Results of the 2007 Top 25 Arts Destinations Readers' Poll Announced

Art lovers across the country will be planning their summer art travel itineraries this week as AmericanStyle magazine releases the results of its 10th annual Top 25 Arts Destinations readers’ poll. For the fourth consecutive year, New York City has taken the top spot in the Big Cities category. Since the poll’s inception, New York […]

HP to Acquire Logoworks, a Web-based Design Service Company for Small Businesses

HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arteis, a privately held company that operates Logoworks, a leading distributed web-based graphic design service provider. HP plans to leverage Logoworks’ technologies and services to provide small businesses with access to professional design solutions at a fraction of market cost. Supported by hundreds of […]

Casio and Indelible Media Create Stylish Microsite for Launch of Newest EX-V7 Digital Camera

In conjunction with the launch of Casio’s new Exilm EX-V7 digital camera, Casio, Inc. and iNDELIBLE Media Corp. have collaborated to create an interactive micro site (https://exilim.casio.com/v7) to educate consumers about the high-performance new camera in an entertaining video-rich online environment.  Amidst a lifestyle-inspired virtual living room, consumers will browse through original video content bringing […]

Answers to Some CS3 eSeminar Questions

Last week I presented a free eSeminar for Adobe on the topic of InDesign CS3. It was part of the Adobe Solutions Network Service Provider program. (The ASN program is pretty amazing… seems like very good value for what you get!) I had fun showing all the fun new CS3 stuff, and attendees on the […]

Making a Custom Character in a Font

TK wrote:I have a client whose design agency has come up with a product that makes use of a non-existant letter in the product name… The product name is repeated many times through the document, and I have temporarily solved the problem by decreasing the tracking between two characters by a ridiculous amount. I’m wondering if there’s a better or simpler way to do this?

Ah, the vagaries of clients! There are several solutions for making custom characters…

With Lulu.com: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – and Perhaps Thousands of Dollars to Creators

Lulu.com, the premier online marketplace that provides a platform to create, buy, sell and control digital content on demand announces a multi-year agreement with Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content. Beginning summer 2007, authors, creators and organizations will have access to portions of Getty Images’ royalty-free collections to enhance and […]

Microspot MacDraft Professional 5.6 Universal Binary Version Released

Today Microspot Ltd. developers of 2D and 3D graphics and photo applications, announced the release of MacDraft Professional version 5.6 which is now a Universal Binary and is the first version to run native on Intel powered Macintosh computers.  MacDraft Professional is a powerful 2D design, drafting and technical illustration application that is affordable and […]

Lexmark Combines Power of Color, Multifunction with New Line of Color Laser MFPs

Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE:LXK) today introduced an entire new line of color laser multifunction products (MFPs) to help businesses get more done with color. "Leading businesses around the world have benefited from improved processes and reduced costs with Lexmark’s award-winning monochrome multifunction technology," said Paul Rooke, Lexmark executive vice president and president of its Printing […]

BatchPhoto: The Fastest Photo Editor for Windows

DiVision Software has released BatchPhoto v. 2.0, a powerful Windows photo manipulation program that makes it fast and easy to annotate, touch up, transform, apply effects, and rename hundreds of pictures in a single operation. With the mass adoption of digital cameras and ever increasing storage space came along a new problem: the huge number […]