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The Magazine Design Weblog

After weeks of plan­ning, my new project, the Magazine Design Weblog, Weblogs, Inc.‘s newest com­mer­cial blog, is live as of 9:00 PT this morn­ing. I’m very excited about this new, first of its kind, weblog.

The Magazine … »

In a graphic design group I recently got into a dis­cus­sion about appli­ca­tion choice on the Macintosh. During this dis­cus­sion, in response to the accu­sa­tion that, with­out Apple and com­pe­ti­tion, we would “be stuck in a Windows world,’ I said the … »

Aw, shucks! You can’t scan $20 USD bills into Photoshop any more. Interesting.

Wired News: Copy No-No: Adobe and Uncle Sam

Adobe acknowl­edged last week that its Photoshop CS dig­i­tal edit­ing pack­age includes a “coun­ter­feit deter­rence sys­tem” designed to pre­vent users

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PageMaker, a true piece of his­tory, birthed the Desktop Publishing Revolution, lead­ing it through its infancy.

Quark was the adoles­ence of the bur­geon­ing Desktop Publishing indus­try, rebel­lious and impetuous.

InDesign is the Publishing and Layout indus­try all grown up, mature, … »

The W3C has just announced the first SVG Competition, this one to design a SVG Tiny greet­ing card of 30k or less. The win­ner receives a Nokia 3650 tri-band GSM handset.

Announcing the first offi­cial SVG Mobile Competition. Nokia

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For the love of mike, folks, change the damn title! The below link will run a Google search for the phrase “wel­come to Adobe GoLive”. It will give you more than 230,000 results!

Google Search: “wel­come to Adobe GoLive”

Why? Because … »

supergee: PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption

Just like with page lay­out, HTML, graph­ics, and every­thing else, the right tool in the wrong hands pro­duces bad results. PDFs are designed to work in print, yes, but they are also designed … »

From here, kadyelle­bee: “fonty­ness” June 28, 2003, I wound up fol­low­ing a trail that led me to an incred­i­ble ding­bat and fleu­ron resource here: FontGarden Dingbats.

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Sample from FontGarden.com’s dingbats

Most of the ding­bats are free­ware. A few are … »

2003 HOW Design Conference — June 5–8

Anyone else going? If so, let’s meet up.… »

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