March, 2001 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: True to Type, the Autobiography

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 […]

Under the Desktop: CD-R Right or Rong?

A generation has grown up with CDs. Today, desktop systems and notebooks come standard with a CD-Recordable (CD-R), CD-Rewritable (CD-RW), or DVD-ROM drive (ignoring for the moment the writable DVD drive now shipping on Apple’s fastest machines). It may come as a shock to content creators that our very familiarity with these optical technologies may […]

The Digital Dish: Flash without Flash

At the recent Thunder Lizard Web Design Conference in Atlanta, a certain brilliant woman posited that “SWF is the PostScript of the twenty-first century.” While I’m not too sure SWF will be that important for the full hundred years of the century, she has certainly come up with a vital concept. Just as Adobe Systems […]

Notes from the Epicenter: Where Is the Future Taking Us?

Bill Joy, the cofounder, CEO, and chief scientist of Sun Microsystems, is also something of a futurist. But despite Joy’s cheerful name, there is little to hope for in his visions of the years (and inventions) to come. As technology advances ever more quickly and affects our daily lives ever more substantially, what does the […]

The Mac Authority: Maximizing Your Mac

Operating System: Mac OS 9 When the Mac was in its infancy, its speed didn’t matter all that much. After all, the computer was making us more productive than we had ever been before. For example, a document that might have taken a group of people hours to create could be written, designed and printed […]

dot-font: Underground Typography

For Position Only: The New Yorker’s Dot Bomb

When I was a kid my mother used to say, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” These days I espouse an updated version of that philosophy: “If you can’t build a Web site right, don’t build it at all.” And the first site I apply it to is “The New […]

The Creative Toolbox: Animating Masks in Flash and LiveMotion

Sometimes less is more. There has been many an X-Files episode in which we the viewers are spellbound as we follow Scully and that other guy around, our perspective limited to the beams of their flashlights. As we yell “Somebody just turn on the @#^#!! lights!”, the show’s producers know exactly what they’re doing: Taking […]

Nik Sharpener Pro: The Easy Way to Sharper Images

If you’ve done even a little editing of digital images, then you know that sharpening is one of the most important steps in your image-editing workflow. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest steps to get right. With its Nik Sharpener Pro Photoshop-compatible plug-in, Nik Multimedia, Inc. has come up with an excellent alternative to […]