My good friend Sandee Cohen is wrapping up work on her new book, From Design Into Print (Peachpit Press), which is wonderfully exciting. Equally exciting — and available right now — is her new companion podcast. By no small coincidence, it’s also called From Design Into Print, and is totally worth checking out.
Turns out Adobe hates to see The Man bringing you down — where “The Man” means the economy, and “you” means developers that are down on their luck — so the company is giving away Flex Builder 3 Professional for free to any developer willing to show they are unemployed. That’s $699 worth of software for free. Holy crap.
Type is an elemental part of pretty much any design project, so us font junkies rely on tools like sample books, font managers and our own good taste to pick the right typefaces for our layouts. Since we also tend to be creative types, I just love it when I come across a cool new way to do the same old thing — like viewing fonts as a periodic table of the elements.
When a book like Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider King comes along, you just know I’m chomping at the bit to review it. But through the interesting chain of events that is my life I ended up far more involved in helping out with getting this book out the door than I ever imagined would happen, which means that I’d feel just a wee-tad unethical offering up a review at The Mac Observer, or any of the other places my name crops up, including Design Tools Monthly.
Instead, I’ll give the book an endorsement right here. Hey, this is my blog. I can do whatever I want. Continue reading
I’ve been mulling over this whole controversy over the Target ad showing a girl on a bullseye for several weeks, and I’m just not seeing the sexual exploitation thing other people are picking up on. Maybe she’s making a snow angel, like many people have suggested, or maybe she’s jumping in the air. But assuming the position for a big old sexing up? I’m just not seeing it.
I totally get and appreciate the importance of protecting people — and not just women or girls — from exploitation. No one deserves to be taken advantage of, and it’s up to all of us to protect those that can’t protect themselves. That’s all just part of being a community.
