February, 2001 | CreativePro Network

The Creative Toolbox: Mastering InDesign’s Master Pages

When designing a publication in Adobe InDesign, the last thing you may have on your mind is building your pages for efficiency to save time in the long run. All too often, just when you think you’ve finally put the finishing touch on your masterpiece, the clients decide they would like to insert or reorder […]

Under the Desktop: Heading Off the Lost-Files Blues

Following a few recent site visits and frantic phone calls, I identified a new form of amnesia effecting the creative community. Unlike the familiar syndrome where a person is struck on the noggin and forgets his or her past — a plot device that has carried countless "B" movies and soap operas — this new […]

Notes from the Epicenter: Napster Unplugged

A San Francisco court ruled on February 12 that Napster, the online music sharing service that finds it way into every other Silicon Valley cocktail-party conversation, was indeed in violation of the law for knowingly letting its users traffic in copyrighted material. This is a big deal. It’s a big deal not only because one […]

dot-font: Neville Brody Sparks New Life into “Fuse”

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 […]

For Position Only: The Only Other Sites Print Pros Need

If you’re like me, you used to save hard copies of all the design, prepress, and new-economy publications you could fit on your shelves. And if you’re like me, your bookshelves have thinned considerably over the last few years, as you increasingly rely on the Web to stay abreast of the world of graphic design […]

Xara X: A Powerful Draw

For years XaraStudio was a remarkably agile drawing program just waiting to be discovered, but a marketing deal between Xara Ltd. and Corel kept it in the understudy role behind CorelDRAW, wearing the CorelXara name. The agreement expired last year and now Xara Ltd. is marketing a considerably enhanced version named Xara X ($149). This […]

The Darkroom Makes a Comeback

A few years ago, the computer age allowed photographers to escape the darkroom. Ironically, newly released, rigid viewing standards are pushing the photography, graphic arts, and publishing industries toward the need to lower the lights for entirely different reasons. It’s not uncommon for desktop publishers in corporate environments to set up digital imaging computers in […]

Notes From the Epicenter: Online Shopping Helpers Hold Their Own

The other day I received an e-mail from someone calling themselves MyGeek. It was not, as I had originally surmised, a message from one of my more technology-addicted friends, but from a company that said it could help me find the best prices on products on the Web. MyGeek as it turns out is one […]

Great Sites: A Novel Interface for the Smithsonian’s Everyday Things

Don’t you hate it when the first page of a site is nothing more than a long list of technical requirements for viewing the site? This is not a good way to begin a quality Web-browsing experience. Yet the appropriately titled “Revealing Things” prototype created for the Smithsonian Without Walls has no choice. What makes […]