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Maps take many forms, many themes, and many expressions, ranging from the straightforward city street map to the specialized terrain and statistical displays used by scientists and sports affectionados to highly sophisticated cartograms used by researchers and thesis-writers. All this work stands upon the shoulders of giants. Without hundreds of years of work and refinement, without the maps of Ptolemy and the projections of Mercator, there could never have been the common gas-station street map, and neither could there have been the highly technological GIS systems of today. Designorati:Cartography aims to explore the origins, view the state of the art, and guess at the future of the common (and uncommon) map. Maps abstract the world so we may comprehend it better. Maps also speak thier own language, but it’s one we can all learn. Maps are sometimes made with an agenda and a message, and sometimes just to inform. And maps, in an indirect way, reflect our own image. It is, in and of itself, an exploration. Designorati:Cartography hopes to become an explorers guide to that realm.
Klein, Samuel John. Designorati (2005). Design>Information Design
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The first blog network exclusively for creative professionals, by creative professionals, and driven by passion. Beginning with nine Topics ranging from Graphic Design and Illustration through Creative Culture and Strategy, Designorati’s mission of reporting on all professional creative disciplines and concerns is well underway. In time Designorati will encompass Topics representative of all areas of professional creativity, written some of the most passionate people working in those areas.
Designorati (2005). Design>Information Design
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Site covering both traditional and digital illustration.
Froehlich, Sara. Designorati. Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration
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Designorati:In-House is intended as a resource and road map for creative professionals working from within the corporate office structure to communicate your company’s message to the outside world. With few direct resources available for the in-house designer, Designorati:In-House will try to fill that gap by collecting and commenting on issues most important to the corporate creative. In-house designers are hired because of their strong conceptual sense and ability to execute the needs of the company more efficiently than the person requesting the project. Producing effective design on little direction while meeting shortening deadlines can be daunting, so Designorati:In-House will focus on providing or pointing to solid articles which can make the job easier. Managing your own projects or dealing with micromanagers without losing your cool, finding inspiration between the walls of your cubicle, sharing and learning from your peers online or in the break room, even troubleshooting your computer (or your neighbor’s iPod) are all subjects Designorati:In-House will address.
Litvak, Vadim. Designorati (2005). Design>Information Design
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D:Photoshop strives to be a well-written source of news, information and techniques for intermediate and advanced users of Photoshop. Users who have a few years of Photoshop experience and a good grasp of its basic tools and tactics will benefit from this ongoing source of production techniques, step-by-step tutorials, reviews of upcoming Photoshop-related products and industry news. There are four sections to D:Photoshop: Techniques, which includes articles on specific Photoshop tools and techniques and how they affect an image. Tutorials, which include step-by-step applications of Photoshop tools and techniques that can unlock your productivity and capabilities in real-world production situations. Reviews, thorough commentary on the Photoshop products hitting the market this moment, including books, videos and other media, hardware and software. News on current events in the Photoshop industry.
Schultz, Jeremy. Designorati (2005). Resources>Software>Graphic Design>Adobe Photoshop
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Designorati:Strategy covers the strategic as well as the tactical technology influences and decision-making found throughout the creative and production workflows, from content conception through to content distribution. Who is the customer? What is the message? How do they want to receive the message? What methodology will you use to deliver it? Was it successfully received? Did the customer act on it? Strategy will encompass infrastructure, workflow, services, production, mangement, new technologies, and some “how to.” Strategy will focus on industry trends that will impact the growth of your company and how you integrate with your strategic partners. Stories will include everything from strategic technology planning, to creative/production workflows, how “best in class” products affect disciplines of all size and manner, lean principles, performance improvement and much more. Who is the Strategy audience? Everyone that makes a technology decision or influences a technology decision will find something worthwhile here to consider. The technology, workflow, and services of the creative and production environments of content publishing affect all of you.
Indiano, Cate. Designorati (2005). Resources>Project Management
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Type does more work than merely forming words. Every type face has weight, mood, import, and emotional impact. For centuries, since the time of Gutenberg and the monks who hand lettered before him, Type has changed and evolved, influenced by natural and artificial sources. Styles have ebbed and flowed. The greatest type is seen as high art; the lowest is seen as avant-garde–or maybe just plain garbage. Designorati:Typography aims to explore everything about type, from who made it and helped develop the styles to what it is now to design type and where technology takes us. Along the way, it hopes to throw an accessible light on the great typographers of the past and present, and to help the visitor appreciate the beauty in the published letter.
