December 9, 2008  |  Volume 9  Issue 50

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Mogo Media (which puts on awesome conferences) is looking for people with Adobe Creative Suite skills to participate in a scavenger hunt that will be filmed for an online series. It's your chance to be in a reality TV show without the risk that you'll have to eat weird stuff!

If you meet the following requirements, you may get a shot at fame and a few prizes:

- Familiar with digital cameras
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- Able to work with InDesign layouts
- In San Francisco, California, on January 9 to 11, 2009
- Desired but not required: Familiarity with Flash

For details on how to enter and where to follow the show's progress (as participant or viewer), click here.

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Five Type Tricks in InDesign
In just one article, you’ll find tips for fixing a muddled set of text frames, tweaking tracking, controlling a highlight effect, and more.

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Scanning Around With Gene: When Knowledge Came from Books
Even for families with few resources, an encyclopedia set was once considered the bare minimum investment in a child’s education. Gene Gable remembers.

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TypeTalk: Metrics versus Optical Kerning
Ilene Strizver answers a reader wondering whether automatic kerning is better than optical kerning, and if it's OK to combine the two methods.

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Make Editable Arrows in Photoshop
Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion helps you create vector arrows that you can color, warp, resize, flip, shadow, emboss, and more.

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