Adobe has revealed the winners of the fifth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards -- a contest geared to honouring talented student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, digital film makers, and computer artists -- according to the company.
LaCie announced two new products at this week’s Macworld Expo Boston. The company rolled out a 19-inch monitor and the LaCie mini drive, designed as a companion for Apple’s Mac mini.
The winners of the D&AD Student Awards 2005 were revealed at a glittering event held last night.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 adds one brand new application to complete the mission of interoperability sought by Adobe in this latest round of updates to its suite of applications. Adobe Bridge acts as a portal to all the other applications in the suite, including an enhanced Version Cue asset management tool.
Nike has allegedly stolen the cover design of a classic US punk album and used it to promote its Skateboarding tour.
Adobe InDesign marks its five-year anniversary with the release of the latest version included with Creative Suite 2. While InDesign is already the product of choice for many companies and designers, Adobe isn’t resting on its laurels. Adobe said they still have a lot of opportunities to explore, including a new InDesign Server.
Microsoft has revealed details of its first foray into the high-end world of graphic design and image-editing with the debut of the beta version of Acrylic.
Adobe has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion in stock, the company said Monday.
Alias has announced Maya 6.5, an update to the 3D modelling, animation effects and rendering package that Alias bills as "a performance-driven release".
The D&AD Annual and DVD showreel 2004 launches today - and promises a creative feast of this year's creative hits, including the D&AD Award winners from around the world. Titled Now That's What I Call Design/Advertising 42, organizers say it showcases graphic design, advertising, ambient media, digital design, music videos, photography, product design, and architecture.
Agfa has announced that it is selling its font business Agfa Monotype to private equity firm TA Associates for $169 million (around £92.4 million).
GenArts has announced that it will be demonstrating Sapphire plug-ins for Motion, Apple’s new motion graphic design and production tool at IBC next month.
Agfa Monotype has announced the addition of more than 100 more typefaces to its Fonts.com service from five newly added type foundries: Fine Fonts, PixieType, RJH Productions, Typebox and Ultimate Symbol.
Alien Skin Software has released Eye Candy 5: Textures, an assortment of 10 texture generator plug-ins that are compatible with Adobe Photoshop 7, Photoshop Elements 2, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 and Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 on Mac or Windows.
Adobe plans to introduce a new Java-based server platform today that is designed to help automate and accelerate the flow of information in an organization using PDF (Portable Document Format) documents.
The winner of Levi’s Digital Arts Award (LDAA) has been announced as Jesson Yip from the University of Lincoln, England. Jesson’s entry was chosen as the winner by the public from a shortlist of five entries from across Europe, beating the nearest other entry by 23 per cent.
Markzware has announced version 5.5 of FlightCheck Professional and FlightCheck Designer, its pre- and post-flight applications, and a new version of its FlightCheck updater.
DigitalScores has released 3D Matrix 2004, targeted at game developers and graphic designers starting out in 3D modeling. DigitalScores claims that 3D Matrix is an ideal gateway to other 3D modeling tools as it is easy to use and offers an extensive range of export functions.
Pantone has announced that it’s shipping colorist, a new utility for Mac and Windows users that enables Web authors and graphic designers to choose from Pantone Matching Systems colours from within applications that don't already incorporate Pantone libraries -- such as Adobe Photoshop Elements, Apple Keynote, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash.
Logitech has announced a new mouse aimed at gamers and graphic designers. The MX510 Performance Optical mouse is Logitech’s fastest, most accurate and responsive optical mouse to date, the company claimed at the Cebit exhibition in Hanover, Germany.