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Archives January 2011
FF News: PADS now support Cropping!
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Peep this, Filter Foundry-ers: We've added a cropping feature to the project uploading process. The above screencap shows it off. Now you can browse any sized JPG image larger than 400x300 pixels and just crop the project thumbnail within the browser. As always, we want to hear your feedback, so tell us what you think!
Typefaces From 102 Years Ago
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I'm both a font nut and a history nut, so this post about typefaces from 1902 is pretty cool.
FTA: "But now I'm reaching a bit farther back--a century back, in fact, to 1909--to see what Section 6, Part 2, of my revered Volume 204 of the International Correspondence School Reference Library calls "the best advertising, catalog, booklet, and folder types." Even if I had revivals in mind, I'd be out of luck; most of these faces never made the transition from metal to digital. The turn of the 20th century was the beginning of a golden ...
Designers: this is how you make a reel
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Check out Autodesk Master Wayne Robson's reel:
If Wayne's name sounds familiar, it's because he's hosting a FREE tutorial here on FF for our Autodesk Mudbox contest. Win an iPad. Impress your friends.
Foodscapes by English photographer Carl Warner
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Graphics.com talks-up Filter Foundry
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The new site is described as "Facebook for creatives" and includes functionality similar to LinkedIn and Twitter that's geared to boosting design careers.
While there are already a sizable number of portfolio sites geared to the creative professional sector, the founders of Filter Foundry seem confident that a different mix of functionality will provide a compelling alternative. The goal of the site is to help creative individuals or firms showcase and market their products and services, find work, hire collaborators, learn or teach techniques, and buy digital products from the marketplace. Targeted are those active in such areas as ...
FF Launches 2011 with Autodesk Contest
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Today Filter Foundry unveiled the next phase of its new platform for creatives with a much anticipated code release, that now takes the product from Beta 2 to Final Beta and officially ready for the creative world to experience and populate with custom Portfolios or PADS as they call it) and Studios (also known as ...
Harald Bellker on Filter Foundry
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At 48, Harald Belker has been involved in the design field for roughly 20 years. “I started dreaming about car design pretty late. I was about 26 and finished a degree in engineering before I even heard of the Art Center College of Design”, he admits. “But once I saw what they did, I was pretty sure that this would be my future as well.”
After graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Belker fell into the dream design job of designing cars for Porsche. From Porsche, Belker then moved to another iconic automotive company at Mercedes Benz in ...
Neville Page talks about the "Banshee" in Avatar
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When one looks at Neville Page’s background and family, it really is no surprise that he would be involved in some form of creativity. His parents met in the theatre in Great Britain, his mother a dancer and father a musician. They eventually joined the circus, where his father played in the band and mother found herself atop an elephant waving at the crowd in a feathery outfit. You could say that when Neville was an infant he was not without colourful exposure.
When his family moved to the U.S.A. in 1970, the “showbiz” mentality followed them ...