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31 Awesome Cakes To Celebrate Your Divorce

Getting divorced? Why not buy a cake for it? There’s a growing trend in divorce parties, and, if you’re looking for creative ideas for your cake, take a gander at these 31 awesome cakes to celebrate your divorce.

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Design Police Visual Enforcement Kit

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There are 4 more pages of similar labels. It’s cute, but would anyone actually use it more than the one time as a joke?

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First Look: Green Hornet’s Black Beauty Is a Killer Car

via wired.com

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Timeline of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Logos

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The Coca-Cola brand is timeless, yet Pepsi, with its brand strategy of chasing every new generation, reduces its recognition with every redesign. The newest is the worst. The Pepsi logo 2008 redesign back story is here: http://tr.im/tUyh

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A Conference of Fonts

What happens when the best known fonts in the industry get together? This hilarious video from CollegeHumor reveals the truth.

Disclaimer to Twitter Users

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@Snipeyhead posted this, and I just had to share. I only wish this disclamer were short enough to tweet or set as an auto-DM.

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Humping Dog USB Drive - Bad, Bad Dog!

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LOL This is awful!

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Photoshop and InDesign: So Happy Together

InDesign CS2 lets you turn layers and layer comps in a Photoshop image on and off. So what? So plenty! Here’s how to use this capability to increase your production, layout, proofing, and file-management efficiency.

InDesign How-to: Fill Type with Artwork

Last week, we showed you how to fill text with images in QuarkXPress. This week, it’s InDesign’s turn.

Quark How-To: Fill Type with Artwork in QuarkXPress

How would you fill type with artwork or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator? If the artwork-filled type is going to end up in a QuarkXPress layout, why worry about transparency, clipping path, or image preview issues? Instead, you can fill the type directly within XPress.

Git Along, Li'l PDF: How to Stamp Proofs with Your Own Brand

Acrobat’s Stamp tool can prevent a lot of confusion if you use it for things like explaining Lorem Ipsum placeholder text and FPO images on client proofs. But rather than settling for Acrobat’s generic stamps, you can create your own. Yeehaw!

Get Your Photoshop On -- Inside InDesign!

InDesign CS3’s new Effects panel gives you unprecedented artistic options. Find out how to make the most of them, and get a special discount on InDesign Magazine.

Gift Guide 2005, Part II

Still searching for that perfect gift? Then check out this, the second installment of our annual parade of presents.

Gift Guide 2005

Ah, the holidays. Time for love, laughter, friends, family, and the frantic search for a present that pleases the recipient while it shows how cool you are. Relax! In this, part 1 of our annual gift guide, we recommend gifts every creative pro (even you!) will love.

Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know

These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren’t copyrighted, explore color, and more.

Create Web Animations in Photoshop CS3

Animate banner ad and graphic objects; transform their shape, size, color; or replace them entirely.

Use Any Font in a Web Site Design

There have always been two certainties in Web design: You can never have enough bandwidth, and all Web design must rely entirely on fonts installed on the viewer’s computer. But thanks to sIFR, at least one of these so-called inescapable certainties is wrong.

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