Extensis releases Universal Type Server 2.0
Extensis has announced the release of Universal Type Server 2.0, its font management system for Mac OS X and Windows workgroups. It's priced starting at $1,395 (around £856)
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Microsoft cuts tool from Expression Studio suite
Microsoft will no longer ship its Expression digital asset management software as part of the Expression Studio suite effective with the upcoming Expression Studio 3 release, a company representative said in an email on Wednesday morning.
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Graduate profile: Antony Fern -- eye-catching design
Anthony Fern is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer with a distrinctive style that was one of the highlights of the recent Free Range graduate exhibition.
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Digital Britain report publication to prompt minister's resignation?
A forthcoming report designed to shape the future of 'Digital Britain', which includes design and interactive agencies, may claim the latest scalp of a government minister.
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Adobe's Acrobat.com collaboration services leaves beta, gains tools
Adobe has moved its Acrobat.com Web-based productivity and collaboration services out of beta and is offering paid-for subscriptions, though initially in North America only.
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Concrete looks to Saul Bass for inspiration for Psychoville titles
Concrete has completed the titles for dark new BBC comedy Psychoville from The League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
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INTERVIEW: Matt Dent, D&AD 2009 Black Pencil winner
Six years ago Matt Dent was graduating from the University of Brighton. Last night he scored a D&AD Black Pencil for Graphic Design.
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D&AD Awards 2009: four Black Pencils in a bumper year
Tonight's D&AD Awards have seen agency Droga5 NYC scoop two Black Pencils tonight -- the D&AD's highest honour -- while Matt Dent's UK coins won a Black Pencil in graphic design.
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Samsung debuts R720 17.3-inch laptop
Samsung has introduced the latest addition to its R-Series range of stylish high-end notebooks. Incorporating the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD4650 graphics chip with either 512MB or 1GB of RAM, Samsung says that the R720 offers advanced 3D graphics processing power and dedicated GDDR3 memory provide outstanding image quality.
The R720’s large 17.3-inch LED display features a true 16:9 aspect ratio. The laptop is based around Intel's Centrino 2 processor technology, which includes a dual-core processor for powerful mobile performance, extended wireless mobility for immersed connectivity and enhanced power-saving features that maximize battery life, according to Samsung. -
Xara Xtreme Pro 5 adds Web design tools
Xara has released version 5 of its Xara Xtreme Pro illustration and design sofware, which it claims is the fastest graphics illustration program on the market.
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Project management tools for designers gain social tools
LiquidPlanner is adding more collaboration tools to its online project management application because people, not tasks, create most of the problems in project management. And PBworks is adding task management tools to its wiki (originally PBwiki) because when people collaborate, they usually have shared tasks to accomplish. It looks like these Software-As-A-Service companies are meeting in the middle, but really they are just pulling good features from each other's bag of tricks.
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Corbis revamps website, adds new RM collections
Stock library Corbis has refreshed its website; the company says that this is to make image searching more intuitive and to make the images more appealing.
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EXHIBITION: Maybe, Maybe Not at Dreamspace
Artists Alix Smith and Beckaotic show an eclectic collection of graphic design, paintings, collages, and silkscreen prints in a new exhibition at the Dreamspace gallery in Clerkenwell, London.
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EXHIBITION: Super Contemporary at the Design Museum
The Design Museum hosts a Super Contemporary, a major exhibition starting this Wednesday (June 3) exploring what it is that makes London's design scene buzz, featuring 12 new commissions from creatives, including Paul Smith and Thomas Heatherwick.
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Adobe to raise Creative Suite 4 prices
Adobe is to raise the price of its Creative Suite 4 suites and most of the individual products within them in the UK by 10 per cent from July 1.
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Designers from Poke, Airside and W+K to speak at Quark's 8x8 event
Quark's ilovedesign.com campaign is hosting a live design event in London this July, and the line-up speakers has just been announced. The creatives talking at 8x8 London come from a range of design disciplines including graphic design, interactive and Web, who will have just eight minutes each to share what inspires and motivates them.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Typographic Horizons
UKType is calling for graphic designers and typographers to give poster presentations or to speak at a symposium at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design this summer. The theme is typographic horizons.
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Master compositing and get the perfect portfolio with Digital Arts
The brand new issue of Digital Arts hits the shelves today, packed with advice and the knowledge you need to boost your skills and advance your career – including brilliant advanced tutorials covering Photoshop and After Effects.
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ACDSee Pro photo software beta finally on Mac
A Windows version of the ACDSee photography software has been around for a dozen years. This week, ACD Systems saw fit to make a Mac version available to the public, releasing the beta of ACDSee Pro for Mac.
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Creating New Yorker cover art - on an iPhone
Need to find a restaurant with the iPhone? There's an app for that. Want to read a book? There's an app for that. Wondering how your baseball team is doing? There's an app for that. Creating New Yorker cover art? There's an app for that, too.