooks. These collections of ephemera from a person’s life, or from a period of particular importance in their lives, serve as great historical documents and […]

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Acrobat How-To: Setting PDF Open Options

This story is taken from “The 100 Best Adobe Acrobat Tips & Tricks.” If you routinely make PDF files for onscreen viewing or presentations, it’s important to put your best face forward. And that means controlling how your readers view the document when it first opens. You can set parameters such as whether or not […]

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