Drool-Worthy
In these newsletter introductions, I usually try to write about something useful or inspirational. But this week, it's pure object envy.

This laptop bag is made with recycled airplane seat belt clips, 1970s car upholstery, and authentic vacation slides:

This purse holds slides from 1973. The purse maker, RedCamper, writes that the slides depict a "historic ruins in what I think is Rome. Definitely 1973, definitely Europe. Not sure it's Rome. Looks like a coliseum. But I could be wrong. Did not get an 'A' in Architecture History. It's not Waffle House on Leetsdale though. That's for sure. Though that is quite a ruin in itself."

There are many other purses with other slides on RedCamper's Web site. This is an unsolicited plug, by the way. RedCamper doesn't advertise with CreativePro.com and hasn't bribed us with free stuff. I simply thought you'd appreciate the company's sense of humor and products. If you know of other merchandise your fellow creative pros might enjoy, post them here.

Terri Stone - Editor in Chief

In White Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
When you say "white space," you probably mean empty space on a page where there are no images or blocks of text. But blank spaces are also built into fonts, and they set the stage for all that follows. In this article, James Felici uncovers the secrets of white space on a small scale.

For example, the type set in the smaller sizes below has what you'd call normal spacing. But as point size increases, the type seems to become more loosely spaced. It's an optical illusion, but it's a fact of life: Larger type needs to be spaced more tightly to avoid appearing too loose.

Master Templates in Dreamweaver, Part III
Dave Sawyer McFarland finishes his template series by stepping you through how to use optional regions to hide and show pieces of code on different template-based pages. You'll escape that cookie cutter look yet still save lots of time!

Dreamweaver's Tag Selector lets you select any HTML tag on the page by simply clicking the tag's name. It's the best way to select a tag for wrapping it in a template region:

Design As Child's Play
People all over the world love the characters created by Sesame Workshop: Big Bird, Grover, Elmo, Boombah (in India), Putri (in Indonesia)... But very few think about the design behind the Muppets. That's why it's time for David Blatner's show and tell!

A Sesame Street DVD cover:

Related Reading: Get more image-heavy InDesign inspiration.

TypeTalk: Change Word's Line Spacing, Part II
Last week, Ilene Strizver explained how to change line spacing in existing documents. This week, she shows you how to change the default line spacing for all new documents.

Related Reading: Part I, naturally!

There's No Logos Like Show Logos
You don't need to enjoy Broadway musicals to get a kick out of this series of show logos that were created for an Ed Sullivan record collection. Gene Gable scanned the covers (see one example below) and even passed on a few trivia gems from Ed's liner notes.

Related Reading: The artists who created these album covers most likely used the techniques Gene describes in this article.

Weekly Podcast: More reliable Web sites, guaranteed stock photos, QuarkXPress news, juicy tips

Flickr Friday: What if the Carpenters and Kiss had babies?

You Got Your Projector in My Camera!

50 Percent Off Print Design Templates

Fast and Easy Forms: From InDesign to Acrobat

More wonderful than wacky, odosketch is an online Flash-powered drawing application.

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