Creative Community Bulletin 17 June 2009 Through 19 June 2009

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 17 June 2009 through 19 June 2009:

  • 35 Amazing (and Often Creepy) Photo Manipulations by Aaron Nace – Aaron Nace is a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and dig­i­tal artist. His main focus with his work is por­trai­ture, and he tries to cre­ate images that are more than just tech­ni­cal­ly well done, he wants them to impact the view­er emo­tion­al­ly. He is very much into cre­at­ing images using all the tools avail­able, includ­ing light­ing, cos­tum­ing, set design, […]
  • Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator –
  • 34 Free and Elegant TrueType Mini Pixel Fonts – If you have ever tried to make a font very small (usu­al­ly, any­thing below 9px), and it becomes unread­able, you are in need of a spe­cial­ly designed mini font, and this post is for you.Mini-Pixel fonts have and are very pop­u­lar with­in Flash appli­ca­tions, but sad­ly under used every­where else. Even though, there is no deny­ing Mini pix­el fonts have an air of ele­gance about them.
  • Are You Tweeting Away Prospects? – Unfortunately, many free­lancers, par­tic­u­lar­ly, have seized upon the con­cept of “social media net­work­ing for busi­ness” with­out tak­ing the time to find the appro­pri­ate bound­aries between “social” and “busi­ness.” This is in part because peo­ple who do, say, copy­writ­ing or web­site design tend to be “ear­ly adopters” of new tools and technology.
  • Marketing Tips from Adolf Hitler – Why in the hell would we want to be like Adolf Hitler? Because he did his cam­paign­ing the right way and there are a few things we can learn from him and apply to the mar­ket­ing that we do for our busi­ness­es. Now you might be appre­hen­sive about read­ing this arti­cle, see­ing as how Adolf […]
  • Magazine Start-up Costs – Discussion – I know this will prob­a­bly return more ques­tions than answers, but what does it cost to start a mag­a­zine these days? I’m talk­ing about a nation­al con­sumer pub­li­ca­tion, gloss cov­er and coat­ed paper, maybe 75 pages of edi­to­r­i­al, most art and pho­tos sup­plied with a circ. of about 300,000? I don’t have answers to dis­tri­b­u­tion, sales, mar­ket­ing, etc. I’m look­ing for a very ball­park fig­ure on the hard costs to cre­ate a design tem­plate, edi­to­r­i­al cal­en­dar, etc. for issue No. 1.
  • Comparing the Average Costs to Print a Magazine Against the Costs of Publishing Digital Issues, a Discussion – Hope this starts a good open debate. Let’s start by ask­ing what the aver­age cost is to actu­al­ly print 1 phys­i­cal issue of a mag­a­zine. Next we then look at how much the aver­age print cir­cu­la­tion totals per month for exam­ple, and then we com­pare that to the costs of digital.
  • Who Said That Magazines are Dead? – FOLIO: mediaPRO – I know that what I’m going to say is con­tro­ver­sial but my per­son­al view is that mag­a­zines are not just won­der­ful prod­ucts but they are healthy prod­ucts as well and with a great future! And I mean in print magazines.
  • How to Hire a Graphic Designer –
  • Montana City Requires Your Social Networking/Blogs/Forums Username and Passwords on Job Application – www​.mon​tanas​newssta​tion​.com ? Montana news, sports and weather
  • QuarkPros – The QuarkXPress Professional’s Social Network #QuarkXPress #QXP #Quark – The group for QuarkXPress tuto­ri­als, tips, help,