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What The Fuck Is Wrong With HP (and Everyone Else)
HP is a company I have always loved, whose products are well engineered and who have some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley. So just what has got into HP and all the other computer makers, except Apple? The recent news that HP has dropped the TouchPad a month after the US release and four days after the Australian one, the effective dropping of WebOS and the plans to follow IBM into a software and service future by offloading their PC business has amazed so many, me included. If you believe the commentary going on, part of the blame is that companies like HP have very low profit margins on PC gear, whereas Apple does much better. And this might be the reason, but, if it is, no one has learned … Read entire article »
Filed under: Apple Mac, Business, Communications, Computer, Consumer, Creativity, Design, iPad, iPhone
Great article on using tablets as design tools
I came across this great article on Smashing Magazine on using tablets as a design tool, for sketching ideas and working with clients. It includes a great review of the pens available to use with the iPad. It could be quite relevant to photographers as well. After all, we have ideas too sometimes, don’t we? Good article, worth a read. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design, iPad, Photography
Corel® Launches International Design Contest to Celebrate CorelDRAW® Talent From Around the World With More than $75,000 in Prizes to Be Won!
Corel® Launches International Design Contest to Celebrate CorelDRAW® Talent From Around the World With More than $75,000 in Prizes to Be Won! March 4, 2011C Announced today, the 2011 CorelDRAW® International Design Contest is now open to all CorelDRAW® and Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ users across the globe. Whether you use CorelDRAW or Corel PHOTO-PAINT for work or for play, now’s your chance to create with confidence and show off your skills in the second CorelDRAW International Design Contest. Between now and June 30, 2011, submit your best original designs for your chance to win valuable prizes in one of six categories. “With over $75,000 in prizes up for grabs, now is the perfect time to shine the spotlight on our CorelDRAW community as we celebrate the diversity and talent of our CorelDRAW users … Read entire article »
Filed under: Competitions, Design, Photography
The Epson B-510DN Inkjet Printer is a Winner
The B-510DN is a business printer, A4 or letter sized and very useful for photographers as well. This is a four-colour printer, so it is not one that photographers would naturally consider. However a photography studio or even a hobbyist at home has need for the following: A fast printer for general printing tasks; Good enough photo printing; Reduced ink costs. Let’s be honest, all the printer manufacturers punish you senseless on printer running costs, and the cheaper the printer … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design, Paper, Photography, Print
Adobe Announces Availability of Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile
HBO, Sony Pictures, Turner, USA Network, Viacom, Warner Brothers and Others Ready Flash Content for Mobile Press Release SYDNEY, Australia, — June 22, 2010 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web across desktops and devices. Mobile users will now be able to experience millions of sites with rich applications and content inside the browser including games, animations, rich Internet applications (RIAs), data presentations and visualisations, ecommerce, music, video, audio and more. Already one of the top free apps on Android™ Market today, Flash Player 10.1 will be available as a final production release for smart phones and tablets … Read entire article »
Adobe Delivers HTML5 Support in Dreamweaver CS5
Immediate Availability of Adobe HTML5 Pack Announced at Google I/O This is great news for those of us trying to support the iPad with websites we already have or are developing. Read the press release below. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design, Uncategorized, Web, Web Strategy 101
Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 Review
Eye Candy is a plug-in set of filters for Photoshop and compatible software that is aimed much more at graphic designers than photographers, though I think many photographers will also find uses for it. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design, Photography, Photoshop, Plug-in, Web
A Good Way to Add to Your Business
UK photographer and graphic designer David Springford now has three websites to his business, one on his graphic design, one for his photography and a new one for a line of tee-shirts with his designs printed on them, many of which have a photographic theme. The tee-shirt site, called eyetees, has a great design and looks good. The designs are interesting and different, just what you want in the tee-shirt market. It also illustrates the principle that smart business practice is to make as much use of your talent as possible and create diverse streams of income. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Design, Photography
Webinar to Explain Simple Digital Asset Management
MetaCommunications “Find that File!” webinar is part of the company’s introduction to Workgroups 2009™. Ideal for prepress and high-volume production departments, creative agencies or any organization ready to streamline their production data management, attendees will learn how to simplify the file organization process, quickly find files with flexible search terms, view files without native applications, automate the production process and share files with customers, partners, or remote offices/workers. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Design, Photography
Adobe Creative Suite 4 ROI Study Shows Productivity as New “Killer Feature”
Tests Confirm CS4 Users Can Save Thousands of Dollars Through Productivity Gains in Everyday Tasks Adobe today announced benchmarking results from an independent research study conducted by Pfeiffer Consulting and commissioned by Adobe. According to the report, features in Adobe Creative Suite 4 software can dramatically increase productivity, efficiency and return on investment. Research shows that every unnecessary click has the ability to slow down users’ productivity. Routine operations across Adobe Creative Suite 4 can be accomplished more quickly now than with previous versions, dramatically improving the user experience and saving hours every month. Users can now dedicate more time to the creative side of the project with this latest version of the Creative Suite product line. More than 100 benchmark tests focusing on design (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/), print, digital imaging (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/), Web … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Design, Digital Fine Art, Photography, Photoshop, Video, Web
Web Strategy 101 for Creatives (Part 4) – Website Security
DIMi recently was hacked. It was an interesting experience, and, as always, we learned a lot from the experience. Hacking of sites is on the rise and there is reportedly a substantial increase in recent times, which is likely to continue. As NASA, various governments and large corporations have discovered, there is no such thing as a completely secure website. If it is visible, it is vulnerable. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Design, Digital Fine Art, Photography, Web, Web Strategy 101
