The elves at SPD are back and have been busy once again to celebrate the season. They have created a whole new list to help you find that perfect present for your favorite art director, photo editor, illustrator, photographer, or creative person. We’ve made an Amazon store for one stop shopping on all these great … Continue reading
Mihajlo Arsovski, Photography by Zvonimir Golob Album cover for Arsen Dedić, Čovjek kao ja 1969 Location MoMA, New York Dimensions12 1/4 × 12 1/4″ (31.1 × 31.1 cm) Credit Gift of Mirko Ilić Object number: 854.2015 Copyright: 2015 Mirko Ilić Department: Architecture and Design Read More…
Pantone, an X-Rite company and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced PANTONE 15-3919 Serenity and PANTONE 13-1520 Rose Quartz, as the PANTONE Color of the Year selection for 2016; a harmonious pairing of inviting shades that embody a mindset of tranquility and inner peace. … Continue reading
For the holiday issue of Bloomberg Pursuits, online today, legendary photographer William Wegman ingeniously poses his signature Weimaraners with the best gifts of the season. Wegman has been photographing his Weimaraners since the 1970s, and they’ve appeared everywhere from MoMA to Sesame Street. For Pursuits, Wegman dresses his adorable canine co-conspirators, Flo and Topper, in … Continue reading
Elements of brain-friendly design Reader experience can be significantly improved by: Formatting the text of the story into shorter paragraphs. Highlighting important story facts and terms. Clean, uncluttered page design. Similarly, distracting elements accompanying the story can reduce comprehension: Flashy advertisements. Photos and links to unrelated stories. How do news readers perceive and learn from … Continue reading
Being a street photographer is a bit like conducting a drunk symphony: You must make order of chaos. Only a few photographers do it well, and many of them appear in Cheryl Dunn’s film, Everybody Street, which chronicles the street photography of New York City. Dunn chose New York because it always has been at the center of … Continue reading
Learn how to make an eBook with rich imagery and elaborate layout that looks just like the InDesign document without writing code. Click photo to see video at Adobe TV. What do I need? Get files Sample files to practice with (ZIP, 154 MB) Get PDF InDesign cheat sheet Create a highly visual eBook and … Continue reading
Good typography is something everyone sees but no one notices. – John Warnock, Adobe co-founder In the mid- to late 1980s, designers rapidly embraced the brave new world of desktop publishing, and demanded more and better typefaces to use in their projects. In response to those cries for creative help, Adobe launched the Adobe … Continue reading
Typeface: is the design. The shape of the letters, numbers, and symbols that make up a design of type. Font: is the digital file that contains/describes the typeface. A font is one weight, width, and style of a typeface. In brief: A font is what you use, a typeface is what you see. Font vs. … Continue reading
Designers can spend hours poring over the tracking and kerning of their typography. It’s important, however, to understand that the two things are not synonymous. Tracking, as we’ve already mentioned above, deals with the spacing between characters across an entire word or phrase. Kerning is an adjustment of the specific space between two characters in … Continue reading