January, 2001 | CreativePro Network

The Digital Dish: Lines, Stripes, and Callouts in QuarkXPress

Check out the following picture. Can you find where the green line ends? It’s difficult because the line gets lost as it passes over the green shadows. Now, look at this next picture. It’s very easy to see where the line ends. The white knockout area around the green line provides a buffer to keep […]

The Creative Toolbox: A Mac OS X Preview

Six years in the making, Apple’s promise of a modern OS is upon us. This update couldn’t come at a better time for the Mac-based design community. While watching our Windows counterparts enjoy the benefits of a modern OS — multi-tasking, intelligent memory management, and freedom from all but the worst crashes — we Mac […]

Notes From the Epicenter: Nostra-Dudrow

All those people who harped on for years about how 2001 is the actual start of the new millennium may have a point. New Year’s 2000 was pretty darned anti-climactic after all. No Y2K-fueled mainframe meltdowns, no nuclear disasters, no malfunctioning elevators or power outages. The only thing that seemed broken last New Year’s Day […]

dot-font: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

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 […]

In Praise of Virtual Partnerships

Bend, Oregon, will never make the Top 10 list of most prestigious media and communication cities in the country. It probably will never make the Top 100 list for that matter. But that hasn’t stopped Harold Olaf Cecil from creating a thriving copywriting and media-relations firm — Ad HOC — from his home office in […]

Scanning 101: No More Moiré

In your career as a graphics pro, sooner or later you’ll encounter a moiré (pronounced moa-ray) pattern. If this term is new to you, rest assured that a moiré is not a form of exotic wildlife (that’s a moray eel); nor is it a varietal grape (that’s mourvedre). A moiré is an optical effect — […]

The Olympus C-2100 Ultra Zoom: An Easy, Long-Range Shooter

Despite all of the advances and changes in digital camera technology over the last few years, most digital cameras still sport a non-removable 3x lens. Usually offering a focal range of around 35-135mm (in 35mm equivalencies) these lenses provide a reasonable range from fairly wide to fairly telephoto. For the user who’s accustomed to a […]