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D&AD has launched its first ' target='_blank' >online entry system for the D Student Awards, also known as the Student Yellow Pencil. Entries for the 2008 awards are accepted from this week until March 20.
D&AD have announced that leading British designer and art director Neville Brody will be designing the D Annual 2008, to be published in September this year.
Extensis has announced Universal Type Server, its next generation server-based font management solution for Mac and Windows.
The Art Directors Club, an international collective for designers, advertising professionals and other visual creatives, has announced the line-up for its 2008 design jury selecting the winners of the 87th Annual Art Directors Club Awards. The 21-strong team, headed by Dana Arnett of VSA Partners, will honour the year's leading design, advertising and visual communication campaigns. Hillman Curtis, of hillmancurtis.com, is the jury’s interactive foreman, heading up the jury’s six-member team of digital design professionals.
GridIron Software has announced GridIron Flow, new digital content management software for creative professionals working on graphic design, Web, and video projects.
A lush, illustrated pastiche of well-known fairytale imagery drives the main title sequence for Walt Disney Picture's new film Enchanted. The sequence was created by yU+co, the design studio founded by Creative Director Garson Yu.
Insider Software has released FontAgent Pro Server 2.5, which delivers professional font management with integrated diagnostics and repair to departments and enterprises. FontAgent Pro Server gives administrators consistency and control over font use by providing access to only those fonts that have been designated for specific users, groups and projects.
LaCie has announced a new 24-inch display for creative professionals, and four upgraded storage solutions at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES).
Apple has announced an upgraded version of its Mac Pro workstation, which includes two of Intel's new Xeon 5400 quad-core chips in 2.8GHz or 3.2GHz versions.
Google may have plans to expand its search engine beyond static text.
Like many other PowerPoint 2004 users who'd grown weary of putting up with the presentation program's stale feature set and sluggish performance on Intel Macs, I was disappointed when I read last summer that Microsoft would delay the release of the Intel-native Office 2008. Apple unveiled Keynote 4 just a days after the news of Office's delayed release surfaced, so I've been eager to see if Microsoft would catch up.
For this longtime Entourage user, the key feeling I get from Entourage 2008 is refinement. It feels smoother and more elegant than previous versions of Microsoft's e-mail, task, and calendar manager, without sacrificing the power to which Entourage users have become accustomed.
LG.Philips LCD is out to impress at next week's Consumer Electronics Show and will unveil a 14.3-inch colour electronic paper display.
Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 doesn't officially ship until the kick-off of this month's Macworld Conference and Expo on January 15. But Microsoft has taken the wraps off the latest version of Office, showcasing its new features and capabilities.
When you launch Excel 2008 for the first time, your first impression may be a familiar one. Upon seeing the new version of Microsoft's spreadsheet application I had to double-check that I had, in fact, launched the new version of the program and not Excel 2004.
After a few weeks of working with Word 2008, it's apparent that there is a major convergence between how Apple and Microsoft think a word processing application should work. While Word hasn't changed much when it comes to creating text-based documents, it has changed significantly when to comes to creating documents that are more page layout than word processing.
In the technology industry, you can be pretty sure you've hit the big time when Microsoft develops a product specifically to compete with you.
Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 has been approved as an international standard by the International Standards Organization (ISO), according to a company executive.
Toon Boom Animation has introduced Flip Boom, a new animation tool aimed specifically at kids. It's available for the Mac and Windows and costs US$29.99.
Welsh broadcaster S4C in association with Boomerang has commissioned motion graphics company Bait to rebrand its two new children’s services: Planed Plant Bach and Planed Plant.
