September: Fall Fonts Festival
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- September: Fonts & Typography
- Fall Fonts Festival
- Feature: Leslie Cabarga Interview
- Photoshop Feature: Type in your face
- Kenn Munk: Alternate Fonts
- Editors Choice: Photoshop for Right Brainers
- Photoshop: Rusty Type
- Which Typeface Should I use?
- Famous Names in Typography
- Field Trip: Nature Photo Shoot
- LA Art Scene: Snap to Grid
- September Web Site Critique Briefs
- FALL FONTS FESTIVAL for OCTOBER
- Typography Master Class Series
- Image Collaboration over the Web
- Novelty: Get a new hairstyle
- Event: PDF Conference in Baltimore
- Check your web site position
- Software: Easy Mac "Aqua" Look
- Software: 3D Aquarium in your Monitor
- Security: Pod Secret
- Biz: Make a few bucks off iTunes
- News: Look Ma! No Computer!
- Book News: Free PDF Hacks
- Book News: Free CSS "Page Elements"
- Have a great September
September: Fonts & Typography
All through September and October the topic is all about fonts and typography! Share your favorites with DTG readers and ... WIN prizesI took a ride to surf for fonts and found literally hundreds. Unfortunately I can't report on or show them all to you, but I've selected a handful of foundries that you'll like! All the others you'll have to check out for yourself
* P22 Foundry Anniversary, and TypeCo Foundry
* The fabulous sights of the Letterheads and Chank foundries. . . get started in the
DTG Typography Department
* The DTP Jumpstation and the Publishers' Warehouse have over 300 new font links and downloads awaiting you! They've been too busy gathering all the most fun stuff and have dozens and dozens of great fonts to download. Ah, don't forget to go to the PDF Pig Out too, it's a real challenge! (If you don't know the address, keep reading)
Feature: Leslie Cabarga Interview
Frequent questions about type, typography, fonts and lettering in email, the Design Cafe and classrooms prompted us to contact the logo, font and lettering wizard himself; Leslie Cabarga font designer and author of "Logo, Fonts & Lettering Bible" ... join us for this great interview as Leslie chats about fonts and letteringPhotoshop Feature: Type in your face
Al Ward, author of "Photoshop for Right Brainers" walks you through an extensive tutorial using layers and layer masks for a rather striking image. More than 30 illustrations and Al's competent guidance will show you how to put type in your face!Kenn Munk: Alternate Fonts
Kenn Munk designs wonderfully different fonts and dingbats that allow the user to "build" words, or in the case of dingbats - images. This obsesion is probably due to the hours and hours spent playing with LEGO bricks in his childhood. Shhhhh... be quiet!Editors Choice: Photoshop for Right Brainers
Want to expand beyond typical tips and techniques? Tired of those "hot" tricks without a reason or purpose? Al Ward's technical expertise gives you precision training and a creative jolt in the arm that won't quit... Photoshop for Right BrainersPhotoshop: Rusty Type
Author Joyce Evans uses Photoshop style techniques in Fireworks to fashion some old-fashioned typography covered with rust you can almost feel... in the Photoshop department: Rusty TypeWhich Typeface Should I use?
In this article, Fred talks about experiences with some of the greats of typography... and helps to answer the question with a quote from Jan White -- Look for Typographic VoiceFamous Names in Typography
A reader in Canada wanted to have names such as Garamond, Bodoni and Jenson put into perspective. So here is our understanding of The Famous Names in TypographyField Trip: Nature Photo Shoot
Andy Williams, noted nature photographer and a director at CritterZone.com shares his experience and takes us along on a nature shoot to capture some rather striking photos of wildlife... The Price of Admission to Goosedom.LA Art Scene: Snap to Grid
Mix the LA art scene with an open show where every entry will be shown, and what do you get? An amazing show of digital art from some of the best -- in the Creative Net department see: Snap To Grid.September Web Site Critique Briefs
This month, Debbie does a pretty thorough critique of the Galvez Family Web site; we get a critique of the Mountain Monarch Adventures site that the Web Review disagrees with; Then we take a look at the NomadLink web site with Jerry Tamburro; and finally, Linda Rosario gives brief views of Google Yahoo Msn Positioning. See these Critique Briefs sent in by readersFALL FONTS FESTIVAL for OCTOBER
YES, we continue our festival all through October! You can WIN some of our valuable prizes, including the highly collectable "International Type Founders" fonts book by sharing with DT&G readers...* Favorite fonts, and where to download them
* Most thrilling typography layout
* Unique and creative use of type
* Pros and Cons of different type faces
* Typography that sucks... the Good, Bad and Ugly ... Just go and register!
