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Pucker up: new product is covered by kiss icon

Red lips are a “symbol of feminine mystique,” say Meg Cohen and Karen Kozlowski in Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick. Stars from Marilyn Monroe to Paloma Picasso and Madonna have made them their trade mark. And in 1971, graphic

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Pucker up: new product is covered by kiss icon

Red lips are a “symbol of feminine mystique,” say Meg Cohen and Karen Kozlowski in Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick. Stars from Marilyn Monroe to Paloma Picasso and Madonna have made them their trade mark. And in 1971, graphic

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New technology changing graphic novels

By Jim. This video about Marvel Comics shows a great new direction the company is going. The artist is using technology to expand his tool set and bring comics into the modern era showing the value of having traditional training

New technology changing graphic novels

By Jim. This video about Marvel Comics shows a great new direction the company is going. The artist is using technology to expand his tool set and bring comics into the modern era showing the value of having traditional training

Tiff, PSD, JPEG and more: Not all pixels are created equal

By James, Design Development. Now, I’d like to try and make sense of the difference between a few different Raster Art image formats. All the art/images discussed here will fall into the Raster category. I’ll only talk about the most

Tiff, PSD, JPEG and more: Not all pixels are created equal

By James, Design Development. Now, I’d like to try and make sense of the difference between a few different Raster Art image formats. All the art/images discussed here will fall into the Raster category. I’ll only talk about the most

Illustrator or Photoshop: do you know the difference?

By James, Design Development. In this discussion we will use the word “vector” when discussing Illustrator files and “raster”  when talking about Photoshop files. A vector image is made up of paths, each with a mathematical formula (vector) that tells

Illustrator or Photoshop: do you know the difference?

By James, Design Development. In this discussion we will use the word “vector” when discussing Illustrator files and “raster”  when talking about Photoshop files. A vector image is made up of paths, each with a mathematical formula (vector) that tells

NY art: full color

By James, Design Development This piece of art is quite dear to me. When I first moved to New York City in the fall of 1987, I lived in Hell’s Kitchen and I remember this park and the mural that

NY art: full color

By James, Design Development This piece of art is quite dear to me. When I first moved to New York City in the fall of 1987, I lived in Hell’s Kitchen and I remember this park and the mural that

Graffiti art inspires textiles

By Dani, First2print Ever go on a vacation ready to see the “sites” and find it is your ever day surroundings and family that are your real inspiration. Well, my family did just that! During this past winter break we

Graffiti art inspires textiles

By Dani, First2print Ever go on a vacation ready to see the “sites” and find it is your ever day surroundings and family that are your real inspiration. Well, my family did just that! During this past winter break we

Running Type

By Eleah, First2Print I never thought of typography design as a physically taxing endeavor. It is for Joan Pons Moll, a graphic designer and recent running enthusiast living on the island of Minorca, which is off the coast of Spain.

Running Type

By Eleah, First2Print I never thought of typography design as a physically taxing endeavor. It is for Joan Pons Moll, a graphic designer and recent running enthusiast living on the island of Minorca, which is off the coast of Spain.

The earth designer

By Alejandro, First2Print Jim Denevan – a surfer,  sand artist and self-taught chef – has dedicated part of his life to create ephemeral sand, ice and soil large scale drawings that the weather eventually erases. The only registries of his work are

The earth designer

By Alejandro, First2Print Jim Denevan – a surfer,  sand artist and self-taught chef – has dedicated part of his life to create ephemeral sand, ice and soil large scale drawings that the weather eventually erases. The only registries of his work are