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Start­ing off with RGB workflow

An old dream of mine is com­ing through these days. That is RGB work­flow for print­ing. In fact it’s more than 10 years, prob­a­bly almost 15 years, since I real­ized that this was the next step in in the printing/prepress pro­ce­dure. It’s been a long wait.

When the com­put­ers took over in graphic design a lot of things that had been done in the print­er­ies came with it. It was all fine to the graphic designer except the color man­age­ment. Ner­vous design­ers try­ing to get their col­ors right are now being saved by the pro­fes­sion­als at the print­er­ies who know how to do this stuff.

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RGB verk­flæði – gamall drau­mur að rætast.

Gamall drau­mur, mjög gamall reyn­dar, er að rætast þessa dagana. Í stað þess að hön­nuðir séu skjál­fandi á bei­n­unum við að bög­glast með að lit­greina myn­dir, oft í tómri óvissu, er þessi hluti vinnslun­nar að færast aftur til prentsmið­janna, þar sem fagfólk sér um hana. Við erum sem sagt að færa okkur úr CMYK verk­flæði yfir í RGB verkflæði.

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16 Pre­press Tips for Graphic Designers

I recently wrote my first guest-blog, called Pre­press Tips for Graphic Design­ers on David Airey’s blog. If you are a graphic designer you should go over there and have a look. A print­able mini-poster of the arti­cle is avail­able too from a link in the comments.

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Dagatal 2010

Mar­gar heim­sóknir eru á hver­jum degi á font.is, sérstak­lega á þes­sum tíma árs eru vegna þess að orðin dagatal, dagatöl eða almanak hafa verið sett í leit á net­inu og þessi vefur komið upp.

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The Tech of Font Man­age­ment on Mac OsX

If you desire to read a long arti­cle (mean­ing many words) filled with knowl­edge (lots of words you may not have known before) about how to man­age fonts on the mac. No pic­tures at all, lay­out is really … let’s say plain, but it is one of the very best arti­cle about the sub­ject of man­ag­ing fonts on the mac. Ok then, go at read: Font Man­age­ment in OS X, by Kurt Lang.

I know this is not for every­one, but it’s a must-read for sys­tem admin­is­tra­tors and peo­ple who deal with fix­ing macs. Still there are some new things that I hope will be dealt with next time Kurt updates the article.

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Font I like … Creighton

Just look at this sam­ple of Creighton from ITC. Bold and strong but with very rounded cor­ners which makes it softer and more friendly to use in menus, travel related mate­r­ial or pack­ag­ing to name a few as a sug­ges­tion. Con­tinue reading…

Cheese or Font?

One more font game, Cheese or Font? for your pleasure.

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Self­por­traits in Illustrator

In the spring semes­ter of 2009 I taught sev­eral stu­dents of the Ice­land Acad­emy of the Arts , the basics of Adobe Illus­tra­tor. The time for each group was rel­a­tively short, five after­noons per group.

The stu­dents of graphic designs was a very mixed group. Many had never opened Illus­tra­tor but a few had some expe­ri­ence. Hardly any­one had used the Pen Tool of Illus­tra­tor. In the fourth ses­sion I had them use what ever they had learned to make a self por­trait. I was quite happy with the result. Some of the por­traits are excel­lent, but most of them are very descrip­tive of the characters.

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Close your fonts to fix Illus­tra­tor freeze, crash and sluggishness

It can hap­pen to any­one using Illus­tra­tor: One day it starts behav­ing oddly, slug­gish, freez­ing or in worst case it doesn’t launch at all.

As I fol­low the forums of Adobe and also have a search going on in Twit­ter for Illus­tra­tor OR InDe­sign I see com­plaints about this almost every day.

The rea­sons for this behav­ior can be many and if you are hav­ing it you should check out Adobe’s Tech­Note for CS3-4 or CS-CS2

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Námskeið í Illustrator

Dagana 8., 9., 15. og 16. sep­tem­ber 2009 verð ég með námskeið í Illus­tra­tor á vegum Iðun­nar, fræðs­luse­turs / prent­tæknisviðs. Námskeiðið verður haldið í tölvuhúsi Tækniskólans í stofu 621 og telst vera 24 kennslus­tundir. Verð fyrir aðila Iðun­nar er 11.180 kr.

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