Are creative professionals more dishonest than those not in creative fields? A new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests as much. The study, entitled “The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest” and written by Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School and Duke University’s Dan […]
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What better time to round up new typefaces than on Friday. Not only is “Fonts on Friday” alliterative, but showcasing new fonts also seems like a good way to end the week as well. Here are three typefaces that caught our eye in the past week: L.C. Smith is a typewriter-style font by TunnelBravo. But […]
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My life is full of entirely too many poorly marked boxes full of who knows what. I spend a lot of time moving one box to get to another box to get to another box which leads to yet another box. Eventually I forget what I am looking for and, if I’m lucky, find myself […]
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We spend so much time and effort to make things look perfect in InDesign. Now it’s time to make something look really bad. But in a good way!
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Photoshop users are getting an early gift for the spring holidays this year. The latest beta of Photoshop CS 6 is now available to the public through Adobe Labs. The software is free and can downloaded at the URL https://www.adobe.com/go/photoshopcs6. Note that this is not the final shipping version of the application, the release date […]
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This article is taken from Creativeprose: The weekly newsletter of CreativePro.com. To see past newsletters click here. To sign up for our newsletters click here. What is it about old photographs that makes them so appealing? Of course it’s not too hard to figure out why we treasure photographs of people near and dear to […]
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On Monday I wrote about Meggs’ History of Graphic Design written by Philip B. Meggs and updated by Alston Purvis. Long considered the preeminent textbook on the subject, the fifth edition of the book has been published, and the book is now available on the iPad. Here’s another book about graphic design that might be […]
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TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above. Insouciant is the latest typographic offering from the talented James Montalbano of Terminal Design. Montalbano has been designing type for more than 20 years. From his one-person studio Terminal Design, he has created more than 1,000 […]
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Just like flowers bursting forth in spring, design contests are popping up all over. Whether you’re a print designer, photographer, or illustrator, there’s a competition for you. If you’ve never entered a design contest, why not test your mettle and give one a try? What follows is a select list of some contests for creative […]
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