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CREATIVE Tidbits : Deciphering Ideas

Creative expression is everywhere ... we roll into this year's Typography fest with lots of great ideas. Follow along with this edition of Creative Tidbits:
* Attend or organize an in-person Portfolio Review with the Behance community.
* Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
* Edwin Tofslie's Apple Evolution Poster 2011
* Hop on the Designbuss with Erik Olovsson
* Wine and graphic design a perfect pairing
* Funding available for design, printing
* Behance Portfolio Reviews' photostream
* How is your IDEA PERCEPTION?
... and more ! September 1, 2012

DTG News for September 2012

Welcome to the 18th Annual Fall Fonts Festival! This year there's lots of new stuff -- and the festival runs all through September and October ... enjoy:
02 18th Annual Fall Typography Surf
03 150 Inspiring Typography & Hand Lettering
04 Free Script Fonts
05 2012 Typography Resources and Links
06 GALLO FONTS over 200
07 Photoshop (Fonts) Madness
08 Photoshop (touch-n-run) Madness
09 Infographics 101: Using Pictures to Communicate
10 What makes a great logo?
11 CREATIVE Tidbits : Deciphering Ideas
12 Pasting and placing MS Word text into Adobe applications
13 Print Advertising delivers Best ROI
14 60-Seconds: What if the Internet went away?
15 &Else : SVG Import is Here
16 3D Miniature Volkswagen Test Drive Cars
. . . and lots more! August 31, 2012

Pasting and placing MS Word text into Adobe applications

MS Word is probably most popular text editor in the World. You can take advantage of its predefined styles, charts, clip arts and place them in Adobe applications. This tutorial gives you some examples on how to do that and explains why. August 31, 2012

Infographics 101: Using Pictures to Communicate

Infographics 101: Using Pictures to Communicate and Connect With Your Audiences -- explains what infographics are, how they are put together, and how you can use them in your business. August 30, 2012

SVG Import is Here

Artboard is a powerful vector drawing software for Mac OS X Lion. Today's latest update provides support for the most requested feature from users - the import of SVG vector graphics. (Made in USA) August 23, 2012

3D Miniature Volkswagen Test Drive Cars

This is some of the most exciting technology we've seen! 3D printing solutions seem to be showing up all over the place ... like this 3D system that delivers a perfectly carved Volkswagen test drives -- miniature cars in full color! New markets? New careers? You betcha! August 14, 2012

Marketing Update : August kick-off

August is BACK TO (Design) SCHOOL and designers need to know almost as much about marketing as marketers do!... this issue:
* Why content marketing is a great SEO strategy, not a short-term tactic
* Content marketing metrics: How to drive action instead of reaction
* Breathe new life into your marketing with visual content
* Eliminate 'to be' verbs in business writing
* 7 tips for creating amazing videos
... and more July 31, 2012

Collect for Output for Adobe Illustrator CS6

Your project is only so good as your prepared files. If it's not output correctly, you're dead. Code Line announces a free update to its popular "Collect for Output" application, Art Files 2 for Mac. July 28, 2012

My apology to all our readers

My apologies to all DTG readers who have enjoyed the Publishers's Warehouse and the treasure trove of resources and links there -- but who have found broken links, or links that send them off someplace they didn't expect to go. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about other online resources, and we have no real control over other sites that seem legit, but are not. July 27, 2012

Adobe InDesign CS6: Paragraph Composers & Tabs

The powers of desktop publishing programs is in their ability to help automate much of the tedium and repetitive tasks associated with DTP. Now, Adobe InDesign CS6 borrows all the best capabilities from RSG, PageMaker, FrameMaker and QuarkExpress to evolve the ultimage publishing platform. In this edition, you'll be learning about and working with paragraph composers and tabs in InDesign CS6... July 25, 2012