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Scanning Around With Gene: Where the Steering Wheel is on the Wrong Side

I’ve never owned a British car, though I’ve been attracted to a few and came close to buying an MG sports car when I was a teenager. But, fairly or not, I’ve let the questionable reputation of British vehicles influence me and have stayed away. I have no idea whether British cars are any better […]

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Free Printing Guidance for Adobe Apps

Whether you work at a press shop or are a production artist or print-oriented designer, you’ll find something of value in the freshly released Adobe Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide. For example, InDesign users can learn how to prep files for output, employ Live Preflight to spot potential troublemakers, work with book files, and a […]

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Best of the Blogs: June 23, 2011

Typography I’ve mentioned Designers and Books before, in which 66 designers draw up a list of books that inspire them. Typographer and designer Erik Spiekermann’s list includes classics by Jan Tschichold, Robin Kinross, and Ruari McLean, but it also features two books by a Swiss typographer previously unknown to me, Hans Rudolf Bossard, whose books […]

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