June, 2000 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: Tippling with the Titans of Type

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 […]

Key Words: Digital Photo Delivery on a Budget

Going by the number of images sold, the preferred delivery mechanism for stock photography is still film. But digital delivery is all the rage, and the business rationale to send images via bits and bytes instead of express mail and shoe leather is compelling. As the number of photo buyers requesting digital delivery goes up […]

Scanning 101: Getting Great-Looking Line Art from Not-So-Great Sources

As a professional graphic artist you know you need high-quality source images to achieve high-quality scans. Unfortunately, many of the clients you may encounter will be unable to grasp this simple truth. In fact, clients routinely break this cardinal rule by submitting bad photos, damaged drawings, or tearsheets — pages that have literally been torn […]

Digital Video 101: Behind the Curtain

Oh, boy! It’s another revolution. Yes, just a dozen years after changing the face of graphic design and printing, those wacky computer engineers have pointed their overactive craniums at video and film production. So, if you missed out on being a desktop publishing revolutionary, there’s still hope: Now you can be a “digital video” revolutionary, […]

Eye on the Web: Oh, the Stuff You Can Find If You Know Where to Look

You already know that a Blog is fancy Net-speak for Weblog, a frequently updated compendium of interesting news culled from around the Web. You know that a "Blogger" is one who creates such an index, and that "Blogging" is the art of surfing the Web, compiling links for the benefit of others. And because you […]

Site Imitates Art (as Imitated by Science)

I have recently come to a rather startling realization about myself: The older I get the fewer concrete opinions I seem to have. It is as if I have become apathetic from the constant barrage of information thrown at me everyday of my life. Television, radio, newspapers, cinema, and — oh — let’s not forget […]

dot-font: Type Under the Knife

For Position Only: Printing Dot-Coms Find Themselves in a Jam

The big-name and glam Web sites may be grabbing the headlines — Salon.com lays off staff members, Pets.com acquires Petstore.com, Toysmart.com closes down — but the highly touted B2B (business-to-business) sector has also been feeling the recent squeeze in the dot-conomy, and the impact is reaching the print industry. Last month Noosh and Impresse, two […]

Out of Gamut: Finessing Photoshop Color

This month BruceRGB celebrates its second birthday. For those who haven’t heard of it, BruceRGB is my attempt to provide the world with a reasonably safe RGB working space for use with Adobe Photoshop 5.0 and later. You can download a complete description of BruceRGB, along with a critique of the various working spaces that […]