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The Apple iPod Touch is the company's latest portable multimedia device. The iPod Touch includes the usual music playing features, but adds video playback and WiFi connectivity. In this Cracking Open Photo Gallery, we take a look inside the Touch to see how it is put together.

To see what this particular iPod Touch looked like before we cracked it open, check out our TechRepublic First Look at the iPod Touch Photo Gallery.

Twisting Pixels Releases ArtStudioPro CLASSICO for Natural Media Creation

Provided as both a Photoshop plugin and standalone application, this is the third edition in the Natural-Media line.

Natural media software either lets users create new works using tools that replicate traditional media such as oil paints and watercolors, or provides a way to transform existing images into ones replicating such media. Twisting Pixels' ArtStudio products fall into the latter category, with earlier editions providing color pencil, crayon, marker, oil paint, chalk and similar traditional effects. Read More>

Adobe Launches Beta of Photoshop Express

The free online service provides image correction, editing and storage capabilities.

When it comes to brands in the digital graphics domain, possibly the strongest and most trusted is Adobe Photoshop. When you encounter the word Photoshop, you naturally assume anything connected with it is at a professional level. At least, that was at one time the case. In one of the most audacious examples of brand extension in the realm of graphics and publishing, Adobe has spent the last few years resolutely moving the Photoshop brand into a range of market sectors, some professional, some not. Read More>

Reshade Enhances Image Resizing Service and Application

Enhancements have been made to both the free online service and Windows application.

Resizing images without lowering image quality is a perennial issue for both casual graphics users as well as professionals, who may need to enlarge a cropped image or upsample a still video frame. Reshape tries to meet the needs of both groups via a free web-based resizing service and a more full-featured Windows application.

The online version lets users add images from their computer or a link, and then perform such actions as cropping, sharpening, smoothing and zooming up to three times the size of the original, with no resulting loss of edge clarity, according to Reshape.

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Win/Mac: Adobe Sweepstakes Awards Prizes Weekly

Registered owners of specified Adobe Creative Suite 3 products are eligible to win.

A promotion running until June 1, 2008, will award owners of Adobe software with hundreds of prizes each week, from a product prize pool that includes 500 Apple iPhones, 2,000 2 GB SD flash cards and 5,000 $40 Adobe Online Gift Certificates.

There is no charge to enter, with participation simply requiring registration. Each registered copy of Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3, InDesign CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS3 and Acrobat 8.0 provides another shot at winning.

More information and registration is available on the adobepromo.com site.

Pepsi 'Design Our Pepsi Can' Competition Opens

In its 109-year existence, Pepsi-Cola's look has changed just 10 times, but this year alone it will change more than 35 times.

It's all part of Pepsi's global brand restyle. The Pepsi globe logo and name lettering will remain the same, but the background graphics will change every few weeks, many created by those in the entertainment industry. However, the current Design Our Pepsi Can promotion is open to anyone who registers on the designourpepsican.com site and submits a design before May 10, 2007.

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Meet Your Type Match

People on the prowl at seedy bars really do inquire about astrological signs. But if you're eyeing a hottie at an AIGA mixer, you might have better luck with, "What's your font?" Just take the five-question Type Matching quiz to find out if your love personality leans more toward Comic Sans or Papyrus. Already have a significant other? Use the virtual date tool to see if your font types match up for a perfect layout … or typographic crash-up.
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Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ring

Ask Mozilla co-founder Mike Shaver what he thinks about Ian Hixie’s Acid3 test and he’ll give you an ear full. On his blog today Shaver defended the Mozilla Firefox team as they watched both Opera and Safari/WebKit apparently achieve a 100% pass rate Wednesday. Read More>

Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At Mozilla Prism

New platforms like Adobe Air and Mozilla Prism are evolving that combine the benefits of Internet flow with the flexibility and power of desktop applications. They are part browser, part desktop app and are extremely efficient for certain types of applications.

Flash, Silverlight and Ajax get most web applications over the hump in terms of usability and are the technologies behind the fast transition of desktop applications to the web. But it’s not clear that they’ll ever kill off all desktop applications entirely. The bridge between them may very well be Air and/or Prism. Read More.

