Feature: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight * Typography: Ten types of GREEN type * Graphics: 100 Flower Images for May * Photoshop: Tutorial for Looney Tunes * Flaming Text Tutorials * Graphics: The remarkable world of patterns * Type: Flowers Font for May * Photo: WPGA Annual Photography Awards * Business: DO NOT CLICK * 60-Seconds #211: Rush does it again * Security: WordPress Hacks * Marketing: Emotional Branding * DTP: Unique import into InDesign, InCopy * Marketing: Sports Brand Infringement * &Else News for May * Mailbag: What not to write … and a lot more
Welcome to May
WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE
- Feature: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
- Typography: Ten types of GREEN type
- Graphics: 100 Flower Images for May
- Photoshop: Tutorial for Looney Tunes
- Flaming Text Tutorials TWO
- Graphics: The remarkable world of patterns
- Type: Flowers Font for May
- Photo: WPGA Annual Photography Awards
- Business: Twitter Phishing Attack Explained
- Business: DO NOT CLICK
- Steal this button!
- Cool Stuff: Blending Modes Word pictures
- 60-Seconds #211: Rush does it again
- Security: WordPress Hacks
- Marketing: Emotional Branding
- DTP: Unique import into InDesign, InCopy
- Marketing: Sports Brand Infringement
- &Else News for May
- Mailbag: What not to write
- DISCUSS IT
- May is for FLOWERS and Moms…
Feature: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
This documentary about one of the most important graphic designers of all times is required viewing for anyone involved in or interested in visual communications on any level. Here’s my full review and exploration of this landmark movie.
Typography: Ten types of GREEN type
10 excellent examples of using type and typography design with color to send visual, verbal and subliminal messages … and the color is GREEN!
Graphics: 100 Flower Images for May
April showers brought May flowers — you get flowers in April with over 100 new flower and floral images for designers and illustrators — they come from our favorite, inexpensive resource books from Dover, with samples in the Publishers’ Warehouse!
Photoshop: Tutorial for Looney Tunes
This Photoshop tutorial answers a call for help from a Photoshop 911 reader, with a series of steps used to simulate the famous “Looney Tunes” logo screen — while practicing techniques common to all versions of Photoshop — that all Photoshop users should know
Flaming Text Tutorials TWO
Last month’s “Flaming Text in Photoshop” inspiration page was so hot — the third most popular page in the site for March, we thought we would hurry up and get the second flaming, sparkling, burning, magma, inferno typography text effects page out there to re-ignite you on fire!
Graphics: The remarkable world of patterns
Designing patterns is difficult because of the intricate demand to detail, and the level of skill required to visualize how the finished pattern will evolve. Let’s look at some accomplished pattern designers and see their secrets
Type: Flowers Font for May
April showers brought May flowers, and along with an elegant Art Deco display font, and a chunky, man-size font we get an all new dingbats font of wonderful flowers! All from the vector pen of Gerald Gallo
Photo: WPGA Annual Photography Awards
Selected among thousands of photographers from all over the world, we present our favorites in the 2009 WPGA Annual Competition. Now this second edition offers new and outstanding recognition opportunities for professional and non-professional photographers worldwide.
Business: Twitter Phishing Attack Explained
Early last week, spam trackers at UGNN have been tracking, analyzing and reporting a phishing attack on Twitter users. This attack demonstrates how many of the Twitter accounts have been hijacked and turned into spam vehicles for cyber criminals. PLEASE PASS THIS ARTICLE ALONG to friends and family!
Business: DO NOT CLICK
You may have seen our “Do Not Click” buttons. Some of you may already know that aside from my “day job” I also am editor of the “InfoManager” at the User Group Network. The above “Twitter Phishing” article is an example of valuable information that we publish to user groups all around the country. Online security is grievous peril due to cyber crime. To help support this effort, and keep the web site up and running — I ask that you think about purchasing one or more of our “Do Not Click” buttons. Buy the ‘mini’ button in bulk, at a discount price and give them to friends, family — or use for your organization or group. Take a look, and think about it.
Steal this button!
We encourage you to post our “Do Not Click” at your web site. Although it’s one of the most ripped-off images on the web, (having been around since BEFORE the gui web!) we give them away freely, and hope you’ll use them. Link to www.ugnn.com, spamcop.net, knujon.com or your favorite spam-fighting organization. Perhaps you’ll save someone from becoming a victim of online crime. Thanks again … just … Steal this button!
