 JUNE is brought to you by the color RED
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- Hello Summer...
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Time to attend all those graduations, and weddings... dress the lawn, get ready for
vacation, do the gardening, and get away from the desk more often. In the Design
Center we've got a great slate of Summer Books just hitting the shelves, and the
Designers' Bookshelf will have nearly 150 new books on its shelves by the end of
next week.
__ Joyce has been very busy! After taking off a few
months to write her new Macromedia FLASH book, she's back with a half-dozen all new
reviews!
June is National Safety Month... of course it goes without saying, please be safe
during all your summer activities. Be safe at home, in the garden, in the car, and
on the web!
__ Also, you can celebrate National Dairy Month and
kiss a cow. The second week in June, is National Headache Awareness Week, (National
Headache Foundation), as well as National Ergonomics Week. Take a look at how you
sit and work at the computer! (http://www.ezu.com)
__ Best of all though, we're celebrating the birthday
of the worlds favorite sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe! Marilyn was born in LosAngeles
in 1926, and lead a remarkable film career, rising to epitomize Hollywood glamor.
So come along with us to LosAngeles, to celebrate
Marilyn's birthday all month long!
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- DT&G is brought to you this month, by the color RED
- It's June, and it's going to get hot soon, so RED is our color this month. This
sample happens to be PMS #185, which builds with: or Cyan, 0; Magenta: 96; Yellow
76; black 0.
Here we see the closest HEX color recipes, but note that PMS 185 cannot be built
on the web! Yikes. (Our table cell header is color #FF0000, our backgorund is a dark
red, color #AA0000, and the type you see highlighted in red is color #DD0000.
__ Red says HOT. It's an aggressive color not to be
used lightly. It advances on the reader, and looks best when there's lots of it.
For dramatic contrast, reverse type out of the red rather than overprinting black.
Remember... red is perceived as black in many situations, so be careful. Also, red
will be one of the first colors to fade when exposed to ultraviolet light, so you
sign makers out there beware.
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- The Cost of Rollovers
- Mr. Pixelsmith is running a little project in the Designers' Cafe this month
and thought you web designers out there might enjoy looking in on it. We've asked
users of all different web authoring software to come in and program a simple, single
rollover. We're comparing the size and code of the various programs.
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- Letters this month include:
- Which Computer? Mac or PeeCee? How to get your 'design' foot in the door, How
to download fonts from the internet Do you need Permission to use clip art? Globally
updating huge web sites.
GO: http://www.graphic-design.com/letters/index.html
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- Readers Review Web Sites:
- This month we've got a whole string of new reader reviews including: Centro de
Exposiciones y Convenciones de Chihuahua; DigitalBlack; Dr. Al-Oufi Law Firm site;
The "YANNI If I Could Tell You" site; the All American Speakers Toastmaster
Club; and a short, terse look at "Artificial Environments." We've also
got several dozen new review requests from readers who want YOU to review their sites.
GO: http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/Reviews/ReadersReview.html
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 Congratulations Graduates- .
As part of our May/June Graduates program, we send out a big congratulations to all
those graduating in the fields of graphic design, illustration, photography and related
fields of communication arts and design.
__ Very cool. Send an email and tell us where you graduated
from, and that you're interested. Attach up to six (6) thumbnails of recent projects
in your portfolio. Make sure they are JPEG files, no greater than 120 pixels in any
dimension.
__ We'll reply with complete instructions on where and
how to proceed. Again, congratulations and good luck!
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- &Else
- Here's some news items that wouldn't fit any place in the regular publicaitons,
so we just post them in "Else"... * Adobe Releases Acrobat Reader for Palm OS
* No more waiting for 3D on the Web
* NEW USB full-screen video on Mac * It Takes Effort To Combat Spam * AOL's New Filter on the Block *
FBI Blasts Reluctant Hackees; * 1,001
Arabian Nights of Sex * Teen Market
a Tough Cell * You Write, They Edit,
iPublish * Getting ready for vacation?
GO: http://www.graphic-design.com/news/else/index.html
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- Fun for June
- Here's a big welcome to Arvita Mott, the latest addition to the Designing Women
series started in March! Watch for the FOLIO sites to open this month featuring Bridget
along with Heather Bellanca. You can go to: http://www.graphic-design.net/women/ to link into the "Designing
Women" folios.
__ Also this month we welcome Charlotte Lapierre, our
first Design School Graduate to be inducted into the FOLIO program. (We'll show you
some of her work in this month's DT&G
PDF edition.) Wow -- great looking work, Charlotte. Watch for her FOLIO to open
soon!
There's lots of great things happening during the June -- please enjoy!
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Fred
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Fred Showker, your lowly editor -- showker at graphic-design.com
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of
______ never using
two words when one will do." ... Thomas Jefferson
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Design & Publishing Center
* http://www.graphic-design.com/news/index.html
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- Please read: Top Ten Signs You're About to be RIPPED OFF
- Fred tracks the illusive spammer! With the influx of thousands of new UCEs ('Unsolicited
Commercial Email" -- aka: SPAM) hitting the Graphic Design Network servers,
our spam-hunting team decided to track a few of these low-lifes down, and find out
where it's all coming from.
___ What we found was rather alarming, and out of more
than 7,000 UCEs gathered since January 1st -- so far -- we haven't found but ONE
honest person. But we've found lots of them who would sell their mother for a quarter,
or stab you in the back for a nickel. Not a pretty sight.
___ So, here's the Top Ten things to do with your email.
A short version
in this month's PDF Edition ... a 3-minute version is at:
* http://www.60-Seconds.com/articles/130a.html
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become a Design University Extension Campus. This allows you to offer D-U courses
to your visitors, and earn a 15% commission for every Seminar your readers buy! Contact:
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How to contact us?
http://www.graphic-design.com/contact.html
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Photo Retouching Seminar .. http://www.design-U.org/Photoshop.html
The Designers'Bookshelf ......... http://www.design-bookshelf.com/
News Serve Net, news & stuff........... http://www.news-serve.net/
60-Second Windows, Editorials ......... http://www.60-Seconds.com/
The User Group Network ............... http://www.user-groups.net/
The Rumor Manager ....... http://www.user-groups.net/RumorManager/
The Resource Manager ....... http://www.user-groups.net/resources/
Mac Shareware .... http://www.user-groups.net/shareware/index.html
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Folks, we can’t help you if you don’t
cooperate...
Each month accesses (looking for that new EPS clip art disk) and prize registrations
are denied in the Publishers’Warehouse.
__ Why? Because the email address keyed into the Loading
Dock request was incorrect, or no longer in use. I find it hard to believe that people
would register for something and then drop the address.
__ Remember: no spaces, correct spelling. Dozens
of AOL users didn't put in "@aol.com" -- remember: name@aol.com, no spaces.
(We assume they were AOL since they had no "@" indicator.)
__ Remember too, that the loading dock changes locations
each month. You'll find the clue you need to the new location in each issue of this
column.
Don't forget to write.
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