Klein, Samuel John. Designorati (2005). Design>Typography
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Part of the Designorati Network, covers anything that has to do with Web Design.
Slatineau, Lucian. Designorati (2005). Design>Web Design
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Graphic design is everywhere, in every product, package, poster, and product of the modern world. Although the graphic design discipline was created less than a century ago, the world has since come to rely upon it. The world simply cannot function without graphic design and graphic designers. Yet graphic design is broader than any other creative profession. It is the third largest profession in the United States, far ahead of more commonly understood and respected vocations such as attorney, accountant, and educator. Graphic designers, who run the gamut from after-hours moonlighter through freelancer, solo- and team-creative, to agency and corporate designers, work in every city, town, and village in the world. Graphic design impacts everything and everyone.
Burke, Pariah S. Designorati (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric
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InDesign Tools Palette, Part 1
This is the first of several tutorials covering InDesign CS' tool palette. It covers the Selection tools, the Pen tool and the Type tool. It also gives tips and trick on how to make selections in InDesign.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Graphic Design>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Add Style and Save Time with Paragraph Style Sheets 
Paragraph Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Style Sheets>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Advanced Typographical Controls
Find out how to use Adobe's single line and paragraph composer, hyphenation settings and other typographical controls.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Document Design>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Design With Character - Character Style Sheets
Character Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents. Character Style Sheets are simply recorded format that you can then use in your design at will. Consistency is one of the principles that designers must follow. Character Sheets help the designer so he doesn't have to apply manually the same type of formatting over and over again throughout the document.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Setting up a Document
Let's start with some basics. Here you will learn how to create a new document, add pages and other basic functions. A second tutorial will follow to complement this one.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: The Paragraph Palette
With this tutorial you will learn how to use InDesign's Paragraph Palette. Here is an explanation of most of InDesign's Paragrah Palette's functions which should arm you with enough knowledge to do most design tasks you might need to do while laying out a design document.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: The Tools Palette Part 2
This is a second tutorial about InDesign's Tools Palette, which follows a previous post from May 2005.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Design>Adobe InDesign
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This tutorial goes through the different parts that compose InDesign's work area. If you want to drive a car, you want to make sure that you know where the break is, where your wheel is, where your indicator is and so on. The same is for InDesign. You want to know where you can find all the tools that you will be using to create your InDesign documents.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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An Overview of Desktop Publishing
The mission of Designorati:Desktop Publishing is to provide the knowledge, tips and tricks that can help you in your day to day work.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design
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The Pantone Matching System: Always Show Your True Colours
It can be very frustrating to see the logo you worked hard to create look deep blue on the client's letterhead, blue-greenish on his business card, and light blue on his very expensive envelopes. A way to prevent this is by using a standardized color matching system, such as the Pantone Matching System.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Color
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Prepress Tutorial: Preparing PDFs Made from Microsoft Word for Offset Printing
You just received this wonderful PDF from one of your clients. It was made from Word. On top of that, the client who gave you that PDF wants you to make some changes to the text. How do you make those changes using the PDF itself and what do you have to do to make that PDF press ready?
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Resources>Document Design>Prepress>Adobe Acrobat
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QuarkXPress Tutorial: QuarkXPress' Work Area
Familiarize yourself with QuarkXPress 6.x work area.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
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Save Time With Xpress Design: Style Sheets With QuarkXPress
Consistency is one of the principles that designer must follow. Style Sheets help the designer so he doesn't have to apply manaully the same type of formatting over and over again thrughout the document. Let me give you an example. You are designing a magazine promoting a certain item. You want to have all of your titles with a certain font, a certain size and a certain colour. You can record all of these information in a Style Sheet and then apply them to each title with a click. Now, let's say that you decide that the titles are two small and they all have to be made 4 points bigger. Well, you just go to your Style Sheet and modify the size of your font there and all of the parts of text with that Style Sheet will change in one go. This tutorial is for users of QuarkXPress 5 and 6. If you want to know how to create Style Sheets in QuarkXPress 4 follow the instructions for QuarkXPress version 5.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
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If you use Microsoft Word, you are used to the fact that if when your text will get to the end of a page, another page will be automatically added. With InDesign and most layout programs, this is a little bit different. This is because layout programs work with text boxes (or tex frames) which allow you more freedom when you lay out your document.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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Tips to Save Money When Printing Translated Work
When designing things in several languages, the cost of production can become quite high. However there are ways to save money and make the printing cost of flyers, magazines, etc. much lower. These tricks also apply when doing several versions of one job even if it's in the same language.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Prepress
