September, 2012 | CreativePro Network

Designer Tattoos: Part 2

Designers, by definition, are all about creativity, visual communication, and self-expression. One of the most common ways designers express themselves is by indelibly declaring their status as Homo Creativus in the medium of ink in skin. Like anyone else, designers’ tattoos are often butterflies, skulls, koi, Tardises, or names, but sometimes the ink is a […]

Boston Public Library treasures abound on Flickr

Public libraries, like museums, hold vast collections of art and design work. Unfortunately, those holdings often remain on dusty shelves, unseen. Hailing from the home of MIT and Harvard, it may be no surprise that the Boston Public Library has overcome the “dusty shelf” problem, by embracing online sharing technology, scanning and posting more than […]

What do Brackets [Item] mean?

What does it mean when there are brackets around an item in a panel such as the swatch [Black] or the document preset [Default]?

Scanning Around With Gene: Throwing Away the Pasteup Books

I hate to throw away books and do it pretty rarely. But the sheer lack of space in my life has forced me to take a look at my book collection and be brutal – it’s time to weed through the volumes and get rid of those books that are not likely to ever see […]

eBay Unveils a New Logo

Set the WayBack machine for 1995. Designers were installing Photoshop 3 from floppy disks to take advantage of its new-fangled layers feature. And a 6 megapixel digital camera cost cost more than the median household income in the US ($35,000). How times have changed. But one thing that hadn’t changed since 1995 was the eBay […]

Camera Lens Mug and Thermos

Earlier this week we saw how some creatives go all out to demonstrate their love for their craft by getting tattooed. If you’re in the market for something a little less permanent to show your passion for photography, check out the lens mugs and thermoses at Photojojo. They are full-size replicas of real lenses, with […]

Creating a Custom Bullet or Character with IndyFont

Make your own font from within InDesign, and then use it for automatic bullets, numbering, or other uses!

Typodarium, the Font-a-Day calendar

What’s the best way to discover new fonts? One great way is to partake of the CreativePro’s Free for Alls and articles by our type experts, Jim Felici and Ilene Strizver. But wouldn’t it also be nice to meet a new, high quality typeface each day? To satisfy your craving for fonts with a regular […]

The Long Death of Letterpress

If you’re at all interested in letterpress, the history of printing, or how nostalgia affects graphic design, you must head over to PrintMag.com and read Death of a Pressman by Fritz Swanson. It is first and foremost, a personal remembrance of a letterpress pressman named Tom Trumble. But the article encompasses more than a century […]