60-Seconds #339 : The Anatomy of a Clickbait Predator Spam site, and what to...
FLAMED : After getting flamed on Facebook, called a racist and told I did not know what a 'click bait' site is, I had to go look and see if the rules had changed, or if there was some other measurement...
View ArticleProperty Law Primer for Multimedia Developers
J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe created this masterful, authoritative essay on intellectual property laws in the United States back a decade ago -- but it is still valid in todays...
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Convert lettering, type, photos, drawings, or art into Artistic Chalkboard...
As we highlighted in the Gallery for the Fall Fonts Fest, chalk art is a growing craze that really takes a lot of talent. Well, now there's a very cool App for Macintosh and Windows that may reduce a...
View ArticlePutting video segments together gets easier and more intuitive with Splitt
Have you tried the new iMovie? What did you think? Did you ask why they made it harder to use and more cryptic to find your way around? When you need to put together some quick video, you may want to...
View ArticleSlidium: The easiest way to create markdown presentations
Slidium 1.0.2, an important update to the popular full-featured presentation tool for macOS. Slidium is the easiest way to create beautiful presentation slides from Markdown, including graphs and...
View ArticlePhotoSync, still one of the great apps for iOS! Get your photos together
Never mind those other apps ... we've told you about PhotoSync before, and now they've given it a killer update to the app when you need to transfer, backup and share photos and videos over the air....
View ArticlePhotographers and Artists are truly loving what ImageFramer does for their...
This is a cool app that everyone who takes and presents photographs should try! Plus it's just a lot of fun working with the program, coming up with cool frames for your potos. Check it out, I think...
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FFF #1 : The 23rd Annual Fall Fonts Festival on Font & Typography,...
Welcome to the 23rd Annual Fall Fonts Festival in September of 2017! This year we're going to change and tweak our approach a bit to bring you more interesting tidbits on type, fonts use, calligraphy...
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FFF #2 : Rounds and curves, email fonts and the return of Mario in this Fonts...
Continue on as we delve into more and more interesting and inspiring type and typography sitings! I am particularly enjoying Lauren Lee's rounded Somatic font, and you all should take a look at the...
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FFF #3 : Spec contest for design? A great slab family, and a little Kinetic...
Continue on as we visit a great developer for Monotype with a superb slab, then peek in on what appears to be a contest to design a typographic brochure (Could this be spec work???) then we're loving a...
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FFF #4 : Making bucks brokering type, Robert Bringhurst tribute and Queulat...
Hope everyone had a great September 1st, and launch into the fall months! School is back in, and we're turning our sights toward the holiday season and 2018 -- but first, we've got a lot of fonts and...
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FFF #5 : Type Directors Club 'BEST', Coral-Inspired Typography, and trust...
I'm happy to announce the Type Directors Club "World’s Best Typography Exhibition" in this edition, and am lucky to have discovered it yesterday in my typography research. Thank goodness there are...
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FFF #6 : Fonts this time! See a tall western style, a friendly script, and...
Okay, okay -- letters continue to roll in -- you're right, this is a fonts festival -- so in this issue we'll send you some fonts! Try a western style font, or, perhaps a stunning casual script! Two...
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FFF #7 : Discover the Legend of Vernon Adams
Vernon brought a ton of fonts into the world, including the Oxygen font. He was licensed to Google and then was killed unexpectedly -- read more
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FFF #8 : Fonts in Use, Web typography, and a fresh, stylish script font
Here's the eighth edition of our fonts surf, as we roll into October! Such fun in this edition a lesson in web typography, along with the guys from Fonts In Use, and yet another flashy, fresh,...
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Graphic Novel: A Sailor's Story
Graphic novels are the adult counterpart of comics when you were a kid! Today there are some extraordinary graphic novels -- and this is one of them! Golden Age comic book legend Sam Glanzman draws...
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Graphic Novel: Wandering Star - a beautiful story, written years before its time
This much-praised space drama follows the far-flung adventures of Casandra, daughter of the President of the United Nations of Earth and the first terran accepted into the Galactic Academy. Casandra...
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AKVIS ArtSuite 12 brings new capabilities to tempt your creative juices with...
This is probably the most awaited update in a while from Akvis! ... AKVIS has released their ArtSuite 12, a photo decoration software that offers a rich collection of visual effects and frames in order...
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Creative Tidbits #238: Lebanese Typography, type in lights, a short type...
With the Fall Fonts Festival in full swing, we just had to let this Creative Tidbits issue have some typography stuff in it -- and we think you'll be glad we did. Let's ask : "What is Typography? and...
View ArticleHere comes Trapcode Suite 14, from the Red Giant
Yes, they're back with more drop-dead awesome effects and updates to the industry's most essential tools for creating 3D motion graphics and visual effects in Adobe After Effects. With a total of 11...
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