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The best of Berlin's creative scene goes on show today (September 18) as part of this year's London Design Festival, at the Dray Walk Gallery in the Truman Gallery, Brick Lane. The exhibition, organized by Create Berlin, celebrates the city's thriving creative culture.
XChange International has released Xdata for QuarkXPress 8. The upgrade is a free release for version 7 users and adds more features, as well as support for the latest version of Quark's DTP tool.
Type foundries P22 and International House of Fonts (IHOF) have announced an update to the Platten font family, Platten Neu, designed by Colin Kahn.
The Birmingham Institute of Art & Design and UKType have teamed up to produce a short animation, Baskerville, celebrating the life and work of Brum-bred typographer Baskerville; they're currently seeking type designers and other creatives to participate in a day's filming.
The Plus International Festival of typography has joined forces with London typography museum St Bride to launch a competition sexing up typefaces – by designing a 'tart card' for the typeface of your choice. The competition raises funds for St Bride Library.
Tent London, the huge show in Brick Lane's Truman Brewery that is one of London Design Week's hubs, has issued a call for submissions from digital artists and other visual creatives who'd like to see their work broadcast as part of the show.
Stock image and footage library Photolibrary has announced a distribution agreement with AGE FotoStock, an international provider of rights-managed and royalty-free images.
Master Colors has signed a licensing agreement with Pantone that will provide the company the rights to integrate colours from the worldwide standard Pantone Matching System and the new Pantone Goe System into Master Colors' colour harmony software.
LaCie has began shipping its new 700 series of LCD monitors, which include the 20-inch LaCie 720, 24-inch LaCie 724, and the 30-inch LaCie 730.
Pantone has began shipping the ColorMunki Create software-&-hardware bundle for monitor calibration and colour palette creation. Selling for a lower price than the ColorMunki Design version, it pairs the same ColorMunki Create software with an Eye-one monitor calibrator. Slightly confusingly, this is included instead of the ColorMunki Design's innovative monitor, printer and colour capture device that's become known as the ColorMunki.
Pantone has announced two new products that extend the Pantone Goe System: Pantone GoeBridge coated and Pantone Color Cue 2.1. Pantone GoeBridge lets creatives visualise and evaluate how the more than 2,000 solid colours in the Pantone Goe System will reproduce in CMYK on coated paper.
RE:Vision Effects has shipped the latest version of the Video Gogh plug-in, which turns videos into moving paintings, using optical flow technology to move brush strokes without stuttering artifacts. Video Gogh 3 opens up other possibilities in motion graphic design by introducing the option for users to define their own brushes, which may be animated. Version 3 adds a substantial amount of new visual effects opportunities that many have requested over the years.
Plug-in specialist XChange International has announced the release of three XTensions for QuarkXPress 8, including some of the most popular XTensions for other Quark versions. All are available as upgrades from earlier versions.
D&AD announced today that Garrick Hamm will become its president on September 18, saying that Hamm will use his year to motivate his peers to encourage new talent.
XChange International has released the Sonar Bookends range of XTensions for QuarkXPress v8. Users can upgrade from earlier versions and they are available for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
The deadline for submissions to a new book on graphic designers, artists, illustrators and other visual creatives who are earning income from their personal projects has been extended to September 1.
Graphic designers, Web designers, animators and multimedia designers with a recent project that deserves recognition have until this Saturday (August 30) to submit work to the a href='http://www.idesignawards.com/08/enter_your_design.html' target='_blank' >International Design Awards 2008.
Canadian-based Lightbox Photo is launching its photo gallery software into the UK market. The program allows users to create their own stock photo libraries or online proofing systems.
The latest edition of Digital Arts arrives in the shops today, bringing you an experts'-eye view on the weird and wonderful world of character design and tips to help you design your own – potentially lucrative – characters.
The promo for Kylie's new single, The One, is a sexy, glamorous piece in black-and-white with flashes of primary colour and the pint-sized diva at her most sultry.
