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• The New York Observer’s Cover Illustrations

  • Sunday, 21 Mar 2010, 07:29 GMT+7 (4 hours ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  The New York Observer describes itself as “New York’s Smartest Tabloid.” Although for many years it was a full broadsheet, The Observer, known for printing on salmon-colored paper, switched to the tabloid format several years ago. Brilliantly art directed by Nancy Butkus, the paper has long been outstanding for both…

• How to Limit Information Overload

  • Saturday, 20 Mar 2010, 16:39 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: Andrew Kelsall, Andrew Kelsall | Graphic Designer

  
  With all the social networks popping-up here, there and everywhere lately—blogs (now in their multitudes), masses of great tools, tutorials and resources online too—I had began to feel like I was suffering from information overload.
  The solution to this problem was actually a simple one: Limit the amount that I…

• Perfect Packing Makes Perfect Workshifting

  • Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 11:32 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: David Horne, workshifting

  
  I used to get so worked up when preparing for a long trip. This feeling of a thousand pounds would start to weigh on me as I thought about what I needed to pack and how much of it I needed to take with me. Do you ever feel like…

• March Madness!

  • Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 10:00 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  It’s March Madness time, the NCAA college basketball tournament that obsesses so much of the working world with bracket-mania. For the past seven years, Sports Illustrated has produced a brilliantly fun, crazy quilt collaged cover previewing the tournament, and featuring photographs of one player from all the teams scheduled to…

• LOIS + DADICH: 4 things you won’t get fromYouTube

  • Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 09:40 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  As you may have already heard, George Lois has a new book out based on an exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern art. On Tuesday, March 30th, in what is sure to be our Speaker Series event of the year, he will be sitting down with Scott…

• A Contingency Plan for the Workshifter

  • Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 07:14 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Scott Magdalein, workshifting

  
  Workshifting, by its nature, is an oddity. Few things can be expected or depended upon. The veteran workshifters in the audience know what I mean. Just because you work from home, or from a coffee shop, or from a boat in the Mediterranean, it doesn’t mean you’re in control.I’ve been…

• Scanning Around With Gene: Staples of the Twentieth-Century Office

  • Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 04:33 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: Print, Print

  Staplers haven’t changed much in the last 50 years, and neither has our dependency on them for organizing papers.read more

• Transmediale 2010

  • Friday, 19 Mar 2010, 01:08 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
  • By: SHIFT, SHIFT

  Transmediale is a media art festival consisting of exhibition, symposium, film s…

• SKI Magazine’s best of the season

  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 13:00 GMT+7 (3 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  SKI Magazine’s Art Director, Eleanor Williamson, just wrapped-up the seasonal title’s 7 issues before the tackle their next project (more on that later in the post), and in honor of these closing days of winter, offered to share a look back at their best design and photography of the season.…

• The Top Benefits of a Workshifting Policy

  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 11:32 GMT+7 (3 days ago)
  • By: Justin Levy, workshifting

  
  Today’s guest post is by Diane Stegmeier is founder of Stegmeier
  Consulting Group, a consultancy focused on workplace change
  management. She is author of the book Innovations in Office Design: The Critical Influence Approach to Effective Work Environments, which was ranked the #1 Favorite Workplace Strategy Book by Amazon readers.I…

• Photojournalist Charles Moore, R.I.P.

  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 10:00 GMT+7 (3 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  The New York Times carries the obituary of noted 50s and 60s photojournalist Charles Moore, who passed away last week at the age of 79. A native Alabaman, Moore was a frequent photographer of the civil rights movement in the South, and his pictures in Life magazine were among the…

• Overzealous with Photoshop?

  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 08:28 GMT+7 (3 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  Did Vogue get a little carried away with Photoshop with their Tina Fey cover? Check out the full story from the Daily News.

• Face-Off: Tina Fey Covers

  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 07:45 GMT+7 (3 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  Entertainment Weekly and Esquire hit newsstands this week with dueling Tina Fey covers. Which works best?

• Save Bad Photos and Make Good Ones Great

  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 01:27 GMT+7 (3 days ago)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Graphics Image Editing

  A couple of years ago, I petitioned a group of 50 or so photographers to seed me with raw images for some Camera Raw videos I recorded for lynda.com. The project went swimmingly, but I was troubled by the number of photographers (12? 15?) who told me they didn’t shoot…

• What’s In Your Design Toolbox? Part 4: Jeff Finley

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 14:37 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Andrew Houle, MyInkBlog » Interviews

  This is part 4 of the Design Toolbox Series where I interview top designers about what tools they use to help them create their art. This series was largely inspired by Grace Smith’s “Show Me Your Dock Series.” It’s my hope that you can gain insight into what other designer’s…

• Master Class: TypIDentity”This typeface is confusing.”

