Graphic designers, web designers, illustrators, typographers, digital artists and everyone in the creative fields -- Lots of fun this month, and really too many creative updates! Pay attention to my 60-Seconds 335, it's a growing trend and you don't want to get stung! Have a great month, and don't forget to stay in touch . . .
Vol 27, #7 ~ July 2017
Table of Contents : What's here:
- Sumertime and the graphics are easy ... maybe?
- 60-Seconds #336 : You Are Annoying Your Customers? Do you know why?
- Creative Tidbits #233: Design on a Grid, Crazy ideas, condoms, Girls and more!
- Creative Tidbits #232: Extraordinary type, Google type, doors, design and more!
- Creative Tidbits #231: Obama Photos, Instagram magazines, moving type and more!
- Ad Blockers : Whitelisting ads, killing ads, scorched earth, where will it end?
- What's the difference between old and new? Be careful, don't fall into this trap!
- Red Giant Films Channel Trailer
- Ad Blockers : Google changing their tune, who's blocking and who's not
- Creative Tidbits #230: Classic Fonts Poster, Comic Sans replacement, 404 and more!
- Design Apps: Typography on your photos, great retouching, montage and more
- 60-Seconds 335: Stung by the Copyright bee. Believe me, that bee sting hurts!
- Creative Tidbits #229: Days of Type, Camera Shake, Netflix art of design and more!
- &Else in the Design Center News Department
- AUGUST BACK TO (DESIGN) SCHOOL
Sumertime and the graphics are easy ... maybe?
Our content has been flowing, and there's really too much here, so I went just brief on the &Else department, and I skipped a few that have already been getting a bunch of readership. You know, if you subscribe to our RSS feed, you'll get article notices as they are published and then you can just keep our text newsletters for archival reference.
That's another reason we send only ascii text. You can save each newsletter in a small, compact text file and it will be fully searchable. I have mine, going back to somewhere around 1995 or 1996, so any article in the past two decades is easily findable. You can also search for any text string in the entire Graphic-Design dynasty here:
* www.graphic-design.com/search.html
Enough of that, let's get on to the fun stuff. We'll be back in a few weeks for August!
60-Seconds #336 : You Are Annoying Your Customers? Do you know why?
Gavin Jocious has written an article that really struck a note with me. I remember back in 2004, O'Reilly Media came out with a series of books about things that annoy people about technology. They invited people to send in their annoyances for the next book. They had so many coming in they published a whole series of books. But in Gavin's article "You Are Annoying Your Customers... " he asks "Do you know why?" Gavin writes . . .
60-Seconds #336 : You Are Annoying Your Customers? Do you know why?
Creative Tidbits #233: Design on a Grid, Crazy ideas, designing condoms, Girls and more!
If you look at this week's snippet, you learn an important lesson about creativity. (The snippets are the little 'sayings' or pull-quotes over to the right) So we're having a great time discovering truly creative ideas, and truly crazy ideas as well. I'd really like to learn about your ideas -- and share them with DT&G readers!
* Coming up With Crazy Ideas (Just Like Albert Einstein)
* Meet the Boy Behind the Design of HBO’s Girls Titles
* Designing the Next Generation of Condom Packaging
* Carbon Crown / project typography . . .
Creative Tidbits #233: Design on a Grid, Crazy ideas, designing condoms, Girls and more!
Creative Tidbits #232: Extraordinary type, Google type, doors, design and more!
In this issue we have another video, a rather interesting look at Google's entry into the typography world and we'll return again to visit Jim Parkinson. There's a gallery and a tutorial of sorts. Have fun, and don't forget to send in your discoveries to share with DT&G readers!
* Google + Monotype: Noto Project’s unified font for all languages
* A collection of Art Nouveau doors from around the world
* Design a Typographic, Movie Themed Magazine Cover
* Meet Type Designer Jim Parkinson . . .
Creative Tidbits #232: Extraordinary type, Google type, doors, design and more!
Creative Tidbits #231: Photos of Obama, Instagram magazines, moving type and more!
Cruising through the summer, we're finding all kinds of cool stuff that you'll enjoy! We particularly liked the photos from Pete Souza, and the Facebook spoofs! Enjoybr /> * An Interview with President Obama's White House Photographer Pete Souzabr /> * 20 photography magazines that you should follow on Instagrambr /> * Typography Kit After Effects Templates . . .
Creative Tidbits #231: Photos of Obama, Instagram magazines, moving type and more!
Ad Blockers : Whitelisting ads, killing ads, advertising scorched earth, where will it end?
It's beginning to get crazy -- what the industry is doing to protect the golden egg. If they just used some tasteful advertising, it wouldn't be so bad. But they want to gouge you and prod you and corner you into clicking their buttons. One page I visited recently was so riddled with ads, the content couldn't load. It's ridiculous. At least some people are doing something about it
* Whitelisting Ads Vs. Scorched Earth: What's The Best Approach?
* As Apple and Google take aim at ads, publishers tremble
* Killing the Advertising Parasite . . .
