By Christopher Smith, Jennifer Smith
While pigs aren’t flying and hell hasn’t frozen over, Adobe has released a free beta of Photoshop CS3 publicly (kinda), months and months before the final version ships. Read our take on the new features.
Archive for January, 2007
Photoshop CS3: Get Your First Look at the Beta!
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Little online enthusiasm for Vista
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Many bloggers see themselves as iconoclastic Mac owners so perhaps it isnt surprising to find little enthusiasm for Bill Gates latest invention on the internet.
An Event Apart
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Join Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman to gain a deeper understanding of web standards and emerging best practices. Be inspired by fresh ideas and new directions. Join the greatest minds and hottest talents in web design today.
Nine skills that separate good and great designers
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007The crux of the session were comparisons of good and great designers, structured along the lines of previous articles Ive written: Good designers (blank), Great designers (blank). Following is a recap of the 9 skills presented…
EXHIBITION at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Leo Fitzmaurice
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Sometimes The Things You Touch Come True
Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Upper Space, Visitor Centre
31 March – 10 June 2007
The bombardment of information and the impact it has on our daily lives is the context for work by Liverpool based artist, Leo Fitzmaurice. In the past Fitzmaurice has worked with posters, flyers and commercial packaging; by removing, obscuring or subtly reworking everyday materials he creates intelligent and witty structures, sculptures and installations.
Graphic Design in the White Cube
Sunday, January 28th, 2007by Peter Biľak
Organizing graphic design exhibitions is always problematic: graphic design does not exist in a vacuum, and the walls of the exhibition space effectively isolate the work of design from the real world. Placing a book, a music album, or a poster in a gallery removes it from the cultural, commercial, and historical context without which the work cannot be understood. The entire raison dêtre of the work is lost as a side effect of losing the context of the work, and the result is…
De Stijl, New Media, and the Lessons of Geometry
Sunday, January 28th, 2007The simplicity that characterizes de Stijl thinkingand the order that can be traced in Dutch painting as far back as the seventeenth centurysuggest conceptually provocative yet surprisingly practical methods for organizing space and for achieving visually engaging solutions in screen-based media. Such a hypothesis suggests that we reconsider the screen as a kind of picture plane: with this in mind, this essay suggests that to challenge the picture plane is to radically adjust our thinking about what a screen is, what a computer is, and what role design plays in the mix.
The Influence of De Stijl as an Art Movement
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Many modern graphic design principles loosely follow the rules of De Stijl. In particular, the comparison to van der Leck’s style where shapes and lines are organized to represent an object yet only as the simplest form. In modern design, the image is rarely limited to right angled shapes; rather they can include any number of shapes in any style yet the idea of ultimate representation is still applied. While other art movements have had substantial effect on the elements of graphic design, the extreme approach of De Stijl’s restriction to primary colours plus vertical and horizontal lines has also had a profound influence.
Art Deco Fairs with Retro & 20th Century Decorative Arts
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Our Art Deco fairs across the North of England are the best to found. From Retro, 1950s, 60s, 70s, to Art Deco, Art Nouveau & Art & Craft Movement. Everything from furniture, pottery, glass to bronzes, jewellery & ladies accessories!!!
Leeds – Royal Armouries
Armouries Drive, Leeds LS10 1LT
Sunday 28th January 2007
Chester Racecourse
Cheshire CH1 2LY
Sunday 4th March 2007
Sunday 11th November 2007
Revolution by Design: The Soviet Poster
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Lenin created the first truly modern propaganda machine, and its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster.
Although posters were produced in Russia before the Revolution, they were overshadowed by the remarkable propaganda posters of the Soviets. Lenin takes responsibility for creating the first truly modern propaganda machine, from postage stamps and Mayday parades to monumental sculptures. Perhaps its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster. Through it, the greatest artists of the time proclaimed government policies, asked for support, and demanded greater efforts — all with the goal of building Soviet power.