Graphic design news – archived news stories 1

These archived news stories have all appeared on the front page of Design Talkboard at some point. We have kept these design news stories here, because we feel that they still have a value from a design research point of view.

• Adobe Design Awards, 2007
  Adobe adds add new countries for the 2007 awards.
• Monotype buys Linotype
  Merger of two large font foundries.
• Designer's Salaries
  2005 design salary survey and the 2006 graphic design salary survey.
• Windows Media Photo
  Microsoft releases compressed photographic file format to challenge the JPEG.
• Quark releases public beta
  Preview of QuarkXpress beta 7.
• Open Source Graphics conference
  Alternative design software event.
• Adobe student design awards
  Adobe's student achievement awards.
• New Photoshop plugins
  Plug-in publisher Alien Skin releases new suite of tools for Photoshop users.
• QuickTime security issues
  Apple's ditial editor, security issues fixed.
• QuarkXpress 7
  Features revealed at exhibition.
• QuarkXpress News
  The latest upgrade of the top desktop publishing page layout program is out and it's even winning software awards - but have the bugs been fixed? Read about the new QuarkXpress 'PSD import' Photoshop plugin - PSD Import. And, amazingly, Quark Inc. is now even offering free customer support.
• Quark to InDesign conversion tool
  Markzware releases Quark to InDesign conversion tool.
• Alias and Autodesk in 3D merger
• Dreamweaver bugs with Apple's Tiger OS X 10.4
  There are some potential pitfalls for Mac users of Macromedia Dreamweaver, when upgrading to Tiger OS X.
• Macromedia Studio 8 released
  But where's Freehand?
• RAW digital photography software
  Adobe Lightroom beta 3, for digital photographers.
• Apple to run OS X using Intel chips
  Apple's announcement of its commitment to Intel chips.
• Adobe and Macromedia merger
  Software giants Adobe and Macromedia announce merger.
• European graphic design show
  The Design Museum, in London, hosted an international design show.
• Flightcheck software
  Update to digital file checking tool, comes to Windows users.
• Flash plugins
  New Flash tool, for animation of photographic images.
• Dreamweaver bugs and OS X 10.4
  Macromedia reports some conflicts when using Dreamweaver with an upgraded Mac using Tiger OS X.
• Tiger OS X update
  Apple release its latest operating system Tiger OS X 10.4.
• World's largest glass design award
  £20,000 award offered to designers.
• Adobe Creative Suite 2 updates
  Adobe have released new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and GoLive, as part of version 2 of its professional design graphics package, Creative Suite CS2.
  Check out the full features list
• Adobe Photographer's Directory
  Adobe announce they will be providing a list of professional photographers from within their graphics products.
• Recent Adobe conference on graphics and publishing
  Design software publisher, Adobe recently hosted a design and publishing conference.
• Rude Software! Designing interactive software
  Design research pinpoints dangers of interactive design software projects.
• Lightwave 3D update
  Newtek recently released a free update to its 3D design & animation software, Lightwave. The 8.2 update enhances the renderer and adds options for image reconstruction filters. More information on 3D design.
• Firefox browser in market share war with Explorer
  The public's uptake of web browsers other than Internet Explorer, is threatening to create more work for web designers and developers.
• Quark in customer support shocker!
  Will wonders never cease? Quark Inc. continues it's PR lovebombing, by introducing free customer support for registered QuarkXpress users.
• Macworld Expo in San Francisco
  Final Cut Express HD, the iPod Shuffle, the Mac Mini and the iLife suite of graphics and audio tools - iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and Garageband - were all on display for Steve Job's keynote speech at the Apple Macworld Expo. But was there anything for professional graphic designers? Find out more here.
• QuarkXpress wins award
  Quark's newly released update to it's flagship graphic design page layout package, QuarkXpress 6.5, has shocked many in the graphic design community by winning the Macworld Editors Choice Award (Eddy). Read more about it here.
• Alias Wavefront 3D Design Competition
  Transportation design students from twenty-six international design schools were invited to design a 'World Car', sponsored by 3D graphics and animation software developer, Alias.
• US Design Industry
  Future of American graphic design looking good.
• We're All Creative Directors Now
  iPod fan makes his own video commercial.
• Macworld Expo
  All the design news from Apple Expo in San Francisco.
• British Design
  Report on the UK graphics market. Could do better.
• Photo-blogging
  The next step for bloggers.
• Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe releases new version of Acrobat. Industry standard digital proofing software.
• Digital Paper
  Is the paperless office finally here? Or has HP got its digits in a twist?
• Intelligent Robot
  Playing games with robots.
• Digital Image Storage
  The future of digital camera file formats?
• Apple's New iPod
  In case you hadn't heard - it's colour now.
• Half-Life 2 Review
  Get those 3D gaming fingers ready.
• QuarkXpress 6.5 News
  The top design page layout software is out at last and it's even winning design awards - but have the bugs been fixed? Read about the new QuarkXpress 'PSD import' Photoshop plugin - PSD Import. And, amazingly, Quark Inc. is now even offering free customer support.

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