June, 2001 | CreativePro Network

Art and Technology Clash Center Stage

I’ve often pondered the distinction between designers who know technology and technologists who know design. I’ve watched as the two disciplines — once polar opposites — have come together since the introduction of the computer to the design and production process. Like two rivers — one icy clear, rushing from mountain peaks, the other muddy […]

Under the Desktop: A Writer Dreams of Electronic Ink

There I stood, at the recent Society for Information Display (SID) 2001 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, surrounded by the coolest collection of display technologies in the world — next-generation LCDs with brilliant color, plasma screens big enough to cover a wall of my apartment, other displays smaller than a thumbnail — and my favorite […]

The Creative Toolbox: iBook Dual USB, iGotta Have It

About a year ago I found myself steadily writing and faced with an hour commute into the city via train. Faced with two otherwise idle hours of free time, I set out to find a truly mobile notebook I could use to write my articles and do some graphics work. Having a powerful G4 Cube […]

ZBrush 1.03: Paint Your Way to 3D

Professional artists and illustrators know first hand that it’s difficult to create the illusion of the third dimension, regardless of whether they are working with old-fashioned bristle brushes or a computerized paint program. With ZBrush 1.03, its new graphics software for Windows and Mac platforms, Pixologic hopes to change all this by providing interactive 3D […]

Taking a Menuez Moment

Image courtesy of Menuez Pictures. Doug Menuez is a photographer with such a wide sphere of experience that it’s hard to imagine anyone who has not seen at least a portion of his work. After launching his career as an intern at the “Washington Post” in 1981, he went on to shoot a variety of […]

dot-font: Judge for Yourself

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: Long Live PageMaker — or Not

When I read the other day that Adobe was upgrading PageMaker to version 7.0, I didn’t have one of my two usual reactions to such news. Normally I’d either shrug it off as business-as-usual or I’d mutter, “About time. We’ve all been waiting.” (This is why I like working alone at home, so people don’t […]

Out of Gamut: Getting a Handle on Color Management

Color management is a topic that continues to confuse, bewilder, confound, and even enrage all too many innocent users. This is due in part to misleading hype on the part of vendors that present it as a magic solution to all color problems, and in equal part to software developers who insist on making their […]

The Creative Toolbox: Turbocharging Your Style Sheets in GoLive

Remember George Jetson of the “Flintstones in the future” cartoon of the ’70s? Occasionally part of the story would show George at his job, which consisted of pushing buttons. One large, red button, actually. Sometimes poor George worked himself so hard that his button-pushing finger would be sore. Of course the irony emerging as we […]