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Phinney on Fonts

Adobe's Tom Phinney has produced a very useful post on his blog describing the three main kinds of font conflicts

Company Developing Targeted Advertising in Web Printouts

Format Dynamics, a Denver-based advertising technology start-up has created an advertising platform that enables online publishers to insert targeted advertising into pages printed from the Web. Read more...  

Apple Ad on Time’s site

Check out the really unique (and funny) Apple ad on Time’s site:

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Reworked Web Site for Printcraft in Vancouver

I just did a major rework of Printcraft Solutions web site, a Vancouver printer that employs me about 3 days a week. The new site went live on Friday, and I just finished tweaking the last of the meta tags and titles today. I’m quite

Nerg Sleeps

Realistically, Nerg must go to sleep for a while, mainly because the author must sleep. Now working nights or the first time in my life, time is simply lacking to think and focus properly on blogging in even my limited ability. I have

Creative Pro Starter Kit

When you download a 30-day trial of FileMaker Pro, you’ll also get the FileMaker Creative Pro Starter Kit that includes professional database solutions designed to help creative professionals get up and running instantly with

Auto Save Causes File Bloat

by Jay Nelson If your QuarkXPress 7 files are growing in size at a rapid rate, check to see if Auto Save is enabled. If so, disable it. Quark is working on a

Shadows Don’t Stick to Objects

by Jeff Gamet The drop shadow applied to an item in QuarkXPress doesn’t rotate when you rotate the item. This makes sense, because the drop shadow needs to maintain its relationship to the virtual source of light, which has not

TripAdvisor Announces the Top 10 Most Popular Art Museums in the World

TripAdvisor®, the world’s largest travel community, today announced the top 10 art museums in the world, based on traffic to the attractions on tripadvisor.com. 1. Louvre Affair: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France Once a fortified

“Webby In Motion” Contest Gives Visual Artists Chance To Showcase Work At 12th Annual Webby Awards

Contest Offers Grand Prize Winner $10,000 and Trip to Webby Awards in NYC New York (PRWEB) April 2, 2008 — The Webby Awards (www.webbyawards.com/adobe) today kicked off their second annual “Webby In Motion” contest,

Students can obtain QuarkXPress® 7 totally FREE of charge.

Students can obtain QuarkXPress® 7 (plus Quark Interactive Designer™ and Quark XPert Tools Pro) totally FREE of charge. They can use it at home for the full academic year, provided their school purchases the Quark School Unlimited User

Free Color Calibration Software at X-Rite

If your prepress shop is like most shops, you will have a spectrophometer from X-Rite kicking. It may have a layer of dust on the case from being on the shelf for a number of years, but you have one. Many shops have an Eye-One, it

iStockphoto Extends Program That Makes a Collection of Free Stock Images Available Online for Microsoft Office User Community

iStockphoto®, the world’s busiest online stock image marketplace, today announced that it will extend a year-old program that makes a collection of low-resolution images and illustrations available free of additional charge to

Create Magazine Announces The 2008 Create Awards Call For Entries

Create Magazine is officially accepting entries for its 2008 Create Awards – one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography,

X-Rite unveils ColorMunki color management system

X-Rite and Pantone Launch ColorMunki Family of Breakthrough Color Products for Photo and Design Markets ColorMunki Photo, ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Create Empower Users to Create and Control Color from Inspiration to Final

Time for a change

I've converted my old Blog and Digitips to WordPress. This means that the current rss feeds will no longer be updated. Please re-direct to

CreativeBlvd.com

I wanted to thank all of those who made at the CreativeBlvd.com event last night, at the Apple Store SoHo, here in NYC. The event was co-sponsored by BargainPrinting.com, Apple, Pantone, X-Rite and featured several great speakers. We