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Post production companies Evolutions and Nats have joined forces in a merger that making it one of the largest independent post-production facilities in the UK. Both companies will now use the Evolutions name uniting the four sites of the company.
Quark has revealed that Metro International -- the largest and fastest-growing international newspaper group in the world -- is to adopt QuarkXPress 7 across its global network to produce the world's leading free daily newspapers. Metro International publishes 69 editions in 93 major cities in 21 countries and in 19 languages across Europe, North and South America, and Asia.
Tony Davidson, joint executive creative director of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy London was formally elected D&AD President at the Board of Trustees meeting in London tonight (14 Sept). In his inaugural speech he outlined how he will work with the charity to further promote its work internationally.
Joe Letteri, visual effects supervisor on 'King Kong', will be among several high-profile guests speaking at The Tate Modern as part of a series of lectures on digital art taking place in September and October 2006.
Microsoft Monday released its first preview of a professional Web design tool with which it hopes to challenge market leader Adobe.
One of the most anticipated design degree show, Central Saint Martins’ yearly event enjoys a reputation for showcasing the talents of a new generation of leading designers and artists.
The D&AD is sharpening its yellow pencils in anticipation of this year’s Awards ceremony, and has announced the nominees for 2006.
Bridging the gap between application developers and Web designers has always been a problem for companies building high-impact Web sites. Now Microsoft thinks it has the answer through its use of an XML-based language called XAML.
Multimedia developer Jered Cuenco calls it the "gray box application" phenomenon: when a developer, befuddled by a graphic designer's computer-drawn mockups and unclear instructions, comes back with a prototype full of generic gray buttons, plain white backgrounds, oversize headlines in blinking Times New Roman text and other such crimes against user interfaces.
“Protect Seals” is this year’s theme for Design Against Fur (DAF), the fourth annual international art poster design competition presented by the Fur Free Alliance (FFA), which includes the Animal Protection Institute (API), The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).
EULDA, the European Logo Design Annual, is a new awards scheme aimed at graphic designers across Europe. The awards are decided by an innovative three-tiered structure that lets members of the general public decide on the overall winner.
Microsoft Tuesday released public beta versions of two of the three applications comprising its upcoming Expression suite of Web and content design software.
With a new conference slated for March, Microsoft will attempt to woo a developer segment that's traditionally been a hard sell – creative types who build and design multimedia Web applications.
The merger between Adobe and Macromedia marks a huge change in the landscape of creative tools, not least web development.
A new digital image library has launched offering reasonably-priced, royalty-free stock images with prices starting from as little as £1. Dubbing itself the first global 'social marketplace' for digital stock images, Fotolia also offers amateur and professional photographers, and digital artists an easier way to promote and sell their work.
Monotype Imaging has launched Keep Design Alive, a campaign aimed at encouraging creative professionals to take personal responsibility for font and software licensing to help end the culture of font piracy. Designed to educate designers and raise awareness, the campaign points out that sharing or copying fonts is like stealing another designer's work.
Sony has released the SDM-S205 20-inch LCD display. The monitor features a 1,600-x-1,200 native resolution, and offers a high level of brightness and contrast – plus a fast response time – that makes it ideal for video editors and graphic designers, according to the company.
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a suite of Web-site design and graphics software that gives designers a set of tools similar to those that have been available for years from Adobe and Macromedia.
Microsoft on Monday posted the second CTP (Community Technology Preview) of its Acrylic design tool, adding support for XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) to benefit users of the planned Windows Vista OS.
RealViz has announced version 2 of its StoryViz 3D previsualization software. The tool enables creatives with and without 3D skills to build 3D scenes with actors and props to map out a set before construction and filming. It's aimed at a wide range of users from directors and visual effects supervisors to animators and graphic designers, according to RealViz
