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30th August 2000

Magazine design

Part of the supplements to a magazine design class at Ball State: Includes quick and useful briefs on Magazine Industry History, Influencial Art Directors/Designers History, Magazine Function and Style, The Four F’s & Grids, Familiar Format/ATSI/AXIS, Constants & Visual Personality, Design Philosophies/Movements, Color Theory, Feature Design/Typography and more…

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30th August 2000

Photoshop 6 Review: What it Means for Web Work

“Photoshop 6 has been officially announced by Adobe, with shipping scheduled for late September… If you care about how fast you can get your work done, you will love Photoshop 6.”

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30th August 2000

Sonic and Visual Structures

“The author [Nicolas Schöffer] creates ’sonic structures,’ or music, not with the usual background and perspectives of a musician but with those of a visual artist. In this article he discusses first the historic spatial and temporal limitations of music and the visual arts. He then describes how, in his sonic and visual experiments, he has attempted to liberate these artforms from their traditional bounds.”

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30th August 2000

Sonic and Visual Structures

“The author [Nicolas Schöffer] creates ’sonic structures,’ or music, not with the usual background and perspectives of a musician but with those of a visual artist. In this article he discusses first the historic spatial and temporal limitations of music and the visual arts. He then describes how, in his sonic and visual experiments, he has attempted to liberate these artforms from their traditional bounds.”

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