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Creative Pro: Free Guide to HTML Email Design
MailChimp is an email delivery and management platform. As you might have suspected from its less-than-stuffy name, it's also a company with an odd sense of humor.
That odd humor is everywhere in the free PDF guide "Email Jitsu: Email Design and Coding Tactics from the Ancient Web Masters of the 1990s." However, the writers aren't pulling your leg when they give advice like the following:
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18 Mar 2010 | 9:17 am GMT
Creative Pro: Stop By this Sign Series
Slate, the daily Web magazine, has a new department called "Signs 2010: How they tell us where to go." At press time, there are six articles in the series, all written by Julia Turner, and all full of interesting tidbits for graphic designers and other creative types.
* The Secret Language of Signs: They're the most useful thing you pay no attention to. Start paying attention.
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18 Mar 2010 | 8:38 am GMT
Digital Media: Photoshop CS4 Image Adjustments in Depth: Tinting
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to add a black and white adjustment layer from the adjustments panel to give an image a monochrome look, what is called tinting
17 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm GMT
Digital Media: Anonymous Pumps Out Lexus Hybrid Spot for Team One
Anonymous Content Director Andrew Douglas, via Team One, recently completed a compelling :60 promoting Lexus' line of hybrid vehicles. The spot is a masterpiece of choreography and a beautiful ode to the luxury car maker's foresight.
17 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm GMT
Digital Media: Social Networks That Boost Your Business
Most people are familiar with the term "Web 2.0," which refers to a second generation of web development and design that focuses on fostering social networking via the web. Innovative companies are beginning to embrace Web 2.0 as a way to enhance communication, information sharing, and collaboration, thereby allowing them to work smarter rather than harder. The business use of Web 2.0 represents a new trend called "Business 2.0."
17 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm GMT
Digital Media: FuseFX Taps Nuke For Extensive VFX on Showtime's "United States of Tara"
When Burbank-based visual effects studio FuseFX began working on the new season of Showtime's "United States of Tara," it turned to Nuke, The Foundry's powerful compositing application, to facilitate the extensive green screen effects required for a series about a woman with a multiple personality disorder.
17 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm GMT
Digital Media: Loyalkaspar Teams With Agency Brooklyn Brothers For Cable Provider Insight Communication's Ten-Spot Branding Campaign
When ad agency The Brooklyn Brothers approached New York-based design and story-driven creative engagement studio, Loyalkaspar, about collaborating on a campaign for Insight Communication, the U.S's ninth largest cable operator (serving the Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana areas), they knew it would be a test on a number of levels. Not only was the idea creatively challenging, but given the project's budget restrictions it would also force them to rethink how to achieve the spectacular results the concept demanded.
16 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm GMT
Creative Pro: More Free Flash Resources from Quark
Quark today began testing a dedicated microsite that was developed using QuarkXPress 8 that offers video training, downloadable Flash resources, real-world Flash projects from customers, and more.
You can check it out at http://www.quark.com/magic. Quark will release more information about the site when it is officially launched in the coming week.
16 Mar 2010 | 8:26 am GMT
IBS: Great drama - but can you hear what they're saying?
TV Audibility group is a major independent project to investigate problems of audibility in TV programmes.
20 Feb 2010 | 12:18 am GMT
IBS: SIS LIVE OBs propose pension scheme closure
Only two years after being bought by SIS Live OBs (part of Satellite Information Services), former BBCTV OB staff have learned that SIS propose to close the pension scheme April 2011
6 Feb 2010 | 5:57 pm GMT
IBS: My Sound 'Chip'
Louise Willcox MIBS describes some of the challenges of being a soundie, and takes the opportunity to get a few things off her chest! This isn't an article about some new gadget, this is my personal rant. It will serve as therapy for me and, I hope, provide some amusement for you, too.
isn't an article about some new gadget, this is my personal rant. It will serve as therapy for me and, I hope, provide some amusement for you, too.Louise Willcox MIBS describes some of the challenges of being a soundie, and takes the opportunity to get a few things off her chest! This isn't an article about some new gadget, this is my personal rant. It will serve as therapy for me and, I hope, provide some amusement for you, too.
6 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am GMT
IBS: Olympus LS-10 - What's it all about?
John Willett MIBS reports on his experiences with a diminutive field recorder. There seems to have been a massive growth in inexpensive hand-held flash recorders over the last couple of years, especially in the sub-£400 price range.
5 Feb 2010 | 5:56 pm GMT
IBS: Focus of Radio Mic Campaign Switches to Compensation
Malcolm Nelson MIBS explores the latest developments concerning the Digital Dividend. Since 2003 the UK Government has been preparing for a 'digital dividend': auctioning off a segment of radio frequency spectrum for new commercial uses
5 Feb 2010 | 1:54 pm GMT
