As 2002 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year that was. Creativepro.com asked its frequent contributors to assess the year from the viewpoints of technological developments, industry trends, and personal challenges. A few themes emerged: the rise of InDesign as viable competition to QuarkXPress, the adoption of Mac OS X and […]
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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 […]
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Everybody’s doing it. The advertisements say it’s easy. Yet posting video content on the Web stymies many creative professionals, especially those who aren’t naturally conversant in the ways of the Web. In this article you’ll learn some of the basic skills and products necessary for creating, encoding, and playing streaming media. By taking advantage of […]
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A former publisher of “Publish” magazine and former president of Seybold Seminars, Gene Gable is a veritable font of knowledge about the publishing industry. Here are his answers to reader questions following our Q&A with Gene two weeks ago. On Corporate Style Creativepro.com Reader: Having read your interview on Creativepro.com, it would seem that there […]
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If you were to take a painting of a subject, remove all color, shadows, highlights, the background and all lines that don’t have any movement or necessity, what you have left is artwork called Sumi-e. In Japan this is defined as black ink painting. The Sumi-e style of art, shown in figures 1 through 3, […]
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“We want information,” demands Number Two at the top of each episode of The Prisoner, a cult 1960s television show. Our hero’s ritual response is always: “You won’t get it.” Yet the rise of Internet search engines has turned that paradigm on its head, often to the consternation of users seeking wisdom from its countless […]
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The holidays are just around the corner and you’re wracking your brain for a gift for your digital photographer. Wrack no more. Here is the 2002 Planet Photoshop Digital Photo Gift List, with suggestions ranging from very low budget to fairly extravagant. Some advice: Investigate his or her needs before you buy and keep receipts. […]
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If you’ve never experienced Creature House Expression, be prepared for a stunning tour de force in creative illustration. If you are already familiar with this program, you’ll want to invest in an upgrade to version 3, which includes amazing fringe and embossed fills, plus a worthwhile collection of new tools and interface improvements. The revolutionary […]
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As I sit at a table peering out the large windows that make up the front lunchroom at Hunan’s, I cannot help but notice the excessive number of “For Lease” signs attached to the exterior of what appears to be every building lining San Francisco’s historic Sansome Street. The dot.coms that once dominated this old […]
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