Below is Part 1 of an excerpt from an upcoming Graphic Artists Guild White Paper PDF about common copyright myths and misconceptions. Anyone working in the graphic arts industry needs to have a working knowledge of copyright and what it affords the graphic artist, but before discussing some of the most common myths and misconceptions, a few basic facts...
Last week during Adobe’s MAX 2011 event in Los Angeles, the software company unveiled its latest innovation: the Creative Cloud. While cloud computing has been around for awhile and is widely used in the creative industry, the new way that Adobe is bringing the cloud down to earth and into your hands may make it...
Of all recent movements in art history, postmodernism may be the most controversial. Nevertheless, the slippery-to-define postmodernist movement has steadily become an underlying philosophy for a wide range of work in design, literature, art, film, architecture, fashion, and cultural and literary criticism.
If you're looking for a non-traditional job, perhaps you should find a non-traditional ad. We liked this striking, visual announcement for a Web design position at Duolingo, a technology company ambitiously translating current Web sites into a variety of languages.
Wacom is again changing the face of digital drawing - meet the Wacom Inkling pen. Rather than working on the surface of a slick digital tablet, the Inkling allows you to sketch on any paper surface you have lying around. Through continuous communication with a USB receiver and with 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity, the Inkling...
With New York Fashion Week ending last Thursday, we want to reflect on the countless hours of dedication it takes to put an iconic event like this into motion. While fashion designers are clearly the highlight of the show, graphic designers also play a key role in creating a lasting impression of the event.
The Dialogue Design Festival kicked off in Minsk, capital city of Belarus, this week. The event takes place in a thriving international design community of Polish and Belarusian artists. Exhibits by famous Polish designers Dawid Korzekwa, Miroslaw Adamczyk, Nikodem Pregowski, Rene Waszkiewicz, and others will be the highlight of the graphic design festival, held at...
Are you frustrated when you print a project in-house and the quality on screen is completely lost, or the colors are a different hue? We are too, so we were elated when we heard Epson launched their Epson Stylus Pro Designer Edition line of printers, which aims to enable small graphic design firms, creative agencies, and brand owners to...
What if someone were to tell you that captive monkeys can understand money, and even behave like humans in economic conditions? After hearing Laurie Santos, a Yale University primatologist, give a TED talk saying just this, New York ad executives Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner’s next question was obvious. Can monkeys be advertised to?
If you’ve been thinking about getting “Freebird” tattooed across your knuckles but weren’t sure how you were going to like it, the new temporary tattoo design site Tattly can help you out.
