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November's Theme: The New Art
- Welcome to November! As we enter the holiday seasons, what better way to do it
than to decorate it with the styles and flavors of the Art Nouveau movement!
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- Fall Fonts Festival draws to an end
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For the big finale, we've brought in more than a dozen fonts; several icon
or dingbat fonts, a superb initial cap font, and a number of great clip art "Printers'
Ornaments" eps files in the Art Nouveau tradition.
___ One font is called "Paris
Metro" which is the type face which adorns the Paris subway system markers.
As you can see by this photo (at left) taken by Carol at the entrance to the subway
this past summer -- more details in our &Type department.
___ Appropriately enough, the Publishers Warehouse folks
have decided to spend the month in Paris celebrating Art Nouveau in November, and
all the visual delights that city has to offer.
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- Major Event: Designing Initial Caps
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While we've got several superb fonts for initial caps in the Warehouse this
month. we are thrilled and honored to have Ilene
Strizver as our special guest contributor for the Fall Fonts Festival. Ilene
is a typographic designer and consultant with 25 years experience at the International
Typeface Corporation. (You know, ITC!!!) She cut her teeth on U&Lc after studying
under Ed Benguiat -- with whom she's currently a colleague and fellow professor at
NYU.
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- Holidays 2001 Now Officially Open
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Over the years, we've shared many, many fun ideas in the computer graphics
field which easily cross over into the arts and crafts genre in time for the holidays.
Our annual Holiday theme during November and December is all about things you can
do to decorate your publications, and web sites with a holiday flare. This year,
it's our extreme pleasure to have all the best
ideas beautifully wrapped up in the gift you shouldn't wait to give.
Those wonderful digital artists
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- Those wonderful digital artists
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This month we visit with Pamela Wells, next in our series of Macworld Digital
Art Show and gallery award winners! Pamela discovered the wonderful world of Mac
art while working for two publishing companies. Today she mixes her considerable
talents with visions of the masters to create the stunning painting, "Apple
One." (In the Design Center Gallery
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 Art Nouveau Fonts for the Holidays- .
In the Publishers' Warehouse you'll find a slew of new files to download and fun
to enjoy. Many of these have EPS files, or full page GIF files to go along, and for
you Mac users, some even include "Smooth" fonts for use with TypeStyler.
Read carefully, because those darn loading dock folks have moved again. You know,
they'll do anything and go anywhere to have a party.
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- DT&G: Vol. 11, #11, November 2001... PDF Edition
- * &Editor - Closing the Fall
Fonts Festival... Opening Holidays
* News & Reviews: The gift you should
give BEFORE Christmas
* SPECIAL EVENT: Ilene Strizver from
ITC on "Initial Caps"
* News & Reviews: Type Rules: Catch
the Typography Fever
* FEATURE: The New Art. The Art Nouveau
Movement
* &Type! Visit Paris for our Warehouse
of Art Nouveau Fonts
* Letters@: Photoshop: Custom Brushes
for Fun & Profit
* 60-Seconds #137: May I See Your Passport
Please?
* &Else
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___ * Adobe
responds to Macromedia lawsuit
___ * Adobe
launches "Design Team" web site
___ * Sophisticated
Screen Captures for Mac...
___ * Maps
Of Afghanistan In Illustrator Format
___ * Rain
3D into FLASH files
___ * Ooooba
Dooooba: 120 Gigabytes on my desktop
___ * Free
raw materials for FLASH geeks...
___ * Easy
online slide shows with PicMaster
___ * iBook
Peripherals and Software Utilities
___ * Got
advertising or sales questions?
___ * Alert
Microsoft Visual Studio users...
___ * Tracking
Revisions and Approval made Easy
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Enjoy the November DT&G PDF edition,
you can read off-line!
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- Selecting Typefaces
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In keeping with our Fall Fonts Festival another essay has been launched in both the
DT&G PDF edition and in the &Type Department of the web site.
___ This month we answer a question prompted by last
month's "Basic Rules of Layout & Design" column. This time the writer
asked for information for selecting fonts.
___ How do you select a typeface? Click
here to download the PDF edition, or click here to transport directly into the
Fonts Festival already in progress
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- DT&G is brought to you this month, by Colors Nouveau.
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 For our Art Nouveau theme this month we attempted to extract the most
important colors of the movement into our usual five color palette. Folks, it was
very difficult. You see, the Art Nouveau movement didn't utilize what we consider
to be primary colors -- they took the entire spectrum and muted it.
Our Art Nouveau palette this month is fully documented, of course, in Mr. Pixelsmith's
"Color" column in
the WebDesign & Review department.
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- New in the Design Bookshelf...
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Learn your typography. After you read this month's special guest column by Ilene
Strizver, you'll definitely want her new book TYPE RULES. I'm calling it the most
siginficant book on typography since Alex White's "Type In Use." See if
you agree.
Then there's the wonderful holidays, and a book that should be given as a gift to
all the families on your list... but NOW.
If you wait until Christmas, it will be too late.
GO: http://www.design-bookshelf.com/
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- 60 Second Windows
- This month we ask some rather important questions about the new Windows XP operating
system, and stark reality . . . in . . . "May I See Your Passport Please"
Important to note:
___ Last month's column concerning "intentional"
hoaxes surrounding the September 11 attack on the World Trade center has brought
a shower of other hoaxes and trumped up graphics about the event. Some are rather
rude, some are downright porno, but others are real screamers!
___ This month, I'll post the better ones in the 60-Second
Windows web site as an adjunct to the #136 column "How
do you spell Gall?"
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- Photoshop Help is On The Way
- One last comment. Sometime around the first of the year you'll see a bright new
star on the horizon. It represents months of work on the part of many people, and
we think you're going to go for it: www.Photoshop911.com the Photoshop site with
thousands of 'searchable' links to tutorials, graphics, downloadables, and portals.
___ It's not officially open yet, BUT if you know of
any real good Photoshop sites, and would like to enter the grand opening sweepstakes,
you can actually go there now and enter your suggestions.
So, unless you're a Photoshop user: do
not click on this link!
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So don't forget to join us at the festival, sit back and enjoy the wonderful colors,
styles, and changes for Autumn.
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We'll be looking for'ya...
Fred Showker
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Fred Showker, your lowly editor -- showker at graphic-design.com
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"One man, with courage, is a majority."
... 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.
___ * http://www.60-Seconds.com/articles/130a.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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Contents Copyright (c) 2001, Reproduction or reuse of parts or all
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