Swiss typography maestro gives talk
Renowned typographer Jost Hochuli gives a talk next Thursday (November 27) at the St Bride Foundation, titled Systematic Book Design?
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Apple discontinues 23-inch Cinema Display
Apple officially discontinued its 23-inch Cinema Display on Tuesday, making way for recently announced 24-inch LED Cinema.
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Survey: print design to see growth next year
The latest business spending survey from research company Shape the Future says that nearly a quarter (23.9 percent) of UK businesses intend to increase spending on print in the next 12 months. Interestingly, this is more than plan to increase spending on networking (21.2 per cent) and website optimization (19.7 per cent). Only 18.6 per cent of the companies surveyed were planning to decrease spending on print.
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First look: Apple's customized MacBook Pros
It's standard practice for Apple to offer customers to chance to upgrade processors, hard drives, and other components of its hardware line. These configure-to-order (CTO) systems are not generally found on the shelves of your local Apple Store; instead, you customize your order directly from Apple's online store. The new MacBook Pro models released by Apple last month continue this CTO tradition, giving customers the choice of ordering a souped-up laptop.
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D&AD launches 2009 student awards
Budding graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and other creatives are invited to
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Noise Festival offers a creative networking event for young designers
The Noise Festival is hosting a Creative Futures Manchester networking event on November 18-19 at Manchester Town Hall. It's aimed at young creative talent with leading industry companies and curators such as Badly Drawn Boy, Richard Billingham, NOKI and Wayne Hemingway.
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Veer launches rights-managed illustration collection
Stock image library Veer has announced the launch of Cherry, a rights-managed collection of illustrations with a focus on images with a handmade feel.
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EasyCatalog adds InDesign CS4 support
65bit Software has launched EasyCatalog for InDesign CS4. which aims to makes database publishing easy. Data can be imported from a complex, relational database, or a simple CSV or tab-delimited file exported from Excel. By linking InDesign content directly to source data, EasyCatalog improves accuracy and reduces page make-up time.
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EVENT: Letterpress: A Celebration
A conference tomorrow (November 6) looks at the messy, slow and painstaking manual process of letterpress printing, which dropped out of the mainstream 30 years ago, but is currently enjoying a small-scale revival as a craft. The one-day conference takes place at St Bride Library, a graphic design and typography centre.
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pdfToolbox Server 4 fixes production issues
XChange International has released pdfToolbox Server 4. Created by the developers of the preflight technology in Adobe's Acrobat software, pdfToolbox Server 4 offers features including PDF preflighting and automatic correction, colour management, presentation tools, imposition and more. pdfToolbox Server 4 has been updated to include powerful metadata capabilities.
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EVENT: Plus type festival
This Wednesday (November 5) sees the start of the Plus international design expo, a four-day event focusing on typography.
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Black Panthers artist gives talk
Emory Douglas, the official artist of the 1960s militant black power movement the Black Panthers movement, appears in conversation with actor and activist Danny John Jules tomorrow at the Urbis Centre in Manchester.
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Lineup announced for Plus type festival
The full list of exhibitors for this year's Plus International Festival -- a typography and graphic design festival that takes place next week -- has been announced. Exhibitors join a lineup of speakers that includes cult typographer Jonathan Barnbrook and The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell.
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EVENT: Imagine iT design conference
The second Imagine iT conference takes place in Bologna, Italy, next month (November 28-29, 2008). This year's international design festival has the theme Design For All.
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FotoMagico adds Adobe Lightroom 2 support
Boinx Software on Thursday released an update to its photo presentation software, FotoMagico, bring the current version to 2.6.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: 55DSL Logo Remix challenge
Streetwear brand DSL - the diffusion line of Diesel - is marking its 15th anniversary next year by launching an international competition, in collaboration with Cut&Paste, to 'remix' its shield logo.
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First look: Apple's brand new MacBook Pro
Steve Jobs doesn't like seams. I know this because the 15-in. MacBook Pro sitting in front of me is largely devoid of the seams common to earlier aluminium MacBook Pros.
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First look: Adobe Bridge CS4
Adobe Bridge is an organizational and image-browsing powerhouse that's been shipping with Photoshop since the inception of the creative suite. However, in previous versions it was sometimes painfully slow and the workspace wasn't friendly as it could have been. That's all changed in Photoshop CS4 -- Bridge got a makeover, a speed boost, and a new Review Mode that'll make photographers squeal with joy.
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First look: Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe made some pretty serious changes in Photoshop CS4, especially in the workspace. And while some of them will take some getting used to, they're changes that are long overdue.
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Battery tests: The new MacBook Pro
Battery life is a key aspect of a laptop, especially to travellers who don't have easy access to a power outlet. To test the new MacBook Pro for battery life, we performed a battery-drain test by watching a movie clip ripped from a DVD to the laptop's hard drive. We played the movie at full screen, with the screen brightness set to maximum to simulate the low lighting of an airplane cabin. If the movie finished and the battery still had power, we played the movie again, until the battery drained.