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[MyInkBlog] Getting to Know Clipping Masks and Layer Masks in Photoshop: We’ve already discussed the way the Layer Mask works almost as part of the layer, and how the Clipping Mask is actually a layer which works to mask one or more of the layers directly above it, but what does this mean, in practical terms? Well, think of it this way - because the Layer Mask is actually attached to the layer itself, it exists outside of the layer stack (in other words, the order of the layers).

[Watts Up With That?] More on the NIWA New Zealand data adjustment story « Watts Up With ...: Here in the SF Bay area with its many micro climates close locations can have vastly different temperatures, with the sign of the difference depending on the time of the year. Oakland hills will be generally cooler than the other side of the hills, except in winter where the bay moderates the Oakland side leading to higher temperatures (at least higher lows).

[The Design Cubicle] 50 Alluring Typography and Grid Focused Websites: Typography can be a beautiful element to any website (or printed design for that matter). Not only do the curves and bends of letter forms create a stunning visual appeal to a website, but good effective typography and proper grid placement can help visitors read text more clearly, distinguish a hierarchy of information and paint pictures and images with words and their surrounding negative space.

[i love typography, the typography and fonts blog] Calluna ”” a text typeface with flow | i love typography, the ...: Super awesome. I've got the perfect project to use this for””will definitely be saving up my coins for Calluna.

[Fast Cash Design . com] Become a Master of Graphic Design « Articles « Fast Cash Design . com: Graphic design practice embraces a range of cognitive skills, aesthetics and crafts, including typography, visual arts and page layout. Graphic designers have a unique ability to sell a product or idea through effective visual communications, and are asked to perform the difficult task of being creative every single day.

[The Design Cubicle] 10 Common Typography Mistakes: for example, letter-spacing is a great tool for CSS inside of web browsers, while kerning is not a practical approach (spacing for individual letter pairs) on a blog or journalism website where it is not practical to modify vast amounts of content.

[Comments for Notes on Design] Sustainable Typography | Notes on Design: look at the ability of Graphic Design, and in this context Typography, to communicate social/ecological issues has its own sustainable merits. I personally feel that to promote sustainable thinking, especially to younger graphic designers, through showcasing such examples of contemporary practice can only lead to positive thinking and motivation to implement this serious subject in the manner it demands.

[swissmiss] swissmiss | Arial versus Helvetica: This argument is probably stronger with Verdana than with Arial, but I think it holds for both: a lot of emphasis was given to how these fonts rendered in aliased, bitmap form at small sizes on a computer screen, perhaps moreso than how they look in high resolution and at large sizes in print. Case in point: Verdana looks good in 11-pixel height on a computer screen, but terrible in 24-point headlines in the IKEA print catalog.

[Typography for Lawyers] Straight quotes and curly quotes - Typography for Lawyers: Like Potter Stewart, they may not be able to explicitly define it, but they know it when they see it. For instance, if you go to a hardware store and handle 10 screwdrivers, you’ll still have an intuitive opinion of which one is the sturdiest and easiest to use, even though you don’t know anything about screwdriver manufacturing.

[Lion's Links] The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine: It’s been a big thing on the Web over the years, where you get your inspiration from, and I’ve never really understood it. I think that looking at other people’s work all the time for inspiration is massively constricting.

[The Observer] The Observer » Blog Archive » Church Night At The Race Track: People who don’t like legalized gambling often say it’s a way of taxing the poor people who play the games. That might be true for people who buy lottery tickets at the corner store, but table games are, in effect, a tax on the middleclass people who can afford to play blackjack at 15 dollars a hand ”” and up.

[Allison Arieff] Designs on Policy - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: And, an historical note: If one remembers the “design” of American ads in the '50s and puts this together with the fact that one of the most influential design books of the 20th Century ”” Jan Tschichold's “Asymmetric Typography” published .jefferson understood what a design policy was about but since then wars have sidelined good ideas except for weapon design which seem to be best design as they must work most of the time.

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