Idealliance, known for creating worldwide print standards and specifications such as GRACoL, SWOP and G7, has released an Expanded Color Gamut (ECG) Characterization Target for use in characterizing and calibrating multi-colour print processes. The ECG Characterization Target was created by a sub-committee within the Idealliance Print Properties and Colorimetric Council as a part of the … Read more →
Callas software, a market leader in automated PDF quality control and archival solutions, has released “a milestone update” of its pdfToolbox product line – pdfToolbox 11. “This year, it’s all about improvements to automated workflows and making PDF files production-ready,” the company pointed out. The new version introduces significant additions for the sign and display … Read more →
Set up Adobe’s colour management settings to ensure you have the most accurate and predictable output online As of 2019, all the Internet browsers on the Mac support Version 2 ICC profiles. On Windows, it’s still a mixed bag. Firefox handles images with an embedded profile, but all untagged images are rendered to the full … Read more →
Design Leadership Summit is a place for folks who are leading and managing design teams Design Leadership Summit being held Monday, November 4th, Tuesday, November 5th, and November 6th in Toronto, will feature relevant and thought-provoking content for Product Designers, UX Designers, UX Researchers, Service Designers, and Visual Designers. The venue – the Isabel … Read more →
Here, James Ontra, Co-Founder and CEO of Shufflrr, reveals some key presentation management strategies that can make a designer’s life much easier and more rewarding. Along with his sister, Shufflrr’s Co-Founder AlexAnndra, they wrote “Presentation Management: The New Strategy for Enterprise Content” – a guide that helps large organizations take a holistic approach to presentations … Read more →
The Printing Industries of America (PIA) has launched its much-anticipated Print Production for Designers course online in its iLearning Center. “Great print design is a combination of visual appeal and technical precision,” said presenter Joe Marin, PIA Vice President of Education & Training. “Print Production for Designers reveals the lifecycle of a printed job and … Read more →
An idea is born, and the journey of a pixel begins. A single pixel will take on many forms until it finds its final resting place. Let’s follow this pixel throughout its remarkable journey and watch the colour transformations it takes along its way. Our pixel emerges from a dream as light is captured onto … Read more →
The new 14.3 release introduces a range of usability updates that span the entire platform, as content development teams will benefit from more new functionality that improves ease-of-use and boosts productivity. These include time saving, editing and saving improvements, major enhancements to copy-and-paste, new and intuitive content structuring functionality, and additional features such as responsive … Read more →
Last October Adobe announced Project Paras, a plug-in to Photoshop. The response was very encouraging. A broad range of textile designers, from major brands to independent professionals to part-timers and hobbyists, signed up to test it. The adobe team listened closely to their feedback, and used it to make the product even better, it pointed … Read more →
The ACG Group (Mumbai, India), the only supplier in the world offering end-to-end manufacturing solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, has launched the first-of-its-kind Art in a Capsule design competition “to bring science and art together.” The worldwide competition encourages artists from across the globe to create ‘masterpieces’ that can fit inside ACG’s pharmaceutical capsules – … Read more →
Web Design Primer is a new open-source eBook published by Toronto’s Ryerson University Library by authors Richard Adams, Associate Professor at the School of Graphic Communications Management, and Ahmed Sagarwala, Manager of Industry Relations at the Digital Media Zone (DMZ). The book explains the basics of the HTML and CSS codes used to create web … Read more →
Adobe (San Jose, California) recently announced that Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Digital Experience business, Brad Rencher, will be leaving the company. Rencher joined Adobe in 2009 as part of its acquisition of Omniture, and has been at the helm of the Digital Experience business as it’s grown into the category leader … Read more →