The business of Web design has always included a high level of uncertainty: Multiple versions of multiple browsers run on computers configured in ways unknowable to the mere-mortal Web designer. About five years ago, pioneering members of the design community began to advocate standards to combat that uncertainty — to create some “rules to design […]
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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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If my initial experience with the Kodak DC3400 — downloading pictures from it to my notebook PC with a serial cable — had been indicative of its overall performance, I would have paid someone to take this $500, 2X-zoom digital camera off my hands. Fortunately things improved markedly when I hooked it up with my […]
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Bryan Mullennix describes his interest in photography as a “burning desire to capture images of natural scenes that are often overlooked by the average passerby.” Since graduating from San Diego State University in 1990 with a degree in economics, Mullennix has built an eclectic body of work that remains infused with an intense desire to […]
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Since I’m a big techie geek, I think a lot about what the Internet might look like in the future. While buying my orange juice at the local grocery store or picking out what I hope will be that perfect pair of boots, I’m prone to wonder whether real life retail is destined to be […]
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The Sydney 2000 Olympics have just begun and already there are the usual grumblings about poor TV coverage, along with reports that viewership is down 25 percent from the Atlanta 1996 Olympics. This year, NBC has decided that the 18-to-21-hour time difference between Sydney and the U.S. is too difficult to schedule, and so no […]
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If all the tasks and technologies used in graphic design and production were viewed as a community, then digital asset management software would be the neighborhood braggart. Although it knows everyone on the street, it tends to boast about its value, so no one wants to listen to it anymore, much less play with it. […]
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These days you don’t have to surf too far on the Web before you run into some bit of Flash animation. Whether exploiting Flash to create an animated splash page, a cool interface, or animated features, more and more web designers are turning to this vector-based animation solution to spruce up their sites. With version […]
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There are many ways that folks interested in the art and science of color — folks like me — test for color aptitude. One way usually involves esteemed institutes of knowledge and quantifiable standards — the Farnsworth-Munsell color discrimination test, for example. Yet another approach is a little more experimental, inspired by sheer curiousity and […]
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