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Editor's Corner |
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What Temperature Sounds Like and Other Insights
As a creative professional, you're probably accustomed to perceiving your work and, in fact, your entire world visually. But what if you listened to it, too?
That's the question asked by SoundAffects, a multi-tiered project conceived of and conducted by Parsons The New School for Design. The SoundAffects project monitored a block on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for one week, recording data for changes in light, temperature, movement, connectivity, and color.
That data maps to sounds that form a weeklong musical composition; for example, when traffic is moving fast, you hear quick, pulsing beats. And coming back around to our eyes, the data also feeds a vizualizer that interprets sensory data using blocks of varying colors and shapes, so you can see the unexpected ways that a rainy afternoon differs from a sunny morning.
Shake up your perspective a little. Explore SoundAffects online.
Terri Stone - Editor in Chief
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Features |
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Terrific Typographical Photoshop Brushes
Do a Google search for "free typography Photoshop brushes" and you'll find so many that your head will spin. Pariah S. Burke has helped by combing through the many possibilities and creating this one standout collection. He even refined the results by dividing them into sub-categories, such as vintage, calligraphic, grunge, musical, and more.
Related Reading: Here's another (though much smaller) collection of brushes, this time all related to the theme "travel".
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Scanning Around With Gene: Stuff Magazine
The Los Angeles independent publishing scene enjoyed a renaissance in 1980, and one unusual standout was the oversized Stuff Magazine. Gene Gable scanned pages from four issues.
Related Reading: Go just a bit further back with this SAWG installment.
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What You Need to Know About Webfonts: Part 1
Are you still limiting text in your websites to Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, and Verdana? (And no, fonts in images don't count.) Learn how to use webfonts and your Web design horizons will open to a beautiful new world. In Part 1 of this series by Jason Cranford Teague, you'll get a little history and an introduction to writing the @font-face rule so that all browsers display your font choices correctly.
Related Reading: If a client or colleague needs a more basic introduction to webfonts, show them this.
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10 Costly Printing Mistakes
Once you've gone through Trish Witkowski's list of strategic errors, you'll know what not to do when working on print projects with folds.
Related Reading: More folding help.
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News From The Past Week |
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>> New Wacom Pen Creates Vector Copies While You Draw on Regular Paper
>> Quark's iPad App Creation Tool Finally Ships for QuarkXPress
>> Add Rare Wood Type Faces to Your Digital Designs
>> Ivy League Photography Instruction for Free
>> Download Font Book for Free
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Cool Stuff! |
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Make Anything. InstaMorph is a plastic molding compound that's like clay when it's warmer than 140 degrees Fahrenheit and a solid at room temperature. In between the melting and solidifying, you can make just about anything: Props for a photo shoot, stands for new digital gadgets, action figures of your favorite designers...
What will you make?
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CreativePro.com Giveaway |
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Control Fonts in Print & on the Web. Extensis Suitcase Fusion 3 includes plug-ins for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Plus, bring gorgeous typography to the Web using Suitcase Fusion 3 and the WebINK webfont rental service.
Enter here for a chance at winning a free copy.
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Wacky Web Site of the Week |
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Are these crazy photos real or fake? Take the quiz and find out.
www.creativepro.com/article/creativeprose-wacky-web-site-week-archive
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