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Black History Month 2012

Our annual Black History Month surf takes us to the far ends of the cyberworld to find some exciting new and memorable talent! This is a continuing series, so we welcome your input and participation February 15, 2012

Creative Tidbits: mid month

Following last week's Creative Tidbits, these are a good pick-up for the middle of the month, including the most insane immersive movie experience EVER ...
* Lego Harry Potter : Years 1-4
* Unusual logos ... bygone years
* Limited edition Artists Book
and more creative inspiration! February 13, 2012

Book of the Year: Saul Bass

BOOK OF THE YEAR for graphic designers is a tough thing to live up to. Phil Meggs, Alex White, Steven Heller, all worthy authors in the design community. We've had at least a few of the "greats" honor the pages of DTG Design Bookshelf - Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Andy Warhol, David Lance Goines -- and now I take great pleasure in adding another of the all-time greats, SAUL BASS. February 10, 2012

DTG News for February, 2012

This is the Valentine's, Black History, Super Bowl month. We've got a great line-up of content, and will continue posting throughout the month.
01 Welcome February ...02 Hello? Who loves'ya?
03 Designing Women are coming
04 Photoshop Madness: Love you!
05 BEST: Creating Dramatic Images in Wild Places
06 Painter: Illustrating with Soft Pastel
07 Photoshop Tutorial: Using Photoshop's Pen Path Tool
08 Photoshop Tutorial: Creative effects with Photos
09 Design: Tintbooks Blog Makes CMYK Simple
10 Multi Media: Unfolding the World of "Bunraku"
11 &Else: Fanatical Mechanical
12 Creative Tidbits: February
13 Web Design: Social Media Updates
14 Business: Marketing Update : New Year
15 &Else: Celebrities, Videos, News and more ...
16 Did Google Search work for you?
17 Forums: Stay or Fold?
18 Upcoming in February, among other things ...
February 1, 2012

Unfolding the World of "Bunraku"

Bunraku, the second film from acclaimed director Guy Moshe, is a unique blend of cutting-edge computer graphics and choreographed live action, comic book and video game styles, gritty reality and fantasy, and samurai and spaghetti western genres. January 29, 2012

Creative Tidbits: February

This month there's good news and bad news in the creative world, but it's all inspiration ...
* The Death of Logo Design
* Anton Semenov : Gloom
* Masters of the Cutaway
* Batman: Death by Design
* SQUID
and more creative inspiration! January 27, 2012

Tintbooks Blog Makes CMYK Simple

Tintbooks has opened their new blog called "Simple CMYK Color" -- it's dedicated to assisting you with CMYK color solutions. Common to complex situations which affect color reproduction will be described on this blog. January 17, 2012

Creative Tidbits: extraordinary works

I think you're going to like this edition of Creative Tidbits, these are some real favorites!
* A Conversation With Paulina Reyes, Advertising Design Director
* Janiszewski's graphic design was part of protests in Poland
* Poca teen wins Toyota Christmas card contest
* Sebastien Thibault : visual intelligence
* The Graphic Design of Tech Brands
* Graphic artist links all races
and more creative inspiration! January 16, 2012

1.86 Million Square Feet of Exhibits

2012 International CES Sets Show Record at Las Vegas, Nevada, January 12, 2012 ... The 2012 International CES® is the largest in the show's 44 year history, with 1.861 million net square feet of exhibit space. The previous record was 1.857 million net square feet of space at the 2008 International CES -- January 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. January 13, 2012

Pocket-sized wireless transfer

The CloudFTP is coming to a device near you. This small, pocket-sized portable adapter that enables the wireless transfer of movies, music, photos, documents, and other files to the iPad, iPhone, and other WiFi-enabled devices from USB storage devices (cameras, USB hard drives, flash drives, card readers, and other USB mass storage devices, etc.) without using a computer. January 10, 2012