Ad Blockers : Whitelisting ads, killing ads, advertising scorched earth, where will it end?
What's the difference between old and new? Be careful, don't fall into this trap!
While writing the Red Giant article (in the &Else department), launching next week, we ran across a whole collection of spectacular videos produced using the Red Giant's various products. Folks, this is some fun stuff!
This comedy short film written by Seth Worley and narrated by Patton Oswalt, presents . . .
the story of Drew McHugh, a man whose penchant for the new new devices, new fashion, new friends is challenged when he discovers the rustic appeal of old-fashioned things.
Red Giant Films Channel Trailer
We really liked this trailer showing special effects from Red Giant! Enjoy -- this is pure entertainment!
Stay on top of production-proven special effects tools for digital video & film professionals. Plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Premiere, Avid, Final Cut Pro and more. . . .
Red Giant Films Channel Trailer
Ad Blockers : Google changing their tune, who's blocking and who's not
We haven't had an ad-blocker update since December, and I thought it had pretty much blown over. But now we're finding the industry is pushing back, and even Google is getting in on the act.
* Watch, pay or go away: Google to enable publishers to charge users with ad blockers
* Study: Many adopt ad blockers to avoid ads, not bad user experiences
* Google will block some website ads on Chrome browser . . .
Ad Blockers : Google changing their tune, who's blocking and who's not
Creative Tidbits #230: Classic Fonts Poster, Comic Sans replacement, 404 and more!
Of course we always like to watch the masters, and see what they are up to -- so I saw this Steven Heller piece and had to pass it along. The guys at Pushpin Studios have been at the top of the game for fifty years and we can all learn a lesson or two from them. We also mix it up a bit in this episode with a good fonts item and an essential web design resource. Have fun!
* Philip Trautmann creates Fonts out of Passion.
* How to design 404 pages for your web site
* Alphabets to Go? Analog to digital? . . .
Creative Tidbits #230: Classic Fonts Poster, Comic Sans replacement, 404 and more!
Design Apps: Typography on your photos, great retouching, reflections, montage and more
Here we are, rolling into vacation season -- and you'll have your camera, and maybe even the camera in your iPhone, and you'll want to discover some fun apps that go along with fun on vacation! Some of these we selected because they're great fun and great capabilities right out of the box -- others we chose because of their sophistication and benefit to the designer. The two typography items are home runs, and will make a better rounded experience for adding type to designs and images!
* Add beautiful text & artwork to your photos!
* Hyperlapse from Instagram
* Typography Insight
* Camera360 Ultimate
* Photo Reflection
* A Beautiful Mess . . .
Design Apps: Typography on your photos, great retouching, reflections, montage and more
60-Seconds 335: I've been stung by the Copyright bee. Believe me, that bee sting hurts!
For nearly three decades, I've invited readers to send in their images and referrals to share with DTG readers. It became so popular, and so beneficial for the sender, I got too comfortable with it and even stopped saving the paper trail. Bad decision. A reader sent in a photo some time ago, and in January, we decided to show it in an article in our Gallery. In May we got an email demanding we remove it, claiming ownership. . . .
So we removed it and thought all was well. But all was not well, and here's the rest of the story.
Creative Tidbits #229: 36 Days of Type, Camera Shake, Netflix art of design and more!
Here we go into the summer of 2017, and I know many of you are taking extensive vacations, and will be traveling! Here are three good references that you'll enjoy this June. If you do travel and take a lot of photos, please send a few and share with DTG readers
* Netflix: The Art of Design misses the point
* 6 Poses You Can Use to Avoid Camera Shake
* Shot Block: 36 Days of Type . . .
Creative Tidbits #229: 36 Days of Type, Camera Shake, Netflix art of design and more!
&Else in the Design Center News Department
some real gems in the past four or five weeks -- too many to really blurb, so here are just the headlines:
* Graphic Inspector Now Lets Users Choose Image Editing App
* Beautiful HD Wallpapers 20,000+ sheets for iPhone 6/6 Plus/SE (and they're all free!)
* Web Design from a cell phone? Well, maybe
* Strata Brings Virtual Reality to Designers with inStudio VR
* Do away with the frustrations of the new iMovie: MovieMerge+ makes video assembly a click
* Universe All-New, Killer, Text Effects from the Red Giant
You'll find them all in our News & Else department . . .
AUGUST BACK TO (DESIGN) SCHOOL
in August we'll be going 'back' and exploring education in design, graphics, photography, multimedia, web design, and a lot more. We encourage you to send in YOUR experience and favorites ... just click any "Contact" button in the Design Center.
As for JULY ... go out there and take some great photos, look for ART ... it's where you find it! Have a great month, and stay in touch.
Have a great month, and stay in touch.
Thanks for reading... go forth and be creative!
+FredShowker, Editor / Publisher @Showker
Parting words for August
... on the subject of photography...
Every two minutes, humans take more photos
than ever existed in total, 150 years ago.
Mary Meeker
Annual Internet Trends report
Graphic Design & Publishing Center
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