When I lived in Southern California, I took a lot of filmmaking classes in college, and became a bit obsessed with film history and film culture. Living near Hollywood meant access to lots of resources, so my friends and I spent too much spare time at the various film-themed bookstores and memorabilia shops that dotted […]
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The folks behind Overgram, an app that allows users to design custom titles for their Instagram photos, have published a truly nifty infographic about the massive effect mobile apps have had on photography. The infographic, designed by Now Sourcing, is packed with interesting photography trivia tidbits, including: • More than 3.5 trillion photos have been […]
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If you have any affinity for type, motion graphics, animation, or just pure awesomeness, you owe it to yourself to check out the animation adventure series by Chris Gavin called THE FUTURA GOLD. Everything in it, including the characters and backgrounds is entirely composed with characters from the Futura typeface. Here’s the first episode of […]
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These powerful scripts can transform you from a regular InDesign user to a super-powered force of nature!
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PopChar, the utility that has been helping Mac users find and type special characters in their documents since the Age of the Dinosaurs (technically 1987), has been updated with new and improved features. No longer a simple character picker, PopChar has grown into a full-featured font utility for both Mac and Windows. Version 6.1 adds […]
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Ever see the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer? There’s a brilliant scene where Ben Kingsley, as the chess teacher, dramatically sweeps all of the pieces off the chess board and onto the floor. He does that because he wants the young chess prodigy he’s coaching to learn how to visualize all the possibilities of the […]
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Quark is offering a free webinar this Thursday, November 29th on how to publish interactive HTML5 content to the iPad using InDesign. Yes, you read that right. InDesign. You can sign up here. Details from the annoucement: App Studio works with software you already know – InDesign – transforming content into HTML5, the next-generation Web […]
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A trick that lets you scale linked text so that it updates without losing the scaling.
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