“These are rules of thumb about color that you may find helpful. Colors may appear different from those created with pigments.”

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“It’s your company. Your logo should be a reflection of you. By creating a database of over 20,000 symbols designed just for logo development, we’ve given you the tools to make your ideas a reality. In just a few minutes, you can build an original logo without the costly, time-consuming process of working with a graphic designer (who must guess what you’ll like). LogoYes offers millions of logo design combinations from which to choose. And you pay only $99.”

“The first step in developing successful reader personas is to decide what readers you are not going to focus on. Good web management is often more about what you exclude than what you include.”

“Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).”

“Design Observer, Speak Up and Voice have attracted some seasoned writers, while giving needed opportunities for neophytes to strengthen their writing muscles. Despite a few insufferable rants, blog content is now often as sophisticated and informative as any design magazine, sometimes even more entertaining.”

“Basically, you have nothing. Really, nothing at all, except the green light to start a design studio and a realistic budget that would allow you to purchase all the necessities for it to function. It sounds impossibly utopian, I know, but letís give this a try. Forget ñ for a brief moment ñ about worldly realities like clients, employees or time. What does a design office need to function? If you could buy anything you wanted ñ skipping the luxuries ñ what would be on your shopping list? Software, hardware, furniture, paper samples, office and art suppliesÖ Whatís indispensable for good, well-oiled functioning?”

“Since web geeks think in pixels and RGB, itís a daunting new world to head into unequipped. Over the years across quite a few print jobs by now, Iíve had to learn by trial and error. As someone used to thinking in RGB, Iíve looked high and low for a good resource to turn to for help in converting that knowledge to CMYK. This may not be that resource, but I figure Iíve amassed at least the beginnings of a how-to on the subject. Consider it non-authoritative, but hopefully useful. Most of the knowledge contained within applies to Photoshop, mainly because Iíve had the most trouble with it.”

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“While sitting on an endless stack of work over the past few months, Iíve slowly discovered ways in which to make myself more productive. Or, if not more productive, then at least making the time tick by as pleasurable as possible. One trick when working into the evening hours thatís been successful, is to work with a glass of red wine within arms reach. Iíve slowly been warming up to wine these days, and have found it to be somewhat of a work enhancer.”

“Thanks to iron-melting design portals and margarita-iced creative presence, the web has never been more efficient in communicating beyond information — into aesthetics, into functionality and, most importantly, into pleasure…. Of course, every featured website deservingly owned a day of fame on our network — which eventually resulted in more than the mere 24 hours. This time, start of 2005, our stringent (read: heavily-biased) discretion and preferences return to highlight the crËme de la crËme of these vanilla delights — to grace our first-ever Hall of Fame.”

“A collection of 70’s pictures” including Cars, Fashion, Film and TV, Furniture, Houses, Interiors, Posters, Vasarely art that make up a nice visual reference site.

“The chart is now in a searchable database format. This is a major upgrade which will allow for more complex searching, the ability to narrow results to a single film/dev combination, and more frequent updates. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions. Please Note: Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this data, it is always advisable to run some tests of your own before developing important work.”

“This document describes how to setup a system for automatically backing up a Mac (OS X 10.2 or later) to an external drive using freely available software. This applies to any kind of external drive including FireWire, USB and network drives. It does not apply to CD-R or DVD-R media. It also does not apply if you want to implement an incremental backup system.”

“If the photo-sharing site Flickr is any indication, the world of digital photographers is dominated by cat people. Dog owners would probably object. But because of Flickr’s tagging system, which allows the photographers or other users to assign identifying tags to most photos on the service, we know that Flickr hosts 23,081 images tagged with ‘cat’ or ‘cats’ and only 17,463 with ‘dog’ or ‘dogs.’ Clearly, Flickr’s system was not set up to motivate a feline-canine supremacy contest. But it does illustrate the way thousands of the service’s members use tags to give some contextual meaning to more than 3.5 million pictures that might otherwise get lost in the shuffle.”