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The Creative Toolbox: Safe Web Design Re-examined

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: The Hyphenation of Justification

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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Good-Natured Photography

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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The Nike Olympics

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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For Position Only: A Modest Approach to Asset Management

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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Flash 5 Moves in the Right Directions

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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