June, 2001 | CreativePro Network

Design Lessons from Generation Web

Teenagers are a fickle bunch. They have the option — and heaven knows they use it — of browsing dozens, if not hundreds, of Web sites dedicated to teen stuff. That’s why teen site developers are always striving to create sites that reflect the look and feel of the teen movement de jour, and hence […]

dot-font: Preserving Ancient Wisdom with Age-Old Printing Techniques

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: Working Without Wires

Hitting the broadband jackpot this month, I quickly moved to spread DSL goodness throughout my split-level apartment. Members of my extended techno-posse assumed that I would use 802.11b wireless networking, eg. Apple’s AirPort, for this purpose; and I admit that I was tempted. Compared to hard-wired networks, wireless LANs hold the promise of easy installation, […]

Macromedia Director 8.5 Enters the Third Dimension

It’s big, complex, and expensive, but Macromedia Director is unrivaled in its ability to create multimedia presentations both on and off the Internet. Previous versions of Director allowed developers to create complex two-dimensional movies, but version 8.5 (priced at $1,199, or $199 for registered users of version 8) adds major muscle in the form of […]

Marty’s Camera Bag: Lifeless Software On An Active Disk

Ever since the advent of consumer-level digital cameras, in-house photography has become more and more a part of my one-man graphic design business. In fact, at times photography has become my business. In the past, I was often searching for stock images to compliment my design work, whereas today I frequently design a project around […]

Design Doyenne: Branding Beyond Design

Dear Pamela, After my excursion to the wilds of Salem, Oregon for my last missive, I traveled up the road to Hornall Anderson Design Works in Seattle. This large design firm of approximately 90 people has managed to thrive and whet its creative edge for almost two decades. Take this as a metaphor for HADW’s […]

dot-font: Logo Designer Jim Parkinson Sets Type First

For Position Only: Perform Prepress Acrobatics with PDF

If you look at the recent news from Adobe, you’ll notice a theme. The company is putting the finishing touches on its Acrobat Reader for the Palm OS; releasing its Acrobat eBook Reader; and announcing hundreds of ebook titles. And if you look at the company’s Web pages and at the media’s reviews of Adobe […]

Out of Gamut: Color-Correcting Photographs in Photoshop

I’m often asked, “what’s the easiest way to color-correct images?” My answer is always the same: Fix the neutrals and the rest will follow. True, it isn’t always quite that simple — fixing the neutral areas won’t always solve your color problems. But surprisingly often, if you find something in the image that you know […]