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Scanning Around With Gene: Teaching Kids About Industry
Fri, 11 May 2012 03:14:29
Kids grow up these days taking a lot of things for granted. The electricity that comes out of the wall, the gasoline in our cars and the steel in our skyscrapers are all just there and have been for so long it doesn’t seem like any big deal. I don’t even know if we teach kids about the history of these and other industries — much of it would seem like ancient history I suspect, and does it really matter how electricity is made or what goes on in a steel mill? Kids these days are probably a lot more interested in how iPhones are made.
InDesign How-To: Using the New Content Conveyer in CS6
Wed, 09 May 2012 07:34:36
Excerpted from InDesign CS6 New Features video training course on lynda.com.
Scanning Around With Gene: Being a Boy in 1939
Fri, 04 May 2012 02:44:14
The 1930s were interesting times. The impacts of the Great Depression were considerable, which made for hard times for many Americans. But it was also a time of great progress — many big projects including the Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, and the Golden Gate Bridge all came to life during the decade. It was a great period for the arts too, particularly the coming of age of photography and film.
Book Covers Combine Illustration and Embroidery
Wed, 02 May 2012 03:04:56
Browsing a store yesterday I came across some books published by Penguin under the series title Threads. The series first came out in the fall, but the covers are so exquisite, so remarkable that I wanted to share them with you.
Free For All: Infographic Freebies
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:25:00
Infographics are all the rage. If you don't know the term, it refers to a type of information presentation that uses symbols, text, and rich design to communicate concepts, ideas, and statistics in a highly engaging way. In other words, it's the result of a client handing a designer a spreadsheet full of data and saying, "make this interesting and easy to understand for real people." Ah, if only all client projects were like that…
Scanning Around With Gene: The Amazing Story of Measurement
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:51:57
Lately I’ve been accumulating various comic-book stories of big industry with titles such as “Rubber, a Wonder Story,” and “The Story of Shoes Through the Ages.” These were once popular ways for large companies to educate kids (and adults) on the history of an industry, and were often distributed free to schools. Of course in addition to a history of rubber production or shoes, there was always a message about the sponsoring company — an easy way to build brand awareness with the young.
First Look: Adobe InDesign CS6
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:30:01
Adobe has focused its efforts with InDesign CS6 on solving the problems of designers trying to create and deliver great layouts for multiple outputs. In fact, this is one of the main themes of CS6 and the CreativeCloud. So if you’re the person being asked to produce content that fits anything from a billboard to a smartphone (and everything in between) this one’s for you. Let’s take a tour of some of the new key new features of InDesign CS6.
Pantone Gets 336-Shades More Colorful
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:22:00
Feeling dazzled by color? It's not just the colors of spring flowers that are distracting. It's also the introduction of 336 new Pantone colors. The new shades are part of the Pantone Plus Series, the second-generation color guides that replaced the traditional PMS colors in 2010. The original colors were retained, but new shades were added to work in more contemporary situations.
The 336 additional colors bring the number of colors in the Pantone Plus Series to 1, 677 swatches.
Adobe CS6 Downpour Begins
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:00
Today Adobe took the wraps off its upcoming Creative Suite 6 applications and, perhaps more significantly, its new Creative Cloud subscription service.
Creative Suite 6
Scanning Around With Gene: The Era of "Mad" Women
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:19:57
I haven’t had a television for the last couple of years, so I’ve never seen the series "Mad Men," though from all the media reports I feel like I have. Everywhere I turn these days it seems like there’s some nostalgia (good and bad) for the era of heavy drinking, heavy smoking, racism and sexism, at least as reflected by the show that takes place in the Madison Avenue advertising industry.
TypeTalk: Copy Editing and Proofreading
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:05:23
Q. What is the difference between proofreading and copy editing?
A. Any copy that is to be published, whether it be for print, the web, or even your own blog, should be carefully reviewed beforehand. Copy editing and proofreading refer to two distinctive kinds of review that are commonly confused or misunderstood. While there is some overlap between them, it's useful to understand the differences in order to know what to do and when.
Here's the scoop.
How-To: 10 Techniques for Copying Pages Between InDesign Documents
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:12:00
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, December 2011/January 2012 (issue 45). Subscribe now!
Scanning Around With Gene: Things That Are Within Five Feet of My Desk
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:23:19
Every so often I feel the need to show images that don’t fit any particular theme but that I can’t resist hanging on to for a variety of reasons. But even these images, which are too numerous to run in any one installment, need some sort of hook to tie them together and limit what I include.
New Mohawk Logo Designed by Pentagram
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:49:16
The 81-year-old paper company Mohawk unveiled a new logo that it says will let it "thrive in today's digital world."
Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, who designed the logo, described it: “The logo is a monogram for the name Mohawk. It’s based on the letter M, but it’s also constructed to evoke the papermaking process and the printing process, both of which involve paper going around cylinders." he said.
The State of E-book Typography
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:45:00
If you look at the size of the type most people choose for their Kindle, iPad, or any other device used for reading e-books, you’ll see that it tends to resemble that in books for people with vision problems. Logical enough, because when you’re reading an e-book — especially on a computer monitor — you do indeed have vision problems, compounded by poorly set type.
