Press Release Bonny Pierce Lhotka is the author of Digital Alchemy: Printmaking Techniques for Fine Art, Photography, and Mixed Media. Leveraging her training as a traditional painter and printmaker, Bonny Lhotka brings new innovations and inventions that combine the best of centuries of printmaking techniques with modern technology to create unique works of art and […]
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The How Low Can Your Logo? contest challenged designers to create the worst logo possible that meets a fictional client’s brief. The mock client, Excellencico, requested a logo that’s “simple and yet detailed, complex yet spare… ‘Just right’ is the vibe we are looking for.” There were almost 1,500 entries, which ranged from bad to […]
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One of my favorite magazines, at least from a vintage perspective, is Popular Mechanics. You can find nearly every issue going back to 1905 at Google Books. For many years (back as far as 1908), Popular Mechanics Press, the parent company to the magazine, published a series of special editions in a format they called […]
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Press Release FontShop’s best-selling and most-blogged-about faces span the gamut from traditional to groundbreaking, sober to spirited, and each one deserves a spot in the discerning typographer’s palette. Click here for links to all of these typefaces. Panno Text from Bold Monday Panno Text is a reworking of the previously released Panno Sign. Glyphs and […]
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Press Release Arriving at the best exposure for a photo is part science and part art. In Foundations of Photography: Exposure, Ben Long helps photographers expand their artistic options by giving them a deep understanding of shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and all other critical exposure practices. This course covers the basic exposure controls provided by […]
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The Fast Company website team loves well-done infographics, and it’s compiled 13 of 2010’s best. One of my favorites is the result of a contest to create an infographic explaining the complicated film Inception: Go to the article to see the Inception graphic in detail and the other 12 infographics.
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Press Release The InDesign Secrets Guide to the InDesign CS5 ACE Exam eBook (PDF, 155 pp, $9.95) is the most thorough resource available for anyone interested in becoming an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in InDesign. More than a simple study guide, it offers you a comprehensive plan for preparing for and passing the exam. The […]
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