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designersof: Lost Property - This once belonged to a Magpie,...

Wed, 30 May 2012 20:19:00 +1200

Lost Property - This once belonged to a Magpie, his name Martin.

Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Pat Dryburgh

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:48:00 +1200

Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Pat Dryburgh:

I haven’t got round to updating yet but I’m not surprised by this experience at all.

He compares it to upgrading Coda, which of course is a speedy and pleasant experience as everyone knows Panic are top of their game. Now Adobe management would probably argue that Panic is a fraction of the size of Adobe so things should be simpler for them.

However Apple is large organisation, how did the upgrade for Lion go? Surely upgrading an OS is a much more complicated procedure than just a few pieces of image/video editing software. You can estimate at how many copies of Coda 2 were sold since launch and it’s a wonder a small company wouldn’t crumble under that amount of transactions.

So we have a smaller company and a larger company than Adobe, both shipping very popular digital products without any ridiculous 2 day wait.

As many times as i’ve griped about Adobe in the past, i’m going to say they’ve done a stellar job on CS6 this time around - the experience detailed in this post is simply from the mis-understanding that the ‘creative cloud’ membership requires a serial number (as per previous releases) however simply logging in with your purchasing adobe id in the application will make it ‘just work’. Kinda sounds like a certain company Adobe is being compared to.

For once i’m glad Adobe has reached down with their leasing program to make their product affordable and a whole bunch more usable - I’m actually using a version i’m paying a reasonable price for, for the first time in my 10+ year design career, and i’m happy to be supporting the team for their hard efforts over the years. Here’s to you Adobe / macromedia, for sticking with it and giving me the tools to live my dream career, year after year.

Now go put inner shadow in illustrator goddamit

Nike NFC books by Accept & Proceed

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:20:23 +1200

Nike NFC books by Accept & Proceed

How to Enable Text Selection in QuickLook — Shawn Blanc

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:32:00 +1200

How to Enable Text Selection in QuickLook — Shawn Blanc:

Quick tip to enable text selection in Quicklook, enter this in terminal then restart finder:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE

no more booting open word / excel just to grab a number / quote!

(via Tim Chesney / Shawn Blanc / Brett Terpstra)

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Thu, 24 May 2012 14:53:33 +1200

This is a subtle stroke of genius. springwise: Stock image...

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:02:18 +1200

This is a subtle stroke of genius.

springwise:

Stock image watermarks made less annoying, more useful

Stock photography provider Getty Images has already harnessed the power of social media to connect customers with its product through its Thinkstock subscription service Social Art Buyer, which enables Twitter users to easily find the images they are looking for. Now R/GA London, which was appointed Getty’s design agency of record in March, has launched a rebranding of the company’s watermarks with the Watermark Project, which aims to make the current features more practical. READ MORE…

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Mon, 21 May 2012 21:55:11 +1200

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Thu, 17 May 2012 10:39:12 +1200

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Tue, 08 May 2012 13:52:21 +1200

sworcery: “Slyve & Sworcery” - a painting by Slyve aka...

Sun, 06 May 2012 11:02:50 +1200

sworcery:

“Slyve & Sworcery” - a painting by Slyve aka @c_sylvain at Capy.

new sworcery gallery up on tumblr! This is so ridic

killingthingsinstyle: Its one of those nights…Nine Inch Nails...

Fri, 04 May 2012 13:57:50 +1200

killingthingsinstyle:

Its one of those nights…

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV

graphicporn: (via Atelier Muesli - Graphic Design)

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:44:07 +1200

graphicporn:

(via Atelier Muesli - Graphic Design)

Phantom City Creative know how to put together a good movie...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:02:43 +1200

Phantom City Creative know how to put together a good movie poster

Hakim El Hattab. Thoughts, Experiments & Projects

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:06:07 +1200

Hakim El Hattab. Thoughts, Experiments & Projects:

Super slick CSS3 & openGL experiments.
This guy is a machine.

My friends Li and Jordan are using Kickstarter to fund the...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:52:45 +1200

My friends Li and Jordan are using Kickstarter to fund the production of a print version of their webcomic. There’s 2 volumes as well as some exclusive pledge rewards up for grabs, and only a few days left on the timer, so hurry over!

(via Extra Ordinary Comics: Vol 1 & 2 by Exocomics — Kickstarter)

Valve - New Employee Handbook

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:49:00 +1200

Valve - New Employee Handbook:

Incredibly fascinating (and sometimes humorous) look into the hivemind of a software company that is turning over hundreds of millions, has over 250 employees and absolutely no management or internal heirarchy.

I’m reasoning that the explosion of internal ability and skill are amazing for product creation, but lack of structure leads to delays in actually shipping products. (see also Valve Time)