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How to set up your own mobile office

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IT consultants, field engineers and other technology professionals need mobile computing capacity, complete with widespread Internet connectivity. Here's how to create just such a set up in your car and enjoy enhanced productivity.

Bryce 5.5: The Right Tool for the Job?

Bryce is a 3D illustration and rendering program intended to help you create breathtakingly realistic 3D landscapes and animations in a fairly intuitive way, using a drag-and-drop interface on a real-time canvas. Jay Major created this gallery of screenshots for his review of the software. Read More>

CALL FOR ENTRIES: YOUNG PACKAGE 2008

Brno, Czech Republic

THINK OF NATURE THINK OF EVERYBODY THINK CONTEXTUALLY

The Slovak Design Centre is pleased to announce the Call for Entries for Young Package 2008, the 13 international competition for young designers. The annual competition is presented in partnership with the Model Obaly Company. Young Package 2008 is endorsed by Icograda and administered by Antipol Brno Advertising. Read More.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: WOLDA

Milano, Italy

Wolda is the high-profile graphic design awards scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world. Thanks to its innovative and transparent three-tier judging procedure it has received the endorsement of the most important design associations all over the world. All the winning logos will be showcased online and published in a printed annual of exceptional quality printed on Sappi acclaimed papers by Fontegrafica.

Deadline extended: 28 May 2008
Please note that the final deadline for entering Wolda '08 has been extended, with no late fee. Read More. Enter now.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: FIRST CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL POSTER BIENNIAL

27 May 2008

Chicago, United States

While Chicago is well known for its architecture, theater, fine art, public landscaping, and music scenes, there is a significant lack of applied visual arts in public spaces. By focusing on making this exhibition an outdoor one, we hope to accomplish two important objectives. First, we want posters to be realized as the quintessential public art form, because they engage citizens at street level, requiring an emotional and intellectual response. They also stimulate dialogue and articulation of important issues—social, political, and economic. Secondly, we want to help the City of Chicago craft its international reputation as a proponent of international cooperation and communication—and as a strong civic advocate of design. Read More.
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2008 ADOBE DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

San Jose, United States

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the call for entries for the eighth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). The awards honor talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.

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Submissions will be accepted online through 2 May 2008. Read More.

One Show Traveling Exhibiton - Minneapolis

August 22 - September 28, 2008

The One Club will be showing the 2008 One Show winners reel on the big screen in Minneapolis. Kevin Swanepoel, President of The One Club, will be speaking on Wednesday, September 10.

DMI

At DMI's Brand/Design 20 Conference, leading experts will explore synergy, collaboration, and strategy between design, brand and business and will show best of class methods and tactics to achieve organizational success. For two decades, this conference has presented the best in identity, design, and innovation. To celebrate this 20-year milestone, DMI returns to Cincinnati, a capital of branding, at the historic, art-deco-themed Hilton Netherland Plaza. Read more

The One Club

On May 7th the world's top creatives, advertising agency CEOs and heads of multinational brands will converge on Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City for the 33rd Annual One Show gala awards ceremony. Presenters will award the best print, television, radio and innovative media of the year. The One Show Festival week will include separate awards ceremonies for One Show Design on May 6th at the Chelsea Art Museum and One Show Interactive on May 9th at the Nokia Theatre. Read more

Call For Entires: 21 Biennial of Industrial Design

The 21st Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO) will open at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana on 2 October 2008. Designers, commissioners, producers, mentors and students are welcome to apply their works. Entered items should not have been in production or designed before 1 January 2006. An international Selection Committee will select the works to be exhibited. Deadline April 11, 2008. Read more

LogoLounge

LogoLounge Book 4 is now available. Once again, each judge reviewed thousands of logos from around the world, each mark submitted by talented LogoLounge members. With a total of over 28,000 logos judged, the judges chose 2,000 and the final collection is not only an excellent point-in-time examination, it is full to the brim with inspiration, higher thinking, and craftsmanship. Read more

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