Cool Stuff: Blending Modes Word pictures
Discovering a site that makes words with photographs that form letters gave us the opportunity to experiment with Adobe Photoshop Blending Modes to generate some interesting variations on Wordmark’s photographic fonts
60-Seconds #211: Rush does it again
Thursday, I got a phone call from a reader who remembered an old 2003 article of mine in 60-Second Windows. The near frantic voice on the line said “Fred, you’ve got to turn on the radio right now … ” and once again Rush Limbaugh proves a theory about the internet.
Security: WordPress Hacks
By now, if you’re a WordPress user you know about the recent run of malware attacks on WordPress blogs. The cybercrime community’s relentless jihad to extort money for their nefarious purposes will continue to wreak havoc on good people at no expense of their own. Well, here’s a warning: secure that blog. Network Solutions and GoDaddy were both hacked affecting thousands of blogs. And when this happens, you get black-balled by Google and it’s a miserable track to get back in Google’s good graces. Google punishes good people for the wrong doings of bad people. ‘Nuff said.
Marketing: Emotional Branding
President Obama’s grasp of digital brand strategy revolutionized American politics and became one of the most important examples of social media branding of this era — now, learn about “Emotional” branding.
DTP: Unique import into InDesign, InCopy
For some time, desktop publishers have wrestled with the chore of importing content from one source into another. Back in the ’90s, one of my seminars was “Repurposing Content” which taught how to build a FileMaker Pro database to do exactly this.
Marketing: Sports Brand Infringement
Did you have any idea that the sports branding industry generates hundreds-of-billions? The Super Bowl brand is worth $420-billion alone. It’s being eroded by the scammers and spammers, and CMO intends to do something about it.
&Else News for May
Our news bag runs over this month and there are too many to fully brief in this newsletter. We’re trying to keep it under 17k. So here are the headlines of just a few ….
* Find it on your CDs
* CorkBoard for Keynote
* Fundraising goes mobile
* HDR Plug-In for Lightroom
* Domain-Driven Design
* ExactScan TWAIN Bridge scanning
* Beginning Mac Programming
* A Duplicate Mac Finder
* Import YouTube, DVD to your Mac
* Open Government
* Secure your stick
* An electronic display on any surface
* ImageArchiver for Lightroom
* Comprehensive tools for XML …. and you can always find them in &Else news each month!
Mailbag: What not to write
We’ve been swamped this month with lots of ads and spam. Folks, the contact form is for contacting us — NOT trying to sell us something. We will NOT promote your DVD converter, nor your weight loss program or new web portal for your financial gain. Don’t bother. If you want a link on the front page and inner pages of the Design Center, here’s how:
1. Write something worth publishing — for our readers, NOT your benefit
2. Support the Design Center with a contribution
3. Contribute content – share content with readers that will benefit the community. Become an editorial contributor — how-to articles, tutorials, reviews of products, or eye-candy surveys. It’s easy and fun, and you can enjoy a lot of traffic from it.
Those are the three ways you can successfully become published in the Design Center. become published in the Design Center.
DISCUSS IT
Traffic in the forums has picked up again, and lots of people are getting lots of help. The most popular forum topic is “Web Critique” where people are getting their web sites critiqued and reviewed by their fellow forum members — and the Photoshop 911 Emergency Room. Please contribute your help when someone asks for it! And, you can get started here.
May is for FLOWERS and Moms…
Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Send your mom flowers, or go take her out to dinner. If that’s not possible, then do it for someone else’s mom.
Next, we’d like to congratulate all those graduates pouring forth from graphic design and art schools this spring. It’s a tough dose of reality you’ll be entering, but it will also be the most exciting time of your lives. To all graduates, please feel welcome to enjoy DTG, and get in touch to show off your portfolios. I’ve found that some of the most exciting work these days is student work!
May is brought to you by the color YELLOW… and while it suggests the color of those wonderful flowers this month, the oldest known use of this word in English is in the Old English poem Beowulf, in a description of a shield made of wood from a yew tree.
the color YELLOW.
May is brought to you by the Letter M
As for May…
Have a great month, and stay in touch.
Thanks for reading…
Fred Showker, Editor / Publisher, DT&G Magazine
Thought for May:
And in the famous words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
:
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free to follow his vision
wherever it takes him.”
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