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Scanning Around With Gene: The Pioneering Look Magazine

From 1937 to 1971, Look magazine was a publishing powerhouse that pioneered unique photographic and printing techniques.

Type Luminaries Speak on PRI

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, and Tracy Honn discuss typefaces past and present in a recent episode of "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Thanks to the Internet, you can listen to it right now!

Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress

This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.

Design for the U.S. Mint

Here's an unusual job title: United States Mint designer. It's taking applications now.

Add Language Support to InDesign & Illustrator CS4

WinSoft's ScribeDOOR adds new complex script capabilities to InDesign and Illustrator. Languages include Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi, as well as many Indic and South-East Asian languages

Mega Prizes for Veer's Logo Contest

Retailer Veer will give a grand prize package worth almost $8,000 to the winning re-creation of the Veer logo using real-world objects or materials.

Automatically Analyze and Enhance Images in InDesign

Elpical’s Claro Layout is an Adobe InDesign plug-in that offers hands-off quality analysis and image enhancement.

Safari Books Online Enhances On-Demand Digital Library’s Functionality & Usability

Safari Books Online 6.0 delivers interactive reading experience, networking with peers and experts, and better organization of content by user preference.

TypeTalk: Find Figure Styles in OpenType Fonts

To designers' delight, many typefaces include several kinds of numbers: oldstyle, lining, tabular, and proportional. But how do you discover which fonts have which styles?

Spark! Ignites Team Concept Reviews

Spark! from MetaCommunications is a new browser-based collaborative tool for creative concept review, proofing and approval.

Review: CtrlChanges for InDesign

If you pass around InDesign files and want to track who's changed what, this plug-in gets the job done.

EFI Fiery Supports Microsoft Windows 7

EFI says that users of Fiery server, Fiery Central and EFI MicroPress who move to Windows 7 will have no problem with Fiery products.

New Competition for Package Designers

You have until December 21, 2009, to enter a new contest created by the inspiring Web site TheDieline.com.

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.

Graphics Gone Green

"Graphics Gone Green" is for creative professionals interested in building sustainable workflows from concept to output. The ebook shows how to reduce your carbon footprint at work while running a profitable business.

Scanning Around With Gene: Oddball Image Roundup Two

It's time once again for my annual collection of offbeat images that don’t fit anywhere else.

Create Better Marketing Postcards

Postcards are like freeway billboards: You have a very short time to communicate your message. Here's how to create effective postcards that get the response you want.

Affordable Webinar on Cut-Paper Art

"Running with Scissors: Cut paper in contemporary art and design" costs just $39. It takes place Monday, October 26, at 4pm ET.

Free Public Beta: Blatner Tools InDesign Plug-ins

This collection of 12 plug-ins offers 100+ new features: the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to many previously unavailable tasks, create color and style reports, create fractions automatically, build character and paragraph styles and apply them across an entire document quickly, and more.

20 Design Students Get $20,000

In 1989, Strata was started by two students. Now the company looks to help other students get started.