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 →
Pantone, a global authority on colour, has announced that Pantone 16-1546, Living Coral, will be its Pantone Colour of the Year for 2019. Pantone went on to describe LivingCoral as “an animating and life-affirming shade of orange with a golden undertone. Just as coral reefs are a source of sustenance and shelter to sea life, … Read more →
Divergence, the latest edition of the Lecta (Barcelona, Spain) yearly publishing project, once again showcases the end results that can be achieved by printing on the paper manufacturers’ extensive range of publishing papers. This year’s book features an original concept that explores the beauty of opposites through imagery. The publication juxtaposes evocative colour and black-and-white … Read more →
Adobe is introducing Project Paras for Adobe Photoshop CC – a new set of tools for fashion and décor artists to help streamline the process of designing prints for fabrics. Designers can now do much more within Photoshop, while keeping every element editable until it’s ready to be printed. This includes previewing patterns, defining separations, … Read more →
Vancouver, British Columbia has become an entertainment hotspot, attracting directors, actors and producers as a top set location for feature productions. With the science of colour playing a major role in the development of many types of video production, Vancouver is the ideal setting for the 26th Colour and Imaging Conference (CIC26), November 12–16, 2018. … Read more →
Here, Deidre Deacon, General Manager of ViewSonic Canada, evaluates the factors that designers and companies should consider when protecting their display technology investments. ViewSonic Canada is a global provider of digital display solutions – including LED monitors, interactive displays, touch displays, projectors, thin clients, zero clients and smart displays – used in business, graphic design, … Read more →