Image Framer

10-thousand tutorials on the naked web, dozens and dozens of steps in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, and you still won't be able to do frames as cool as the ones you create using ImageFramer on the Mac! November 16, 2009

Negative Space: nothing says a lot

Someone asked about "Negative Space" and then blogs all over the place picked up the buzz word -- but nobody actually delves into the psychology and philosophy of designing with negative space. It's one of the most powerful tools a graphic designer's toolbox. October 29, 2009

Parkol: graphic design & negative space

Further explorations into the design of negative space takes us to the design studios of Nick Senin Parkol from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Nick demonstrates how negative space affects the content and message of graphic design October 29, 2009

Map drawing for the Mac

While Ortelius is specifically for map illustions, we can see that this vector-based drawing and cartographic design program has a world of possibilities for many other applications as well. It also fills the void of mapmaking on the Mac OS platform for a 3rd the cost of Illustrator! October 16, 2009

DiskLibrary now Snow

With the size of drives growing in leaps and bounds these days, a good backup solution is a necessity. If you use CDs or DVDs, this creates another problem. We have over 100 CDs of back client work. What do you do? October 14, 2009

Visual Proofreading: 10 Rules

Visual proofreading helps you cull out the visual mistakes just like you would typos. It's an important step in the design process that helps you sharpen your design skills and produce better publications. September 25, 2009

iStudio Publisher: Mac

iStudio Publisher is a popular design and Desktop Publishing software for design and layout on the Mac. 90% of all Adobe InDesign owners really don't need InDesign, and could get along very well using this program. Publish documents to a professional standard using a simple, intuitive interface. September 7, 2009

PopChar Reverse Searching for Fonts

Thousands of Mac users have for years used PopChar for finding and inserting special characters. PopChar now allows reverse searching, i.e., searching for fonts that contain a particular character -- even jump directly to the marked character in a favored font. August 22, 2009

InDesign Font Catalog

One of the dreads of InDesign users is getting to their fonts. Chris Paveglio has possibly solved at least some of the woes with his new InDesign Font Catalog. InDesign users should check this out. August 22, 2009

TypeTrax for Adobe InDesign

TypeTrax is a new product for managing design projects created using Adobe Creative Suite. Developed jointly by Insider Software and Moksa, Inc., TypeTrax manages projects, and tracks, organizes and pre-flights project files, including fonts and digital assets. August 22, 2009