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Wacom Cintiq HD

Tech

CintiqHD

Wacom has launched two new Cintiq interactive pen displays, the Cintiq 24HD touch and Cintiq 22HD – which join the already-available Cintiq 24HD.

   

Surf's up

Reviews

 Surf
An iconic surfboard design becomes a blank canvas for ten artists and designers Delft, a collection of ten artworks and a single artist proof – the sleek, 1975 white Pipeline Gun as shaped by Spider Murphy in its original, unadorned form.

   

Wacom Bamboo Stylus

Tech

Stylus

With Amazon's in-house stylus reaching No 1 on the sales chart for tablet accessories — ahead of smart covers, screen protectors, cases, and stands, it should be evident that the stylus is making a comeback.

   

Epson Surecolor printers

Tech

SurecolorEpson has expanded its new SureColour wide-format printer range for signage and POS applications with two new products: the high-speed SureColour SC-S50610 and the 8- and 10- colour SureColour SC-S70610 – the company’s first 64-inch (162.6cm) roll-fed printer to support orange, light black, white and metallic inks simultaneously.

   

Bring back the sketchbook!

Feature

Sketchbook

In a world of technological innovation the computer has replaced many processes that were previously executed by hand. Due to ongoing technological innovation, many of these processes have been made much simpler and faster. It is, for example, far easier to correct a typed document in a text editing program on a computer than it is to do so on a typewriter.

   

Epson Stylus Pro R3000

Tech

R3000Epson’s flagship R3000 photo printer is an upgraded version of the Stylus Photo R2880 –adding a smaller droplet size for finer detail, an extra ink cartridge slot so you don’t have to swap between photo and matte black inks, a colour screen to make adjusting settings easier, and wireless and Ethernet networking.

   

Quark App Studio 9.5

Tech

AppStudio9.5

Quark has announced a new App Studio which, the company says, is a next generation digital publishing solution that pushes the bounds of user experience without the high cost and effort associated with custom app development.

   

A human endeavour

Reviews

Loories

The Loerie Awards 2012 were like inviting Bucks Fizz to MC a Champagne and sparkling wine event, writes Herman Manson.

   

Who's Joey?

Feature

Joey1

Chances are you’ve seen his illustration work on a recent novel but don’t know his real name. It’s Dale, also Joey. actually it’s both. Ah heck, meet South Africa’s most innovative book cover designer of the moment.

   

The hunter

Profiles

 JohnH

John Hunt, Worldwide Creative Director of TBWA\Worldwide's contribution to the South African and global advertising industry over the course of his career, a Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to him at the Loerie Awards 2012.

   

With Hart

Interviews

RH

Our creative spotlight (sponsored by Adobe, of course) falls on Durban designer, artist and allround nice guy Richard Hart.

   

The travel alarm clock updated

Tech

Geneva

The travel alarm clock was once required equipment on any trip. These small, usually battery operated clocks were essential to getting us up and moving in the morning. Over time, the travel alarm clock was replaced by the cellphone.

   

A colourful life

Reviews

 Colourful

Driven by the desire to provide customers with the broadest range of innovative value-added products, Antalis South Africa has launched a rejuvenated Arjowiggins Creative Papers Keyacolour brand.

   

Canon EOS 1–DC

Tech

CanonTVCanon's new EOS-1D C is a digital SLR with a video focus that supports in-camera 4K (4096x2160) video recording with 4:2:2 colour sampling. 4K video is recorded using 8-bit Motion JPEG compression at 24p and Full HD (1920x1080) video capture is available at frame rates up to 1080/60p.

   

Bolex D16

Tech

Bolex

The Bolex D16 is the first digital camera from the 200 year-old Swiss company whose 16mm and 8mm cameras dominated the international consumer marketplace from the 40s to the 70s.

   

The Future of Architecture Since 1881

Books

Architect

A new book charts the rapid transformation of the built environment – truly far-ranging – both conceptually and geographically – The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking about this period for years to come.

   

Art of Design 2013

Reviews

Oliver

The Turbine Hall in Newtown, Johannesburg served as venue for the Antalis Art of Design 2012 competition awards evening in September. The competition recognises design excellence but goes further by rewarding big ideas, creative paper usage and beautiful presentation.

   

The active reader

Graphic Design

 Firewalker

At the outset of our work on Fire Walker, I came across the children's picture book 'About Two Squares' by the Russian Suprematist El Lizzitsky. Lizzitsky was a man of many talents who had a broad range of interests, one of which happened to be book design. The first clue that I had come across an approach significant to the task at hand was Lizzitsky's instruction set on the overleaf to the title page of About Two Squares.

   

HP Z1 workstation

Tech

HP1W
In an age where smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks get the lion’s share of attention, power-users are often neglected. After all, imagine a world without movies like Avatar, Kung Fu Panda, Slumdog Millionaire and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

   

Touch Apps

Tech

AdobeTouch2

Adobe's Photoshop Touch app for iPad not only allows you to grab images from your camera roll, but you also can paint special effects onto images and add your own text. The $9.99 app has core features found in the desktop version of the software, as well as tablet-specific capabilities such as Facebook and Google Image Search integration, and cloud image storage.

   

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