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Graphic design resources, jobs information, graphics news, talk forums, software training, computers and employment issues for designers, art directors, pre-press professionals, web developers and design students.


Articles
: Charging for Design | Famous Designers

Software: | Software Tips | Font Tools

Hardware: Printers | Monitors | Portable Vs Desktop | Hard Disks | Input Devices

Comment: Digital camera for graphic designer | iPad style computer wishlist for designers? | Graphic designer's preflight checklist

Graphic Design Resources, Industry News, Designers Forums

LATEST NEWS – Keep up-to-date with the latest graphic design industry news.

Laptops for graphic designers? Laptops for graphic designers? Creatives using more portables?
graphic design iPhone Apps iPhone Apps for graphic designers. Mobile applications.
Computer hardware reviews Hardware Reviews! Computer equipment evaluated.
Software Training Software Training! Reviews of online tutorial options.
Graphic design business Setting up a Design Business.
Open source graphics software Open source graphic design software. Apps reviewed.
Parallels Vs VMware Parallels Vs VMware! Graphics applications tested virtually.
Adding drop shadows with Adobe CS & QuarkXpress Adding drop shadows with Adobe CS & QuarkXpress.
Job Descriptions Job Descriptions takes you through the maze of titles.
History desktop publishing History of DTP. The story of digital publishing.

Features & reviews

Font Management Tools – Reviews of font managing software tools including Suitcase, FontAgent Pro and MasterJuggler. Also, deciding which font manager to chose.

Software Tools and Hardware – Reviews of creative and graphics software applications, software upgrades and computer hardware releases.

Alternatives to Photoshop – Are there alternatives to the Adobe heavyweight? We review four digital image contenders.

Definition of Graphic Design? – See if you agree or disagree, with our Top 5 definitions?

3D Design Applications – Introduction to 3D modeling software. Part 2.

Design dictionary

Graphic design glossary
Browse or search for terms and definitions. Creative concepts, graphics software, fonts and typography, web terminology, pre-press and printing terms.

Featured previous news stories and articles

Famous Graphic Designers
Read our ongoing primer of famous and influential graphics professionals. Page 1 | Page 2

Graphic Design Job Descriptions
The graphics industry is renown for flowery job titles. But what do they all really mean? What do art directors, graphic designers and studio managers actually do? Find out, as we help you to choose an impressive sounding job title for your business card. Decide whether you want to be a graphic designer, art director or even a design manager. Written by an employee from a graphic design Melbourne company with many years in the industry.

Graphic design salaries
2005 report good news ahead for the industry? And other older news articles are also available, including Mac, interactive, Quark and digital images news.

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Quick News, Reviews and Tips!

Black and white iconFilm versus digital RGB black and white and grayscale conversion…

Rename ICC color profileRename an ICC profile. How to change the name of a display profile

Buying affordable LCD monitor for graphics & design work

iPhone Photo AppPhoto and video Apps for iPhones, iPod touch and iPad

Flick PanningDisabling image momentum when using the hand tool in Photoshop

backpack contentsChoosing new laptop bag or backpack for portable computer

iPhone replacementGetting used to freelancing without an iPhone, whilst being repaired

Portable hard driveIomega announces upcoming USB 3.0 portable hard drives

PowerbookSpeed testing old and new portables. PowerBook vs. MacBook Pro

Hype!Hype? Who cares about the Mac, PC or Linux debate?

Adobe CS5 upgrade and features Adobe CS5 upgrade and features, creative software packages

Momentus XT, solid state hybrid drive for laptops

How to crop movies with QuickTime Pro

NEC MultiSync widescreen graphics display

MacBook Pro. Glossy versus anti-glare screen

Always open in list view checkbox not working?

Converting digital camera megapixels to Photoshop files

HP Six-core Processor workstation

Samsung thin computer monitor

Photo & video editing PC

Run Windows software on a Mac

Backup Photoshop Preferences

Move layers, frames in Flash animation...

Flat-screen LCD displays

Difference between dots & pixels

Graphic designers salaries

Freehand bites the dust!

Fastest ever Macintosh...

3D software upgrades announced...

Quark to InDesign conversion tools...

Older news stories can be found here; archive 2 | news archives | hardware products

Design resources
Starting a graphic design business
Introducing the issues for potential freelancers.
How much to charge for design work?
Calculating how to charge clients. Hourly rates or flat fees?
The history of desktop publishing
The past, present and future of DTP.

Web hosting
Web hosting and domain name tips.

Design Research
A few legacy pages from the forerunner of this site.
Creative Resource Listings
Search for the best creative resources, jobs, training, software tutorials and employment on the web.
Navigating this site
Find your way around the site by searching for news, resources, glossary terms and discussion topics

Top topics
Graphic Design
General graphic design issues.
Design Software
Creative software tutorials, discussions and troubleshooting.
Illustrator help
InDesign
Photoshop tips
QuarkXpress
Web Design
Web design forum.
Pre-press
Repro and print production issues.
Macintosh Talk
Apple Mac related discussions.
Design Education
Talk about design schools, student courses, CV and resume issues.
Projects & Research
Help with student design projects & portfolios.
Multimedia & 3D Design
Interactive design talk.
PC, Windows Talk
Help discussions for Windows users.
Freelancers Discussion Boards
Forums for self employed and freelance creatives.

Regular sections

design forums

Discussion Forums

The graphic design forums are a lively and friendly collection of message boards for designers, students and prepress professionals, to talk about anything to do with the creative and graphic arts industry.

This can range from career advice for freelancers, to questions about famous designers, Photoshop tips and tricks, portfolio advice, graphics software forums and an unlimited number of other topics.

The bulletin boards are informative, helpful and friendly.

See you there!

Creative Resources

As part of our continued commitment to the area of design research, we regularly update our extensive graphic design resources.

For example we have a constantly expanding and fully searchable design glossary of terms.

graphic design glossary

The glossary covers terms and definitions ranging from web design, to branding concepts; typography to pre-press; and design software to printing terminology. Everything you need on your resume for university, or impressing at job interviews.

Creative Directory

Creative listings

We also have a design listings directory that lists hundreds of external design resources.

design news

Design News

The latest news from the International graphic arts industry.

Design Talkboard reports from around the industry to seek out issues that affect graphic designers, creative agencies, prepress professionals and art students.

For example, we recently reviewed two reports that affected jobs and employment prospects for British designers and the American design industry, in very conflicting ways.

And we have also been closely following the merger between graphics giants Adobe and Macromedia and we shall keep monitoring developments to see how they will affect graphic designers.

Reviews and Research

We regularly review sources of graphic arts education and tools for design students, researchers, pre-press and production professionals.

design reviews

This includes book reviews, training CDs and DVD's, graphics software tutorials and appraisals and reviews of sources that offer graphics software tutorials, such as InDesign and Photoshop training resources and QuarkXpress tutorials.

Articles

Recent articles on industry issues include a discussion on graphic design job titles.

We have also looked at famous designers and typographers and primers on such issues as what is graphic design?

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