At last, powerful 2D and 3D, world class CAD for Macintosh
One of the disappointing things about the world of Mac is the blatant abscence of cad software. If you wanted to get anywhere in industrial design, drafting, fabricating or related manufacturing,...
View ArticleThis is one of the last sites where you will not be stalked ... it's time to...
The web has become a very dangerous place to play. If you're not monitoring and managing your cookies, then you're at risk. Tracking and stalking has become so widespread the Design Center and DT&G...
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21st Annual Designing Women Celebration: New finds, old friends, remarkable...
Welcome to the 2016 Designing Women edition, celebrating Women's History Month. This will be our 21st year of celebrating, and it continues to be one of our favorite editions, because we get to meet so...
View Article60 Seconds #329 : 10 Ways to BREAK the Creative Block for designers,...
If you think you've got the creative block, don't think you're alone. We all get it, and we all have to break it. I've been doing this for nearly half a century. During my seminar days, the creative...
View ArticleIlene Strizver : The hardest working woman in the Typography biz
Folks, meet Ilene Strizver, dsigner, type designers, and the hardest working woman in the Typography bizread more
View ArticleFavorite articles from Ilene Strizver, founder of The Type Studio and...
As we said in our cameo about Ilene Strizver, here are some of our favorite articles of Ilene's from over the years. If you read all these articles, you'll be smarter than most other graphic designers...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe, August 1953: The Lost LOOK Photos
Dover passed along this book right at the right time -- our 20th Annual Designing Women edition! Marilyn Monroe was an icon of the silver screen picture era, and what a great addition to this year's...
View ArticleWeb Design : Is Complex Graphic Design UX Friendly?
Customer-centric web design and UX is on everyone's mind in 2016. User-friendly websites should offer great content which is easy to find, quick to access and beautiful to look at. Yet so many...
View Article60-Seconds #330 : Is it a copy? Is it not a copy? Copy-anti-copy? Plagiarism?...
During our work on this year's Designing Women series we returned to catch up with Marian Bantjes, one of our 'featured' Designing Women back in 2006. She just keeps getting better and better -- and we...
View ArticleUltrapop Infinite - Endless Source of Unique Color Filter Combinations
Although there are all kinds of color filter generators online, and, you've probably developed your own tricks and workflows, you should never pass up the opportunity to work with yet another image...
View ArticleExtract and repurpose the images and segments from your video assets --...
When you need to work with images and segments of a video after production, you need the best functionality you can get. Deframe is a video post-production utility that gives you an easy way to extract...
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Top Three Entries Showcase the Creativity, Capabilities & Possibilities When...
Yupo Corporation America, a leading global manufacturer of synthetic paper, has announced the winners of the 2016 Wally Awards, the company’s annual design competition. This paper gives beautiful print...
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Creative Tidbits #217: posters, videos, illustration and Saul Bass!
I hope you have as much fun with this edition as I did ... frankly, I looked up these and spent hours and hours deciding which samples to show -- and an afternoon in that video library! Amazing stuff....
View ArticleWorking with lots of images? You'll need a light table with real features
Working with lots of images can sometimes have problems. You've tried the icon view, and various contact sheet methods. Both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have their own built in image browsing...
View ArticleMovieMerge+ brings back intuitive video editing no longer available in iMovie
I don't know about you, but at one time iMovie was a quick and easy movie editing app where you could combine some video takes into meaningful video in just a few clicks. Well, Apple saw fit to keep...
View ArticleOptical character recognition for MacOS Sierra
The client hands you a stack of printed material to digest in the next project. What do you do? The more work you can get done for you, the better you'll be, right? Typing is one chore that really...
View ArticleCalligraphy Penmanship comes to the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
With the advent of the superb Apple Pencil, you now have the opportunity to master beautiful calligraphy and penmanship in the digital world. The new iPad and Pencil are extraordinary new tools for the...
View ArticleConversational infographics: Use any of over 3,000 icons in iOS messaging
This is not necessarily a graphic design tool, but surely with over 3,000 icons to communicate with you can do some creative brainstorming. This app for your iPhone gives you the power of infographics...
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Creative Tidbits #218: Icons, infographics, Black Friday, Podcasts, paper...
Well into the holiday season, here are some select holiday goodies, and some other interesting items including those Black Friday infographics! Creative inspiration is where you find it... finding cool...
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Creative Tidbits #221: Clickbait, email, web pages, type, typographic paper...
Happy New Year! Here's hoping your 2017 is creative, fun and healthy! Get involved and enjoy the creative experience -- share your experiences with DTG readers, and stop in to check out the year in...
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