Fullerton Photographics wins grand prize in PMA Custom Photo Gift Promotion Competition
The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations announces Fullerton Photographics, Inc, Fullerton, Calif., as the grand prize winner of the PMA Custom Photo Gift Promotion Competition. Gabrielle Mullinax, president of Fullerton, accepted the $20,000 grand prize March 4 at the Official Business Session Keynote at the PMA 09 International Convention and Trade Show, Las Vegas, Nev. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Design, Photography
Creative Business Development Series: Start Local, Grow Global, or How to Grow Your Imaging Business
With the Internet already a core part of your business life as an image maker, why not treat the whole world as your local market and expand the opportunities to sell your photography, design or services. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Design, Digital Fine Art, Photography
THE CREATE AWARDS 2007 REVEALS WINNERS SHOWCASE
The highly anticipated Winners Showcase goes live on www.thecreateawards.com the same week. Press Release Create Magazine is proud to announce the Winners Showcase for The Create Awards 2007 hits newsstands – in all five regional editions of the NOV+DEC issue of Create – on Nov. 12th. The highly anticipated Winners Showcase goes live on www.thecreateawards.com the same week. “The amount of entries we received this year was phenomenal…the wide range of talent and diversity in this year’s submissions from across the globe made the contest highly competitive,” said Jerry Brown, President of Create Communications and Publisher/Founder of Create Magazine and The Create Awards. “It’s only fitting we reward such talent with national exposure in both our print publication and online, and provide prizes they can actually use in their creative jobs,” Brown added. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design
New Community for Character Designers
An online space for artists to display their work to a global audience of character art lovers If you are into character design there is a new web site and community at http://www.mojizu.com The site is free to join and provides profiles of character designers plus you can showcase your own designs there. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design
DUCK DUCK GOOSE
Exhibition of graduating design and multi-media student’s work A group of emerging designers graduating in Graphic Design and MultiMedia from the Australian Academy of Design are exhibiting their workin Melbourne, Australia. To showcase examples of their work and to introduce themselves to thedesign industry, they are holding an end of year graduate exhibitionwith the title “Duck Duck Goose”. The exhibition venue is 220 Ingles St, level 2 (stair access), Port Melbourne. The exhibition will run from Nov 24- 30, 2005. Opening hours are: Thursday 6.30 – 9.30pm (opening night) Friday- Wednesday 11.30 am – 6.30 pm The website for the Australian Academy of Design is http://www.designacademy.org/ … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design
New Stock Photo Library Needs Health and Fitness Images
Spencer Images is a new stock photo library that specialises in images for the health and fitness industry Spencer Images is a new library that specializes in health and fitnessimages and seems to have a ready market for its images because theparent company has the National Exercise & Sports TrainersAssociation as a subsidiary. This association has over 40,000 membersand thus provides a good base for spencerimages.com to market itsimages for web sites, brochures and business cards, etc. Ten to fifteen images are required for an initial submission, submittedby CD or email. Images sell for between $75 and $300, depending on use.Photographers get a commission that varies from $65 per sale for thefirst 10 sales, sliding down to $30 per sale for image sales after thefirst 20. This seems a strange commission structure, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design
One For All Sydney Do the Latest Range Rover Ads
One for All Sydney have been hard at work on the latest Range Rover campaign for Range Rover Sport. LAND ROVER “RANGE ROVER SPORT” One For All Sydney has just completed Land Rover Australia’s newvehicle Range Rover Sport launch. This new vehicle sits alongside RangeRover Vogue at the top of the Land Rover range. The campaign consists of extra-large format outdoor and super-sites inSydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Perth and Adelaide. Inaddition there are 4 page & 6page spectacular gatefolds in SydneyMagazine, Melbourne Magazine, Financial Review Magazine and QantasAustralian Way along with magazine executions in Australian GourmetTraveller, GQ, Men’s Style, Men’s Health, Sydney Magazine, MelbourneMagazine, Financial Review Magazine, Wheels, Belle, Harpers Bazaar, AdNews, B & T and Qantas Australian Way. Press consisted of frontpage colour adverts in Sydney and Melbourne. This activity has been … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design
Graphic Media and Printing Technologies Scholarships
Applications are now open for the 2006 GAMAA Scholarships The Graphic Arts Merchants Association of Australia (GAMAA) hasannounced that applications for the 2006 GAMAA Leadership Programme -Scholarships have now opened. Scholarships are open to all individuals working in the graphic mediaand printing technologies industry who have demonstrated commitment tothe industry, who have the support of their employer and can meet theacademic requirements of entry. Now in its fourth year the GAMAA Leadership Programme provides middleto senior managers currently working in the graphic media and printingtechnologies industry with an opportunity to advance their leadershipand business management skills. The programme is unique in its offering as it allows successfulapplicants to study the programme of their choice at any recognisedAustralian tertiary institution. Applicants are encouraged toselect from a range of post-graduate management or business educationprograms which … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design
Mass Media TV Show Advertising
This is the latest work out of One For All Sydney. One For All Sydney has just completed production of Channel 9 Networklaunch of their new program “Temptation-The New Sale of the Century”.The new program airs nationally week nights at 7.00pm. The campaignconsists of Bus-sides and Super sites in Sydney, bus sides inMelbourne, magazine adverts in Woman’s Day and NW and color press inSydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in both FP and 10 x 7 strip adverts. Thebus sides used 3 different extensions of arms pushing a buzzer to givethe creative more impact. The above image serves as a good example of how a unified designapproach can be carried across billboard, press advertising at allsizes and vehicle. Client: Channel 9 Network Creative: Brad Sleeth Media: Initiative Sydney Production: One For All Sydney One For All Pty Ltd 12 Ann … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design
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