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• TENNIS Magazine Covers the Open

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 10:00 GMT+7 (9 hours ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  Tennis Design Director Gary Stewart helps us get amped for this year’s US Open with more great work…I’m sure that those amazing New York Times videos have already inspired everyone to hop the 7 train to Queens, but first let’s pause for some historical perspective, shall we? Here’s a quick…

• Responsibility and authority

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 07:15 GMT+7 (12 hours ago)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  It turns out you can get a lot done if you focus on responsibility rather than authority.

• Negative Emotions Diminished by Difficult Mental Challenges

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 07:14 GMT+7 (12 hours ago)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  Can thinking about being happy make you less happy?

• Wave Goodbye

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 07:12 GMT+7 (12 hours ago)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  Tech autopsy of Google Wave: did Google forget to answer the essential question “what’s it for?”

• Fast News for September 2, 2010

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 06:00 GMT+7 (13 hours ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we’ll add them to the Mix.>> Bon Appetit design director Matthew Lenning has left the magazine and is moving to Austin to start his own…

• Saloon Series

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 04:56 GMT+7 (14 hours ago)
  • By: SHIFT, SHIFT

  Saloon Series, a one day event of ’sound and vision’, took place at an old bicycle factory called th…

• Have Fun Folding at Graph Expo

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 04:50 GMT+7 (15 hours ago)
  • By: Print, Print

  “FoldMania” is a two-hour course taught by folding expert Trish Witkowski on October 4, 2010.read more

• Quark Webinar: Automate Publishing Your Content to iPhone and iPad

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 02:49 GMT+7 (17 hours ago)
  • By: Print, Print

  On September 29, 2010, Quark will explain how to combine combining Quark Publishing System and TapLynx to create iPhone and iPad content apps.read more

• Have Fun Folding at Graph Expo

  • Thursday, 2 Sep 2010, 01:16 GMT+7 (18 hours ago)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Print Asset Mgmt./Workflow

  Press Reease
  Trish Witkowski, Chief Folding Fanatic at the online folding community foldfactory.com, presents an inspiring new workshop. FoldMania is a two-hour, hands-on visual journey into the fascinating and largely unknown world of folding and finishing.
  Register Today for FoldMania at GRAPH EXPO!
  Date: Monday, October 4, 2010
  Time: 3:00-5:00pm…

• 99 Excuses For NOT Making Ideas Happen

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 22:00 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  There’s an old Yiddish proverb that goes, “If you don’t want
  to do something, one excuse is as good as another.” In other words, if you’re
  NOT doing something, what does it matter why? We recently polled our friends on Twitter for a list of the
  most common excuses for…

• ColorBlendy: See how two colors blend easily

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 08:16 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  A handy design tool to test how colors blend while overlaid or multiplied.

• Ten Things Your Employees Wish You Knew About Them

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 08:15 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  “If you think it’s tough being a manager these days, try being an employee.”

• What Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, and R. Crumb Have in Common

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 08:13 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  How those great Paris Review interviews happen. Behind-the-scenes process look.

• Tweetin’ Grannies and Gramps Outpace Social Whippersnappers

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 08:12 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  Survey says the fastest growing demographic in Social Media is the over 50 set.

• The First Mother Jones Cover, Illustrated by Dugald Stermer

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 06:00 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  In a recent interview on the SPD site, Mother Jones creative director Tim J Luddy referenced the first cover of the magazine, in 1976, as an influence on his current work. We asked Luddy for a copy of that cover, illustrated by Dugald Stermer, and he responded with that one…

• Kiyoshi Takahashi

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 04:02 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: SHIFT, SHIFT

  With the theme of “Visualization of the momentum”, Kiyoshi Takahashi is a Sapporo-based artist, expl…

• Final Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 Updates Released

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 03:39 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: Graphics Asset Mgmt./Workflow, Graphics Asset Mgmt./Workflow

  The release candidates are just a few weeks old, but you can now download the real deal for free from the Adobe website.read more

• Final Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 Updates Released

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 01:49 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Graphics Image Editing

  Press Release
  read more

• Quickly Create True Photo Mosaics

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 01:44 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Graphics Image Editing

  Press RElease
  Artensoft introduces Artensoft Photo Mosaic Wizard 1.0, a unique software tool specifically designed to let anyone create a mosaic picture from hundreds of smaller tile images. The new software incorporates Artensoft’s breakthrough technology which automatically arranges all elements of a photo mosaic by color, shape and orientation in…

• Mask Flyaway Hair in Moments Using Photoshop

  • Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010, 01:17 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Graphics Image Editing

  The hardest part about masking has always been selecting areas of transition, such as flyaway hair on a portrait. The new masking tools in Photoshop CS5 are so easy to use that even novices can get impressive results: Just select a subject using the Quick Selection tool, turn that into…

• saji

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 18:17 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: SHIFT, SHIFT

  ‘What you eat today is what you will be 10 years from now’. A project called “saji” challenges new …

• Fast news for August 31, 2010

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 13:00 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular collection of publication design, digital, and media news updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we’ll add them to the Mix.>> Gourmet brand to return to print–as a series of special newsstand-only issues. Gourmet Quick Kitchen hits newsstands September…

• Present Like You’re In-Person: 10 Ways to Virtually Engage

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 11:05 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Justin Levy, workshifting

  
  Today we have a guest post from Tom Drews. Tom is the CEO and Founder of What Works! Communications, a company that helps people to design and deliver effective virtual presentations. He is considered to be a leader in the field, and his clients include Google, Symantec, CLIF Bar, McKesson…

• Wireframe Checklist

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 10:52 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: TJ Ward, User Experience Designer, Viget Advance : The Strategy Lab

  

  Last month I gave the uninitiated
  a crash-course on wireframes.  
  In the comments to that post, a former colleague, Kevin Lloyd, said that he was going to use
  the post as a kind of checklist for reviewing wireframes.  Before that
  comment it hadn’t occurred to me to create a checklist…

• Essence 40th Anniversary Cover Mosaic

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 10:00 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first issue of Essence magazine, which was published in May 1970. In honor of that first issue, Mosaic Legends has recreated that first cover, featuring model Barbara Cheeseborough, in mosaic form, using all 496 covers of Essence.

• 12 Natural Laws of Business

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 07:30 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  Great business advice from Zingerman.

• Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 07:28 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  The 130 pound O.E.D. may soon slim down to almost nothing with a move to digital.

• Why FAILFaire?

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 07:28 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  Interesting concept: The FAILFaire, a place where it’s ok to talk about what didn’t work.

• What Should I Do to My Work Laptop Before I Leave My Job?

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 07:26 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: The 99 Percent, The 99 Percent

  How to leave your work computer sparkling clean to preserve privacy.

• InDesign CS5 and InCopy CS5 Review

  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 04:30 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Jeremy Schultz, Designorati » Graphic Design

  In my studio, InDesign CS5 has proven to be a solid workhorse with no major drawbacks and several benefits. It’s already become a tool for building multimedia I would normally do in Flash.

 
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