(English) In this post, we discover and applaud the brilliant digital designers out there who are crossing the digital divide, contaminating arts with design disciplines and utilising new mediums for digital expression. I just can’t wait to see Troika’s founders Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel showcase their stuff at the Design Indaba this year.

(English) An abundant range of hand drawn to vector illustration styles by various artists. The artworks of Fernando Forero, Javier Medellin Puyou, Konstantin Shalev, Lock Sin, Ratinan Thaijareorn, Raul Allen and Sam Schuna showcased for your viewing pleasure.

(English) Excerpt from the October Newsletter by the School Director, Eva Csernyanszky:

“Bright, punchy and pop-culture-relevant works from artists such as Jeremais Boettcher, Julien Vallée, Asif Mian, and more, are fuelling this insatiable design trend. And it’s paper design like you have never seen before.”

(English) Excerpt from the November Newsletter by the School Director, Eva Csernyanszky:

“And now something for the experienced typophile, you may be pleased to know that Serifs are Back. Oh yes, and how! Check out Sushi and Robots, Design Taxi and Carsonified for only 3 great examples of beautiful use of serif fonts online right now.”

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This video tutorial outlines new Live Preflight feature of Indesign CS4 which allows you to quickly find and fix problems. Even better, you can really rely on the tool to locate and display errors live, during design process.

Isolation in Context is a feature you can’t ignore in the new Illustrator CS4. Make changes to elements of your artowrk withouth having ti flick between menus and tools. By right clicking, you will have access to numerous object editing optios that one woud normally have to search for in various areas of the sfotware. A real timesaver, check it out here!