Typography Master Class Series
if you want to learn Typography from one of the icons in the type industry try Ilene Strizver's Typography Master Class Series at the New York Type Directors Club. Join Ilene for five consecutive Wednesdays from 6 to 8 pm beginning October 6th. Sessions consist of: The ten worst typographic typos, Mastering typographic details I and II respectively, Kerning demystified, and What makes a good typeface. They will be held at TDC Offices 127 West 25th Street, 8th floor New York, NY. Space is limited...www.tdc.orgImage Collaboration over the Web
At Photoshop World show SeeFile Software introduced its first product that lets graphic arts professionals share images and collaborate over the Web. The software runs under Apple's OSX 1.3 (Panther) operating system, and supports browser-based access from both PC?s and Macs. Targeted niches include digital photographers, printers and prepress shops, photolabs, advertising agency workgroups and corporate creative departments. Here's a Picture www.seefile.comNovelty: Get a new hairstyle
"Change My image" is a hairstyle and hair color simulation program that allows the user to quickly and easily try out a variety of hairstyles and hair colors. Load your digital camera image and see how you'll look in any of 200 different hair-doooooos. (Windows only) See a Picture... or go Change Your imageEvent: PDF Conference in Baltimore
Speakers and attendees are gearing up for the highly anticipated 9th annual PDF Conference being held at the Baltimore Convention Center September 13-14. In addition to looking forward to the comprehensive PDF Conference sessions and Conference Expo, Baltimore attendees can look forward to the chance to win valuable prizes from key industry vendors... PDF ConferenceCheck your web site position
Checking your web site position is a very time consuming task. For example, if you have 10 keywords that you want to monitor, and you want to check the top 20 positions for 10 search engines, you need to perform about 200 (10 keywords * 10 engines * first 2 pages) individual searches to get the results. Then you need to compare the results one by one to find where your site is positioned. It may take you days to complete this task if you do this manually. Or you may want to look at Advanced Web Ranking 3.2, a tool that helps check your web site position on all major search engines. This version runs on Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP, Linux and Solaris.advancedwebranking.comSoftware: Easy Mac "Aqua" Look
Aquatint is an image manipulation tool for Mac OS X giving you the ability to make glossy, "liquid" icons, buttons and logos more easily than you ever imagined possible. Now you no longer have to read Scott Kelby's "Gel" button tutorial for the 100th time. Here's a picture try before you buy for only fifteen bucks. (Note that Stick Software also makes the "must have" freeware utility "Jiggler" for all OS X users!)Aquatint from SticksoftwareSoftware: 3D Aquarium in your Monitor
Amazing 3D Aquarium - Wallpaper and Screensaver v2.2 from Elefun Multimedia is for those either interested in fish -- or those yearning for a vacation to the Caribbean -- this screen saver will immerse you into contrasting underwater world inhabited by beautiful aquarium fish ... swimming around the coral reef.Security: Pod Secret
iPods have become the device of choice for most savvy Apple and Windows users for transporting huge volumes of data along with their favorite tunes. They've also become an easy target for criminals. If you use your iPod to transport sensitive files check into Pod Secret. Install it onto removable media such as an iPod or thumb drive and its encryption will keep your data safe. It's shareware and only costs $29.95. A 7-day trial is available. (MacOS X & Windows) ... www.pariahware.comBiz: Make a few bucks off iTunes
Okay, so iTunes is the biggest thing in the music industry since the microphone. Now your web site can get a commission on every iTune you sell using Apple's new (Amazon-style) affiliate program. Become an iTunes Affiliate between now and September 15th and you could win an iPod mini. Sheesh what will these guys think of next?News: Look Ma! No Computer!
Speaking of Apple -- no matter what computer you use wouldn't it be nice to get rid of that ugly CPU and heavy monitor setting on the desktop? The new G5 iMac (Yes, it will run Windows, folks!) revolutionizes the world of computing again by eliminating the CPU. Yup, that's right, the fastest personal desktop computer in the world now sits in a single 17" or 20" flat-panel LCD screen. No CPU. It's 2-inches thick and weighs in at only 18 pounds. See a picture ... or go see Apple's new G5 iMacBook News: Free PDF Hacks
this is for anyone who works with PDF on a regular basis. The hacks presented cover the full range of PDF functionality, from generating and manipulating to annotating and consuming PDF information. Ten sample hacks are available online ... but you'd probably rather get the book!Book News: Free CSS "Page Elements"
O'Reily's new "CSS Cookbook" offers hundreds of examples and CSS code recipes you can use immediately to format your web pages. An explanation accompanies each recipe, enabling you to customize the formatting for your specific purposes... *must-have* resource for any web author considering CSS. Grab a free chapter: "Page Elements PDF" or better yet ... get the bookHave a great September
Don't forget, in addition to all those juicy fonts, the Publishers' Warehouse also has a slew of new Photoshop tutorials, links, and tips for everyone. And, best of all it goes on next month too! And if you put a slash after graphic-design.com and the word "fest" you'll be whisked there immediately.Don't forget
to enter your own resources so we can include them in the next issue.
Come on in and enjoy.
Thanks for reading... go forth and be creative!
Editor / Publisher, DT&G Magazine
Parting words...
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after."
Ann Morrow Lindbergh
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