In the middle of September at the Build Conference in Anaheim, California, Microsoft officially announced the next version of Windows – Windows 8. In the design community a new release of Windows barely raises a eyebrow of interest. Well community, I think this time around we should all sit up and take notice, this is [...]
Adobe has announced CS5.5 and confirmed that even though this is a ‘point’ release, an ID CS5.5 document cannot be opened natively in CS5. That makes 4 versions of ID soon to be in wide spread use.
Back in February this year (2008) odd: was commissioned to produce the UI (user interface) design for an unnamed mobile email device. Well, the unnamed device is called Peek, and is now on sale in the US!
Web typography is still in its infancy and still leaves a lot to be desired. Bill Hill is working hard on improving the experience of reading type on screen. A great set of interviews from Channel9.
Here’s a little tip that you’ll probably never need, but the day you do it will save you hours! We were recently working in at Taylor O’Brien on an absolute screamer for a new client of theirs. We knew in advance that the copy would be changing up to the very last minute. The client [...]
This is a handy little tip for when you are working with table borders in InDesign to hopefully make things just a little less fiddly. When you select the cells you want to work with the border tool appears in the info bar at the top of the page. This tool displays which borders on your selected cells will be affected by the changes you are about to make, any lines that are blue indicate borders that will be affected, any lines that are grey indicate borders that will not.
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