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 12:00 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  Ever wonder what it’s like at the top?  Ever stare at your Indesign-ed
  monitor, wishing you could churn out award-winning work (or even work
  that matters?!) Ever flip through Blender, Wired, or New York and and
  wish you had those resources, or knew how they got it done? What’s separating…

• Mark Burckhardt on the making-of his Texas Monthly cover

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 11:01 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  Over on Drawger there’s an excellent behind-the-scenes look at this month’s Texas Monthly cover (shown here) marking the 15th anniversary of Tejano singer Selena’s tragic death. Illustrator Marc Burckhardt walks through the process from commission to drafts to completed cover (including subscriber versions without a UPC code–go TJ Tucker, Creative…

• Need For Speed: The FCC’s Plan for Broadband

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 09:47 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Justin Levy, workshifting

  
  Today our post is from Tom Harnish, who is a telework evangalist, writer, and researcher at the TeleworkResearchNetwork.com. He co-authored the popular press book,
  Undress For Success–The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home (Wiley
  2009).Sad, but true, U.S. broadband penetration ranks 15th among the 30 top industrialized nations, according…

• Junichi Oguro “Sound Art Exhibition”

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 07:53 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: SHIFT, SHIFT

  Walking down stairs to the gallery CAI02, you will hear harmonious birds singing…

• ARTFUL COMMUNICATION: Embracing Change

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 07:00 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  No matter how talented we are, at some point, we all experience that “writing on the wall” moment, when we  know that it’s time to move on. Maybe it’s downsizing, or a new editorial direction-or whatever-but it’s something no one’s immune to, especially not these days…

  Part of Gina Barnett’s…

• Pick a Numeral

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 03:27 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Print, Print

  Numerals come in many typographic styles and shapes. Here’s your guide for how and when to use which.read more

• Pantone Drops Price of PANTONE Goe

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 03:27 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Print, Print

  Across-the-line cuts make Goe a more-affordable addition to any designer’s color reference library.read more

• New Version of Poser Pro

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 01:17 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Graphics Image Editing

  Press Release
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• Pantone Drops Price of PANTONE Goe

  • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 01:10 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Print Asset Mgmt./Workflow

  Press Release
  Pantone is reducing the price of the PANTONE® Goe™ specification products to make them even more affordable for all designers and printers to incorporate into their workflows.
  read more

• 5inch: Truly Unique Media

  • Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010, 12:20 GMT+7 (5 days ago)
  • By: Andrew Kelsall, Andrew Kelsall | Graphic Designer

  A while ago, I ordered some great-looking CD cases from a truly unique online CD and DVD media company named 5inch (by the way, this IS NOT an affiliate post).

  The 5inch site is packed full of original, exciting and unique CD & DVD print designs, along with special colourful…

• The Secret to a Good Workshifting Space

  • Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010, 10:54 GMT+7 (5 days ago)
  • By: Daria Steigman, workshifting

  
  We often ask people where they like to workshift. But we don’t ask an arguably more interesting question: Why do you hang out there?I know one colleague whose favorite location is a social Starbucks because it’s a great place to identify potential clients. Another person flees the office for anywhere…

• John Dixon, new AD at The Village Voice

  • Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010, 10:03 GMT+7 (5 days ago)
  • By: Musical Chairs, Musical Chairs

  Venerable alt-weekly The Village Voice has named John Dixon as their new Art Director. He has previously been in the AD spot at Men’s Health and runs the studio Old Tennis Shoes. He replaces Ivylise Simones, who left The Voice in January.If you’ve got news or tips about job
  changes…

• UCLA Goes Plush

  • Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010, 06:00 GMT+7 (5 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  Charlie Hess of Chess Design sends along the story of his first plush: commissioned sculpture + the April 2010 UCLA Magazine cover here = a great story. Read about the making-of after the jump…

• Aperture 3’s HD Video Clip Problem Solved

  • Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010, 01:42 GMT+7 (5 days ago)
  • By: Editor in Chief, CreativePro.Com Graphics Image Editing

  Press Release
  This update addresses an issue affecting the playback of HD video clips used in Aperture 3 slideshows on Snow Leopard.
  Audio and video tracks now remain properly synced in video clips that have been trimmed.
  The update is recommended for all users of Aperture 3.
  Version: 1.1
  Post…

• Your most important shot. Don’t miss it.

  • Monday, 15 Mar 2010, 13:00 GMT+7 (6 days ago)
  • By: Grids, Grids

  A portfolio review with Stephen Mayes and YOU! Stephen Mayes, managing director of VII Photo Agency, represents some of the worlds greatest living photo journalists, and will be reviewing the portfolio of ONE lucky winner of this year’s Virtue & Vice student photography competition. This portfolio review can reshape your…

 
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